Yard Heads

26/07/2025

A programme from our friends Plavo Pozoriste 🌹check it out …

11/07/2025

It’s been an inspiring few months working with Papertrail theatre company, Alexandra has been part time General Manager since February and the company is now looking for trustees, have a look at their work..

10/07/2025

Yard Heads is proud to be a part of the White Kite Collective

Correspondence between the Israeli embassy and UK Secretary of State Peter Kyle suggest event was not intended as private function as the museum claimed

21/06/2025

Faced with seemingly impenetrable power what can artists to do respond? Since 2023 to date Yard Heads International joined and supported collectives, artists and projects, locally and globally, to …

20/06/2025

It is vital for people to respond to the government's consultation on Access To Work. Watch Jess Thom explain why:

Access to Work can be glorious, and it’s worth fighting for. We must hold our elected officials to account, and demand not to be ignored. Let them know what...

31/05/2025

Well deserved

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/may/30/application-39-for-the-2048-gaza-summer-olympics-return-to-palestine-review-witness-more-than-theatre

Painful yet joyous and with pitch black humour, these plays are as good as testimonies to the horrors happening in Gaza, capturing immense human resilience

28/05/2025

Faced with seemingly impenetrable power what can artists to do respond? Since 2023 to date Yard Heads International joined and supported collectives, artists and projects, locally and globally, to make a difference and express solidarity with the oppressed and occupied Palestinians and to raise money for vital funds for life-saving and educational projects through events and fundraising campaigns. Since 2023 Yard Heads has partnered and served the following projects: The White Kite Collective United4Gaza Palestine House Palestine Museum Scotland Gaza Biennale Jinnaah UK Clean Shelter

Faced with seemingly impenetrable power what can artists to do respond? Since 2023 to date Yard Heads International joined and supported collectives, artists and projects, locally and globally, to …

19/04/2025

15/10/2024

Listening to them talking about the Oedipus play on the radio, now on in London, the Robert Icke one, it is incredibly good.
It was incredible when I saw the International Theatre of Amsterdam performance at Edinburgh Festival a few years ago, would be fascinated to see it in English.
On another level as far as any other play I’ve seen, I can’t remember another better one (apart from the Last Days of Mankind of course)

21/06/2024

Travel well Donald Sutherland. Born in Canada, trained in UK theatre, Hollywood star. Reminding us of the importance of theatre in the arts ecosystem.

Photos from Donald Sutherland's Life in Pictures

23/05/2024

Still a need for us to be making work about this.

Following Made In Scotland last August our show, Tales of Transatlantic Freedom, including the song Send Back the Money (the name of the campaign Frederick Douglass came to Scotland to promote) was performed in Virginia during US Black History month. But it is relevant any month of the year.

Church statement expressing ‘grief’ that members took money from plantation owners in 1844 condemned as ‘shameful’

21/05/2024

We are delighted to have been involved in the development of this inspiring cultural embassy in the ❤️ of London. A place where we can convert pain and sorrow into strength and beauty https://tinyurl.com/45u45v9h 🇵🇸