Nell Hardy

Join us tomorrow night - Friday 31st of January - for the exhibition launch of work created at One Roof Festival 2025. 🌟 #linburytrustsupported #artscouncilengland #tedworthcharitable #andyouknowwhoyouare 🙏

Two weeks til One Roof! Have you chosen your workshops yet…? We can’t wait! 🤩 #OneRoof #festivalofhomelessarts #artists #theatre #crafting #acesupported #linburytrustsupported #ODAC #OldDioramaArtsCentre

⭐ As a new year approaches and we look back on our 2024 highlights, one of our @labiennale Fellows reflects on her recent time in Venice. Meet Nell @nellhardyactor , founder of @responseabilitytheatre . Swipe through to hear more about her experience — how the theme of displacement has affected her work, her unexpected introduction to #JohnAkomfrah, the connections and cross-overs she experienced with her fellowship group, and her advice to future fellows. —————— The Venice Fellowships Programme is a unique opportunity for creative individuals, students, researchers, artists and professionals at the early stages of their careers to spend a month in Venice at the world’s most important art and architecture biennales. This year 66 fellows went to Venice to discover #ListeningAllNightToTheRain at @la_biennale . Find out more about the fellowships programme via the link in our bio. Nell is a British Council Venice Biennale Fellow representing @artshomelessint Arts & Homelessness International works to bring positive change to people, projects and policy in homelessness through arts and creativity. They focus on connecting and strengthening individual artists and projects and advocating for arts to be part of homelessness support and policy. They do this through international exchanges, events, research and training. #JohnAkomfrah #BritishPavilion #VeniceFellowships #VeniceBiennale #BiennaleArte #ArtBiennale #VeniceArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition

Here I am with the image that totally broke my heart! Beautiful work all round. So glad I got to see it ❤️

Our working space today with @nellhardyactor who runs her own theatre 🎭 company @responseabilitytheatre it’s always going to be fun working with Nell, she’s one awesome human being🙏 The project works great with the refugee ladies was all about ‘their world’ and creating this today… much fun had as they laughed and joked… more importantly were able to get into their funside…. good to see them smile and enjoying the day. Theatre making is a place you can just be whoever you want to be… A great start to storytelling 💕and theirs need to be shared !! For me, Sahar, being in these spaces with these beautiful humans was humbling🙏 we all need support and it doesn’t matter if languages are not shared…. non-verbal speaks for itself 🙏 #mentalhealth #homelessness #refugeestories #refugees #asylum #displacement #counseling #psychotherapy #trauma

If you don't follow my charity @responseabilitytheatre but are a trauma survivor interested in learning about arts-based healing and discovery methods, chatting about change and helping us guide how we do things from now on, we're starting our first core group next weekend and I can't wait! Link to more info and to sign-up in our linktree in the bio :) Sunday 4th August, 2-5pm Sunday 25th August, 2-5pm Sunday 15th September, 2-5pm @olddiorama Then HOPEFULLY monthly thereafter!

It's taken several years of scrambling in the dark to figure out how to do some of this stuff, and now it's an honour to be asked to share it by @thespacetheatre through @responseabilitytheatre . We know money is tight right now so grab this special offer while you can! .uk/event/creating-a-space-workshop-series/ ⚡️ FLASH SALE ⚡️ Book Intro to Inclusivity on a Budget TOMORROW (Sunday 14th Jan), 11am-1pm and Working and Making Trauma-Consciously Sunday 21st Jan, 11am-1pm Use promo code RAT15 to get both for £15! Both online workshops from the comfort of your own home. Expand your theatre practice today! Find us through @thespacetheatre workshop series: .uk/event/creating-a-space-workshop-series/

Getting inspired looking at pictures of masks made at Mark Jennings's session in last year's One Fest of Homeless Arts at @olddiorama ... Honoured to be collaborating on next week's renamed One Roof festival, running the Creating Theatre sessions! Monday (TOMORROW) 11am-1pm: Take part in some theatre-based character exercises and games to work out who your mask is, before starting to make the mask with Mark... Friday 12th, 2-4pm: Having finished the mask with Mark in the morning, let's put it on and bring it to life! If you've experienced or are experiencing homelessness, come on down and play with us to show the world what you're made of from behind the safety of a mask! Book your FREE place now: /oneroof

