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Scene and HeardDateline: 22nd February, 2004Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London, with volunteer theatre professionals, providing each child who participates with quality one-on-one adult attention and an experience of personal success through the process of writing and performing plays. Set up in 1999, Scene & Heard is run by founder members Sophie Boyack and Kate Coleman. It is based on the American organisation The 52nd Street Project, which has been successfully working with economically disadvantaged children in New York for twenty years and with whom Co-Artistic Director, Kate Coleman worked during 1998. Scene & Heard currently runs five courses annually for children aged 9 to 14. The projects ains are
It all sounds very worthy and rather conventional, but this is a project with a difference - or many differences. First of all, the ratio of children to adults is the reverse of what we normally expect: as many as 45 adults can be involved in a single course with nine children. Second, the children work one-to-one with an adult. Then, the adults are professional actors: each works alongside the child they are mentoring to create and write a play which the actors go on to perform on front of an audience. Among the actors who have been involved in Scene and Heard are Gerald Kyd, Kazia Pelka, Nicola Stephenson, Selena Caddell, Emily Watson, Janet Ellis and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and all are enormously enthusiastic. Funding has come from
At the BTG we don't normally ask for money, but we really do feel that this is a group worthy of our visitors' support. Please visit their very informative and interesting website at www.sceneandheard.org and, if you can, send a donation. Or you could send your donation directly to :
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