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2025

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HAF 2025

Working in partnership with Full Circle Food Project and Ashington Family Hub, Mortal Fools are delivering creative sessions for young people aged 7-12 as part of Northumberland Summer Holiday Provision. ​
Click here to find out more about HAF 2025
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Mortal Fools X Newcastle Carers

Mortal Fools and Newcastle Carers are joining forces to empower young adult carers to engage with the arts and creativity.

Mortal Fools will be working with Newcastle Carers' Young Adult Carers (YAC) group, to co-design a creative intervention that is responsive to their ideas and needs, whilst supporting the group’s wellbeing, skills development, and creative health.
Click here to find out more about the Mortal Fools X Newcastle Carers project
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Watch This Space

Change is everywhere; it’s scary, fun, unexpected, exciting, overwhelming, hopeful and so much more. But for young people, change often happens TO them – adults make the decisions, and they have to deal with the dizzying consequences.

In Summer 2025, our Youth Theatre groups explored the changes in their lives -
 holding tight to the things they love, making their own decisions, and discovering who they are. They might not know what the future will hold, but they’re ready for it!
Click here to find out more about 'Watch This Space'
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Brainstorm

In Spring 2025, Mortal Fools’ Ensemble Young Company toured Brainstorm - an honest, funny, and thought-provoking theatre show diving into the messy mechanics of the teenage brain!
Click here to find out more about 'Brainstorm'
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Hirst Together Works

This community engagement project ran between January – March 2025, and brought together individuals from across Hirst; fostering a sense of unity and creativity while contributing to the ongoing regeneration efforts in Ashington in small yet impactful ways.
Click here to find out more about Hirst together works
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Light Up

Between Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025, our Youth Theatre 
groups were working on Light Up; exploring light,
imagination, creativity and joy!

We challenged our youth theatre to explore the ways in which light illuminates the beauty in the world around us, influences our mood and perspective, and in the absence of light, what mystery and magic may exist.  
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NCEA CONNECT Future Ready
Future Ready provides intensive and intentional employability enhancing interventions for young people aged 14-30 years old. Through our intervention models we use creative practice and social sciences to unlock young people’s potential and support their employability skills development.  
Click here for info on NCEA Connect future ready

OUR EVENTS ARCHIVE


2024

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2024 was a year of music; with amazing new productions, community events and creative projects inspired by sound.

2023

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Our Youth Theatre groups achieved extraordinary things in 2023; from taking their work on the road, to amazing immersive events.

2022

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From a poignant series of short films to capturing the co-creation process on camera to help sector colleagues, 2022 was a remarkable year of progress.

2020 - 2021

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Against the challenging context of the COVID-19 pandemic, our young people demonstrated their creativity and resilience by producing unique films and keeping their community together.

2019

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This was a huge year for Mortal Fools Youth Theatre, with Ensemble Young Company taking an original show, co-created with its cast, on tour across the north for the first time.

2018

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From a fresh take on Shakespeare to a summer of screenwriting, 2018 provided local young people with a remarkable variety of creative opportunities.

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  • ABOUT US
    • Our Values
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    • Our Impact
  • OUR WORK
    • Youth Theatre & Arts Groups >
      • MFYT Weekly Groups
      • Stage One Youth Theatre
      • Ensemble Young Company
      • Creative Sparks group
    • WITH SCHOOLS >
      • Melva Mental Health Programme
    • With Partners >
      • Youth Theatre Together and Practitioner Resources
      • Mortal Fools Commissions
    • EMPLOYABILITY >
      • Free Employability Resources
      • CONNECT: Future Ready
      • Young CONNECT
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    • Make a donation
  • PROJECTS
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      • WIRED by Ensemble Young Company
      • Hirst Festival
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      • Hirst Fest
      • Ensemble Presents
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Join our young people's groups >
      • Mortal Fools Youth Theatre
      • Creative Sparks Mixed Arts
      • New Stage One Youth Theatre
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