A team of young creatives will be taking over Windermere Jetty Museum with Forge Festival on Sunday.
Forge Festival is a day of original pop-up performance, dance and music created by young people, for young people. Taking place across the entire site of Windemere Jetty Museum, this is a chance to see the culmination of a four-month creative process led by The Knotted Project.
Diverse groups of young people aged 11-25 from across Cumbria have been working with professional artists to develop creative responses to the theme of ‘The Future Fight’.
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The Knotted Project has worked with partner organisations to recruit and support three youth companies formed specially for this project.
These are; TKP Young company, directed by Natalie Morrell and supported by Windermere Jetty Museum, Carer Support South Lakes Young Company directed by Chris Brown with rehearsal space provided by Brewery Arts, and Forge Youth Dance Company directed by Josh Hawkins and supported by Theatre by the Lake.
There is a solo dance piece choreographed and performed by Philomena Dickson, plus spoken word written and recorded by Zane Burkmar.
The festival creative team features film-maker Nick Farrimond, composer and sound designer for live performance Charlotte Barber, Lee Affen providing film composition and sound design, mental health practitioner Sarah Fairweather and Emily Edwards who is an associate practitioner with The Knotted Project.
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These short performances will take place in inspiring outdoor and unusual spaces across the museum throughout the day, starting at 11am.
The festival is free to attend with museum admission. For this festival anyone aged 16-25 years old can access the student admission price of £7, proof of age or a student card must be shown on arrival.
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