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Euton Daley MBEEuton Daley and Unlock the Chains Collective make and produce theatre that explores the Black experience through the fusion of dance, music, song and spoken word/performance poetry.
Artist, Director, Mentor and Producer, I have over 40 years’ experience working in the arts. Having developed and managed Pegasus Theatre specialising in youth and community work for over 20 years, my focus is currently on developing my creative practice within the framework of the African- heritage experience. “A nation that doesn’t understand its own history and the roots of its wealth will struggle to understand how power, finance, politics and economies work. A nation that doesn’t understand its past can’t understand its present….” I have been a North Wall Arts Propeller Artist for the last two years. As a freelancer, the importance of having a base, can’t be underestimated and the North Wall has given me that support. Here’s a podcast I did for their #NWConnect podcast last year. Listen to the podcast. Find out more about my other latest projects here. To contact me please email Read our Privacy Policy here.
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UNLOCK THE CHAINS COLLECTIVEUnlock the Chains Collective share and celebrate African and Caribbean heritage, culture experience and stories.
STILL BREATHINGWritten, Directed & Produced by Euton Daley
That fear of mistaken identity
Wrong place/wrong time Born in the wrong skin/colour Evidently Still Breathing emerged in response to the world-wide events surrounding the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and as an artistic response to the #BLM and Rhodes Must Fall campaigns in Oxford. In the renewed spirit of hope in the struggles for justice, equality and freedom, the script is an epic performance poetry piece fusing dance, music and song to voice the fears, frustration, fatigue, anger and resilience as yet another Black life is taken by the hands of those tasked to protect us. A PLACE FOR WE
All Soul's College/Codrington Library performance
Linked to the production of Still Breathing, Euton is engaged in a Community History research project to research, document and create the stories, histories and role of the African Caribbean community in Oxford alongside the lack of any cultural facilities/space for this community. The
project brings artists, researcher/academics and communities together in the community’s drive, need and desire for a cultural base. In collaboration with OxfordUniversity (Humanities & History Faculties) and Oxford Brookes University, we explored people and places and how each affect and effect each other. Watch this space for the resultant artistic outcome from this research project. 
LATEST PUBLICATION
#Ending the Silence#Ending the Silence was launched in 2018 and he is now available for book and performance readings.
"It's a story not often believed" #Ending the Silence explores the Black Diaspora experience and struggles for equality, justice and human rights through performance poetry. Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism AllianceI have been involved in the setting up of the Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism Alliance which grew out of the events of 2020. We have developed a Manifesto for change and cultural partners have embarked on a training series and planning for radical change to the arts sector in Oxford so that those from the Global Majority (replacing the previously used term BAME) are fully and truly reflected in the leadership and decision making of organisations as well as the work produced in museums, theatres, concert halls etc.
Have a read of the Manifesto here |
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