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Sara's Story Premiere
We are really excited to premiere our second Talking Head - Sara's Story at a private screening at The Garden Cinema on Wednesday 10 December. Sara's Story is the culmination...
Our VAWG workshops
Violence Against Women and Girls disproportionately affects women and girls and includes domestic abuse, sexual assault, female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage, harassment, stalking, exploitation, trafficking, and online abuse. During...
Our Knife Crime Campaigns
Our work against knife crime began in 2023 with our "Lives not Knives" campaign. This saw the delivery of a series of Knife-Related Restorative workshops for young people in London...
Our Premiere Event
“Kofi’s Story”, Kent Opera's dramatic tale of a young person caught up in knife crime, premiered in December last year at The Prince’s Trust South London Headquarters, in front of an invited audience, which included Neve Conlan who had...
Kofi's story - an educational talk
Kofi’s Story — Kent Opera's real-life dramatisation of a young man caught up in knife crime — premiered at an event hosted by The Prince’s Trust just before Christmas 2023. The enactment of the true story, which...
Kofi's Story
Our short film is the culmination of our 2023 Campaign — 'Lives not Knives'. The drama tells the real life story of a young man caught up in knife crime...
David reflects on his first restorative workshops
With our Knives not Lives campaign underway David reflects on the initial restorative workshops hearing of the devastation caused by knife crime but how intervention such as ours...
Our New Campaign Launches this Week
Last week we officially launched our 2022 Campaign in Brixton - Lives not Knives. From this week onwards we will run a series of restorative workshops with young...
Covid postponement
POSTPONED What do flowers, greenery and fresh air – the joy of nature in the urban jungle – mean to us? We have gained a new appreciation for all this...
Our last production – Hamlet
Kent Opera’s high-energy Hamlet, “a 45-minute roller-coaster". Kent Opera’s Hamlet was a dynamic piece of physical theatre at the Westminster Chapel which included mime and clowning as well as iconic text from Shakespeare’s play....
COVID-19 Statement
COVID-19 has seriously hampered Kent Opera’s traditionally performance-based activities since the spring of 2020. For several years we have been working in prisons and with recently released offenders in...
