Established in 2008, Leith-based charity Unusual City was arrange to make sure that everybody, irrespective of their expertise or their background, will get the chance to entry life-changing actions within the arts.
Based by native Administrators Steve Small and Ruth Hollyman, the organisation has expanded throughout the final 15 years and now reaches 2,000 native younger individuals yearly by youth theatre courses, vacation programmes, a touring firm and company assist for younger actors serving to to develop the careers of a few of Scotland’s best-known native expertise together with Tallulah Greive and Lewis Gribben.
Throughout all of the charity’s actions, Unusual City creates top quality work that’s daring and entertaining, tackling topics of significance to younger individuals’s lives, corresponding to consent, knife crime and local weather change anxiousness.
The organisation excursions native colleges with academic performances that spark dialogue, debate and sometimes supplies native younger individuals with their first expertise of a theatrical efficiency.
This week the charity’s Younger Firm (18-25) returns to the Scottish Storytelling Centre after their bought out reveals there final yr. ‘The Darkish Up Shut’ by native author Jack MacGregor has been specifically commissioned for Unusual City’s Younger Firm.
Open to everybody age 12+ the play will run for 2 nights Wednesday twenty sixth and Thursday twenty seventh March.
‘Two youngsters digging graves, an island stuffed with conscripts and puffins, the weapons are silent on the eve of World Warfare III.
‘These are scenes from a close to future Britain, a rustic in disaster, with nationwide service reinstated for all younger individuals. The previous world is dying, and the brand new world has been delayed indefinitely.’
Venue: The Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 Excessive Road, EH1 1SR
Occasions: 7.30pm (1 hour)
Tickets Costs: £12 / £10
Ticket Hyperlink: https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5893/
Arts actions enrich lives, however organisations corresponding to Unusual City are critically under-funded, and the longer term is unsure. Unusual City depends on its fundraising actions to ship absolutely accessible actions for native younger individuals.
Funders embrace the Backstage Belief, the Garfield Weston Basis, the Cordis Belief, Crerar Belief and others.
The charity additionally runs the 15for15 fundraising initiative the place native individuals can donate month-to-month to assist their life-changing work.
Extra particulars right here https://strangetown.org.uk/about-us/donations-info-page/
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