Are young people disengaged from politics? Do they feel it is not for them? Three NE arts organisations don’t think so.
Cuckoo Young Writers (an initiative from New Writing North), Northern Stage and Juice Festival are teaming up to run a project which asks young people to create their own manifestos about the things they care about, be that gender identity, the environment, issues in their local community or simply their vision for a better world.
It’s a chance to work with poets, theatre directors and artists, and interrogate academics from Northumbria University, journalists and politicians. It’s a chance to find out why things are how they are, and what they’d do to change them.
The finished manifestos, which may be a performance, spoken word, a film or a piece of art, will be presented as part of a live event during Juice Festival in October.
The project is looking for ten young people, aged 15 to 23, to take part in ten workshops from August to October, with the first workshop at Northern Stage on 3 August from 2PM to 5PM. The final performance will be on Friday 30 October.
For more information or to sign up, e-mail Laura Brewis at [email protected].