The World in Our Street

The award-winning NewVic Borderlines is encouraging local people to help make their communities a better place to live…

What makes a community: is it the houses, buildings and street? Is it the families and individuals? How are communities formed and when do they come together?

The World in Our Street is a brand new project from NewVic Borderlines looking at local communities. Funded by Newcastle Partnership and Stoke-onTrent City Council this project brings together young people, students and a host of local people from all over Stokeon-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

From a day at Mitchell High School Fete, using masks and costumes to help local families explore what kind of person they would like to live next door to, to sessions with 400 students at Newcastle College, we’re working with a range of groups to help communities explore the diversity in their own neighbourhood.

As well as looking issues of discrimination, stereotypes and prejudice, their stories will give people the opportunity to appreciate difference and change as nonthreatening, exciting and enhancing, and create a safer community.

From these workshops we will devise a new play to be performed in March 2011.

Be part of it!

We are interviewing groups of people from care homes, residential homes, youth centres, Chesterton Salvation Army, Stoke LGBT network and even bingo clubs! We’re inviting any organised groups to get involved in this project, so why not be part of it?

Contact Charlotte Moulder at cmoulder@newvictheatre.org.uk or call 01782 381368 for more information.