April marks World Autism Acceptance Month! A time to reflect, learn and take action towards a more inclusive society where autistic people feel recognised, respected and supported. This month we are proud to support @nationalautisticsociety’s #ItsHowYouShowUp campaign.

Do you know anyone living with dementia in Liverpool? We are thrilled to be bringing our Turtle Song project back to the city very soon, with weekly sessions taking place on Thursday mornings from 23rd April. If you know someone who might be interested, please get in touch!

Happy World Theatre Day! A day to celebrate theatre, storytelling, and expression for all 🎭 Why not celebrate by booking tickets to a show near you? We might be biased but we'd recommend taking the family to see Sisters 360! Book your tickets here: www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk/sisters360

This trend was too good for us to miss! Can you guess who is who from our Turtle baby pictures? #thisiswho

For the past 8 weeks our Turtle Song London group have been exploring and writing songs all around the theme of love❤️ We're very excited to watch their final sharing next week- The Chords of Love: Stories, songs and dances of the heart!

This year, our Key Clubs have been exploring film and television🎥 Last month Key Club Finchley designed their own adverts which they will film at their next session!

20 years ago Turtle Key Arts watched Ockhams Razor perform at The Place London as part of Resolution!, a showcase for emerging artists, and ever since then a collaboration and partnership was forged. It feels fitting 20 years later for Collaborator to open at The Place tonight and celebrate there!

There's just one week until Sadiq Ali Company premiere their Tell Me at the Lowry, Salford! ⭐ Through Chinese Pole and Aerial Artistry, Tell Me seeks to challenge outdated perceptions and offers audiences a fresh perspective on HIV, one rooted in courage, beauty and possibility.

This World AIDS Day we would like to celebrate some of the incredible artists we work with - Sadiq Ali Company and CHIVA. Sadiq Ali Company is led by HIV activist Sadiq Ali. His new work, Tell Me, explores and challenges stigma around living with HIV in 2025. 📸: Jamie Dennis for Primo DVP

APPLY NOW for Turtle Opera London 2026! Turtle Opera is a FREE music and drama project for Autistic 11 - 15 year olds. Join us for four days of fun, friendships and creation during the February half term at the V&A Museum, South Kensington📣

Turtle Song, our free singing and song-writing project for people living with dementia, is returning to London in January! Turtle Song is a FREE singing and song-writing project for people living with memory problems and all forms of dementia, and for their companions (husband/wife/carer etc).

Our Key Clubs started back this year and have already had two great sessions! In September they started exploring this year's theme of film and got to test out their camera skills🎥

#OurTime Brilliant masterpiece, outstanding dance and physical theatre performance. #AmiciDanceTheatreCompany @turtlekeyarts.bsky.social @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social

💡🎭 Facilitator Needed: Sound & Lighting Technician We are looking for a sound & lighting technician to join us for a schools workshop on Friday 24th October (with potential for future work).

Congratulations to the entire Sisters 360 team on their @asianmediaawards nomination for Best Stage Production🏆 We are excited to be taking Sisters 360 back out on tour next year🛹 More information will be announced soon!

🚨 PERFORMER CALL OUT Sadiq Ali Company is seeking a circus performer to join the creation and touring of our next indoor show. ⏱️ Deadline - 10am Monday 6th October

What a brilliant summer touring Sadiq Ali Company's Tell Me! We've been reminiscing with these gorgeous pics from Stockton International Riverside Festival ☀️ Thank you to everyone involved - the cast and crew, the festivals who hosted us, Without Walls and all the audiences who came to watch!

Over the years we have had so much fun at Edinburgh Fringe! From running our own venue to supporting @ockhamsrazoruk and the @sadiqalicompany🙌 We're so excited to be going again this year🎉

🎉 FREE Family Fun Days are back 🎉 Don't miss this joyful weekend full of fun activities, great music and inclusive arts! 🗓️ Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st August ⏰ 11am - 3pm 📍 Lyric Square, King Street W6 0QL 🎟️ FREE for all

Meet Phil one of our Turtle Song Liverpool participants who loves biscuits so much that he wrote a song all about them in our latest Turtle Song!

Tell Me is at @sirf_stockton tomorrow and Saturday! 🚨 This is your last chance to see @sadiqalicompany's show Tell Me this Summer so if you're in Stockton make sure to come and watch the show!

On our big day of JOY, earlier this month, our Joy of Music Ensemble had their final sharing to all of their friends and family🎤 Led by their Composer, Aga, and Director, Monique, the group shared all of the music they had created together across the previous 4 weeks!

TELL ME IS IN LONDON THIS WEEKEND! 📆 Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th July 🕓 4pm & 7pm 📍 Royal Victoria Docks Don't miss your chance to see Sadiq Ali's new show at Ensemble Festival. Tell Me confronts stigma & challenges outdated perceptions of HIV, using chinese pole, physical theatre & dance.

Check out these wonderful photos from our Joy-4-Schools Final Sharing at the @lyrichammersmith! It was a brilliant day where we got to celebrate all the students who had taken part in creative arts workshops throughout the Summer Term☀️

Last month, our Key Club Lyric and Key Club Kiln had their final sharing with their family and friends🎉 Key Club Lyric displayed their puppetry creations, including a puppet catwalk, and Key Club Kiln premiered their film 'The Wonders of London'🎨 🎥

We have reached the final week of Turtle Song in Liverpool🎤 The group will be sharing their new song cycle this Thursday to all their family and friends! We are so proud of all the participants and the team who made it happen⭐

As #VolunteersWeek reaches its close we want to say a massive THANK YOU to all of the amazing volunteers who support us on our projects. From Turtle Song up in Bishop Auckland to Turtle Opera and Key Club here in London - we're so grateful for the wonderful work they do ✨ 🐢

Charlotte and Ali are having a busy day Out & About in Bradford and Leeds today!

