Welcome to the new LIFT website. You'll find lots of information about LIFT past and present, and lots of dynamic content. This is also a site for you to tell us what you think, comment and respond to our work and ideas and to send your own ideas, too.

2010 is a very important year for LIFT. It sees LIFT return in July to present a large scale pan-London international festival showcasing the kind of theatre that rarely gets to be seen in the capital. We are finalising our programme at the moment but we're very excited about the quality and distinctiveness of the work being created by artists across the globe. Some of the most remarkable stories of the world will arrive at LIFT in July.

We've got big ambitions: chiefly to ensure that LIFT again becomes one of Europe's premier cultural events. To achieve that ambition we need your support and that's why we've launched the LIFT Director's Fund. It's a fund where every penny will be spent on bringing international artists to London in 2010 and beyond and it's one of your opportunities to help make LIFT happen.

We hope you can join us on our journey in 2010 and beyond. Please take a good look around the site - there's lots to see.

- Mark Ball, LIFT's Artistic Director