4th October, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment
One of the action points from our Power to the People? event in May 2011 was “to take Flashplays to streets and pubs in Leith.” Well on Saturday 17th September a few of us got together to do just that! We met in St James’ chuch hall on a sunny morning and, after a couple […] Read More
23rd August, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment
Following on from last year’s workshop at The Festival of Politics at the Scottish Parliament, we recently ran a News Group workshop as part of UNISON’s anti-cuts festival – MOBILISE! watch?v=AHu8MhDHIj8&feature=player_embedded This was the first year for this new addition to Edinburgh’s Festivals and consisted of a mixture of workshops, debates and performances all aimed […] Read More
24th June, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Next In Line – Performance at Leith Festival 2011
Active Inquiry’s Flashback Drama Group had a very successful show in this year’s Leith Festival with their production of Next In Line which ran from the 16th-18th June 2011 at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall. For those of you who don’t know, the Leith Festival is an annual community festival in Leith, Edinburgh […] Read More
31st May, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Power to the People? – The Final Event!
Wednesday 11th May saw over 40 people come together at St James Church Hall in Leith for the culmination of our Power to the People? project. Thank you to everyone who turned out for the four hours who helped make the event such a success. After a quick introduction and warm-up it was time for […] Read More
25th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 7 Comments
This week the group continued working in the groups they formed last week and began to name and discuss what had brought them together. They then began to make an image of the problem and found a way of moving in and out of the image using rhythm, sound and movements. Although there is more […] Read More
21st March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Power to the People? – Defining terms
This week was a very packed week for the Power to the People? group. After an hilarious warm-up game of West Country Zip Zap Boing, led very enthusiartically by Alan (“No parkin’ in the paddock”), we moved on to beginning to define what we meant by “empowerment” and “oppression” Words that defined empowerment were […] Read More
15th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 2 Comments
Flashback Drama, Active Inquiry’s permanent devising company for adults, is now well into rehearsals for their next show to be performed on the 16th, 17th and 18th of June 2011 as part of the Leith Festival. Next in Line explores the concepts of “power”, “order” and “chaos” all through the uniquely British pastime of queuing! […] Read More
14th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Power to the People? – Pluralising personal experiences!
Another great session on Wednesday evening which enabled the group to use their newly gained “language of images” to explore personal experiences of disempowerment. The group was asked to portray an image of a time that they felt disempowered by “sculpting” other group members into images. The point of the exercise was not to uncover […] Read More
4th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 2 Comments
We had another great turnout for Power to the People? last Wednesday evening. Following on from Alan’s session last week on the basics of Forum Theatre, this week the group began to explore the topic of Empowerment. However with this being a drama workshop and not a discussion group, we conducted a lot of this […] Read More
28th February, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 2 Comments
News Group, our monthly workshop in partnership with Leith Open Space which uses drama techniques to explore current affairs, was relaunched on Saturday 26th February after a break over the Christmas period. The aim of this group is to encourage people to become active participants in current affairs instead of passive consumers. And there was nothing passive about Saturday’s […] Read More