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Our Story
Established in 2020 Care to Culture began with a mission to change the creative and employment landscape for care experienced artists with the founder having experienced so herself. The goal was simple, to deliver financial literacy training and offer paid artistic training. After almost four years it has now developed into a production c
Established in 2020 Care to Culture began with a mission to change the creative and employment landscape for care experienced artists with the founder having experienced so herself. The goal was simple, to deliver financial literacy training and offer paid artistic training. After almost four years it has now developed into a production company that is still focused on delivering paid artistic and financial training, as well as delivering high quality work that isn't afraid to take risks and challenge conventional theatre making.
We develop stories and artists, specifically working with those who are care experienced, those without a primary caregiver and those who have been left in the margins of the artistic world. We offer financial literacy training alongside paid professional roles and develop productions for stage, film and screen, so that our artists have the credits, skills and knowledge they need to continue their journey without us.
In other words, we work with artists who are stuck between emerging and established to make new work, work that talks about us by learning, experimenting and developing together.
Established by Bashiie, Creative producer, Stage One Alumni and care experienced young person turned artist, C2C has now begun to build a reputation through the work that she has done with various buildings around London. We are now working to create active funding revenues that allow us to create art and build partnerships with organisations and communities under the Care to Culture name.
With the help of professional creatives, Care To Culture, or C2C, as we refer to ourselves, strives to provide young people with a secure environment where they can create long-lasting careers in the artistic sector. Our ethos is to always create from a place of care. In our spaces, each artist will be trained in C2C's way of trauma-informed working and be DBS checked to make sure that everyone feels safer.
We want to make a community, because growing laterally is always the key to success
Our Mission
Our mission is to find a way to bridge the gap for as many artists as we can.
We aim to create spaces that allow people to learn their craft and manage themselves as an artistic business/ in the artistic business world and everything that surrounds it in the transferable skills sector.
We aim to develop and train as many artists as we can f
Our mission is to find a way to bridge the gap for as many artists as we can.
We aim to create spaces that allow people to learn their craft and manage themselves as an artistic business/ in the artistic business world and everything that surrounds it in the transferable skills sector.
We aim to develop and train as many artists as we can from care experienced backgrounds specifically to challenge the deficit of artists working in the industry and the number of Care Leavers Not in Employment, Education and Training.
We aim to bridge the gap of artists that are emerging to establish and support them on their creative journey, making sure to create and offer opportunities to artists who just need someone to give them the experience.
We aim to archive and distribute stories by and for Care experienced artists, that focus on life inside and outside of the care experience and highlight the joy of found family.
We will develop a cyclical community that allows the work to be focused on art, care and safety in development, as well as offering as many opportunities as possible that takes artists and creatives from emerging to mainstage, west end, film and tv success in whichever way works for them, whether that's through our partners or our own work.
Our Team
Our Team are a carefully constructed group of individuals who believe in the work we are doing!
Our goal is to develop a company entirely run by CE people, but until we have enough trained up that we don't have to search so far and wide, this team of individuals has offered us their expertise
Our Previous work
We are a small company and only just starting out, take a look at some of our previous work below
Our Partners and Funders
Our work
The Pathway Plan
Our six month development project, working with 10 care experienced artists over 24 sessions to deliver a production in collaboration with a care experienced writer.
The New Way
A programme for Black, Brown and Global Majority artists aged 18+ to shadow on an upcoming production of One Way Out at Brixton House.
Workshops
Care to Culture runs a range of financial literacy workshops usually alongside their programmes. For 2026 we are aiming to develop these for the public.
Financial literacy workshops look at developing skills in employment and creative growth. This looks like:
- Cover letter, CV and Application workshops
- Interview prep
- Audition prep
- Budgeting for personal use and projects
- Applying for funding
And lots more
C2C Mentoring
We work with our participants to develop their confidence and motivation. Mentoring is focused on helping you to find your own opportunities and where possible, offer opportunities on our training schemes.
