Naked Subculture performing 'A Nightmare on Oldham Street'

ARCHIVE– NAKED SUBCULTURE

Naked Subculture was a collective of ex-homeless and homeless performers and artists working to create new theatre productions and participatory projects with communities

The company developed from a series of drama workshops for Big Issue vendors organised by CAN and the Big Issue in the North in 1999 and was run as a joint project by these two partners.

The company mounted two large-scale productions:

A Nightmare on Oldham Street, Contact Theatre (Manchester) in 2000

Broken Planet, Contact Theatre, Unity Theatre (Liverpool), Merlin Theatre (Sheffield) in 2001

We also performed our Cabaret show at a number of smaller venues and performed as part of 'Urban Skies', a production staged by CAN in the Commonwealth Games' Cultureshock Festival, 2002.

WHAT WE DID

Provided opportunities for those on the margins of society to develop and express their own creativity and to gain access to the arts

Created a supportive environment for individuals' personal, social, educational and career development through the arts

PROJECT AIMS

To create new theatre productions

To provide training and employment for members, enabling them to continue their artistic, personal and vocational development

To develop and run participatory arts work in partnership with other agencies

PROJECTS

Drama workshops at the Big Issue, Oldham Street, Manchester

Drama workshops at Petrus, Rochdale

FUTURE PLANS

Further workshop programmes - watch this space!

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

Skilled arts workers with personal experience of many of the issues faced by our target groups

One-off, fixed term or ongoing workshop programmes in drama (improvisation, mask-work, puppetry), music (drumming, songwriting, guitar) and video work

Advice and assistance on accessing funding for programmes

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