Join Company Three for their 'Making Theatre with Young People' training hosted by Mortal Fools9/12/2023 We are delighted to be hosting our friends and project partners – the award-winning Company Three for a practice development workshop across two days on 1st & 2nd November. This high quality and impactful training called ‘Making Theatre with Young People’ is for folks working with young people to create and co-create creative and performance-based content.
Company Three are united on a mission to give teenagers the power to tell their own stories and create their own change. They do this as a theatre company of professional theatre makers and led by the ideas of 75 young people aged 11-19. Their approach to co-creation and using youth theatre a vehicle for social change, personal growth and as a place of community, has long been a source of inspiration to us at Mortal Fools and influenced our practice. Some members of our team have attended this training before and found it impactful, game changing and a must for theatre makers and folks making performance work with young people. We thoroughly recommend this course, and we are very excited to be bringing it to the North East. Making Theatre with Young People - Company Three About: Led by Company Three's Artistic Director, Ned Glasier, this 2-day course will give you an overview of how they make plays with young people. Company Three will share how they create a space in which young people feel safe to express themselves and a step-by-step guide to turning their ideas and material into a finished play. Course times: Two days – 1st & 2nd November, 10am – 5pm Cost: It is £175 per person to attend this two-day course. The course has been subsidised by Mortal Fools and would normally be £250 per person to attend or thousands if commission the training directly for an organisation. Location: At YMCA Northumberland, North View, Ashington NE63 9XQ Venue has changing facilities, disabled toilet, vending machine, and on-site car park. If on site car parking is full – there is free car parking close by. To familiarise yourself with the venue, facilities, and locations – head to YMCA Northumberland website: https://ymcanorthumberland.org.uk/ Who is the Making Theatre with Young People course for? Theatre-makers, artists, choreographers, musicians, teachers, youth workers, writers, producers, and anyone who is interested in meaningful artistic collaboration with young people. How much experience do I need? The course works best when there are people with a wide mix of experience in the room - from beginners to those who have been doing it for years. Access: It is Company Three and Mortal Fools’ responsibility to make this course and venue accessible so that everyone can participate in it. Please contact us via: katej@mortalfools.org.uk with your access needs prior to booking and if appropriate we will follow up with more information/opportunity to chat to the team. There will be a note taker at the event recording contributions across the two days – notes will be shared after the session. Attendees will receive a pre-course email with information about the days and what to expect. About Company Three: You can find out more about Company Three via their website: www.companythree.co.uk How to book or express interest: To book and/or to request more information email Team Mortal Fools via: katej@mortalfools.org.uk We have limited places available on this course and it will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Once you’re booked on – Mortal Fools will raise an invoice for payment for £175 which will be payable ahead of attending, and only payment of invoice officially confirms your place.
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MELVA: An Investment in Children & An ESG Opportunity for Businesses & Socially Engaged Leaders7/7/2023 Children’s charity Mortal Fools, believe businesses must go further and faster, to build a better world for the future and unlock crucial, urgent support for children and young people in our communities. With Public Health England estimating 1/6 children have a diagnosable mental health condition, it has never been more important to find new ways to support young people; MELVA is an award-winning practical, revolutionary way to do just that and businesses and/or leaders can gift the full MELVA digital package to a setting of their choice. MELVA is an innovative, creative, impactful way for organisations and leaders to support children aged 7—11yrs old and a clear way to achieve ESG/CSR objectives; it’s a very tangible, measurable way to demonstrate an investment in children’s wellbeing and communities, development of foundational life skills and their futures. What is Melva? MELVA is a creative digital package supporting KS2 children to talk openly about and better understand their mental health, emotions, and wellbeing. Through MELVA, settings gain access to an online portal, toolbox of resources and suggested framework of delivery, an episodic film, lesson plans, choose your own adventure game, interactive activity booklets and a user guide, full of guidance developed in consultation with teachers. Through MELVA’s structured programme, educators are empowered to hold space effectively and safely for open and positive wellbeing conversations, and it supports RSHE curriculum delivery in a high impact way. Focusing on early intervention, this digital programme scaffolds the development of resilience pathways, positive emotional responses and cultivates a shared understanding of what it means to look after yourself and others. Gift Melva to a setting of your choice Organisations and leaders can join the likes of Muckle & Ryder Architecture in gifting the Melva digital programme to a primary school setting of their choice. For settings, the cost of the programme can be prohibitive in the contemporary landscape of ever-changing budgets, sector cuts alongside increasing children’s needs and worsening mental health. When gifting a Melva package, you are investing in a high impact, wellbeing intervention, that will support children at a developmentally critical age, alongside scaffolding increased resilience and emotional intelligence, so they can thrive as healthy, happy teens and adults (i.e. the future workforce!) You can gift Melva with a setting in mind or Team Mortal Fools can work with you to identify a setting to gift to - we are open to larger scale gifting and multi-purchases. By gifting MELVA and you can help Mortal Fools, reach more children and young people. We also have options for organisations to utilize Melva in various forms to benefit the families of their employees. What’s next?
Download our Melva Information Pack for Businesses and Leaders– it’s full of testimonials from teachers and children, more detail on the MELVA programme and its impact alongside demonstrating how it could connect to ESG objectives and support children in local communities. If you’re a business or leader interested in gifting Melva to a primary school setting you can book an exploratory conversation via: Rachel.Horton@mortalfools.org.uk If you’re curious about the Melva programme and want to explore bringing it into your setting, drop the Melva team an email via: melva@mortalfools.org.uk Download our What’s on Offer At Mortal Fools Resource - get to know Mortal Fools work with children and young people more broadly and engage with Mortal Fools Youth Theatre co-created free digital content! We’ve created a new resource for folks working with children and young people outlining some of the ways you can engage with Mortal Fools’ work in various settings and a one stop shop menu of all our digital on demand resources. You can DOWNLOAD our what’s on offer at Mortal Fools Guide HERE. This is a downloadable guide to what’s on offer at Mortal Fools for youth workers, education professionals, community groups, creative practitioners, parents/carers, home educating families and anyone connected to children and young people aged 7-19years and shares why and how we work in the way we do! There are lots of ways to engage with Mortal Fools but using our resources and digital content, attending our events and referring a young person into one of our youth theatre groups are all great ways to start. This resource sign posts you to ways of making that happen and is hopefully a helpful way of sharing what’s available. At Mortal Fools, we believe access to creative interventions and equitable youth spaces are fundamental to unlocking and enabling happy lives, fruitful futures and dynamic employability. By using the content we’ve created and engaging with our community, we can help you scaffold safe spaces in which young people feel empowered, seen, heard and in which they can be creatively brave.
If you’re working with or supporting young people, we’d love you to join our Mortal Fools community, download and read this resource, enjoy our digital content, use it in your settings, share it and of course, to sign post young people to our work! If you want to reach out to us and connect properly – in the resource we’ve outlined lots of ways you can do that – but you can also, drop us an email and say hello via: info@mortalfools.org.uk |