Tag: growth

• Off My Head, On My Path: Living with ADHD and Building Dhamaka Differently

  Living with ADHD is a constant balance between managing my thoughts and emotions and trying to find a space where I feel understood. For most of my life, I didn’t know what was going on in my brain, just that it didn’t seem to work like everyone else’s. I’d try to get things done but…

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  7th Jun 2025

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  adhd, anxiety, artist, education, growth, health, journey, lgbtq, mental health, mental-health, neurodiverse, qtipoc, queer, queer theatre, theatre, theatre making

• Funding, Futility, and the Fire to Keep Going!

  By Sid Akbar Following on from my last blog post, I didn’t expect to be writing again so soon. But here I am — because I’ve just received the news that our Arts Council application for The Wrath of Khandan wasn’t successful. Not because there was anything wrong with it. In fact, they said it…

  dhamakaarts

  6th May 2025

  theatre

  artists, funding, growth, lgbtq, mental-health, qtipoc, queer, social-enterprise, theatre, theatre making, writing

• From Vision to Reality: Dhamaka Arts and the Expanding Horizons Programme

  ​As the founder of Dhamaka Arts, a company dedicated to creating work for queer people of colour, I am thrilled to be participating in the Bradford Producing Hub’s Expanding Horizons Programme. This bespoke business development initiative is designed to empower arts and culture organisations in the Bradford district, and I am eager to leverage its resources…

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  26th Feb 2025

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  business, education, growth, learning, lgbt, news, qtipoc, social-enterprise, travel