📣AND WE'RE CASTING AGAIN!📣 We're so proud of this project and can't wait to complete our team. We're especially interested in hearing from actors who relate in some way to themes of spiritual and/or faith-based abuse, spiritual safety and spirituality in modern life. I, Lord at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 30th October at the Space 13th-17th February "Atheists like you are everything that's wrong with religion." Evie can’t pray. Ayeza can’t stop praying. Priya doesn’t want to pray - or at least, that’s what she tells everyone. Will you take this time to pray, or will you let your mind wander? PRIYA Female Playing age 23-30ish South Asian Evie’s friend from school days, hasn’t been in touch with her since Evie left home. Intern journalist. Highly ambitious. Quite brash and unafraid to cause offence, but cares passionately about justice and her friends. AYEZA Female Playing age 16-18 South Asian/Arab/Black 18 year old student a few months in to her first year at university. Comes across as frightened at first, but hugely passionate, spirited, funny, charming, perfectly able to stand up for herself. JULES Female Playing age 23-30ish Any ethnicityEvie’s best friend from school days, hasn’t been in touch since Evie left home. Churchwarden at Evie’s father’s parish church. Torn between supporting her old best friend and maintaining the reputation of the parish. FATHER Male Playing age 60-70ish Any ethnicity Evie’s father, and the parish priest at the church she used to attend. He is onstage the vast majority of the time as a constant presence in Evie’s memory. To apply, fill out the following form by midnight on Sunday 27th August: https://forms.gle/cAH3S6vfnAJXiPEx6 We'll ask selected applicants to submit a self-tape by midnight on Friday 1st September. In-person recalls in London on Saturday 9th September. GOOD LUCK! 😍

COME ACT WITH MEEEEEEE 😊 'Milestones' a semi-verbatim piece from Response Ability Theatre and CHAMPIONS, a national research project into experiences of families with children under 5 in temporary accommodation. It's a two-hander and will be performed at the Bloomsbury Studio Theatre to an audience of policy makers, charity leaders, parents, and some public. Experience of living in temporary accommodation or other insecure housing, of being a parent, or of migrancy, preferred, but not essential. Must be an excellent line learner! LOOKING FOR: Female Playing age 35-45ish Playing two characters: one is an immigrant and the other an asylum seeker, and at least one of them is a practising Muslim. The interviewees of whom this was true were mostly Arab or South Asian, with some Black African, so we'll consider actors of any of those ethnic backgrounds. REHEARSAL DATES Mondays-Thursdays, 4th-13th September, then 18th September and 20-22nd September, in London PERFORMANCE DATE Monday 25th September, evening (tech that afternoon) PAY £175/day (total £2275) E-MAIL [email protected] NOW! 😍

I've just achieved Arts Council funding for my upcoming show I, Lord. I want to celebrate, but also be sensitive about just how many are getting bad funding news now. This time last year I'd had 5 successful ACE apps and no rejections. This one took 3.5 submissions over the course of a whole year to get a yes (there was a processing error in one of them so I had a very short amount of time to do a time sensitive resub, hence the .5). The first rejection was going to come sooner or later, and quite rightly. Failure keeps us from resting on our laurels. My point is only that I don't think any of my rejected apps were lower quality than any of my previous successful ones. Times are TOUGH. Much of the feedback and advice I've had from ACE has felt hugely contradictory and I've noticed others saying the same. I think this is a reflection of the drastic recent changes in where their money is going and why. If it helps at all, it's not your fault. Still, the emotional toll is dire. Getting the good news felt like a huge lid being taken off my creative energy: it was a relief to remember how excited and confident I am capable of being about my work. It's so wrong that it should take getting the funding to feel like a valid artist. I've been totally carried by the support of those who have believed in me and the project, and communicated to help make it happen. It is still possible to make art happen. It so often doesn't feel like it, but it is. Lots of us are just having to wait much longer and push much harder for it. But that doesn't make us lesser artists, and we really need to stick together to remind each other of that. Come see the show! Premiere 30th October, then, well, just wait and see :) https://bit.ly/3pqgmHQ

It's been stupidly long since I did an open workshop and I'm so excited! Creative Writing and Storytelling with Nell Hardy 2:30-4:30pm Friday 21st July @noformatgallery Part of @a.sophisticated.insult exhibition. Free art! Free workshop! COME PLAY WITH ME! https://bit.ly/46I5xSu