Emerge is a regional programme of fantastic and FREE one-day festivals led by young people in the heart of local communities, managed by The Mighty Creatives in partnership with Arts Connect and UK Young Artists. Emerge Festivals provide children and young people with the chance to be creative at the heart of their community. What is…
The Emerge programme is now in full swing at Halesowen College and Earl’s High School and this half term has seen us working collaboratively on material sharings at both labs. At Halesowen, we have worked towards showing their work at the Open Day, and Earl’s arranged their own Emerge sharing to show parents and friends…
So, it is that time of the project where festival planning is well underway. Exciting times indeed. However, it goes without saying that there are a million and one questions floating around. Will everything slot together perfectly? Will we have enough audience members? Will people enjoy it? Do we have too much content?…
Things are well underway in Tamworth as we edge closer and closer to festival day. All our LAB groups have decided on what they will be showing and are now working hard to get scripts written, choreography finalised, and lines learnt. In our Community LAB, Phoenix Youth Theatre are working on a variety of Shakespeare…
It’s certainly been a busy start to the year with both the Lab at Ormiston Shelfield Academy and Walsall Arboretum/Deaf People’s centre working incredibly hard on short pieces for our EMERGE festival. The first news is that we have a festival title – since we are performing in the arboretum, the young people have selected…
Before Christmas, The Priory and Youth Takeover groups met for the first time at South Holland Centre, and teamed up to create a makeshift sensory world using a plethora of materials, sounds and textures for the senses. There were sparkles and shimmers for the forest floor, flickers of colour, floating, fluffy clouds and hanging stars.…
