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‘2moro?’ Festival

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• 21, 23, 24, 25 February 2011 (February Half term)

2moro? Festival
Theatre Performances and Workshops

21, 23, 24, 25 February 2011 (Half term)
Daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Robin Redmond Resource Centre
440, Seven Sisters Road, N4 2RD

The Immediate Theatre ‘2moro?’ Festival is the result of a year long drama project with the young people of Hackney.

Three plays are being developed by ex-young offender Peer Facilitators working with Estate Based Youth Theatre groups across the borough, looking at the consequences of youth involvement in crime from different angles.

Each audience group will see two plays and participate in workshops and discussions with the actors and directors during the day.

Youth group leaders are invited to contact Immediate Theatre to reserve a day to bring their members to take part in the Festival. There is no charge for youth groups and free transportation is available to and from the Festival venue with advance coordination with Immediate Theatre. 

Juvenile – Shoreditch Estate Based Youth Theatre

Created by the 13-19 years group based at The Bridge Academy in Shoreditch.

Since September, 2010, the group have been exploring and devising scenarios on the topic of under 18’s involved in crime with older people. The script has been developed from this exploratory work and after a talk from a local police officer. The story follows the fortunes of a young man newly arrived on an estate, who through family connections gets involved with a local gang and becomes implicated in a shooting.

There's More To Come – Woodberry Down Estate Based Youth Theatre

 From early November, the 12-19 year olds based at The Robin Redmond Resource Centre on Woodberry Down Estate have been exploring stories around cyber – bullying on Facebook, Blackberrys etc. Given the dispersal zone status of the estate and young people needing to keep off the streets, the social networks as a medium for bullying has inspired interesting debate. This production uses projection and fictional Blogs to explore a disturbing, but all too common incident from the perspectives of the different characters involved. 

The Road, by David Lane – Fusion, Estate Based Youth Theatre group based at Hackney Free School

The Setting: Hackney, 2022. Close enough to imagine, but not so far away to be ‘futuristic’ in a science fiction way. The streets are now patrolled by soldiers, not policemen. Postcode districts are controlled and defined not by gangs, but by army troops enforcing physical separation through the trappings of martial law: unrestricted stop and search, barbed wire barricardes, checkpoints and armoured patrol vehicles. The divisions of the past, defined by those on the streets are now invisible. Freedom of movement is now physically restricted by the army. Even those who wish to merely cross neighborhoods must have permits to do so. When land, weapons and even the enemy are taken from you, who are you? Do you know how to be anything else? What will emerge in these new sectioned districts? Do you look to others? Or to yourself? And what do you find when you’re stripped down to the core of who you really are?

 

The Road attempts to move the knife and gun crime debate beyond the usual contemporary clichés and examine the issue through a different lens.

 

Immediate Theatre, in partnership with Genesis Housing Group, Fairbridge, Team Hackney and the London Borough of Hackney has been awarded funding to run the '2moro?' programme, training young people in Hackney to become peer facilitators, leading to the ‘2moro?’ Festival during the 2011 February Half Term.

The '2moro?' Programme offers individual Peer Facilitators:

• Personal and social development training
• Skills development in facilitation and drama
• The opportunity to design a creative toolkit exploring issues around youth crime, gang culture and knife crime
• The opportunity of a paid position with Immediate Theatre
• A gold youth arts award or appropriate qualification for each trainee peer facilitator

The '2moro?' Programme is a positive approach towards crime reduction in Hackney. Through the course of the ‘2moro?’ Programme we will engage with nearly 500 young people, with 20 events over the course of the year, including performances and workshops where issues raised by the productions can be explored further.

The '2moro?' programme and the ‘2moro?’ Festival  builds on Immediate Theatre’s success of working with young people at risk of social exclusion or at risk of committing crime, which has been a key success of our ‘Interactions’ project.

For more information, contact Rachel Drew on 0207 012 1677.

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