I’m delighted to be working with my little sister, Rachel Jury, on her participatory musical project, The Gates.

Rachel’s company, ConFab, based in Glasgow, is one of the leading participatory arts companies in Scotland. She creates participatory theatre to the highest standards by using key professional cast and crew to nurture and guide large casts of community enthusiasts.

The Gates is a large-scale participatory theatre project for the LGBT community that has been performed very successfully in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The project was inspired by the story of, The Gateway, a gay club that opened in 1931 in the basement of a shop on the Kings Road in London. For 50 years ‘The Gates’ provided a secret safe-haven for the LGBT community until its closure in 1985.

In 2018 ConFab is hoping to bring the project to Manchester, Brighton and London and I’m working with Rachel as a Producer to help set that tour up. So keep your eyes peeled for The Gates, coming your way in 2018!

Over the summer my company Public Domain has been developing an innovative, on-line, multi-media, educational resource based on my play The Liberty Tree. The project is designed to provide resources that will introduce 16-25 year olds to the history of the battles for justice, freedom and equality that continue to be fought today.

www.thelibertytree.org.uk

This year I was co-founder of the Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival  with Reuben Irving of Worcester University, an initiative arising from the Radical Film Network.