FREEDOM FESTIVAL 2024
Creative Participation
We develop and commission programmes that embed local people in internationally significant work.
We aim to encourage and engage predominantly children and young people from hard-to-reach communities in the arts through participatory projects.
These provide memorable experiences and a chance to be a part of something extraordinary. The aim is to help foster individual wellbeing, build confidence and to create stronger, more cohesive communities.
Our Engagement Producer, Katie Atkins, has put together a special Case Study detailing just what went into the development and the impact it's had on the young people involved.
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The show’s finale included a team of young people from East Hull, who trained with the company in the run-up to its performance.
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Mammalian Diving Reflex returned in 2019 to offer a new participation project, this time working with teenagers, and addressed what happens when youth rule the roost.
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Westcott Primary School hosted a Q&A with Luke Jerram and explored the ongoing climate crisis in a whole series of their lessons with their teachers, which the Broken Orchestra then edited together into a podcast.
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A group of children are given a crash course in hairdressing and run a salon, offering free haircuts to the public.
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A collection of cacophonous performances out on the city streets collided into a life-affirming grand finale in Queen Victoria Square, getting audiences on their feet and dancing.
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A collection of cacophonous performances out on the city streets collided into a life-affirming grand finale in Queen Victoria Square, getting audiences on their feet and dancing.
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A collection of cacophonous performances out on the city streets collided into a life-affirming grand finale in Queen Victoria Square, getting audiences on their feet and dancing.
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Young musicians had the opportunity to perform percussion and rhythms alongside professional players, including Arun Ghosh.
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Experienced dancers and people who had never performed before came together for a performance inspired by 21st century mass protest.
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Read the case study on projects On Our Doorsteps and NEST, featured at the 2024 festival.
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You'll all recognise them in their iconic blue coats by now, but how do our HEY! Volunteers express themselves in their every day lives?
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Each participant experienced The Vigil alone and had their own unique experience, but every one shared their thoughts and feelings – which have been collated to tell the story of the performance in Hull.
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For Freedom Festival 2020, we invited audience members to have their portrait drawn by Kaleider’s non-learning AI.
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RISE took an international, large-scale production and rooted it in the city of Hull, opening their creative process to almost 200 local people.
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The Invisible City was a brand new, UK premiere of an interactive audio installation for the streets.
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This volunteer-led free feast encouraged strangers to come together to meet, talk and eat.
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The Print Shop responded to our desire to engage people in the process of developing their own voice, done in this project through protest slogans.
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While Having Soup welcomed members of the public to a free “three course dialogue” experience provoking philosophical conversations.
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A celebration of life, love, romance and sex – All the Sex I’ve Ever Had is a reminder to us all that life doesn’t end once you get older.
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