Back in the first lockdown of 2020, we adapted our project The People's Palace of Possibility to take the form of an interactive story of rebellion told through the post. Over six hundred people across the country took part - participants contributed their own thoughts, images and reimaginings of how things could be done differently. These contributions built the foundations...
It is snowy in Sheffield today, making everything very bright and clean-looking. It is crisp and cold. From my window I can see a man exercising in gloves and a hat in his back garden. I hope you managed to have a breather over Christmas and New Year. It has been hard to get into a spirit of a new...
by Jessica Mistry This was my first time being immersed in the world of theatre. It always seemed exciting and different, but I never had much understanding of what was involved creatively or how open it could be. Throughout this experience I have been exposed to the opportunity that comes with theatre, an understanding that there isn’t just one conventional form...
Like many of us across the world, this spring all our plans fell apart. The first national tour of The People’s Palace of Possibility was all booked in and we were preparing to hit the go button. We had a dream team of artists and venues from the Highlands to London lined up. Then – things changed. Unprecedented, tragic for...
In November, The Bare Project hosted The People’s Palace of Possibility at the Gregson Centre in Lancaster as part of the Festival of Social Sciences with Lancaster University. The Palace focused specifically on the notion of ritual, stepping outside of everyday realities and creating visions for the future and welcoming a broad range of citizens including; artists, sociologists, local politicians,...
Schoolchildren have taken to the streets and Extinction Rebellion shut down four major thoroughfares of London for over a week in April. An urgent sense of the need for change has rippled through the political spectrum, and whilst the battle is certainly nowhere near won, perhaps it has, at least, begun....
At a Death Café, people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. There is no agenda, objective or theme – other than death. It is not a grief support group or counselling session, it’s just an opportunity to discuss death, with cake....
This is my fourth trip to the old Woolworths building on the Moor in a few weeks – I went to Horror Souk three times – and upon leaving I realise I’ll be doing the same again over the next week. They’re going to get so sick of me. The building has been transformed once again into a maze of...
Blowing bubbles masquerading as snow, listening to the soft melody of a guitar flowing through the background, and listening to the poetry blooming out of the characters mouths. This is Goodbye Sun and Bear, a beautifully whimsical piece put on by The Bare Project that brings a little extra sunlight into this year’s Fringe....