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Global Feast

Digital Drama are delighted to have been commissioned for a second year by Global Arts Kingston to produce their programme for the Kinston Connections festival.

Global Feast is an oral history project which focuses on bringing to life the heritage of Kingston’s Tamil, Chinese, Korean, Gujarati, Punjabi and Afro-Caribbean communities through food. It will explore recipes, dishes and feasts brought to Kingston by members of these communities and their relatives and ancestors as they made Kingston their home and brought the flavours, tastes and smells of their homeland with them. It will provide opportunities for cultures from different communities to compare how recipes were handed down to them and explore the regional and family variations in their meals and feasts or celebrations. The theme of food will provide a focal point for the exploration of a much wider heritage around cultural identity.

Global Feast will be part of Kingston Connections, 21-29 June 2014 at The Rose Theatre and will also be featured on the Global Arts Kingston website.

Global Feast is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Awards for All

By Kate Valentine|2015-01-15T17:27:20+00:0022 April 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Unearthing Family Treasures from the First World War

Call to Action!

Help the Rose Theatre unearth Kingston’s treasures from the First World War

Do you have family memorabilia to share from the First World War? The Rose Theatre are looking to borrow treasures, photographs and documents for a major exhibition to mark this important centenary.

We are interested in life on the home front as well as on the battle field and are keen to represent all the communities of Kingston.

Images, artefacts and recorded memories will conjure up Kingston during the First World War in this interactive audio trail at the Rose Theatre in September 2014.

Writings and diaries from local Nobel playwright and campaigner John Galsworthy will be supported with voices and memories of the community; from the home front and battlefield. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and created by Digital Drama, this major exhibition will evoke the sounds and sacrifice of a generation steeped in war.

If you have family memorabilia from the First World War and can help us in our call to action, please click on the ‘Get Involved’ button below to give us your details or email alisonramsey@digitaldrama.org or call on 077525205148

Deadline for contributions: March 28th 2014

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By Kate Valentine|2015-01-15T17:27:49+00:006 January 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

How To Be A Heroine – Acclaimed new book from playwright Samantha Ellis

Playwright Samantha Ellis has received great literary acclaim for her new book ‘How To Be A Heroine; Or, what I learned from reading too much’, published by Random House.

Digital Drama are delighted for Samantha and excited to be working with her on our forthcoming film ‘Liberation’. The drama tells the true story of young Marcel, taken in by a glamorous Folies Bergere dancer when his parents are interned in wartime Paris.

Random House

Guardian Review

Literary Review

By Kate Valentine|2015-01-15T17:28:22+00:006 January 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front Exhibition 2014

In September 2014, Digital Drama will be producing an audio visual exhibition for The Rose Theatre, Kingston to mark the centenary of the First World War.

The project will focus on the campaigning work of local writer and Nobel prize winner John Galsworthy, known best for the trilogy The Forsyte Saga. The author’s letters, poems and journals have never before been exhibited in his home town and will be on loan from the archives of Birmingham University. The collection will be displayed at the theatre alongside local memorabilia and recorded family stories from the home front in Kingston.

Digital Drama are recruiting a team of local volunteers to help with this exciting project, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Volunteers will be researching and recording local memories, finding artefacts and delving into the archives of Kingston during the First World War. We are recruiting volunteers from across the Borough of Kingston who have strong interest in local history, ability to work in a team and are available for a few hours a week between January and May 2014. Training will be given in archiving and recording skills and volunteers will be based at The Rose Theatre and Kingston’s Local History Room.

If you are interested in applying for the volunteer team, please click the link below and complete the online form.

Deadline for application 7th February 2014.

Volunteer Application Form

By Kate Valentine|2015-01-15T17:28:49+00:003 December 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Call to Action…Get Involved! The Bath Road Project

Holborn – Westminster – Kensington – Hammersmith – Chiswick – Osterley – Hounslow – Slough – Maidenhead – Twyford – Reading – Woolhampton – Newbury – Hungerford – Marlborough – Calne – Chippenham – Bath – Bristol – Avonmouth

Stretching from the City of London to Avonmouth, the Bath Road is an ancient route connecting 130 miles of vibrant communities. Once the artery of the south, transferring news from London to the fashionable town of Bath and onto mercantile Bristol, the Bath Road has a rich heritage of people living, working and travelling along its trajectory.

Digital Drama is looking for artists, playwrights, animators, actors, filmmakers, poets and anyone with a passion for the past and how it plays a part in our present…to get involved!

This project celebrates the heritage of the Bath Road and compares the experiences of previous generations with those of communities now. Drama, documentary, poetry and animation, blogs and images, reflecting this living heritage, will be shared online in a series of satellite projects, created by local residents and curated by local artists and historians. An interactive map will represent the villages, towns and cities along the route.

Drama:

Commissioning local writers, The Bath Road Project will create a series of online audio dramas based on the heritage of the mail coach era – whisking correspondence and travellers from Holborn to Bristol in a record fourteen hours. Performed in the communities by local actors, the plays will form a dramatic trail of this great road.

Documentary:

A series of oral history programmes, collating the experiences and images of the people of the Bath Road will focus on the heritage of living, learning, working and entertainment.

From Roman lay lines, to highwaymen, turnpikes and coaching inns, key themes picked up in literature and historical reportage will be brought together for the first time in one online space to be shared with the rest of the world.

Web Space for the Project

The Bath Road Project will exist online; a project web space for the diverse communities along the road to share their drama, documentaries and experiences. Contributors will be able to upload their own images and videos and comments.

Publishing the Project

The Bath Road Project will be collated into a printed resource, with accompanying CD for the drama, images and selection of videos. This resource will be distributed to all the schools, libraries and participating community groups along the Bath Road.

Touring Exhibition of the Project

Highlights from the project will be displayed in a touring exhibition, complete with QR codes for downloading of the drama and documentaries on tablets and mobiles. The exhibition will tour the length of the Bath Road, hosted by libraries, schools and community centres.

Producers:

The Bath Road Project will be produced by Digital Drama and include specialists in the fields of audio drama, oral history, documentary, community training and project facilitation and publishing.

Digital Drama specialises in connecting people through creative projects and has previously produced the Kingston Market Place Heritage Project, Global Stories series of oral history films and is currently working on several projects to mark the First World War Centenary.

Project Partners:

Digital Drama and the Bath Road Project will draw on the expertise of twenty museums and cultural centres, working with their community and education departments to involve people of all ages and backgrounds.

Local businesses, places of interest, schools and colleges will contribute to the content of the programmes made and uploaded to the shared project website. Local authorities and national organisations will feature the links to the website, celebrating the life stories, points of interest and journeys of its residents and visitors.

How to get involved:

Digital Drama are currently taking expressions of interest for involvement in The Bath Road Project. If you, or your organisation, would like to contribute and be part of building this ambitious project, please leave us your details and a short description of your main activity and ways in which you would like to be involved.

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By Kate Valentine|2016-05-04T20:06:40+00:0020 October 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments