From Throwing the Cap to Facing Adult Life

Recently I started a podcast with one of my closest friends. We reflected on our graduation day and raised a glass to the class of 2020. Entering the working world, as a drama graduate, that doesn’t have a lot of time for the arts is a daunting task, a task I have been on for well over a year now. My course was amazing, I loved university and in all honesty, I didn’t really want it to end. Fourteen years of my life were spent in education with a plan to follow every day and all of a sudden within a day those plans and routines were all gone. The first thing that I found difficult in adult life was regaining that sense of routine, I struggled for months through two different jobs trying to find a routine that made sure my life didn’t revolve around work. As a drama graduate, I had to succumb to what I call “shit jobs,” now anyone reading this that I have worked with or for please don’t take that to heart. I had some amazing memories at these jobs and made some great friends, but they were jobs to fill the time. They were a means to an end; a way of making money to get me to where I wanted to be. Any fellow drama students or graduates reading this, it does feel like a setback but it’s not. You have not failed because you have to take a job that will pay the bills and feed you, you are purely working with basic human instinct.

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The Power of Art – Part two

In the week that we found out the arts sector would be thrown a lifeline of £1.5 billion, I would like to share another personal experience of the power of art. Through this instalment, I will be reflecting on the work I was part of at the beginning of the year, working alongside residents living in nursing homes. I will endeavour to inspire, inform and hopefully encourage those reading that there is a need for us artists, in this ever-changing world. As I mentioned in The power of art – Part one I was lucky to be a part of a theatre company at the beginning of the year. As a company, we specialised in working with different groups throughout Liverpool. These included offenders in prison, residents living in nursing homes and both primary and secondary school students. With Part one focusing on working with offenders in prison, Part two will be looking at what we did, how we helped and who we met when working in nursing homes.

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The Power of Art – Part one

As brought to our attention earlier this month in The Sunday Times, the top five non-essential jobs were revealed. Artists came out top. With being a performer and drama facilitator myself, I feel dubious about this statement. Maybe I’m biased. I have seen first hand how important the arts are. Through this three-part series, I will be sharing my experiences. How I have seen the arts affect marginalised groups in society and the benefits they provide. At the beginning of 2020, I was lucky to be part of a theatre company, specialising in working with different groups throughout Liverpool. These included offenders in prison, residents living in nursing homes and both primary and secondary school students. This instalment will focus on my personal experience of working with offenders in prison.

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