Kate Valentine of Digital Drama has won the Best Multi-Media Producer at the Audio Production Awards 2016. The judges were particularly impressed by our recent audio-visual installation Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut at the London School of Hygiene & Tropic
al Medicine.
Kate is delighted to have won the award for Digital Drama and we thank all our project partners and contributors this year who have enabled us to win this great award.
Digital Drama are honoured to be partnering the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Mustard Club in presenting ‘Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut’ – an installation and dramatic reconstruction in the summer of 2016 to co-inside with Shakespeare 400 and the First World War Centenary.
Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut commemorates the 100th anniversary of the opening of the YMCA Shakespeare Hut on the grounds of the current London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As part of the YMCA’s many huts built for the rest and recreation of serving forces during the First World War, Shakespeare Hut was built to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the playwright’s death, with a particular remit to bring Shakespeare to the troops. The project will collect, record and present the heritage of this forgotten building as well as gathering local family stories of the First World War to preserve and share them with the wider community.
For more information, to share WW1 family memories from the London Borough of Camden and for opportunities to volunteer, please contact Alison Ramsey at alison@digitaldrama.org
Resurrecting the Shakespeare Hut is being made possible by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Image from the YMCA archives.
Digital Drama’s audio installation opens at the Rose Theatre, Kingston today. Designer James Rowlands and team have created the back garden of a Kingston house at the end of WW2, complete with Anderson shelter, veg patch and photos of those who remember the end of the war. Come and listen to the the VE Day memories of local residents as they recall the euphoria of that momentous day in twentieth century history.
The installation is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Big Lottery and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It is free and runs till the 21st of May 2015.
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
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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