C3 Exchange is our commitment to sharing our practice and learning from others - to create a more connected and impactful youth theatre sector. We do this by:
Partnering with other youth theatres to make new plays together.
Publishing Blueprints of our plays and process.
Bringing people together to talk about the big issues that matter to us all.
#BlackIs Films and Affinity Groups Blueprint.
Affinity Groups are spaces for our young people to talk and creatively explore parts of their identity with other members and artists who share their identity.
Learn how you would set up your own affinity group with our Blueprints.
Running a Youth Theatre.
Free online discussions and training, lead by England’s Youth Theatre National Portfolio Organisations.
New sessions announced for 2025.
‘It's nice to know we are getting lots of things right. It's supportive to know things can change and be done differently.’
Running a Youth Theatre participant.
Blueprint Library.
An online hub of resources for anyone running a youth theatre.
Blueprints
“A profound experience for my students … the most thought-provoking and moving play they’d ever experienced.”
We share our work through Blueprints - open-source devising guides and script templates - so that other groups of young people can make their own versions of our plays and projects.
Brainstorm.
Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us.
Brainstorm is a unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they're designed by evolution to be the way they are.
The Coronavirus Time Capsule.
The Coronavirus Time Capsule captured a unique moment in history - the arrival of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdowns.
Across the world, more than 3,000 teenagers used weekly exercises in our unique blueprint, instruction videos and other resources to help them explore life in lockdown.
When This Is Over
A group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, come together to share stories about their past, their present, and what might lie ahead.
A uniquely personal, theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination.
Training Courses.
Our training courses are a practical and engaging introduction to our practice - appropriate for anyone, of any experience, who is interested in meaningful creative collaboration with young people.
We’re reimagining what our training courses look like in 2024 under new artistic leadership. Please check back here soon or click below to be kept up to date.
