It was a pleasure to work with CHIVA (Childrens HIV Association) again and to have the opportunity to help a group of about 10 young adults to tell their stories of living with HIV through music, dance and drama. Their creativity in writing song lyrics, improvising scripts, and choreographing dance is impressive and their stories are powerful. It is always humbling to witness their talent and bravery in sharing them.

Life Growing Up - our spoken word storytelling piece telling the stories of young people in the UK growing up with HIV - was performed to MPs, researchers, activists and invited audience to celebrate the launch of a brilliant educational toolkit developed by young people at CHIVA (Children's HIV Charity UK) as part of an initiative to end HIV stigma.

So pleased to be screening "Life Growing Up" with GHFF online program , alongside the brilliant documentary 5B. Its followed by a Q&A.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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..."

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.

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.

Filming Life Growing Up; true stories from young people growing up with HIV in the UK.  Working with the super talented director Simon Baker, alongside producer Tamsin Herbert and their amazing team to create a film from the live performance. Our wonderful actors Alistair Nwachukwu, James Jack Ryan and Maia Watkins gave brilliant performances..... The film will be previewed at the International Conference in Amsterdam AIDS20018 next week, and officially launched in the UK on

Preview of the live performance of Life Growing Up - true stories from young people growing up with HIV in the UK. A storytelling performance that I have written, directed and produced with Danny Scheinmann for CHIVA; The Childrens HIV Charity.  It is performed by 3 brilliant young actors Alistair Nwachukwu, James Jack Ryan and Maia Watkins, with music by the amazing Aga Serugo Lugo.

Reading poems written by young people from CHIVA; The Childrens HIV Charity at the press launch of the CHERUB garden at the Chelsea flower show. Designed to bring attention to the experiences faced by young people growing up with HIV and the research that is being done in the UK by CHERUB (a collaboration of researchers) to find a cure for HIV. Due to stigma, the young people themselves felt unable to perform their own poems, so we were honoured to read for them.

This week we are taking part in a week long workshop with young people, exploring their experiences of growing up with HIV through spoken word, music, poetry and drama. The longer term aim is to create a live storytelling performance and film based on the true stories collected from young people living in the UK who have grown up with HIV. This is a project for CHIVA; The Childrens HIV Association in collaboration with  Turtle Keys Arts.