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Spring Chickens, a unique two-year creative outreach programme, aims to challenge perceptions about older people and inspire individuals to place the older generation at the centre of the community.
Barbara Adair on stage for Bog People
It is our belief that participation in culture, arts and leisure activities can enhance the quality of older people's lives.
Throughout the two years the project will consist of a variety of workshops focusing on an exciting range of creative skills including story-telling in various forms, circus skills, writing, multi media, comedy, magic, puppetry, design, drama, music, and movement.
The aim of this is to explore the diverse tales and stories participants have to offer - some may be imaginative, some life experience, some long and some short. It is an opportunity for these lively stories to be made accessible to the wider community through the medium of the arts.
Big Telly Theatre Company is a professional theatre company formed in 1987 and based in Portstewart, Northern Ireland. The company designs and delivers theatre productions, interactive workshop programmes and community creativity projects, which it mainly tours throughout Northern and Southern Ireland.
W: www.big-telly.com
E: info@big-telly.com
T: 028 7083 1782
Big Telly will take the workshops to residential homes, day care centres, older peoples groups, and hopes to arrange home visits for those in rural and isolated areas.
The workshops can be attended as a once off or when you wish. The programme is designed to be enjoyed by all as often as you like so there is no pressure to commit to the full two years. There will be final shows in October 2009, which will be professionally directed and produced and will be written, designed and performed entirely by the older population.
Each performance of Spring Chickens will have its own professional director and technical crew. Zoë Seaton is the overall director of the programme, which has been funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies.
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