ACE Workshops 2023

After our run of FREAK OUT! at VAULT Festival for which we received Project Grant funding from Arts Council England, we were thrilled to have the opportunity to run a series of ACE-funded drama workshops in April-May 2023.

Our workshops with Queen Mary University Theatre Company (led by Alyssa, Sol, Rosie and Weronika), Bristol Old Vic Young Company (led by Rosie, Sophia and Weronika) and St Paul's Adventure Playground - Bristol Old Vic Young Company City (led by Rosie and Weronika) focused on sustainable, inclusive and socially informed theatre-making and in particular, making research-based theatre in response to the climate emergency.

Our workshops at Henleaze Junior School, Bristol (led by Rosie, Sophia and Weronika) and St Charles Primary School, Ladbroke Grove, London (led by Alyssa and Claudia) were inspired by the Bristol 17 Project by Global Goals Centre, which highlights individuals and organisations in Bristol addressing 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN's Agenda for Sustainable Development. For example, the workshops in Henleaze (first and second images below) highlighted the importance of protecting our local wildlife and involved participants devising scenes in which they played insects!