Toonspeak has teamed up with Sonnet Youth (Cat Hepburn and Kevin P. Gilday) for the 4th installment of Sonnet Youth² which provides a platform for our talented young writers, Word of Mouth to perform alongside established song and spoken word … Continued
Our recent Shine course working with LGBT young people, using drama as a tool to build confidence, express yourself and connect with one another has produced this beautiful piece of work, which was a real highlight at Toonspeak’s Christmas Show … Continued
Last night, September 13th 2017, we had the great pleasure of meeting Adam, both onstage and off. This young man has fled persecution to finally ‘become’ the person he has always been. It deals with the issue of trans rights … Continued
Toon In Speak Out is our annual youth consultation day where we invite current participants to talk about Toonspeak, their dreams and aspirations. This year we were in our new home, Barmulloch Residents Centre with 60 young people varying from … Continued
Last year at our annual Toon In Speak Out event, where we gather feedback from our participants, a group of over 40 young people were assembled and asked what they would like achieve with us in 2017. They came back … Continued
Credit: Kevin Main
What does it take to put on a successful musical like ‘Ma Bit’? For our first performance EVER in the Tron Theatre We put together a “crack team” of Young Artists to work everything from the sound to calling the … Continued
A couple of months ago we worked with Glasgow based artist Brian Hartley to do the promotion shots for our upcoming show ‘Ma Bit’ coming to the Tron Theatre this July, part of the Merchant City Festival! We put it … Continued
A wee word from the Director of our upcoming show ‘Ma Bit’ Libby McArthur So we’ve now cast MA BIT Toonspeak’s new Musical Theatre piece set to show at the Tron at the end of July. We start rehearsals on … Continued
Get your tickets here tron.co.uk! Ma Bit is a brand new musical theatre show from Toonspeak. Witness the dynamism and passion of 40 Glasgow young people who have co-created this ambitious, modern musical theatre show for their first ever performance in … Continued
Toonspeak Partnership Development Day was a fantastic success! We had an amazing array of people join us everywhere from social workers to freelance artists, young people to CEOs and Artistic Directors, from board members to arts professionals and more. The … Continued
We did it! A fun, funny, engaging show about financial capabilities written by this talented bunch plus a few others that toured around 8 schools over the course of a week this March. I don’t think anyone realised what they … Continued
We did it! Spring Show 2017! Your Turn! With a massive cast of 51 young people from across Glasgow, aged between 8-21 years old, under the fabulous direction of Hannah McLean and our amazing team of theatre artists Sarah Bradley, … Continued
Last week there was an absolute frenzy of people in the studio from the TV and Radio eager to meet our fantastic young SHINE participants. We were a feature for Red Nose Day on Reporting Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland featured … Continued
The time is fast approaching for the FUSION. CEILIDH. EVENT. OF. THE. YEAR! That’s right ladies and gentleman, Friday March 31st a cast of over 50 young people from Glasgow will be taking over Community Central Hall in Maryhill for … Continued
Blog by Young Writer SJ Herbertson. Toonspeak recently teamed up their young writers group Word of Mouth with Sonnet Youth for the second installment of Sonnet Youth² in Stereo. Sonnet Youth is a monthly alternative spoken word night at Drygate … Continued
So much has been going on at Toonspeak there has been no time to shout about it! Last week we had our first event of the year, spoken word night at Stereo partnering with Sonnet Youth and our amazing young … Continued
Toonspeak is closing for our Christmas holidays. We will be back in 2017 with lots of exciting new projects including a Spring Production, a Schools Tour, lots more SHINE projects, Creative Learning such as Young Drama Leader Training, Arts Award, … Continued
Word of Mouth is a Toonspeak Young Writers project led by author Cathy Forde each year, and features a range of guest artists with different styles and from various backgrounds. I first started with Toonpeak back in February 2016, on … Continued
Blog by Marie Hnat Toonheid Speaks, Toonspeak Tuesdays, Word of Mouth, Rookie Writers… The Great Aziz and Karaoke! It was a fabulous night. It seemed everyone really enjoyed the party. We had a dance performance, poems, incredible magic tricks and … Continued
