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Living History – Heritage and Performance
Estate Endz: Spring Season 2023
'Our Views From Kensal'
Make a film that the BFI will screen!
Estate Endz is a free, award winning program for 13-25 year old that has been featured on BBC, ITV and in the national press. This installment of Estate Endz called 'Our Views From Kensal' starts March 18th 2023 (12 weeks, every Saturday, 12 noon till 5 pm). For group bookings/questions please contact Eeshita Azad at eeshita@spidtheatre.com and for individual booking the registration link HERE
Young people will interview residents, perform poems about the estate and create a film that is screened at the BFI. Participants will get travel expenses covered , accreditation, and free lunch- and benefit from trips, prizes and creative skills. They will learn accredited skills in film making, performance poetry, acting, oral history, artistic activism and architecture. Sessions Dates are: March 18, 25 April 1, 13,14,15, 22, 29 May 6,13,20, 27.
Programme Overview: Estate Endz
Estate Endz is part of SPID Theatre’s Living History program, which teaches young people aged 13-25 London wide about social housing’s heritage. It dramatises the memories of social-housing residents, as well as the rich social, cultural and architectural heritage of social housing in the area. We give young people the chance to create, research and perform their own work in collaboration with professional creatives and oral history experts from the British Library.
Every Estate Endz project is different. In the past our young people have shot films, curated exhibitions, performed immersive drama pieces and written radio plays exploring the history around them. Previous partners for these projects have included the National Archives, DTA Radio, The Museum of Brands and the Bush Theatre.
Alongside Estate Endz, SPID’s Living History programme also includes Step Up, which provides professional opportunities to champion housing justice by using art for advocacy. Current or former participants in SPID’s other programmes are often given the opportunity to take part in Step Up, which can involve paid opportunities.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us by emailing youth@spidtheatre.com
“It was great to see our local community’s voice being heard – 5/5”
Audience Member, Trellick Tower
“I cherish the new knowledge I learned”
Young person fighting rent poverty
“Facilitators showed strong interest, unlike teachers”
Young person excluded from school
“I loved everything, I was so in it!”
Young estate resident