Our partnership with schools and social justice groups in Korogocho, Nairobi, enables us to change lives in Kenya and connect them schools across the globe.
International
Using drama and digital to connect the world
Story Systems create shared spaces where different cultures, identities, and communities can exchange stories, perspectives, and experiences. They build empathy, dialogue, understanding, and collaboration across geographical, social, and cultural boundaries.
Stories Without Borders
C&T believes that creativity grows when different people, cultures and perspectives come together.
For more than two decades, we have developed projects, partnerships and research collaborations that connect communities across countries, disciplines and lived experiences. Through theatre, storytelling and digital technology, we create opportunities for people to share knowledge, explore difference and build understanding across geographical, cultural and social boundaries.
Our international work is driven by a simple idea: participation becomes more powerful when it brings diverse voices into conversation.
A Global Practice
We work locally, nationally and internationally.
Using our Story Systems methodology and the Prospero digital platform, we can create projects that connect participants across cities, regions and countries, enabling collaboration regardless of location.
Whether supporting creative learning, community engagement, research, cultural exchange or participatory performance, our approach combines face-to-face activity with digital participation to create meaningful connections between people and places.
Distance is no longer a barrier to collaboration.
Neurodiverse students in Vienna, Austria, creating a Place Story exploring their experiences of prejudice and exclusion.
Participation, Inclusion and Social Justice
Many of our international partnerships are rooted in a commitment to inclusion, cultural exchange and social justice.
Through collaborative storytelling and participatory practice, we seek to create opportunities for people whose voices are often underrepresented within cultural, educational and civic life.
Whether exploring migration, identity, disability, heritage, environmental issues or community development, our projects use creativity as a way to build connection and understanding across difference.
Participation becomes a means of creating not only stories, but relationships.
Research, Learning and Knowledge Exchange
International collaboration has played an important role in shaping C&T's development as an organisation.
Our work has informed and been informed by partnerships with universities, schools, cultural organisations and researchers around the world. Through these collaborations we contribute to ongoing conversations about participation, digital culture, creative learning, applied theatre and community engagement.
We see international work not simply as delivery, but as a process of shared learning and mutual exchange.
Trusted International Partners
C&T has developed relationships with leading organisations across education, arts and research.
Our collaborators have included universities, schools, cultural organisations and community partners in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
These partnerships have included work with:
New York City Department of Education
Imperial College London
University of Kent
King's College London
University College London
University of Sydney
University of Auckland
Child Peace Kenya
Trust for African Rock Art
National Museum of Kenya
These relationships reflect a shared commitment to innovation, participation and excellence.
Powered by Prospero
Prospero enables us to create participatory experiences that extend beyond physical borders.
Through digital storytelling, collaborative learning environments, participatory research tools and shared creative spaces, participants can contribute to projects wherever they are in the world.
This creates opportunities for international exchange, collaborative learning and global participation that would previously have been difficult or impossible to achieve.
Technology does not replace human connection. It helps us create more of it.
International Projects and Partnerships
Our international work spans education, research, arts and culture, community engagement and professional development.
From creative learning programmes and university collaborations to cultural exchange projects and participatory research initiatives, we continue to develop partnerships that explore how storytelling, participation and technology can bring people together across borders.
Every project contributes to a growing international network of collaborators, practitioners and communities connected through shared creativity and curiosity.
A drama and digital skills workshop with teachers at the University of South Carolina.
Let's Work Together
We are always interested in developing new international partnerships.
Whether you are a school, university, cultural organisation, community group, charity, researcher or public body, we would welcome the opportunity to explore how participation, storytelling and digital technology can support collaboration across borders.
Together, we can create stories that connect people, places and perspectives around the world.