Explore ideas around local history and hopeful futures through art and gaming and become an audience-participant in the play A Citizens’ Assembly.
Saturday Sessions are FREE for the whole town, suitable for all ages, abilities and experience to enjoy.
Collaborative World Building
12-2.30pm
A two hour workshop for young people exploring David Blandy’s collaborative world-building games, using voice, writing and drawing to imagine new worlds. We will create a community together through collaborative map-making and story-telling.
The workshop will feature a chance to explore how, through art and gaming, we can look at questions of local histories and hopeful futures about the environment and climate change.
Participants will also have the opportunity to start creating their own world-building game, using table top role-play techniques to think about how we can use these forms to expand ideas around local history in Crawley and issues in the wider world.
No previous experience of tabletop gaming is necessary to participate.
David Blandy is an award-winning artist, writer and game-maker who exhibits internationally.
Ages 8+ (children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult)
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A Citizens’ Assembly
3-5pm
WE ARE THE CITIZENS! THIS IS OUR ASSEMBLY! WE ARE THE ACTORS IN THIS STORY!
You are invited to a citizen’s assembly. This unique and humorous play tells a story of some people in a room who have met to discuss the climate emergency. Scripts are handed out. The play is read out loud. There are twelve characters/speaking parts, these are not played by professional actors, but by you, the audience.
In the third act, all audience-participants are invited to make their own contributions in an open discussion. It’s a chance to stand up and say what you think about climate change.
A collaboration between acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and applied arts practitioner Lynsey O’Sullivan, A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY is the latest and most ambitious work in a project called PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE; plays where the people in the play are played by the people in the audience. The set is the room they are in, the costumes the clothes they are wearing.
A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY uses this form to explore and consider this important but sometimes overwhelming issue through a collective act of play, in a relaxed and supported environment.
About The Artist
Andy Smith is a Lancaster based theatre-maker whose recent work includes the PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE project (THE ACTIONS, ARE WE RACIST?, THE RULE OF SIX and A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY (2017 – now), COMMONISM (2018, in collaboration with Amund Sjølie Sveen), SUMMIT (2018) and The Preston Bill (2015). He has collaborated closely with Tim Crouch since 2004, most recently co-directing (along with Karl James) Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel (2022) and total immediate collective imminent terrestrial salvation (2019).
Ages 12+ (children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult)
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