Intergenerational media project with Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Groundwork South West, City College Plymouth, Age Concern and Plymouth Youth Service looking at art and sex and history. Young people worked with artists for eleven days to make this stop motion animation about the effects of love, sex, and everything forever after. www.lustintranslation.org
2005. Effervescent worked over a year with vulnerable children and young people in a town in West Cornwall, creating three performances: in a theatre (Trinity/Dark); in a swimming pool (Trinity/Wish) and in a church (Trinity/Light). The performances were about the fears, aspirations and hopes of a bunch of young people who largely identified themselves as [...]
Creative residency to inspire teachers working with autistic children to take creative risks. Aerial acrobatics, film, underwater choreography, trampoline-dance. More to follow…
Effervescent worked for a month with young bullies and bullied young people, to create a film about violence and loneliness.
Effervescent worked with twelve young people for a month to design and create a celebration event for 120 young people and youth workers at the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth: dancers, underwater theatre performance, mocktails, sculptures, music. More information to follow.
2008 theatre/conference design/training commission for Cornwall Mental Health Promotion an Cornwall Early Intervention Team. More information to follow
Digital media project with Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Groundwork South West, City College Plymouth, Age Concern and Plymouth Youth Service looking at art and sex and history. Young people worked with artists Eloise Malone and Tom Stubbs for ten days to make this short social marketing advert discussing promiscuity.
www.howlongwouldyouwait.com Commissioned by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Groundwork South West, Effervescent designed and lead a two week residential for young adults who had experienced a psychotic episode. The group was challenged to develop a film campaign to raise awareness of psychosis, increase and accelerate referrals to the Early Intervention Team, thereby [...]
Effervescent spent ten weeks working with ten young people not in education employment or training to help them overcome barriers to work, training and achievement through creative processes.
A five week residency for 35 key stage 2 children to help them improve literacy, communication skills and creativity while building self esteem and raising aspirations.
Effervescent spent six months working with a group of 8 young people who were looked after or were young care-leavers.