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Sexual Health
Project Jump
Collaboratively developed with Bristol Teenage Pregnancy Partnership, this innovative project is aimed at the most vulnerable and hard to reach young people, giving them the opportunity to consider their sexual health and well-being. A performance of Jump (Lucy Catherine) is followed by interactive workshops aiming to raise confidence and develop skills in decision making around sexual health and relationships. The project has successfully toured to pupil referral units, youth projects, entry to employment groups, inclusion units, groups of looked after children, homeless young people, young offenders, as well as to mainstream schools. To date Jump has received over 100 performances.
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Care Matters
City of One
A major theatre and participatory project, including a specially commissioned original play with music, exploring the care system in the UK and p roduced to highlight the opportunities and challenges presented in the White Paper Care Matters: Time for Change. It was performed by a cast of 30 young people, over half of whom were in care, and professional actors and musicians, to public audiences at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Throughout the run of the play, there was a series of post-show events ranging from talks by theatre practitioners with experience of being in care, to cabaret featuring the writing and songs of children and young people in care. In addition, there was a series of post-show forums chaired by Government Office for the South West providing the opportunity to engage in debate on the themes of the play.
The production was subsequently taken to Westminster and performed to an invited audience of key decision makers, including Ministers and senior Civil Servants.
Extracts of the production have been performed at a number of high-profile events and conferences focusing on the implementation of Care Matters.
For further information see Productions
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All Together Now!
A National Children’s Bureau / Arts Council England initiative.
One of only three projects nationwide selected to investigate how creativity can be embedded in the lives of children and young people in care, with an emphasis on the use of social pedagogy. The project aimed to identify an effective means of training and participation for foster carers and develop practice and understanding how theatre can nurture the physical and emotional health of children in care. Training days fed in to a two day theatre experience for children in care aged 9 to 14. The culmination was a performance of All Together Now which explored the role of creativity in health and well-being.
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The Independent Aardvark
A Barnardo's South West consultation and performance project.
This explored the role of the advocacy service in North Somerset and facilitated a group of children and young people in care performing at the service launch.
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Super Vets
A specially written play and follow up workshop performed at conferences for Children and Young People’s Services exploring the content and delivery of Care Matters: Time for Change.
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Like A Parcel
Consultation projects with children in care on services within the care system with a focus on health and well-being. Through interactive workshops the participants were able to devise a piece of theatre giving voice to their opinions, which they performed to an executive panel of elected members and other corporate parents.
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South West regional children looked after nurses group: consultation and development.
The provision of consultation sessions and a day-long practical workshop using theatre techniques to support the group in developing skills to advocate for the delivery of training within the Healthy Care Programme, and consider their role within the care system, in particular exploring how they can use their individual and collective voices.
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Jump Together
The Teenage Pregnancy Unit at the DfES recognised Project Jump as an ideal training tool for multi agency partnership work, delivering the National Healthy Care Programme. Jump Together has been delivered to a range of professionals from health, education, social services, and children’s services and consists of the play Jump (Lucy Catherine) and specially devised interactive exercises.
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Youth Offending
Through The Wire
A performance of Catherine Johnson's Through The Wire with an inclusive cast of thirty 16 to 20 year olds and performed at the Tobacco Factory Bristol. Through The Wire is set in a Young Offenders' Institute, during a visiting hour.
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The Other Side
Funded by Arts Council South West, this project was developed along side Through The Wire working with Ashfield Young Offenders Unit and The Meriton – Young Parents Education and Support, enabling the participants to create original songs, poetry and prose on the themes of youth offending. This work was given a public performance at the Tobacco Factory Theatre after a performance of Through The Wire.
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Mental Health
The House of Letitia Smith
In collaboration with psychiatrists from Bristol CAMHS, the Bristol PSHE Consultant and funded through the Images of Psychiatry campaign (Royal College of Psychiatrists) The House of Letitia Smith (Lucy Catherine) was developed as part of a project exploring self-harm. A pilot performance with accompanying interactive workshop and training sessions was delivered to a number of PSHE Coordinators, educational psychologists, school nurses, learning mentors and psychiatrists.
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Jump High
A specially devised facilitation day for Southend Borough Council and South East Essex PCT to aid cross-agency collaboration in the development of new models for the delivery of a comprehensive CAMHS from universal provision to specialist interventions. This includes performances from our repertoire, with a focus on the realities for vulnerable children and their families, and the inherent risks to mental health and emotional well-being, and a series of interactive exercises and discussions to identify ways forward for improved outcomes.
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Jollity Farm
An original piece of theatre exploring mental health in young males, using professional artists and an inclusive cast of young males.
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Help!
A project commissioned by the South West Healthy Care Partnership and the National Children’s Bureau to consult with foster carers in the south west on the obstacles and opportunities they find in supporting the mental health and emotional well-being for the children in their care. The findings of this consultation which used drama and theatre techniques culminated in a theatrical presentation which the foster carers performed at Young Minds regional and national CAMHS conferences.
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Riverside
Working with doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists and care workers to develop their skills in using theatre within their work with young patients.
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Every Child Matters
The Wizard of Meritonia
A project with The Meriton – Young Parents Education and Support, aiming at helping the participants understand the five outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda by facilitating their writing and performing of The Wizard of Meritonia, a version of The Wizard of Oz, exploring the themes of healthy parenting. |
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Leadership Group Development Day
Commissioned by the Bristol Children's Workforce to deliver a play and interactive workshop helping the professional participants understand their role and responsibility in the delivery of the Every Child Matters agenda, with particular reference to promoting health and well-being to vulnerable young people.
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Engaging the Disengaged
Commissioned by Gateshead Council to deliver a play and interactive workshop exploring multi-agency partnership work focusing on engaging disengaged young people.
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Youth Matters
Targeted Youth Support
Commissioned by Government Office South West in partnership with the Training and Development Agency, a play and interactive workshop to engage the South West Children’s Board in the issues facing young people and to enable the Board to deliver Integrated Youth Support. |
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Consultation
A Role To Play
A project commissioned by Government Office South West and Government Office East Midlands to consult with children and young people in care, and care leavers on the Government Green Paper, Care Matters. The project consisted of day long workshops with different age ranges of children and young people and included a stimulus piece of theatre and interactive workshops helping the participants understand the content of the Green Paper and giving a voice to their opinions and ideas on it. A full consultation report was supplied to the commissioner.
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Archibald the Architect
Funded by Arts & Business, Myrtle Theatre Company worked in partnership with architects Feilden Clegg Bradley using theatre methods as a means of consulting with children and young people on the design and development of a new City Academy. In turn the architects built their skills in using drama and theatre to include children and young people in future design development.
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Safeguarding
Project Craig
The project provides Key Stage 1 and special needs students with the tools to recognise and deal with inappropriate touch and explores the issue of personal safety. Using very few words but clear visual images, the play, Hello Craig (Heather Williams and Sally Cookson) is followed by a participatory workshop. To date the project has toured to over 15,000 children.
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Project Myrtle
The project aims to provide Year 6 students with meaningful risk awareness. A performance of Myrtle on the Mainline (Lucy Catherine) is followed by interactive workshops focusing on understanding emotions, recognising and managing risk, decision-making skills and the importance of good communication. To date, over 22,000 young people have received the project.
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Creative Learning
Myrtle Theatre Company trains teachers, lecturers and health and social care workers in using drama for the delivery of social and health education (See Training and Consultation). In addition, many of our projects include training the participant professionals in using theatre skills in their work with young people.
These are examples of our work, many of which can be re-commissioned or adapted to suit the needs of individual organisations. |
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