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| Hastings Youth Theatre | ||
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Currently with a group averaging 30 strong, it’s a very relaxing fun way of spending a couple of hours devising small scenarios based on the experiences of those in the group or just honing those drama skills. This is the springboard for developing more in depth pieces concerning current issues. In the Sussex Hall under the White Rock Theatre, Tuesdays 6-8pm. Phone (01424) 431305 for more info. |
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| dab Arts devised a 20 minute piece for PULSE in 2004, to be shown at a conference for youth and health workers on the subject of Self Harm and Eating Disorders. Working with 5 members of the youth theatre with either direct or indirect experience Jan Maloney, script writer and Judy Dewsbery, visual artist, conducted a series of sessions separate from the main youth theatre and SHED was born. We have performed it in East and West Sussex as well as at the Young Minds Conference 'See Beyond the Label' in London, July 2006'. It was accompanied by a video made by dab Arts (SHH!, by Jan Maloney and Nikki Joy) containing interviews with young people who have had experience of self harm and talk frankly about it. SHED gives the experience of self harm from the perspective of the young people; please contact us on judy@dabarts.com for information regarding performance cost, availability etc. |  |
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dab Arts also produced ‘Testing Time’, about teenage pregnancy. It has been performed at one conference on the subject (November 30th 2005, Horntye Hastings) and is currently being developed as a tool for forum theatre. Jen Cross, a member of dab Arts youth theatre from the start in 2002, has written a play concerning the experiences of alcohol and drugs, which is still in script stage. We’re looking forward to developing this with Jen. |
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