High Peak youngsters invited to take part in live-streamed performance art
and live on Freeview channel 276
The story is part of a High Peak Community Arts project called Tall Tales - in which youngsters can choose from four different activities.
They include:
Creating soundscapes using a phone or recorder to collect unusual noises Designing posters representing either the events of 2020 or ‘an imagined best possible world’ Helping make landscape installations by crafting people, animals and plants Learning a choreographed dance and filming themselves
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Hide AdHigh Peak young people have been taking part in the Tall Tales project since May - with more than 20 workshops being run online by writer Lucy Jackson, musician
Gareth Carbery, dancer and performer Trixi Bold, artist Frances Walker, filmmaker Mark Turton and sound designer Kris Gjerstad.
However High Peak Community Arts will work more intensively to produce the finished work - which will be streamed online as three live broadcasts on August 21 and 28 and September 4.
Project manager Sophie Mackreth said “The lockdown and social distancing rules have put so many restrictions on the way we work.
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Hide Ad“But necessity is the mother of invention so we’re taking the opportunity to offer activities out to everyone in the High Peak”.
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Hide AdSophie told how the online sessions run so far had been a lifeline for some participants - helping combat loneliness and anxiety.
However she added: “We couldn’t have continued to serve the High Peak community at this time without the support, understanding and flexibility of our Tall Tales funders - Arts Council England and the National Foundation for Youth Music who have let us rewrite our plans without asking approval.
“There was still the need for the project and our participants have shown great resilience even when they didn’t feel it.
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Hide Ad“We’ve all cheered each other up and the project has given us something to work towards when so much has been put on hold”
Anyone interested should click HERE or phone 01663 744516 and leave their details to receive more information.