Dash Arts is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge again this year. An amazing way to make people's generous support go even further, The Big Give will match every donation we receive during the campaign week - doubling donations at no extra cost to donors.
Our Big Give campaign opens at midday Tuesday 29 November and closes on Tuesday 6 December.
Last year, thanks to our generous supporters, we raised over £4,000, and we hope to do the same this year.
We are raising money to support participation workshops that will lead to our new production, Public House. The fund will help us to deliver accessible community workshops, including facilitators and BSL specialists. These workshops will take place next year in locations across England.
These workshops will playfully and theatrically explore speaking in public, encouraging and providing the tools and training to enable all participants to “speak up” and support people in enabling change in their communities. From this work, we will then develop and create The Public House, a state-of-the-nation theatre production that will amplify unheard voices, explore Englishness in all its diversity, and bring world-class culture to audiences around the country.
You can donate as little as £1 and donations of any size are extremely valued and welcome! Thank you
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We’re proud to be taking part in this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022 again this year! With your help all donations made via The Big Give website between Tuesday 29 November and Tuesday 6 December will be DOUBLED!
Listen to Our Podcast Episodes exploring Our Public House
In this episode of OffScript, Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton takes us inside the rehearsal room and into the pub, as she introduces the people and ideas behind Our Public House, Dash Arts' new touring theatre production and the culmination of the Albion series.
How can the arts help us to encounter others?
In December 2024, we were part of a fantastic live discussion at the RSA (Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) discussing how the arts can unlock unheard voices. This podcast brings you some highlights from the event with some extra insights and updates from our Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton.
In this special episode Artistic Director, Josephine Burton, catches up with four former speech-making workshop participants across the country on how they are experiencing the election campaign, and analyses our political candidates and the quality of their speechmaking with Alan Finlayson, Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia, and collaborator on our national workshops.
Whilst the country builds up to a general election, we’re in the midst of creating Our Public House, Dash Arts’ state-of-the-nation theatre production. Hear from Artistic Director Josephine Burton and playwright Barney Norris on how our play weaves together the ideas and speeches of over 150 voices from across England and the ever shifting political landscape.
Marie and Josephine chat outside a pub in South London after a week of development and rehearsals at the NTS - intercut with clips from the rehearsal room and questions from the audience
“Take a deep breath in, now think about the future you want” Heidi in Cornwall.
What do you want to change? What do you want politicians to understand?
Join us on the road as we travel the length and breadth of England to hear what people want to change. In communities across Cornwall, Yorkshire, Norfolk, the North West, South East and the Midlands, we’re supporting people to write and deliver speeches on what difference they want to see.
Three years. 80 workshops. One thousand speeches. One pub.
As Our Public House takes its final bow, so too does Albion; our long exploration of who we are as a country, and who we might yet become.
In this closing episode, Josephine reflects on the whole journey: from a tent in a field at Latitude Festival in 2019 to stages across England, from the first hesitant speeches in community halls and prison workshops to songs performed live every night on stage by a cast who made those words their own.