WHO WE ARE
Bashiie - Artistic Director
Bashiie is a Multi-creative artist, specialising in artists development.
After finishing her Traineeship at Talawa Theatre Company, as part of the Stage One placement she became an Associate Producer on the West End transfer of Best of Enemies, by James Graham and has since used the knowledge gained to make and create work in a way that challenges conventional theatre making.
Bashiie has worked as a producer, facilitator, director and artists with theatres, venues and creative spaces and government run organisations across London and the wider UK including:
The Bush Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Tom Thumb Theatre, the Young Vic, Talawa Theatre Company, Zooco Theatre Company, Company Three and Peer Power UK.
As the Artistic Director of Care to Culture C.I.C, Bashiie works with care experienced young people and those without a primary caregiver, emerging artists and racialised creatives, offering paid training, learning and development opportunities to artists that are otherwise ignored because of the perception of others.
"Coming from a care experienced background myself it was difficult for me to navigate through the arts industry, nobody around me was an artist and social services wanted me to see art as an 'outlet' more than a career. Yet I've succeeded as a theatre maker, facilitator and now a theatre producer. Care to Culture offers an arm to those who are historically looked over by information sharing through creative workshops using care centred activities so that others have the headstart I didn't.
I now am using my earned knowledge and skill to make income for Care to Cultures projects."
Kc Gardiner - Associate Artistic Director
Kc Gardiner is an actor and movement artist from London.
She is a Bush Theatre Young Company Alumni and has previously performed at The Duke of York's Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and Theatre503.
She trained as a contemporary dancer on The Ballet Boyz Dancer’s Course and has since performed with the physical theatre company The PappyShow.
Kc works as a facilitator with numerous young companies across London and has a strong working relationship with London Bubble Theatre Company.
Jord-ann - Executive Director
Jord-ann is Co-Director here at C2C.
She has a passion for creativity and working with young people and is truly in her element when working with marginalised voices. Jord-ann, attended Roehampton University where she studied Drama, where she after went on to use that gained knowledge in her role as Project Officer for Children and young people at Derby West Indian Community Association, where she successfully ran their Stronger Together youth club for young people, creating music videos and activities that allow these young people to keep making in and around their area.
She is currently the Head of Programme and Delivery at a charity organisation called Element Creatives, where she delivers creative arts projects to children and young people across London and co-ordinates the curation and sharing of their work in professional spaces and with professional artists as the audiences.
“One thing about me is that I enjoy giving back to the local community and having fun!”
Jordan Haynes - Associate Artist
Hello my name is Jordan Haynes. I’m bubbly, sweet and always bring good vibes.
I’m an actor, dancer and writer.
I’m also the pastoral support artist for Care to Culture.
Currently I’m at kingdom of arts drama school, represented by evolution talent and trying to get the play that I’ve written on stage.
I was apart of the first bush young company. I was in ‘ANTHEM’ and ‘AS WE FACE THE SUN’.
Previously I have supported and lead workshops at Chickenshed theatre (Kensington and Chelsea) and did numerous shows with them. I also studied musical theatre and acting.
Samia - Development Consultant
Samia Djilli is a Producer, Writer and Consultant working across the sector.
She is dedicated to elevating SWANA and Global Majority voices within the UK and internationally. Having taken part in the Stage One's Bridge the Gap programme, she is trained in Commercial Producing, and received the 2022 Autumn Bursary.
With this she is developing the UK's first Algerian led Commercial Production. She has worked with organisations including Kali Theatre, Lemon House Theatre, London Playwrights Blog and The BBC.
Throughout the last 4 years she worked with Tamasha Theatre leading on the company's various development schemes which saw over 60 artists and producers of the Global Majority enter the industry. She worked across the company's productions, and led on the 2022 production of Hannah Khalil's Hakawatis at the Shakespeare Globe.
In 2021 she worked with Pulse Films on the second series of Gangs of London as a script consultant which introduced an Algerian family into the show.
She was also the Engagement Producer for the 2023/24 Shubbak Festival.