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Find your Talent: Express Yourself
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- May - July 2009
Over 12 weeks, we worked with a group of young parents and their children at the John Smiths Childrens Centre in Stepney, Tower Hamlets, to create a piece of theatre about the trials and tribulations of being a young mum.
In May 2008 it was announced that Tower Hamlets was one of only ten nationwide areas (and the only one in London) selected to take part in an exciting new Government programme called “Find your Talent”. The aim of the programme is to trial ways of giving all young people aged 0-19 access to a broad range of creative and cultural activity for up to five hours a week, in and out of school.
Our 12 week project culminated in a performance featuring a series of short scenes depicting the everyday struggles of our young mothers from getting on a bus to getting a job. The production also included video projections and sound.
Whilst the young parents worked to devise and perform the piece, their children took part in their own creative workshops involving music and storytelling.
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