VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!
Do you enjoy being creative and supporting young people in a fun and inclusive environment?
Then come join Hackney Shed's wonderful team!
At the moment we are particularly looking for volunteers to come support our Children's Theatre and Youth Theatre on Tuesday evenings.
We will also need volunteers to support with HS Collective on Wednesday evenings from November.
To find out more about our groups please visit .uk
If you might like to join our team and work with these magical young people, we have a staff and volunteers training session in September.
Please contact Claudia at [email protected] if are interested or if you'd like to find out more.
Designed by our Youth Panel, this project explores storytelling, sci-fi and fantasy through movement, including stage combat!
Ages: 16-25 years (open to all but prioritising young people who are disabled and/ or neurodivergent)
Dates: 28th and 29th May (11am-4pm)
Location: The City Academy, Hackney, E9 6EA
Sign up via our website or contact [email protected] if you have any questions
EXCITING NEWS!
We are hiring a new DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS MANAGER!!!
Check out the ‘opportunities’ page on our website for all the details and how to apply
Application deadline is 9am on 1st June
Interview dates are the 17th and 18th June (if you cannot make either of those dates please let us know when applying and we will do our best to accommodate if possible, but cannot guarantee this)
Just one week left until our first performance of Sycamore Gap for @ntconnections
Check out our incredible, atmospheric flyer designed by @hpcreativestudio
Come join us to solve the murder of the century (or should that be of the last 4 centuries?!??)
The show will also be live streamed from @lyrichammersmith on instagram
29th April @chatspalace
2nd May @lyrichammersmith
It’s going to be amazing!
“You’ve helped me learn skills to build my future. I want to do more!”
We had an idea.
We talked to our partners.
The idea grew.
We tested it and shaped it.
This idea just got real - our new Theatre Explorers programme will be supported by @youthmusicuk ’s Shift the Scene Fund. 🎉
Working with partners including @lbnyes , @newhamlondon , @hackney_shed and @sadlerswells_east , this project will transform creative employment opportunities for learning disabled and autistic young people in Newham.
Co-led by our Associate Artists, we’ll build artistic skills, explore learning disabled and autistic identity, and navigate the creative industries.
Alongside this, we’ll be working closely with our brilliant partner organisations to push for more inclusive ways of making and presenting theatre, opening doors that have too often stayed closed.
Let’s get started.
Children's Theatre have created these fun robot heads as part of our Design Workshop this morning. The young people are contributing with design ideas for our upcoming Summer 2026 Show! 🤖
COMEDY Podcast Mocumentary!
We have a new exciting project coming up for 13-19yrs. Join us to create an original Comedy Podcast Mocumentary!
What’s true? What’s not? What’s real? You decide!
It might sound like a documentary, but the podcast you create will be entirely of the groups creation, and very very strange and funny. Can you take any of your audience in? Will anyone believe what we say?
Workshop Dates
Thursday evenings: 30th April – 21st May 2026
Times: 6pm – 8pm
Recording Day: Tuesday 26th May, 10am - 5pm
Location: Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London, N1 6SH
Contact [email protected] for more details and to sign up!
DESIGN WORKSHOPS INCOMING!
Would you like to work with professional designers and contribute to costumes and set design concepts for Hackney Shed’s Children and Youth Theatre’s Summer Shows.
Date: Thursday 9th April 2026
Times: Children’s Theatre (7-11yrs): 10-1pm
Youth Theatre (11-16yrs): 2-5pm
Location: The City Academy, Hackney, Homerton Row, London E9 6EA
You do not have to be a member of Hackney Shed already to get involved, we want ALL your ideas.
Some of the show ideas that you will be being inspired from are:
THE FUTURE
A fun fair run by robots
A space cruise run by aliens
If this is up your design space street the please
Contact Júlia at [email protected] to find out more and book your place
Did you know Hackney Shed is turning 25 this year???
Well one of the ways we are celebrating is by having a MARATHON TWENTY FIVE runners is represent us by running the Hackney half on May 17th.
Here are some of Hackney Shed showing their support and if you would like to support you can do that by:
- Donating! Our JustGiving is live and you can get to it via our website
- Cheering on the day! We would love to see Hackney Shed banners, flags, chants, dances all along the route on the day itself, helping to keep our runners going.
GO EVERYONE!!!
#HackneyHalf #HackneyHalf2026 #Fundraising #HackneyCharity #HackneyCommunity
We had a brilliant time @chatspalace rehearsing Sycamore Gap by Al Smith.
This was our 2 day half term intensive for @ntconnections . The show is looking great already.
Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming performance details!!!
#Newwriting #disabledactors #neurodivergentperformers #inclusivetheatre #theatreforal
‘ONE SHOT ‘TIL SHOWTIME’
That’s a wrap on our fabulous half term shoot. After weeks of creating the story and perfecting the shots, this short was filmed in one as a singular, continuous take!
This film will put you in the literal viewpoint of a pop star’s last minutes before going on stage
We cannot wait to share it with you!
Huge thanks to @odd_eyes_theatre@hoxtonhall@eastend_cf
NEW PROJECT ALERT!
Calling budding filmmakers aged 13-19, come and join us over 4 weeks next year to create a brand new film…shot in just one take!
See our website for more info and how to sign up
