| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, programme, leaflets and funding requests relating to the Parachute Theatre Company (PTC), Frome Youth Workshop (FYW). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Disability Programme. Applicant overview: PTC was formed in 1987 by Nik Palmer and Lynne Porter, whose previous experience included, puppetry, (DaSilva Puppets), mime (Jacque Le Coq), music, sculpture and writing and who wished to produce innovative puppetry performances and workshop programmes. Since then PTC have produced a number of widely acclaimed puppetry productions including Punk and Judy, Oh Noah and Harold's Horrible Day and raised four children who have provided much of their material and are their strongest critics. Parachute specialise in production through to performance workshop programmes that enable participants to produce their own work. Parachute precede each workshop situation with a professional performance, intended to stimulate and encourage ideas and enthusiasm amongst the workshop participants regardless of age and ability. In 1997 Parachute proposed the FYW project with the aims of, 1) bringing together a group of local young people with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, 2) working with a group of young people to blend the current culture of dance music, light shows and popular youth comic/cartoon styles with theatre, live animation and mime in a workshop project that culminates in a performance by the young people, 3) working with the group to develop ways of using materials in new and innovative forms to create large scale animated structures, mobile 'puppet style' costumes and unusual rod puppet/object techniques, 4) researching popular youth culture, attitudes and ideals, and 5) developing a workable structure in setting up working with young people in production through performance workshops, enabling Parachute to actively encourage young people to explore and develop new skills and understanding of theatres and the arts. Nature of support: In 1996 the Trust approved a single grant of £5,000 for the purchase of film and video equipment. A further £10,000 was approved as a single grant in 1998. Minutes: BCT 216, BCT 559, DP 7/96, DP 7/98. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File not numbered. |