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Patrick began attending Streetwise Opera workshops in 2010 in Nottingham while on a drug rehabilitation programme. He was reserved at first but he and two of his friends who were also on the programme quickly became highly engaged and took leading roles in our 2010 production, Fables – A Film Opera, staring in the film and performing at the premiere in London. Patrick quickly moved on and has now become a professional drug support worker in Derby just a year after we began working with him – he said, ‘Everyone noticed the change in me since coming to Streetwise Opera – my partner, my kids, my friends. I was using heroin for 25 years and for the first time I can look my kids in the eye.’
We need the regular support of individuals to continue our work enabling people like Patrick to make big changes in their lives.