“Brave Bold Drama connects with its audience and has great outreach.
Doing something positive . . . a very impressive organisation.”

Bristol Life Awards 2017 Judges

"Brave Bold Drama are a really great little theatre company."

Weston Super Mum

Beside the Sea
a multi-sensory immersive experience for people living with dementia
commissioned by Activate (Dorset) as part of their Micro-Commissions Programme

We are partnering with Dorset-based theatre company Frenetic Fox to create Beside the Sea this autumn. This is a through-the-post multi-sensory story about a day out at the beach created for people living with dementia and a carer or family member to enjoy together. 

Beside the Sea will be launched in 9 care homes in Hartcliffe (south Bristol), Weymouth and Weston-Super Mare to coincide with Arts in Care Home Day on 24th September 2020.

Beside the Sea is funded by by Activate, National Lottery Communities Fund and Groundwork, and supported by That Creative Thingy Wotsit, a Weston-based CIC who support creativity in care homes.

PlaySparks
imaginative and active play ideas to support family creativity

Every Saturday from 18th July until 29th August we will share a new PlaySpark here and on our social media channels.

The activities encourage imaginative and active play, and are designed to be accessible for families with preschoolers up to young people.

PlaySparks are entirely free to access and use. Please share our PlaySparks with anyone who may enjoy them!

Show me the PlaySparks!

The Hive Totem Collective
a new digital space to showcase and celebrate young people's creativity

We are delighted to have been commissioned by B&NES Hospital Education and Reintegration Services to create a new digital space to celebrate the creativity of the young people they work with. We're creating an online gallery that will launch in early September 2020.

We ran a socially distanced puppet-making workshop with some young people in July 2020 and during this workshop discussed possible names for this new online gallery, and The Hive Totem Collective was born! 

The Hive part came about because the young people sometimes work with their tutors at a base in Keynsham called The Hive. We researched the word totem and discovered that in Anishinaabe cultures, the word 'doodem' (from where totem derives) means "an expression of your heart" and also means the place where knowledge can be shared between clan members.

The Hive Totem Collective online gallery will celebrate the 'expressions of the heart' or creative expression of the young people, and will also be a space for the young people to learn new creative skills from each other.