You’re invited to a night of performances hosted at YMCA Community Hub, as part of our Artist Ideas to Disrupt Loneliness commission!

Artist Sarah Saxby has teamed up with young people at YMCA Community Hub in Bretton to create Stick & Scratch – a youth-produced event spotlighting local talent, creativity and fresh ideas. Celebrate emerging artists and the community selected by local young people in Peterborough.

Whether you are performing on the night or cheering from the audience, Stick & Scratch is your chance to be a part of this growing, creative community!

Book your free tickets here.

About Sarah Saxby 
Sarah Saxby is a queer writer, actor, facilitator, and youth worker hailing from the Fens. She’s been working with arts organisations across East Anglia since 2020 to produce and deliver creative work for local communities, including Norfolk & Norwich Festival, YMCA Trinity Group, and Menagerie Theatre. In 2022, Sarah co-founded Sticks Theatre, through which her first play, ‘Fourteen in ‘14’ was produced, following a year-long residency at the Key Theatre. Sarah’s artistic work is rooted in her identity as someone from the Fens and can be described as both intimate and outlandish, personal and alienating. Crucially, it always draws on themes relatable and important to those not accessing traditional theatre.

About Artist Ideas to Disrupt Loneliness
In Autumn 2025, artists submitted their creative project ideas as part of The Unlonely City. Since then, and even before then, we’ve been thinking about how we can create unlonely cities through creativity, curiosity and just the right amount of chaos. You can find out more about what’s happening in Peterborough here.

The Unlonely City is an arts programme disrupting loneliness, nurturing moments of solidarity, surprise and laughter. Through a series of artistic commissions, citizens assemblies, parties and public conversations, The Unlonely City takes place across Liverpool, Peterborough, and Southend, where Metal is based, to imagine what an ‘unlonely’ city could be. 

The Unlonely City programme is funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation as part of the Arts Award.