Chris Sonnex
@csonnex.bsky.social
AD & JCEO Cardboard Citizens. Founder LDN Ticket Bank. Words/ opinions are my own B4 award winning AD Bunker Theatre
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Chris Sonnex
@csonnex.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Black artists & creatives open source list
docs.google.com
google spreadsheet for black artists and theatre professionals to put their name to which was created on twitter when it was a nicer place.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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We’re excited to share the launch of More Than One Story - our first-ever published anthology, a groundbreaking collection of new writing by thirty-seven emerging and established writers from across the UK with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and inequity.
September 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We’re excited to share the launch of More Than One Story - our first-ever published anthology, a groundbreaking collection of new writing by thirty-seven emerging and established writers from across the UK with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and inequity.
So proud for everyone involved
Actors Rory Kinnear and Paterson Joseph are among the line-up for the launch of a new book from Cardboard Citizens that will bring together monologues from emerging and existing writers.
👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/ror...
👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/ror...
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
So proud for everyone involved
I’m so proud for all the writers in this. if you don’t know, get to know them. @cardboardcitz.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I’m so proud for all the writers in this. if you don’t know, get to know them. @cardboardcitz.bsky.social
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Please share. We need community now more than ever.
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
July 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Please share. We need community now more than ever.
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
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Cardboard Citizens’ #MoreThanOneStory campaign is the 2025 winner for the #CreativeChangemakers award!!
To read more about their wonderful campaign, visit smk.org.uk/awards_no...
#SMKAwards2025 #LoveCampaigning
To read more about their wonderful campaign, visit smk.org.uk/awards_no...
#SMKAwards2025 #LoveCampaigning
June 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Cardboard Citizens’ #MoreThanOneStory campaign is the 2025 winner for the #CreativeChangemakers award!!
To read more about their wonderful campaign, visit smk.org.uk/awards_no...
#SMKAwards2025 #LoveCampaigning
To read more about their wonderful campaign, visit smk.org.uk/awards_no...
#SMKAwards2025 #LoveCampaigning
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"What young people need now is not new schemes, it’s consistency, it’s someone they can trust enough with their best most aspirational self" - @njgriff.bsky.social AE CEO
Can you donate £2 a month to help keep our mentoring & community projects running?
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate
Can you donate £2 a month to help keep our mentoring & community projects running?
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate
June 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"What young people need now is not new schemes, it’s consistency, it’s someone they can trust enough with their best most aspirational self" - @njgriff.bsky.social AE CEO
Can you donate £2 a month to help keep our mentoring & community projects running?
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate
Can you donate £2 a month to help keep our mentoring & community projects running?
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate
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running a session with Spotlight on building an Access Rider Wednesday 18th June 5.30-8.30pm.
session is suitable for anyone who's a creative professional and is free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-...
places are limited. captions/BSL/AD and lots of breaks. see you there? x
session is suitable for anyone who's a creative professional and is free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-...
places are limited. captions/BSL/AD and lots of breaks. see you there? x
Spotlight Success Session: Building an access rider for creatives
How to ask for what you need: Building an access rider for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent creatives.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
running a session with Spotlight on building an Access Rider Wednesday 18th June 5.30-8.30pm.
session is suitable for anyone who's a creative professional and is free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-...
places are limited. captions/BSL/AD and lots of breaks. see you there? x
session is suitable for anyone who's a creative professional and is free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-...
places are limited. captions/BSL/AD and lots of breaks. see you there? x
Read some thoughts from me
‘Storytelling, movement, theatre – these are tools of survival. Tools of healing. But only if done with care’
Artistic director of Cardboard Citizens Chris Sonnex (@csonnex.bsky.social) calls on the industry to prioritise artists' well-being when making worked focusing on trauma 👇
Artistic director of Cardboard Citizens Chris Sonnex (@csonnex.bsky.social) calls on the industry to prioritise artists' well-being when making worked focusing on trauma 👇
Chris Sonnex on protecting artists who create theatre from trauma
Stories of trauma might sell but the process of bringing them to stage can be damaging for artists. Chris Sonnex urges the industry to remember its duty of care
www.thestage.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Read some thoughts from me
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Two weeks ago, we featured in @BigIssue music special - alongside some mighty talent.
Evey experience is different. We’re looking for monologues that cut through the statistics. What matters is that they’re authentic to lived experience.
Find out more: bit.ly/3GVLirS
Evey experience is different. We’re looking for monologues that cut through the statistics. What matters is that they’re authentic to lived experience.
Find out more: bit.ly/3GVLirS
May 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Two weeks ago, we featured in @BigIssue music special - alongside some mighty talent.
Evey experience is different. We’re looking for monologues that cut through the statistics. What matters is that they’re authentic to lived experience.
Find out more: bit.ly/3GVLirS
Evey experience is different. We’re looking for monologues that cut through the statistics. What matters is that they’re authentic to lived experience.
Find out more: bit.ly/3GVLirS
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Chris Sonnex discusses why we need to celebrate the creative brilliance of writers with lived experience of homelessness and poverty.
Submissions open until midnight, 30 June.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3GVLirS
Submissions open until midnight, 30 June.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3GVLirS
May 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Chris Sonnex discusses why we need to celebrate the creative brilliance of writers with lived experience of homelessness and poverty.
