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Plays & Musicals featuring Care Exp Newsies (The Musical) Alan Menken et al. 2012 Newsies The Musical is a musical based on the 1992 musical film Newsies, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. Based on the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, this new Disney musical tells the story of In July 1899, a group of orphaned and homeless newsboys live in a Lower Manhattan lodging house with their informal leader, seventeen-year-old Jack Kelly. Jack, a rebellious newsboy dreams of a life as an artist away from the big city. After publishing giant Joseph Pulitzer raises newspaper prices at the newsboys' expense, Kelly and his fellow newsies take action. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby Lucy Wallis 2021 Freddie Figgers was given his first computer at the age of nine. It was old and didn't work but it was the start of a love affair with technology that turned him into an inventor, entrepreneur and telecoms millionaire - a future that few would have predicted after his tough start in life. Freddie had been found abandoned as a newborn baby next to a dumpster (a large rubbish container) in rural Florida. Nathan Figgers was a maintenance worker and handyman and Betty Mae Figgers, a farm worker. They lived in Quincy, a rural community of about 8,000 people in North Florida, and were in their 50s when Freddie was born in 1989. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles The Orphanage review – terrific tale of an Afghan teen in trouble Peter Bradshaw 2020 In Shahrbanoo Sadat’s energetic and captivating drama, a movie-mad boy is forced to live in a Soviet-run orphanage during the 1981 occupation External Website

Performing Arts Pitbull Pitbull ​ Armando Christian Pérez (born 1981), known professionally by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, brand ambassador, businessman and philanthropist. Pérez was born in Miami, Florida. After his parents separated, he lived with his mother but later stayed with a foster family in Georgia. Perez began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music under a multitude of labels. In 2004, he released his debut album M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records and the executive production of Lil Jon. Pitbull later released his second album, El Mariel, in 2006 and his third, The Boatlift, in 2007. His fourth album, Rebelution (2009), included his breakthrough hit single "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)", which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Singles Chart. After rebranding himself as a pop artist, Pitbull's next English-language album, Planet Pit, featured his first US number one single "Give Me Everything". His 2013 track from Global Warming: Meltdown, titled "Timber", topped the charts in twenty nations, and hit #1 in eighteen countries, including the US and UK. External Website

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Radio & Podcast Madam CJ Walker You're Dead to Me (Madam CJ Walker) 2024 In this episode of You’re Dead to Me https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/madam-c-j-walker/id1479973402?i=1000643787226 Greg Jenner discusses Madam CJ Walker’s life—from being orphaned early, to growing up in kinship care, to disastrous marriages and finally to becoming a haircare entrepreneur—with Professor Noliwe Rooks and comedian Athena Kugblenu. External Website

Non Fiction The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Geogia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Barbara Bisantz Raymond 2008 The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (2008) tells the story of a woman now famous for child trafficking. Georgia Tann (1891-1951) ran an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. From 1924, she is estimated to have stolen more than 5000 children from mostly poor single mothers and sold them to wealthy people, 80% of whom were in New York and California. In September 1950, then Texas Governor Gordon Browning commenced an investigation into Tann’s agency, which was closed that year. Tann died 3 days before the state brought charges against her agency. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Khelsi Price Khelsi Price ​ Khelsi Price first went into foster care on her seventh birthday. As a young child, she lived with two different foster carers during the first 12 months before moving to her forever home and into the care of special, long-term carers Jean and Taff. Khelsi stayed with the couple until she moved out to live independently as a teenager and is now running a successful party entertainment business. KP Kids, which started life as The Entertainment Eporium, launched seven years ago and Khelsi has been entertaining children with party games and tricks as well as making look-alike appearances as character favourites ever since. She wants to inspire children who are in the same position she was in when she was a child and encourage them to “aim high”. “Being in foster care can be such a positive experience for those children and young people who need it. "I know I would never have had the opportunities I have without it.’ External Website

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Poets Yusuf P. McCormack (poet) Yusuf P. McCormack ​ Yusuf Paul McCormack was an Artist, Poet, Writer/Author and Trainer, based in Rugby, Warwickshire. He took early retirement from the civil service in 2015 and wrote his first verse in November of that year. It was an epiphany moment and, consumed, Yusuf wrote solidly for the next 12 months about his childhood growing up in children's institutions. In December 2016 he began to translate his written work on to canvas, where he attempted to explore the emotions that he was unable to voice as a child. His work explores the world he experienced, felt and witnessed as a child who was illegitimate, mixed raced and rejected. Yusuf’s art was his intuitive way of working using memory and imagination as a way to develop his own style. He used his combined experiences as an artist, a child of the state, to inform those who genuinely want to improve and sustain better outcomes for those who never chose their start in life. Yusuf died in January 2021, one of the over 150,000 deaths in the UK from Covid-19 during the world pandemic. External Website

