BESIDE ME: Making theatre with Dads in prison and their children

Activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)

Description

Between March and October 2023 Jess Thorpe led a team from Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre to create BESIDE ME, a project for Dads currently living in HMP Perth and their children. The goal was to co-create a performance that would enable the families to connect, spend quality time and co create something brand new together. Supported by Families Outside and the Scottish Prison Service, BESIDE ME was part family party, part performance and part creative learning project. It was structured around weekly rehearsals held in the social hub (former wood assembly shed) at HMP Perth and culminated in three performances for a public audience. This exchange talk aims to share the key learning and experiences that have emerged from the project and in so doing so examine the power and potential of the arts as a tool to support families separated by incarceration
Period27 Jan 2025
Event titleExchange Talk
Event typePerformance