Company Three

We are looking for a Sound Designer for Festivals - our annual sharing of first draft work, co-created with teenagers. 🎧 Sound Design for two short shows 📝 Fee of £1800 for 1 full week and 6 days 📅 Closes 9 Jan 🔗 to more info https://loom.ly/L3Kkn2w

On Saturday, we had our annual Scratch night - a chance for all our groups to share early, rough versions of the five new plays they've been developing since September with the other groups. More on those new plays in 2025...

We wanted to share that we are leaving X (previously known as Twitter) and you can find us on Bluesky instead. One of our three rules at Company Three is Be Yourself. It's important to us that everyone we work with can fully and truly be themselves, and the only way for this to happen is if we create safe, inclusive spaces, and call out when we don't see that happening, both at C3 and elsewhere. We think a real commitment to equity, equality and diversity means not supporting or working with organisations that undermine that ethos. Over the past few months, and especially this Summer, it was clear to us that X was doing just that. Instances of (and the intentional platforming of) racism, Islamophobia, hatred, misinformation and discrimination on X are not something we want to be complicit with. So, you can find us on Bluesky instead at @companythree.bsky.social - for C3 updates, joy and musings. We'd love to see you there.

Did you watch our #BlackIs films yesterday? They were made by members of BlackisSafe, our Affinity Group for young Black members. Affinity Groups are spaces for our young people to talk and creatively explore parts of their identity with other members and artists who share their identity. Learn how you would set up your own affinity group with our Blueprints. More here: https://loom.ly/0ddTKFI

It's an exciting day at Company Three, we're launching the #BlackIs films today! You can watch the films and access our Blueprint here: https://lnkd.in/eX-6PuGa

And #BlackIs Boys Archive. A short film created by Mackenzie, Jerry, Shilton and DaQuarn, and directed by Nuna Sandy. Focusing on the stereotypes, images and expectations put on Black boys, we watch these boys unpack the layers as they grow to celebrate who they are. Watch the full film here: https://loom.ly/0ddTKFI

We're so proud to share #BlackIs I Love yours and I Love mine. A short film created by Love, Allegresse, Nia and Danae, and directed by Nuna Sandy. These girls explore in their own way how to pull out generational roots by understanding what it means, and what it would do, to truly embrace the phrase 'dividing and conquering is hard when I Love your and I Love mine.' Watch the full film here: https://loom.ly/0ddTKFI

Tomorrow at 15:00, we're launching our two #BlackIs short films and our Affinity Group blueprint. This project started in 2020. First, it was an Affinity Group, a space for our Black young people and Black staff to have those unfiltered conversations, rants, musings, laughter and cries, and to explore this part of their identity creatively. Then we co-created a play #BlackIs, which we performed at Pleasance Theatre in 2022 and New Diorama Theatre in 2023. This Summer we created two short films, filmed around Islington with brilliant local filmmakers. And then we created a resource pack, for anyone interested in creating identity led performance work with teeangers, and holding space for that well. We share it all with you tomorrow.

We believe that Young people everywhere should be able to creatively explore their identity. It's crucial that spaces to do that are joyful, safe and uncensored. In two days, we'll share our Affinity Group Blueprint: a set of resources for youth theatres or groups who are interested in Affinity Groups: spaces for young people to come together with other young people and artists who share an identity, and to creatively explore that together. We'll be sharing the Blueprint alongside two short films that were created by young people from Black is Safe, our first affinity group.

In three days, we'll share two short films we co-created with members of Black is Safe, our Affinity Group for young Black members of C3. #BlackIs Boy's Archive looks at the stereotypes, images and expectations put on Black boys - not just by non-Black people, but by the Black community too. #BlackIs I love yours and I love mine looks at colourism within the Black community, and it's origins in white supremacy culture. Keep an eye out...