Toy Diplomacy evolved from people needing to connect and reflect on our world in crisis. Five people who had worked together in a former life, started a conversation responding to COVID and ended up exploring the idea of a liminal space. We questioned if we could conjure a collective that provided creatives, decision makers and young people with lived experience to inhabit a space exploring and responding to real world problems.

Imagine you come to the edge of a bridge desperate to run from something; a fire, a pandemic, death, sadness, it could be any number of things. You make your first step on the bridge only to find it rickety and unsettled. 

In order to cross you need to embrace the journey and what is potentially on the other side, you’re here because you need to move forward and learn. 

Step one is to embrace the idea of moving forward.