The need for space - moving forward in theatre

We recently attended a conference in London called 'Ages and Stages' organised and facilitated by the wonderful London Bubble theatre company:  http://www.londonbubble.org.uk/ Already feeling inspired, challenged and determined to move our company forward/sideways depending how you look at it, this conference cemented those thoughts and urged us to take action.

Lyn Gardner, theatre critic, recently said perhaps it is now time to move theatre forward into the direction of making theatre WITH people rather than just FOR people, and we wholeheartedly embrace this statement. Theatre, for us, is so many things: and principally it has the potential and the ability to break down walls and build and strengthen communities. We have formed Liminal Community Theatre which is a community group completely and utterly dedicated to this mantra.

So what happens now? We want to work with communities - all sectors of communities, across all ages and eventually across the whole county - but small steps at first. We want to bring people together to share, to tell and communicate stories. There are many to tell - we've already discovered some! We also want to work inter-generationally to bridge the gaps between the generations. Something that is very dear to us is creating apprenticeships, volunteer opportunities and retaining our wonderful student graduates that can give so much to our city.

We need space - somewhere - to create wonderful theatre and invest in our fantastic communities. We would like theatre to become part of a central community arts hub that contains - (under one very cheap to run and operate roof, the creating and sharing of work across a range of arts disciplines. Most of all - we want to create and generate a warm and welcome space where artists and those who long to be and also those who might be but don't know it yet, can feel 'at home'. 

We would love for anyone to get on board with this venture and help fundraise to make it happen. We are also inviting interested parties to become part of a steering group to move this project forward. There is strength in numbers and to coin a well-used phrase, 'power to the people'!

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