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A trilogy of environmental performances for World Climate Day

A trilogy of environmental performances for World Climate Day

Accelerate marks the third piece in our trilogy of environmentally charged spectacle work, to coincide with World Climate Day 2024.
Call out to young people aged 14-15: join the Young Producers Collective 2024

Call out to young people aged 14-15: join the Young Producers Collective 2024

Are you aged 14-15? Do you want to learn more about how theatre and performance is produced?
Join our steering group for the next Highly Sprung Play Day!

Join our steering group for the next Highly Sprung Play Day!

Highly Sprung Play Days are back for 2024! As we prepare for a busy year of play and creativity, we’re looking for ...
Callout for 10 young people to join the creative team for ANTHOLOGY!

Callout for 10 young people to join the creative team for ANTHOLOGY!

We're looking for 10 young people taking GCSE English. Join the creative team for a new poetry-inspired performance and help shape our work!
Raffle prizes announced for Sprung 20th Anniversary 2024

Raffle prizes announced for Sprung 20th Anniversary 2024

With less than 2 weeks to go to the Sprung 20th Anniversary, we are excited to announce the brilliant raffle prizes that have been generous donated for the evening from local businesses. 
Calling Ex-Sprungs and Sprungsters… we need you!

Calling Ex-Sprungs and Sprungsters… we need you!

In February 2024, we are marking 20 years of Sprung Youth with a special Anniversary Gala, shining a light on the incredible young people we've worked with over the years, and their stories. So... if you've previously been a part of Sprung Youth, then we need YOU! 
Greening our Money at Highly Sprung

Greening our Money at Highly Sprung

Last year, Team Sprung cleaned up our digital carbon footprint. We made sure to understand and make improvements to how our digital use reduced greenhouse gas emissions - emissions produced by digital technology, resources, devices, tools and platforms. For 2023, we made it our mission to ‘green’ our money…
Tickets on sale NOW for our Sprung 20th Anniversary Gala

Tickets on sale NOW for our Sprung 20th Anniversary Gala

It's our birthday! Join Highly Sprung in February for a wonderful celebration Gala as we start our anniversary year in style.
Applications OPEN for the Youth Advisory Board 2023-24

Applications OPEN for the Youth Advisory Board 2023-24

Aged 14-25? Apply to join our youth board for the next year. Here are all the details you need to know, plus insights and experiences from our first YAB cohort.
Give It a Go this October with CCEP, Highly Sprung, Coventry Music, Ascension Dance and Let’s Animate

Give It a Go this October with CCEP, Highly Sprung, Coventry Music, Ascension Dance and Let’s Animate

Ever wanted to find a way to get more creative, but didn’t know where to start or what you might like?  This programme is for you. Bookings are open for CCEP's FREE sessions this October half term. Join us for 2 jam-packed days of dance, theatre, digital arts and music. 
Schools offers, performances and workshops for EYFS to KS5

Schools offers, performances and workshops for EYFS to KS5

From our immersive theatre adventure to our tailored workshops and residences, the Highly Sprung schools programme has something for every age group.
Train the Highly Sprung way with our September Pro Intensive

Train the Highly Sprung way with our September Pro Intensive

Booking is open for our next Professional Intensive! Join us on Saturday 16th September from 10am - 4pm for a packed day of physical theatre and creative inspiration to take home. 
Highly Sprung receives funding for our next Play Day!

Highly Sprung receives funding for our next Play Day!

We're so thrilled to announce that the popular Highly Sprung Play Day is back in Coventry this September. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.
Waving goodbye to the Astronaut and 2022

Waving goodbye to the Astronaut and 2022

"As I sit thinking of what I will remember 2022 as, it will be a the year of goodbyes, not of sad farewells but joyous thank yous with tears of gratitude streaming down my face and gigantic smiles." Artistic Director Mark looks back on his fondest 2022 memories, and the final performance of Urban Astronaut.
Highly Sprung receive national award for Community Rail Celebration

Highly Sprung receive national award for Community Rail Celebration

Highly Sprung are delighted  to have won in the national Community Rail Awards 2022, for best Community Engagement project. In partnership with Heart of England Community Rail Partnership, Coventry City Council and Avanti West Coast Rail.
Reimagining our libraries: Highly Sprung returns this Half-Term

Reimagining our libraries: Highly Sprung returns this Half-Term

Ahead of our October tour of Storm, Mark reflects on how stories and theatre could give our local libraries a new lease of life.
Give it a Go this October Half Term!

Give it a Go this October Half Term!

Ever wanted to find a way to get more creative, but didn’t know where to start or what you might like?  This programme is designed for you! Join us for 3 days of action-packed fun performing arts and digital creativity.  Open to young people and 7-14.
Highly Sprung shortlisted for Community Rail Awards 2022

Highly Sprung shortlisted for Community Rail Awards 2022

We are delighted to announce that Coventry Station Community Day has been shortlisted in the Community Rail Awards 2022. The festival and evening performance has made it to the final of the Best Community Engagement project category. 
20 years on: Highly Sprung’s return to Smithswood Academy

20 years on: Highly Sprung’s return to Smithswood Academy

Just over twenty years ago, when Highly Sprung was still in its infancy, we had one of the most important phone calls of our careers: a researcher from Warwick University was in desperate need of a company or artist to join them in delivering 2 weeks of workshops in a Birmingham school. You can only imagine our excitement when we were recently asked to return to the same school where it all started.
We’re recruiting! An insight into Highly Sprung’s plans for our Youth Advisory Board

We’re recruiting! An insight into Highly Sprung’s plans for our Youth Advisory Board

Highly Sprung are currently recruiting for young people to join our Youth Advisory Board. Today Zoe is here to give more detail on why we need a board, and what's in it for you.