Bright Sparks Theatre Arts Company Community Interest Company

Bright Sparks principal activities throughout the year are working with the Learning Disabled community engaging them in theatre arts based activities to improve general health and well-being as well as communication skills and personal confidence. Our sessions provide a social setting uniting friendship groups across the city in meaningful activities. We rehearse in locations across the city but are mainly based at Cardigan Rd Community Centre in Burley, Leeds. We are part of Leeds Playhouse programme of events performing a summer show and a winter show in their studio venue Bramall Rock Void. We also deliver a day of drama skills at the Playhouse ‘Little Drama Club’ We are partners with other organisations and work alongside these companies to provide support for the learning disabled community, such as our Outreach programme- where we travel to day centres and deliver free drama sessions or our Nite Lites programme which supports members of the LD community engage in out of hours arts based social events. Bright Sparks are committed to raising Learning Disability awareness and safety, devising and delivering a schools tour of a show based around the themes of mate/hate crime for year 5 and 6 school children, with a cast comprising of Learning Disabled actors.