DRILLING DIAMONDS

Drilling Diamonds is a drama, music and film project working with young people across multiple London Boroughs.

The project began in Tower Hamlets in 2020 and was shortlisted for Children & Young People Now Art & Culture Award. Drilling Diamonds came to Lewisham as part of London borough of culture in the summer of 2022. In 2025, Drilling Diamonds expanded to include in-school programmes across Newham borough as part of the government’s SAFE Taskforce initiative.

If you are interested in Drilling Diamonds at your school or college, please email Rhian@playingon.org.uk.

Two women standing near wall posters in a conference room. One woman is smiling, holding a card, and standing near a blue chair. The other woman, facing the wall, has curly hair and is wearing a black hoodie. There are numbered signs on the wall and rows of blue and black chairs in the foreground.
A man with a beard and mustache is smiling while holding a glass of wine near his face.
A woman with shoulder-length black hair in a teal T-shirt reading 'California Los Angeles 1982' stands outdoors, looking at a piece of paper with a concerned expression, behind a colorful wooden fence.
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