The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir
The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir by Alan Lane
English | April 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1914228413 | True EPUB | 188 pages | 0.5 MB
English | April 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1914228413 | True EPUB | 188 pages | 0.5 MB
'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That’s what I believe.'
When crisis hits, and audiences stay home, what’s the most useful thing a theatre company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop-help-shop for those in need.
Slung Low specialise in making large scale productions in non-theatre spaces with community performers at their heart. During the Covid crisis, the company was the ward lead for social care referrals in Holbeck and Beeston, nearly 8000 homes in South Leeds. They ran a non-means tested self-referral food bank from March 2020 to June 2021.
In fifteen months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels.