Community
We are excited to meet people who live and work in Islington who may not have been to the Almeida before or may not have considered taking part in one of our projects before.
Community Creative Workshops
We are running three community workshops at the Almeida in February 2025.
Inspired by the themes of our 2025 community production, 81 (Life), these creative workshops will offer a space to collaborate, connect, and be creative.
81 (Life) will celebrate Islington’s community through the moments that mark a lifetime. The project will be based on the experiences of the people of our borough, who are born, live, work, love, build families, leave, and are remembered here.
These workshops are the first research stage of our production 81 (Life). A separate taster and recruitment process will be held in March 2025 for those interested in joining the rehearsals and performance, which will take place this summer.
We are looking for people who live, work or study in Islington to be part of a fun rehearsal process, working with a professional team to make and perform in a new play that will be performed at the Almeida this summer.
You don’t need to have any experience to take part. For this project we are looking for community artists who would not identify as working professionally as artists.
We offer a space to come and try something new – and have a bit of fun! You might be interested in writing, acting, singing, movement or dancing.
The three workshops will be led by Almeida Artists, who work professionally in the theatre industry in Movement, Directing, Writing, and Sound.
The community workshops are completely free to take part in.
The Almeida Participation Team are committed to supporting participants with access requirements. If there is anything you would like to let us know that will support you through taking part in the workshops, you can do so by emailing us at participate@almeida.co.uk
The workshops are taking place on the following dates, you can book in for one, two, or all three.
Mon 10 Feb 7-9pm
Sat 15 Feb 1.30pm-4.30pm
Mon 17 Feb 7-9pm
All workshops are scheduled to take place at the Almeida Rehearsal Room, 108 Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 1QN.
Community Play Trilogy
This ambitious trilogy of productions, taking place over three years, will bring together professional creatives, local artists and community performers to explore what it means to live, work, love, pray, celebrate and mourn in Islington through a day, a lifetime, and countless millennia.
The project is being told in three productions 24 (Day), 81 (Life) and 1000 (Millennia).
The first of these productions, 24 (Day), took place in August 2023. The production invited the audience on a riotous road-trip to explore the hidden life of Islington from dawn to dusk. From Arsenal football stands to Rowans bowling alley, we joined seventy-year-old carer Liz as she ran, bowled, danced and crowd surfed around Islington and away from the conversation she needed to have with her grandson. Find out more.
81 (Life) will celebrate Islington’s global diaspora communities through the rituals that mark the rites of passage in a human lifetime, capturing the infinite identities and experiences of people who are born, live, work, love, build families, die, and are remembered in our borough.
1000 (Millennia) will journey deep into our borough’s history and reach far into our future to construct an imaginative, mythic Islington – an origin story for how we got here and a vision for our future.
More information about 81 (Life) and 1000 (Millennia) will be announced soon.
If you want more information about how to get involved, email community@almeida.co.uk or call 0207 288 4917
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