Huge congrats to amazing Back to Back Theatre for winning the 2024 Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre! We are so proud to have presented their work in 2022 ✨

📣 WE ARE RECRUITING! 📣 LADA is seeking new leadership to build on its 25-year history and powerful legacy. You can find the job pack here: tinyurl.com/yc7s54xs

⏮ Last year for Transform 23, artist Ásrún Magnúsdóttir and Transform brought together a group of young performers to create SECRETS. 🍿 🎥 Watch our film about this making of this powerful show here: transformfestival.org/watch-the-maki…

We were at BatterseaArtsCentre last night watching brilliant katy baird’s Get Off. So proud to have co-commissioned this bold, vulnerable and thought provoking work. Catch it in London until 25 May 💚

Our producer Ema Boswood (she/her) is in Brussels this week for #Kunstenfestivaldesarts. We always travel via train where possible 💚

Paid opportunity: 📢 We’re looking for eight young people aged 18–25 based in the Leeds City Region to work with us on our next festival, which takes place in October 2025. Visit our website for more information: transformfestival.org/opportunities/…

Great news! Transform have been awarded £10,000 from West Yorkshire Combined Authority UNLIMITED Micro Capital Access Grant scheme 🎉 This will support us to purchase captioning equipment for our biennial international festivals ✨more here: transformfestival.org/transform-rece…

💥 Transform is looking for eight young people aged 18–25 with a passion for the arts and an interest in developing a career in the sector. As a Young Curator, you’ll develop new skills and shape the programme of our next festival in 2025. More info: transformfestival.org/opportunities/…

We’ve just published our 2023-2024 report. It provides insight into our programming strands, our financial model and what artists and audiences had to say about Transform 23 (spoiler – they loved it!) Take a look behind the scenes: transformfestival.org/read-our-annua…

Transform is inviting people from Leeds City Region to be part of a focus group that will help us shape the 2025 festival. Focus group attendees will be paid to attend 3 x two-hour meetings. Express your interest in taking part: transformfestival.org/join-our-focus…

Aged 18-25 and interested in shaping our next Transform festival? The deadline to apply is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm. Info here: transformfestival.org/opportunities/…

Transform & @godownarts, based in Nairobi, have been awarded a Catalyst Grant from British Council Arts for Making Space, a new arts research programme exploring ways to empower young people in their cities. Supported by EAACA British Council Arts ow.ly/4jxR50Tv4Ht

The deadline to have your say on our next festival programme is this Friday at 5pm ✨

The GoDown together with TICAH_KE are visiting Leeds for an exchange programme with Transform. The visit is under the Making Space Project - a programme connecting the arts,local authorities & young people in Leeds & Nairobi - supported by Catalyst Grant from British Council Arts

Making Space will explore: The relationship between young people and public spaces, their sense of civic belonging and participation, and how artistic performance might offer ways to strengthen young people’s agency and connection to wider urban communities

We are getting so excited to head over to Fierce later this month ✨

📢 We are looking for Trustees who can bring diverse thinking, varied expertise and fresh perspectives to our organisation. Do you have skills and expertise that could be of value to a small organisation at a pivotal moment in its journey? Get in touch: transformfestival.org/opportunities/

Join our Board! 🆕 We want to welcome Trustees from a range of different contexts, and we will actively mentor new Trustees in addition to those who might already have experience as Trustees. 🔗 Head to the opportunities page on our website: transformfestival.org/opportunities/