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We're hosting a special edition of our regular Homework Club series on 25 June, as part of our Lab XL leadership exchange programme in partnership with Creative Migration (LA/BKK.)

Led by Susannah Tantemsapya (Founder & Executive Director of Creative Migration and Bangkok 1899), this hands-on session brings a vital international perspective to culture-based climate action.

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We're thrilled that Lucy Richardson is joining us for our first Homework Club: Arts Council DYCP Fund (Round 24), which takes place online on 27 May!

Lucy is a Relationship Manager at the Arts Council in the London Theatre team. Here she has a responsibility for Creative Health and New Writing and is the Borough Lead for Barking and Dagenham.

Alongside this she is a director, dramaturg and educator. Her work focuses on giving a platform to those under-represented in the theatre and in society. It spans professional theatre work and large-scale participatory projects.

Lucy’s directorial work includes The Woman Who Cooked her Husband by Debbie Isitt in the West End, The Quick by Stephanie Jacob at the Tristan Bates Theatre and Heart Speak by Zawe Aston for Clean Break. The Strongbox by Stephanie Jacob won The Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at Vault 2018. Bare Knuckle – a one man about bare knuckle fighting in the traveller community – was selected to be showcased at the United Solo Festival in New York in 2021. Mid Life by Sheila Chapman, a show about the menopause, opened at Bristol Old Vic and at High Tide before going on a National Tour in 2025. The Guest by Stephanie Jacob and produced by her company Cockahoop Theatre was performed at Clapham Omnibus in 2025.

Lucy was Associate Director of Project Phakama for many years making large scale, immersive, participatory performance in South Africa, Argentina, India and Lesotho and UK. Her book Phakama: Making Participatory Performance is published by Bloomsbury Methuen this year.

Lucy has directed over 30 productions in Drama Schools and Universities and was Artistic Director for Lewisham Youth Theatre for 10 years.

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📸 Credit: Tanja Neilson

We recently welcomed artist Claudia Palazzo to Toynbee Studios for a Lab residency to further develop her work "Our Suspended Corridors."

Claudia is a London born artist working at the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation and alternative cabaret. It is often poetic, unmanageable, meditative and violent in its structure.

Influenced by roots in psychophysical training, inner-city structures and club culture, allowing space for dissociation and reassociation as a way of processing, contextualising and navigating things which may feel enormous. Claudia is looking for things to represent her dancing body in her absence. She is interested in subliminal and feral communication with architecture and an audience and wonders how we can challenge ableist ideals of mobility without succumbing to soft control that is disguised as care. Claudia is currently concerned with alternatives to individualism whilst also trying to de-censor her autobiography. Claudia has also had a 17+ year career as a performer in the work of many artists and choreographers.

📸 Photo by zbigniew kotkiewicz

If you're applying for an Arts Council Project Grant, be sure to check out our Homework Club series. Each Wednesday throughout April we're creating a welcoming co-working space, starting with a 45-minute presentation and Q&A, followed by dedicated time to work on your application.

Facilitated by Artsadmin Producers, this series offers practical guidance on applying for the Project Grant, with each session focusing on a different stage of shaping and strengthening your application.

Upcoming dates & focus -
📆 15 April - Project Design
📆 22 April - Budgeting
📆 29 April - Touring

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Homework Club: Arts Council Project Grants – Event – Artsadmin Artsadmin’s Homework Club is a welcoming co-working space for performance-based and multi-disciplinary artists, producers, and creatives to