Andy Field & Beckie Darlington
Andy Field and Beckie Darlington are artists based in London. They collaborate with young people to create innovative projects that aim to initiate intergenerational dialogue and new, more radical modes of civic participation.
Their work is based in performance but has taken a range of forms, from an underground social-action collective of school children in St Helens to rooftop conversations about the future between adults and children in Cairo, São Paulo and Beijing, and from a local TV news network run entirely by children to a chat show for microbes.
A key strand of their practice involves making work in collaboration with young people with the aim of enabling them to play a meaningful part in the civic discourse of the cities and towns in which they live.
www.andyandbeckie.com
A Rain Walk
A Rain Walk is an interactive audio walk in the rain, intended for adults and families and created remotely with a group of children living in different places - either different towns or cities, different regions or even different countries.The project uses our shared experience of the rain as a way of bringing people together across divisions of geography, nationality, age, economics and culture to explore ideas of ecology, environment, community and home.
Format: Downloadable audio, solo experience
Photo by Jemma Yong
News News News
News News News is a television news show made by children for adults, recorded in front of a studio audience and broadcast live on the internet. It is created in collaboration with ten primary school children from the city where the piece is being presented. The final performance is a site-specific, interactive theatre show for mid-scale theatres. The audience assist the children in gathering some last-minute news for their show, before watching the show itself being filmed and broadcast from a child-size television news studio on stage.
Format: Live in person or online
Photo by Jemma Yong
Reporters Club
The News News News Reporters Club is a five-day project for children to complete in their own homes. It involves them making their own radio news show about the world they can see around them using only a pen and paper and a mobile phone. It is designed as a fun way to empower children to be creative and tell their own stories about the strange moment in time we are all living through.
The project was created by artists Andy Field & Beckie Darlington and is based on their stage show News News News.