Latest News from Minerva HQ
Sandbach Young Producers Launches
We are very excited to announce that our first new project of 2021 is now live! Sandbach Young Producers is a project that will help bring young people into the planning and management of the brilliant Sandbach Transport Festival, in partnership with Spare Parts. Check out our blog on the project so far over on our Project Work page.
To get involved or find out more, contact emilyatminerva@gmail.com.
To get involved or find out more, contact emilyatminerva@gmail.com.
Get Creative over the Holidays
We know how tiring all these endless hours of screen time can be while you're home schooling so to help out, were have decided to extend our offline activity to providing a paper copy creative pack to all our Youth Theatre families over the February Half Term. Malpas facilitator Kyle has been working really hard over the past few weeks to get this ready for everyone and you can find out ore over on our Project Work page.
Youth Theatre Update (Back in Lockdown!)
Well, the new year didn't quite start how we intended it, having to go back to our online delivery models once again but we will continue to do what is needed and cross our fingers and toes that we can come back to face to face as soon as possible.
In the meantime, here's an update on what we've been up to:
*Malpas Youth Theatre and Young Actors are continuing to meet weekly to play games, socialise and start working on a new piece of performance for when they come back to face to face.
*Upton YT are straight back into devising for a brand new project where they are writing their own script.
*Sandbach YT are working on a very exciting project involving producing a brand new play 'Is this a Fairytale' by Be a Webster. This is connected to the 'Positive Stories for Negative Times' project.
*Lymm Youth Theatre, one of our brand new groups have hit the ground running with writing a brand new piece of theatre whilst also helping to recruit some new group members.
Lache and Middlewich are taking a break while we remain in the online world but both now have a Waiting List that we encourage anyone who thinks they might want to join us when we come back to physical working to join. You can put your name down right here and be the first to know when we are back up and running.
In the meantime, here's an update on what we've been up to:
*Malpas Youth Theatre and Young Actors are continuing to meet weekly to play games, socialise and start working on a new piece of performance for when they come back to face to face.
*Upton YT are straight back into devising for a brand new project where they are writing their own script.
*Sandbach YT are working on a very exciting project involving producing a brand new play 'Is this a Fairytale' by Be a Webster. This is connected to the 'Positive Stories for Negative Times' project.
*Lymm Youth Theatre, one of our brand new groups have hit the ground running with writing a brand new piece of theatre whilst also helping to recruit some new group members.
Lache and Middlewich are taking a break while we remain in the online world but both now have a Waiting List that we encourage anyone who thinks they might want to join us when we come back to physical working to join. You can put your name down right here and be the first to know when we are back up and running.
Minerva launches Virtual Work Experience
Throughout 2020 we offered a range of virtual work experience placements to Year 10 and Year 12 students and our doors remain open to continue doing this throughout 2021.
If you are a Year 10 student, in Further Education or a Level 5 university student and you have missed out on a work experience placement this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, get in touch and we will organisae a virtual placement for you. There is more info on our Work Experience and Volunteering page and you can get in touch to start a conversation.
If you are a Year 10 student, in Further Education or a Level 5 university student and you have missed out on a work experience placement this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, get in touch and we will organisae a virtual placement for you. There is more info on our Work Experience and Volunteering page and you can get in touch to start a conversation.
New Youth Theatre Case Study
This year, we were grateful to be supported by Sanctuary Housing to run our Lache Youth Theatre group. As part of their support to us, they requested that we send them a case study after the year of funding had completed to help share with them the impact that their funding was having on the young people and the community in Lache. Jude got to work and produced a brilliant write-up of the journey that one of our members has been on since she joined at the start of the pilot project back in September 2018. We loved it so much we thought we'd share it and you can now view it on out Tumblr blog right here.
Anniversary Celebrations!!
To celebrate our 10th Anniversary, Minerva Arts is held our first ever Fundraising Event on the 26th October at Tarvin Community Centre. We were supported excellently by the centre themselves, The Ottomen caterers, the Cestrian Community Players, Natalie Pierce Jones and Will Jones, our lovely former Youth Theatre member who's case study can still be read on our Youth Theatre page. Steph wrote a blog about the celebrations and the opportunity to reflect on the last ten years which can be read on our Tumblr here.
Fundraising
We have recently stepped up our efforts to diversify our revenue streams to support the huge expansion that we have had in 2018. Part of this is starting out in the world of online fundraising. We are now live on shopping platform Easyfundraising and donation platform Local Giving. You can find out more about our fundraising efforts and see how you can get involved and support our work on our brand new Fundraising page right here. We will be instigating several other new initiatives throughout 2019 so watch this space!
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