Non Fiction We Are Not The Same - Africa and The Caribbean The Black Care Experience 2023 This Handbook provides basic understanding of the 54 African Countries and the 34 Caribbean Countries from where the Black Children and Young People in care, may originate. External Website

Films/Videos The Windermere Children ​ 2020 The Windermere Children is a movie starring Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, and Iain Glen. This is the story of children repatriated at the end of WWII from Poland and taken to live in a camp in the Lakes District in England. Here, the children are helped to rebuild their lives and integrate into British society. External Website

Performing Arts Bon Scott Bon Scott ​ Ronald Belford Scott (1946-1980) is remembered as Bon Scott, the lead vocalist of the Australian band AC/DC. Scott was born in Angus, Scotland but moved with his family to Australia in 1952. The family lived in Melbourne for 4 years and then relocated to Fremantle in Western Australia. He was nicknamed Bon while at North Fremantle Primary School. Following in the footsteps of his father, Bon joined the Fremantle Scots Pipe band where he learned to play drums and the rudiments of the pipes. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 and took up a number of working jobs labouring jobs. In 1963, Bon Scott was sentenced to 9 months at the Riverbank Juvenile Institution for a number of offences. After his release, Scott was focused on becoming a rock star and set up his first band, the Spektors, in 1964. In 1970, he moved to Adelaide and joined the Fraternity. After returning to Australia from a tour of the UK in 1973 the band had a break and Scott sang with other groups around country South Australia. He then replaced Dave Evans the lead singer of AC/DC in 1974 and the band became highly successful. He died on 19 February 1980 not long after AC/DC's Highway to Hell tour. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Simone Biles becomes youngest living person to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom Independent 2022 Simone Biles becomes youngest living person to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom. ‘Today, she adds to her medal count of 32 – I don’t know if you’re going to find room,’ President Biden said as he honoured the Olympian. In 2000, Biles' maternal grandfather, Ron Biles and his second wife, Nellie Cayetano Biles, began temporarily caring for Shanon's children in the north Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, after learning that his grandchildren had been in foster care. In 2003, the couple officially adopted the two youngest, Simone and Adria. Ron's sister, Shanon's aunt Harriet, adopted the two oldest children. With a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, Biles is the most decorated American gymnast and the world's third most decorated gymnast, she has spoken out about mental health and abuse in sports. External Website

Films/Videos Pan ​ 2015 Pan is an American film telling an alternative origin story for Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Peter is a foundling living in a London orphanage during WWII. He is spirited away to Neverland where children are working in a mine for Blackbeard. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Author of ‘Hackney Child’ on absent parents, care homes, and Mother’s Day Cachella Smith 2021 Cachella Smith interviews author of 'Hackney Child' Jenny Molloy (Hope Daniels) about growing up in the care system, childhood and Mother's Day. External Website

Radio & Podcast Adoptees Crossing Lines Adoptees Crossing Lines 2023 Adoptees Crossing Lines is a podcast hosted by 3 women who describe themselves as “angry, healing and honest adoptees”. The podcast includes topics such as ‘Adoptees & Mental Health’, ‘Adoptees as Parents’, ‘Adoptees & Identity’, as well as the origin stories of 2 of the hosts, Lia Epps and Dr Noelle Chaddock. External Website

Performing Arts Stephen Smith Stephen Smith ​ ustralian opera singer, Stephen Smith (b. 1977), was in foster care until he was ten. Stephen then when to live with his father. At 15 he left home and dropped out of school. He discovered he loved singing when he was living on the streets as a homeless teenager. When he was 17, Stephen was working at David Jones when a colleague suggested he take music lessons. Continuing to support himself at the Footscray markets, Stephen went to the Victorian College of Arts and got himself a Bachelor of Music. Stephen toured the world as an opera singer for 20 years. He now works as a real estate agent. External Website

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News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Care Experienced student behind new John Lewis Partnership brand: Made with Care John Lewis 2023 The John Lewis Partnership unveils Made With Care. A new lifestyle brand that combines great design and desirable products while creating a platform for talented people who have grown up in the care system. First design from the new brand launched at event to mark one year of the Building Happier Futures programme. The first product is designed by Michael Archibald, an 18-year old aspiring artist from Glasgow who has experienced care. Michael has crafted an inspiring piece of art to feature on a fashionable tote bag. Michael applied to take part in Made with Care through Who Cares? Scotland, the Partnership’s charity partner. He has worked with the John Lewis in-house design team and creative partners Saatchi & Saatchi to create his unique design. External Website