Join our FREE creative arts social club for young autistic adults now! Key Club has places available in both our Hammersmith clubs and our Finchley club📣

We are half way through our Joy-4-Schools programme! Across the summer term 7 SEN schools in Hammersmith & Fulham have been receiving creative arts workshops🎭 Check out these pictures of some of our wonderful workshop leaders and assistants⭐

You don't want to miss Sisters 360 as heads to Bradford, at the end of May, for its final performances of the 2025 tour🛹 You can catch the show as part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture programme!

🎵Join our FREE Joy of Music Ensemble now🎵 Over 6 sessions, we will create an original piece of music together, to be performed in a sharing at the Lyric Hammersmith! Sessions are open to all members of the West London community, regardless of ability, who share a passion for music🎼

Sisters 360, our co-production with Polka Theatre and AIK, is opening at the Leeds Playhouse tomorrow after its brilliant London run! This 5 star play is in Leeds from the 7 - 10 May and you can get your tickets here- www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/event/sister...

We had a very busy weekend at Turtle Key Arts! 🕺 @amici_dtc were in rehearsal for their show Our Time 🎭 @theasifkhan play Sisters 360 finished its run at @polkatheatre 🎪 @sadiqalicompany are into week 3 of creation for his new outdoor show Tell Me 🎤 Turtle Opera Oxford had its first session

Brilliant reviews have been coming in for Sisters 360, our co-production with Polka Theatre and AIK, in association with Leeds Playhouse🛹 Have a look at our feature in the Guardian! ★★★★★ "A fun, heartfelt play about dreaming big and never giving up!" - Cinema Stars Entertainment

Today is National Autism Awareness Day! This month the National Autistic Society are asking us how we show up for autistic people. Turtle Key Arts are proud to provide creative arts programmes for autistic and neurodiverse people through our Key Club, Turtle Opera and previously Musical Portraits.

APPLY NOW for Turtle Opera Oxford 2025! The nine weeks of workshops will involve participants creating their own stories and music for an informal performance, with a professional composer and director. Applications must close soon so get your applications in now!

We are coming to the end of both our Turtle Songs running in Oxford and Bishops Auckland! Next week, both groups will perform their musical creations to their friends and family to celebrate the time we spent together🎤

Check out these pictures from our Turtle Opera at the @vamuseum which we ran in the February half term! Applications are now open for Turtle Opera Oxford 2025! Turtle Opera is a FREE music and drama project for autistic young people aged 11 to 15.

Ali has been Out & About at the National Centre for Circus Arts, lecturing the 2nd year BA students all about preparing for the performance industry!

Ali was Out & About in Portsmouth last night supporting @OckhamsRazor on their first performance of TESS for the 2025 tour! It was a brilliant performance with rave reviews already coming in📣 🔜 TESS is touring around the country to...

Last week, we had a fantastic time running our Turtle Opera project at the V&A Museum! Turtle Opera is our music and drama project for autistic young people aged 11-15. Check out some videos of our participants rehearsing before their final sharing to all their family and friends!

⭐Masterclass 'Ways In' with Nathan Johnston, Associate Artist, Ockham’s Razor⭐ 📍New Theatre Royal Portsmouth 🗓️25 Feb ⏰14:30 Ticket incl. same day entrance to 'Tess' by Ockham’s Razor at 7:30pm in the main house. Book today: linktr.ee/CryingOutLoud #workshop #circus @turtlekeyarts.bsky.social

@openskyahead.bsky.social THE LAST SHOW is a documentary film chronicling the impact and legacy of the London International Mime Festival. For 47 years it curated and exhibited ground-breaking British and international visual, physical performance, changing the theatre industry beyond measure.

January when the year is new it's the "Turtle Key Arts - MONTH IN A MINUTE" featuring Ockham's Razor, AMICI Dance Theatre Company, Kiln Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Open Sky, Victoria and Albert Musuem, Royal College of Music, English Touring Opera and MimeLondon.

It was the final Key Club session of the year last weekend! Key Club is our monthly arts club for autistic 18 to 30 year olds🎨 Our Lyric, Hammersmith club were busy making music to underscore their puppetry performance. Thank you to the brilliant musicians Inês Delgado and Laura Casas Cambar🎹

Having a full circus show in the best shows of 2024 is massive. Go @turtlekeyarts.bsky.social and Ockham's Razor. Huge. #Circusisthefuture www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/d...

Yesterday was the final sharing of our Turtle Song project at the Royal College of Music. Well done to all of the participants and team involved in creating a wonderful song cycle and fantastic sharing, based around the theme 'How Good is Wood?!' 🎵 🪵

APPLY NOW for Turtle Opera London 2025! 🗓️ Tuesday 18th - Friday 21st February 2025 ⏰ 11am - 3:30pm 📍 V&A Museum, South Kensington 🔗 To apply please fill in the online application form- https://buff.ly/493eqrp ☎️ Contact [email protected] for more information.

Check out some of the brilliant puppet creations from our recent Key Club sessions at The Lyric, Hammersmith! Key Club is our monthly arts club for autistic 18 to 30 year olds🎨 There are still places available! Please fill out this form- https://buff.ly/40VJk2D to apply.