We have our most exciting year coming up.

 

As well as continuing the existing work with schools and youth groups, our director will be splitting his time between Leeds and Stockton on Tees, delivering spoken word workshops at HMP Holme House. He spent a week there in 2019 and had so much success that the prison have asked for him to come back for a year.

 

We will be working alongside WYCA to look at anti social behaviour across the bus stations in West Yorkshire, supporting their security staff but looking to see how we can work with the young people currently involved in Anti Social Behaviour.

 

We will hopefully (depending on the outcome of a funding bid) be purchasing a 360° camera and 20 vr headsets and then creating 11 videos in 360° to be accompanied by poetry based on social issues for young people. We will own the equipment and then continue to work with more people/organisations on more topics.

 

We will also be creating a courtroom drama live theatre experience called ‘The Verdict’ where the audience will be the jury. We will be looking to cover different topics across a 2 year period, the first being county lines based and looking at media manipulation.

 

The director Phil Pearce will be setting aside 7-10 days to run and participate in a recovery tour.

The idea is to travel to different cities and run a poetry workshop through the day and a performance on the evening, sleep over and then on to the next city!

 

We will be looking to hire an artist to take 10 ipads into youth groups and teach the young people about digital design, creating characters and drawing tools/techniques. The ipads can also be used to teach long term prison leavers how to fill in online forms and the basics of touch screen technology.

 

If there’s enough time along side all of this, the director wants to create a spoken word ‘show’ where he will tackle some of the important issues in one 20-30 minute spoken word performance and then deliver this to a wide range of audiences from hostels and prisons to professionals meetings with Probation and Police.