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Life Growing Up won best film in the Long Form under £5m category at the Charity Film Awards from a shortlist of 18 films. It was a surreal affair as the whole ceremony was broadcast live on Youtube during lockdown and we were watching at home, but big celebrations here when we won! Credit to all the amazing young people who shared their stories with us. Their courage has changed the way people think and feel about young people born with HIV. We couldn’t have made the film wi

We are delighted to announce that we have just heard that we are finalists in the charity film awards for our film "Life Growing Up" - the true stories of young people in the Uk growing up with HIV. Please vote for us here ... there is still time! And tune in to watch the Live digital broadcast of the virtual awards ceremony on Tuesday 21st April at 7pm by going the Charity Film Awards website.

I'm very excited to be working with The OceanTree and collaborating with Diverse City and their brilliant show MidLife to offer this half day workshop. Visit eventbrite for full information.

Live performance of Life Growing Up for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on HIV and AIDS, and the APPG on Mental Health. What an amazing journey to be presenting this story here.... now over to the policy makers....

I am very pleased to be working with The OceanTree again this year. Meeting Menopause is a weekend retreat for women that I will be co-facilitating from 1-3rd May 2020 with my long time friend and brilliant coach, yoga teacher and wise woman Fiona Bibby. We will be combining our skills and using the story "Seal Skin Soul Skin" from Clarrissa Pinkola Este's seminal "Women that Run With The Wolves" as a framework, to offer what we hope will be a really empowering, thoughtful

We are so excited to announce that Life Growing Up, our film about the stories of young people growing up with HIV, has been shortlisted for the Charity Film Awards. The second stage of voting starts now, so please add your vote here.

Great to watch Life Growing Up Screened at the Global Health Film Festival with co-writer Danny Scheinmann and producer Tamsin Herbert, and was honoured to be part of a panel discussion following the screening.

Come along and join us for a 'Sing your socks off Acapella Singalong' led by Ginny Clee at The Star

We are excited to announce that our film  Life Growing Up  made for UK children's HIV charity CHIVA , has been selected for the  2019 Global Health Film Festival . It will take place on Friday 06 and Saturday 07 December, in Bloomsbury, central London, bringing together 500 health advocates, filmmakers, journalists and the public for discussion and debate in all areas of global health.

Participating and facilitating (storytelling and voice embodiment work) at Oceantree's Time Out for Time In retreat was a real treat! Their retreats create the time, space and energy to dive deep into your development. They facilitate your connection to what matters most to you and to make a positive impact in the world. The ancient wisdom we find in stories in this context is inspirational, and creates a fantastic framework for enquiry.

Standing ovations for Life Growing Up at the National HIV Nurses Association annual conference. "I can watch this over and over and it doesn't get old"

Emotional responses to todays performance of Life Growing Up at the CHIVA annual families conference. Thank you again to the yong people who shared their stories and to our brilliant performers, Jack James Ryan, Maia Watkins, Alistair Nwachuwku, Anneka Gouldbourne, Fejiro Emasiobi and musician Aga Serugo Lugo. "Every time I watch Life Growing Up it gives me goosebumps..."

Always wonderful performing with Max Richter in The Blue Notebooks, alongside the brilliant ACME. You could hear a pin drop in the auditorium tonight. Created a magical and mesmerising atmosphere....

Excerts of the film of Life Growing up were previewed at AIDS2018 in Amsterdam.....

I have been working for many months on this very moving short film Life Growing Up  and it launches today for World AIDS Day 2018 . Based on the true stories of young people in the UK born with HIV and developed from a live spoken word/ storytelling performance, it was commissioned by the Children's HIV Association, CHIVA.

'Sing your socks off' singalong led by Ginny Clee.

The live performance of Life Growing Up at BHIVA (British HIV Association) Annual conference, shows how powerful it is to present stories in this way. "This is one of the most powerful, wonderful pieces of theatre I have seen all year"  "Everyone must see this"  "Congratulations" "This performance has barely started and i'm in tears... wonderful" " What a beautiful and moving peformance" "Said it like it is - got deserved standing ovation for powerful portrayal of how it is

We premiered our storytelling/spoken piece "Life Growing Up" which shares the experiences of young people living with HIV,  at the worlds largest health conference; AIDS2018 in Amsterdam. This is a project for CHIVA; The Children's HIV Charity. Our brilliant team (Maia Watkins, Alistair Nwachukwu, Jack James Ryan and Aga Serugo-Lugo) wowed everyone with a really powerful performance on the main stage at The Global Village. Feedback through Twitter....  " Fantastic" "Absol

After a lot of hard work we are very excited to present the premier live performance of Life Growing Up; true stories of young people growing up with HIV, at IAC Amsterdam 2018. Tuesday 24th July, 16.30, Main Stage of the Global Village . This performance is open to the public. Written, directed and produced by Sarah Sutcliffe and Danny Scheinmann for CHIVA; The Children's HIV Association.

On tour with Max Richter and The 12 Ensemble in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bremen, Dusseldorf and final show in the incredible Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg. Playing in some of the most amazing concert halls I have seen. Feel very lucky to have this experience.