News About IROKO

Home from Home Project awarded Heritage Fund Grant

IROKO Theatre Company is seeking to recruit two volunteer researchers to assist with our ‘Stories of Africans Living in Newham’ project.

Informative, educational and insightful Resource Pack that will inspire you to learn more about Nigerian nonverbal communication systems and those from around the world. FREE DOWNLOAD!

IROKO Theatre have begun conducting a series of workshops and training sessions, teaching musical skills to different sections of the community, including school children.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund grant provisioned for IROKO Theatre to hire a new Trainee Heritage Support Officer. Kate Kelsall joined IROKO part-time in February - find out what she has been working on...

On July 20th 29 excited members of the community travelled up to Liverpool, to see the Igbo Compound within the International Slavery Museum. The recreated family compound is decorated with Uli designs, commissioned from local artists!

A project exploring four Nigerian pre-colonial nonverbal communication systems: Aroko, Nsibidi, Uli and the Talking Drums, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)

STEM Curriculum - Storytelling for Teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Receives FIVE STARS from London Theatre1.com.

"The beauty of African storytelling is that the techniques are so subtle that in a way you are learning without actually knowing that you are learning."

IROKO Theatre Company bringing African culture to London.

IROKO Theatre's artistic director Alex Oma-Pius appears in the Evening Standard. February 22nd.

The Ilford Recorder covers IROKO's Family Learning Project

IROKO Theatre Company awarded grant of £19,833.

We are grateful that The Royal Docks Trust has once again awarded IROKO the sum of £10,000 towards its Cultural Jamboree Project 2009 - 2010.

BBC Children in Need has awarded IROKO £24,990 towards providing cultural activities for children and young people in the London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Lambeth, Newham and Southwark.

IROKO Theatre Company, winner of The Guardian Charity Award "for its innovative approach to education", is thrilled to announce that it has secured funding worth £83,000 from the London Councils.

More than 2,000 residents came together in Plaistow Park for fun in the sun at a great community party organised by Plaistow community forum and its active community team.

Families across London can enjoy art, music, drama, filmmaking or dance together at Tate Britain, British Film Institute and five other new projects, funded by the Big Lottery Fund (BIG).

We are proud to announce that Newham Council, under its Service Specification 2 (Building an Active & Inclusive Community) has commissioned IROKO Theatre Company to delivery IROKO Cultural Olympiad Project 2008-2011.

This is a reproduction of an article that appeared in The Newham Mag in April 2007.

An article about IROKO published in LDV Magazine.

Selected excerpts from an article published in The Guardian in March 2002.

It's a rainy October day in south-west London and the year four and five pupils (aged between seven and nine) at Priory CE primary school are sitting in the gym hall, surrounded by the usual paraphernalia of climbing ladders, ropes and basketball hoops.

Small charities win top Guardian award for innovation. Smaller charities rarely get the recognition they deserve.

The impact of HIV and AIDS on a fictional African village was explored by a group of children in a play devised and staged by them.