Outdoor theatre co-created and performed by Portland Players and Island Voices Community Choir
In partnership with Portland Museum, Portland Port and The Island Voices Community Choir, and supported by b-side, Heart of Stone project is a community theatre project now in its third year of activity on Portland. Following sell-out shows at b-side festival last year, the Portland Players, all members of local communities, will rehearse and co-create the show this summer. We tour the new refreshed play at five Dorset venues this September. We are looking for Players and crew to join the team, all ages and abilities welcome!
The play is a celebration of Portland stone, landscape and people, with lots of music and songs.
In addition to ten free theatre-making workshops and rehearsals for performers and back stage crew offered by the professional team of theatre-makers and producers, there are ongoing community ‘discussion cafes’ to share memories and stories together in July and August at Portland Museum and Portland Library. Discussion cafes are interactive chats to talk about all things related to Portland stone, quarrying, industry and life on the island in living memory, and take place in the Stone Room at Portland Museum 11am-12.30pm on Friday 15th and 29th July and Wednesday 24th and 31st August. These are recorded.
Free theatre-making workshops start: Monday 18th July 6-9pm at the Engine Shed (The Grove) plus full dates and performance updates available on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/heartofstoneproject
The project is made possible by funding from the Arts Council England Lottery Project Grants Funding, our community partners and generous support from Portland Port and b-side. The project has also commissioned sound artist Tom Hughes to make immersive legacy podcasts for the project inspired by and using extracts from the quarrymen conversations and local landscape, funded by the Nature, Art and Wellbeing Community Fund, a collaborative of- National Lottery Community Fund via Stepping into Nature, National Academy for Social Prescribing Fund via Thriving Communities Nature Buddies and Contain Outbreak Management Fund via Your Nature: Dorset Council Better Days, Coast and Greenspace Teams.
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