Submissions open until midnight, 30 June.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3GVLirS
Submissions open until midnight, 30 June.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3GVLirS
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🎨🎭Had to share this @bigissue.com by @csonnex.bsky.social about the Carboard Citizen project and work
So much to love & admire about art being a force for change &
"nurturing a movement, not just producing a product" 👏
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
So much to love & admire about art being a force for change &
"nurturing a movement, not just producing a product" 👏
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
Cardboard Citizens launches open call for stories from homeless people
Cardboard Citizens artistic director Chris Sonnex on the launch of the company's next chapter, More Than One Story: The Anthology.
www.bigissue.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎨🎭Had to share this @bigissue.com by @csonnex.bsky.social about the Carboard Citizen project and work
So much to love & admire about art being a force for change &
"nurturing a movement, not just producing a product" 👏
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
So much to love & admire about art being a force for change &
"nurturing a movement, not just producing a product" 👏
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
There’s no sense to any of this policy. Big love and power to @touretteshero.bsky.social.
Also read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social statement.
Also read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social statement.
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
May 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There’s no sense to any of this policy. Big love and power to @touretteshero.bsky.social.
Also read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social statement.
Also read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social statement.
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I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
May 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
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Cardboard Citizens artistic director Chris Sonnex on the launch of the company's next chapter, More Than One Story: The Anthology.
Cardboard Citizens launches open call for stories from homeless people
www.bigissue.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Cardboard Citizens artistic director Chris Sonnex on the launch of the company's next chapter, More Than One Story: The Anthology.
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No experience of homelessness is the same. That's why we're giving people space to tell their stories.
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
Cardboard Citizens launches open call for stories from homeless people
Cardboard Citizens artistic director Chris Sonnex on the launch of the company's next chapter, More Than One Story: The Anthology.
www.bigissue.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
No experience of homelessness is the same. That's why we're giving people space to tell their stories.
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
@bigissue.com & @cardboardcitz.bsky.social & @nickhernbooks.bsky.social
@bigissue.com & @cardboardcitz.bsky.social & @nickhernbooks.bsky.social
Cardboard Citizens launches open call for stories from homeless people
Cardboard Citizens artistic director Chris Sonnex on the launch of the company's next chapter, More Than One Story: The Anthology.
www.bigissue.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Are you a #writer with #livedexperience of #poverty and #homelessness?
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Submit your #story and change the #narrative!
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Call for submissions @cardboardcitz.bsky.social in collaboration with @bigissue.com and @nickhernbooks.bsky.social - open until 30 June
.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
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Submit your #story and change the #narrative!
.
Call for submissions @cardboardcitz.bsky.social in collaboration with @bigissue.com and @nickhernbooks.bsky.social - open until 30 June
.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
May 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Are you a #writer with #livedexperience of #poverty and #homelessness?
.
Submit your #story and change the #narrative!
.
Call for submissions @cardboardcitz.bsky.social in collaboration with @bigissue.com and @nickhernbooks.bsky.social - open until 30 June
.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
.
Submit your #story and change the #narrative!
.
Call for submissions @cardboardcitz.bsky.social in collaboration with @bigissue.com and @nickhernbooks.bsky.social - open until 30 June
.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
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@cardboardcitz.bsky.social are inviting submissions for their anthology : More Than One Story.
Details are below. Enjoy and good luck.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
Details are below. Enjoy and good luck.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
anthology - More Than One Story
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
@cardboardcitz.bsky.social are inviting submissions for their anthology : More Than One Story.
Details are below. Enjoy and good luck.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
Details are below. Enjoy and good luck.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
big vibes for @cardboardcitz.bsky.social
The Big Issue Summer of Music special is here! ☀️☀️☀️
🎉 Big Issue’s annual festival guide
🎺 The Bradford brass band raising their horns
⛺ Inside End of the Road festival
Read a sneak peek. 👀 www.bigissue.com/behind-the...
🎉 Big Issue’s annual festival guide
🎺 The Bradford brass band raising their horns
⛺ Inside End of the Road festival
Read a sneak peek. 👀 www.bigissue.com/behind-the...
May 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
big vibes for @cardboardcitz.bsky.social
Hi, Labour Party. Perhaps instead of leaning into fascism because you’re scared (or in agreement) of the influence that Farage has on people, give the people a better alternative that they can believe in, perhaps based on hope and creating better futures for people who can’t see futures right now
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Hi, Labour Party. Perhaps instead of leaning into fascism because you’re scared (or in agreement) of the influence that Farage has on people, give the people a better alternative that they can believe in, perhaps based on hope and creating better futures for people who can’t see futures right now
I wanna see more of this energy thanks
May 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wanna see more of this energy thanks
Come on, all my family with lived experience, this one’s for you, and if it ain’t, share it around.
We’re launching an open call for bold monologues from writers with lived experience of homelessness & poverty. Stories that challenge stereotypes and inspire change.
Selected pieces will be published by Nick Hern Books, alongside new writing from Malorie Blackman, Chris Bush & more.
Selected pieces will be published by Nick Hern Books, alongside new writing from Malorie Blackman, Chris Bush & more.
May 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Come on, all my family with lived experience, this one’s for you, and if it ain’t, share it around.