Anna Newell

Babyday - a baby wearing a checked shirt and a BabyDay sticker looks delighted
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BabyDay

In 2015, whilst Artistic Director of Replay Theatre Company, Anna created the world's first BabyDay.

15,000 people came to over 80 events in more than 20 venues across the city. A year-long engagement programme working with all of the Belfast Sure Starts ensured that this audience was from across the broadest social demographic.

BabyDay was about hope. It was about the future. It was about the family that Belfast could be.

Anna was invited to write a blog for the Guardian about the why of BabyDay.