2016

Each year we help Year 8 at Saltley Academy stage twin productions of a play by Shakespeare on the site of his house in Stratford-Upon-Avon. This year it is Romeo and Juliet.

Time Critical was created for our 25th Anniversary Party and premiered at mac on 30th November 2016 Two performers confront each other across a table, a chess clock between them. […]

In late 2002 Stan’s Cafe were commissioned by Creative Partnerships to devise a training day for teachers. The day was designed to encourage participants to take risks and try new […]

2017 marked the school’s 90th Birthday. It also saw the end of some major building work as the school’s growing success has resulted in it expanding to accept a three […]

ANY FOOL CAN START A WAR13:45 16th June13:45 and 19:00 17th JuneTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE VIA MAC. BOX OFFICE Central England Teacher TrainingWe met trainee teachers on two occasions during the […]

ANY FOOL CAN START A WAR13:45 16th June13:45 and 19:00 17th JuneTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE VIA MAC. BOX OFFICE As is characteristic of our collaborations with Washwood Heath Academy this year’s […]

Stratford-upon-AvonFrom 23 April (Shakespeare’s Birthday) until 30th October 2016 The Royal Shakespeare Company initially asked us if we were interested in creating an edition of the Steps Series for June […]

Following the success of St. George’s Steps commissioned by Saltley Academy, Birmingham City Council’s Equalities, Community Safety and Cohesion Service asked us to devise a project that would engage young […]

Lakey Lane Primary School in Hall Green was looking to spice up their Year 4 Ancient Egyptians topic, they put the job out to tender, we submitted our ideas and […]

At the heart of the Victoria Academies Trust is Central England Teacher Training. Their offer is to train primary school teachers who wish to place creativity and the arts at […]

There was some debate in the Stan’s Cafe office as to whether it counted as hubris to have a 25th Anniversary Party. The deal we came to was that we […]

ANY FOOL CAN START A WAR13:45 16th June13:45 and 19:00 17th JuneTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE VIA MAC. BOX OFFICE Central England Teacher TrainingWe met trainee teachers on three occasions through the […]

Billesley Primary School and the R.S.C.July 2016 In 2015 Billesley pupils worked with architect Yinka Danmole to design a slot together stage that coud be put up, performed on, taken […]

Washwood Heath Academy, Birmingham9th April, 2016 We were looking for ways in which the life of the theatre company and the life of the school could mix a little more. […]

Three Cardinals in crimson robes are on a mission of evangelism. They are on tour with a puppet show they have made that sets out their abbreviated and extrapolated reading […]

Washwood Heath Academy, Birmingham5th February, 2016 Stan’s Cafe were invited by the mathematics department at Washwood Heath Academy to create a fun maths event for World Maths Day. They wanted […]

13th August, 2016City Centre, West Bromwich Junior Commentators was a rare creative learning project that took place in the school holidays. We worked with twelve members of the Lyng Media […]

ANY FOOL CAN START A WAR13:45 16th June13:45 and 19:00 17th JuneTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE VIA MAC. BOX OFFICE In our first year working with Washwood Heath Academy Mr. Barns had […]

On a film set in a Winnebago, Kate, a young film star, is being made up. She’s beautiful but scared. She’s on the edge, acting in front of the camera […]

Theaterfestival Basel 30 August – 5 September 2016 Eight tonnes of rice made this a substantial version of the show and the setting of a beautiful gymnaisum provided a lovely […]

Our journey to The Worm In The Grass took a year. In September teachers from Tiverton Primary Academy took part in our City Adventure day as part of their in […]

The Library of Birmingham15th – 19th April 2016 Birmingham 3 A fourth presentation of Of All The People In All The World in our home city and great to be […]

Stomp Your Roots.Teachers in the English and Music departments we keen to commission a dance and percussion project designed, amongst other things, to teach students important root words in music, […]

Theater Freiburg @ Meckelhalle, Sparkasse Bank, Freiburg12th – 20th February 2016 Freiburg 2016 Having staged the show in Bonn in September the rice remained in Germany and made the journeysouth […]

In July 2016, Saltley became the first Birmingham secondary school to receive Level 1 of the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award. This is supposed to take 3 years but they […]

Compass Festival, Central Library, Leeds16th – 19th November 2016 Leeds 2016 We first took Of All The People In All The World to Leeds way back in 2005 in the […]

Having created significant impact in Saltley Academy in the previous year an attempt was made this year to pass the responsibility for commissioning projects down to middle managers. Lots of […]

Homo Novis festival8 – 11 November 2016Artists’ Union of Latvia Gallery, 11 Novembra Street, Riga Riga One of our favourite statistics, which we have used in most presentations of this […]

Inspired by the success of St. George’s Steps teams within the school collected inspirational quotes and key learning points to be installed on the risers of a series of staircases […]