The Club on the Edge of Town
A Pandemic Memoir
'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what I believe.'A deeply moving memoir of how one theatre company fed their local community during the Covid pandemic of 2020.When crisis hits, and audiences stay home, what's the most useful thing a theatre company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop-help-shop for those in need. In one year, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 11,000 food parcels. This is the vivid story of the cost of trying to do good in a divided world.'We b…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-914228-40-7
- EAN: 9781914228407
- Produktnummer: 38095166
- Verlag: Salamander Street Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Alan Lane is Artistic Director of Slung Low, a theatre company based in the oldest surviving working men's club in the UK. Slung Low make large scale people's theatre work on stages, trains, castles, swimming pools, fishing boats and town centres. During the Covid crisis of 2020 the company was the ward lead for Holbeck and Beeston for social care referrals with responsibility for 7,500 homes. They ran a non-means tested self referral foodbank from March 2020 to June 2021. He was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to South Leeds during the Covid 19 Crisis.
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