Eastside

Wishing you a wonderful Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 ⭐️ This year’s theme is 'Know yourself, Grow yourself' and is all about encouraging young people to build self awareness. ⭐️ We run a variety of workshops celebrating the themes Diversity, Wellbeing and Literacy. These are available to book for schools across London throughout the year, and we can adapt workshops to suit your students’ needs and interests.  🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3WJvaPi ⭐️ Wednesday 30th April - Free CPD workshop  As part of our EastEd programme, we’re running a free CPD session for East London educators, on the topic of ‘How to develop a culture of Wellbeing in school and prepare for exams’.  🔗 Sign up now:

Last week we held our annual Spoken Word Power livestreams ⭐️ Schools across the country tuned in to these 50-minute interactive workshops, led by our expert poet facilitators. Students followed along with activities based around the theme ‘The Way I See It’, with teachers sharing their work as they went on the Padlet board, which we loved reading! 🔗 It’s not too late to get involved in this brilliant programme, find out more about Spoken Word Power: https://bit.ly/3XE3Z8k

Great working with Eastside again on their live-streamed show, Spoken Word Power 🎤📺 Broadcast over Zoom & YouTube to 50 schools across the UK – bringing creativity and connection to classrooms everywhere.

🎬🍿 BFI Academy Screening 2025 🎥⭐️ The 2024-25 British Film Institute (BFI) Film Academy has concluded with a prestigious screening at the famous BFI Southbank! Students shared their films to a packed-out audience of family, friends, and film industry professionals. The students took to the stage to receive their official BFI Film Academy completion certificates, discuss their work and experiences, and how they’ve developed over this intensive course. This year, Eastside has been working on the 2024-25 BFI Film Academy with consortium partners CTVC Ltd, @Silver Knight, and The Film and Video Workshop, to again deliver a learning experience of excellence, where students receive expert mentorship and get hands-on experience with the filmmaking process, building confidence and nurturing creative expression. 🔗 Keep an eye out for the films launching soon on our YouTube channel. A massive congratulations to all involved! Keen to get involved and become a filmmaker? Keep an eye out for next year’s BFI Film Academy applications, opening in August 2025.

Give the gift of creativity this Christmas 🎄 We celebrated our 30th Anniversary in 2024! To mark the end of this milestone year, we’re running a Christmas Giving Campaign. We need your help to save our arts education programmes and continue to inspire more young people in 2025. We rely on the generosity of our supporters, without whom we couldn’t continue our important work across the UK. Please spread the word! Instead of buying each other Christmas gifts this year, why not ask your friends and family to consider donating to support our life-changing programmes instead?   🔗 You can donate via our website: https://lnkd.in/ejDKHwWH Watch the video below to see some of the incredible work we have achieved at Eastside:

Eastside’s Urgent Christmas Appeal 🌟 This festive season, we need your help to save our arts education programmes and continue to inspire more young people in 2025. We rely on the generosity of our supporters, without whom we couldn’t continue our important work across the UK. Please spread the word! Instead of buying each other Christmas gifts this year, why not ask your friends and family to consider donating to support our life-changing programmes instead? Give the gift of creativity this Christmas 🎄 You can donate via our website: https://lnkd.in/ejDKHwWH

We’re excited to be part of #GivingTuesday this year! As a small creative arts charity, we need your help this festive season to continue to inspire more young people in 2025. We rely on the generosity of our supporters, without whom we couldn’t continue our important work across the UK. ⭐️ £10 could provide the financial support a young filmmaker needs to attend an inspiring filmmaking workshop with industry experts. ⭐️ £50 could enable a whole class to experience the joy of poetry with a classroom visit from one of our professional poets next year. ⭐️ £250 could allow an entire school to build wellbeing and resilience with a day of immersive storytelling workshops designed to celebrate positive mental health. We rely on the generosity of our supporters, without whom we couldn’t continue our important work across the UK. GivingTuesday 🔗 Donate now: https://bit.ly/3Vh5WHe

On the 6th November, we held a launch party for our Spoken Word Power 2024 Anthology ‘Hear My Voice’, at Shoreditch Town Hall. We were joined by representatives from UNESCO, many of our brilliant poet facilitators, young people who have taken part in the programme and their families, our trustees and the wider Eastside team to celebrate the fantastic work produced by schools across the country over the last year. With heartfelt poetry readings from the anthology led by young people and some of our artists, and a generous donation from Two Tribes brewery, it was a joyful evening that saw us looking back to celebrate and looking forward with anticipation of our upcoming 5 years of future funding for the programme in London from John Lyon's Charity. 🔗 Find out more about Spoken Word Power: https://lnkd.in/esVwDM7p

❄️ ☃️ This festive season, we need your help to continue to inspire more young people in 2025 🎄🎁 We rely on the generosity of our supporters, without whom we couldn’t continue our important work across the UK. For every donation of £50 or more to inspire and empower the next generation of creative thinkers this winter, you’ll be able to claim a free copy of our Spoken Word Power Anthology of youth poetry written by children across the country. Please spread the word! Instead of buying each other Christmas gifts this year, why not ask your friends and family to consider donating to support our life-changing programmes instead? Give the gift of creativity this Christmas. 🔗 You can donate via our website: https://lnkd.in/ejDKHwWH Every donation we receive, large or small, helps to fund the important work we do, and allows us to expand our reach and help even more young people 🌟

Applications are now open to join Artists in Residence 2025! This programme gives up to 12 Primary and SEND schools in select boroughs of London, the opportunity to work towards a selected school improvement goal using the arts.  🔗 Find out how to apply: https://bit.ly/40uJ8nt