MORTAL FOOLS' COVID-19 STATEMENT:
Monday 23rd March
As this new week dawns, we all begin to create something of a new normal. Here at Mortal Fools, we’ve spent the last week trying to figure all this out, deal with the most pressing things to do and get creative about how we’ll be working for the foreseeable future.
Mortal Fools mission is to support people to build more positive inter-personal relationships with one another – and to do that using theatre and drama-based activities. Suddenly, we’re living in a world where we’re required to socially distance from one another, so how do we fulfil our mission in these new circumstances?
Here’s what we’re promising:
Promise 1: Even though we’ve had to cancel our group sessions – we’re going to create and share brilliant online activities for children and young people – with the support of some of our magnificent young people.
Promise 2: We will create a new digital offer to support businesses of all shapes and sizes to weather this storm – including ways to run great online meetings, being confident in leading online sessions and supporting the good mental health of your staff remotely.
Promise 3: We have around 20 associate freelance artists and facilitators who work with us – we will honour their existing contracts, paying them for cancelled sessions.
Promise 4: We will not sell our freelance associate team up the river. We will support them by sharing resources, including creating new paid work for them during this shutdown period.
Promise 5: We will rally the support of our wide Mortal Fools community during this unprecedented time – to give their time, expertise and money to help us weather this storm.
Promise 6: We will never give up.
For the foreseeable future our other work behind the scenes will continue as normally as possible. We’re dealing with the here and now as well as continuing ambitious planning for the future. In line with government advice, we’re working from home for the foreseeable future but we’d love to hear from you.
Take care and stay safe.
Kiz (Artistic Director & CEO) and the whole Mortal Fools Team
As this new week dawns, we all begin to create something of a new normal. Here at Mortal Fools, we’ve spent the last week trying to figure all this out, deal with the most pressing things to do and get creative about how we’ll be working for the foreseeable future.
Mortal Fools mission is to support people to build more positive inter-personal relationships with one another – and to do that using theatre and drama-based activities. Suddenly, we’re living in a world where we’re required to socially distance from one another, so how do we fulfil our mission in these new circumstances?
Here’s what we’re promising:
Promise 1: Even though we’ve had to cancel our group sessions – we’re going to create and share brilliant online activities for children and young people – with the support of some of our magnificent young people.
Promise 2: We will create a new digital offer to support businesses of all shapes and sizes to weather this storm – including ways to run great online meetings, being confident in leading online sessions and supporting the good mental health of your staff remotely.
Promise 3: We have around 20 associate freelance artists and facilitators who work with us – we will honour their existing contracts, paying them for cancelled sessions.
Promise 4: We will not sell our freelance associate team up the river. We will support them by sharing resources, including creating new paid work for them during this shutdown period.
Promise 5: We will rally the support of our wide Mortal Fools community during this unprecedented time – to give their time, expertise and money to help us weather this storm.
Promise 6: We will never give up.
For the foreseeable future our other work behind the scenes will continue as normally as possible. We’re dealing with the here and now as well as continuing ambitious planning for the future. In line with government advice, we’re working from home for the foreseeable future but we’d love to hear from you.
Take care and stay safe.
Kiz (Artistic Director & CEO) and the whole Mortal Fools Team
We create compelling, dynamic and high-quality theatre by professional artists working as co-creators with young people and communities; helping people connect, have fun, learn and grow together. Our work is collaborative and contemporary, pushing the boundaries of spacial configuration, audience interaction and design.
We are passionate about the arts and know that, when used well, they have the power to change and enrich lives.
We are passionate about the arts and know that, when used well, they have the power to change and enrich lives.
