New Diorama Theatre have announced that they will be the 2024 host of the award-nominated Holly’s Angels Festive Market, to celebrate the upcoming season and help bring cheer to local communities in Camden and surrounding areas on Friday 20th December.
Since December 2020, Holly Adomah and her team of volunteers have turned theatre spaces into distribution hubs to help support local artists and community members who are experiencing hardships. Previous hosts include Bush Theatre, Brixton House, Theatre Deli, Shakespeare’s Globe and Park Theatre. Holly’s Angels has helped over 1000 community members and arts freelancers and were nominated for a Mayor of Lewisham Award for Voluntary Services in 2022. Holly’s Angels aim to reconnect communities with theatre spaces, to allow for patrons to engage in the arts and to highlight opportunities within arts spaces. Holly’s Angels will also distribute donations to charities associated with the venue, and in the local area.
Local office workers, theatre makers, café patrons and residents are invited to make donations at New Diorama between 16th and 19th December, 11am until 3pm.
Then on Friday 20th December, community members, arts freelancers and anyone in need are invited to attend the ‘market’ between 10am and 4pm to receive donations of their own choosing at a welcoming and joyful festive event with complimentary refreshments.
We encourage and welcome donations of:
- Non-perishable foods – long-life non-dairy milk (oat, soya, rice), pasta, rice, oats, tinned soup, foods, beans and other pulses, lentils, cereal
- Pet food – food pouches for dogs, cats and smaller household pets, dried biscuits/food,
- tins of pet food
- Pet accessories such as warm beds and blankets
- Gift-wrapped toys for children (with a gift tag attached to notify what’s inside) – colouring books, small toys, soft toys, board games
- Gift-wrapped presents for adults (with a gift tag attached to notify what’s inside)
- Toiletries – deodorant, toilet paper, shower gel, shaving gel, shampoo, soap, toothbrushes,
- tooth paste, hand wipes, children’s toiletries
- Household items – laundry liquid detergent, laundry powder, washing up liquid
- Sanitary towels and tampons
Holly Adomah, founder of Holly’s Angels said “My team and I are extremely excited to be hosting the Festive Market at New Diorama Theatre this year, returning to North London where the initiative began. We are so pleased to help provide support to NDT’s local residents, charities and artists who may need a helping hand during the holiday season. We’ve been doing this close to four years now and are pleased to keep Holly’s Angels going, especially in art and theatre spaces. We hope to help as many people as we can and donations will be highly appreciated”
More info here: https://newdiorama.com/whats-on/hollys-angels-2024
About New Diorama Theatre
Founded in 2010, New Diorama Theatre is a central London venue dedicated to providing a home for brilliant independent theatre companies, makers and ensembles, and has established a national reputation as a trailblazer for early-career artist support.
New Diorama are honoured to have received four Peter Brook Awards and ten OffWestEnd Awards for programmed work, been twice named Fringe Theatre of The Year at The Stage Awards (2017 & 2022), OffWestEnd Artistic Director of the Year and won The Stage’s Innovation Prize for Intervention 01. In 2023 NDT won the inaugural Critics’ Circle Empty Space Venue Award.
West End transfers for NDT-commissioned and developed shows include For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy by Nouveau Riche (nominated for Best New Play in the Oliver Awards) which enjoyed runs at both the Apollo and Garrick Theatres, and Operation Mincemeat by Spitlip (winner of 2024 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical), which continues to run at the Fortune Theatre and will be opening on Broadway in February 2025. Other pieces have gone on to appear Off Broadway in New York, across the UK and overseas.
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