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Tin Shed Theatre Co The Last Post

Beneficiaries

  • The General Public / Mankind

    The Last Post will be an intergenerational and durational project co-created by the local community, exploring the stories that exist across the city that are linked to the buildings & the famous Night time economy of Ritzys nightclub.

  • Reach of your work

    Through digital & physical engagements

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

Inspired by the company's current home, ‘The Last Post’ is a community creative regeneration and place making project that seeks to interrogate the history of the much loved Post Office and Night Club. Through exhibitions, storytelling and performance.

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BENEFICIARIES REACHED ANNUALLY

2000

City Centre residents and visitors

SIZE OF PROJECT PER ANNUM

£30,000.00

TIMELINE

Sep 2024 - Dec 2025

Activity goals

Through oral and digital storytelling people share their experience and memories of the past.

By seeing their story amplified through creative mediums people have raised social capital and pride

Intergenerational relationships formed through past, present and future imaginings.

Activity Actions

  • An initial digital project launch, a story gathering exercise in person and online.

  • Local artists partner with older people to re-imagine their stories with unique postcard designs.

  • An exhibition of photography of peoples times and experiences

  • A moveable storypod, passport PhotoBooth created and toured around Newport, pop up artist engagments

  • A sharing of work finale

Activity details
GEOGRAPHIC REACH

Wales: Newport

IMPACT REPORTING

Quarterly

March 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UN SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
How we monitor the quality and results of our work

TSTC employ a dedicated evaluation and monitoring team, regularly marking and reporting.

WHO IS ALREADY FUNDING THE PROJECT?

Newport City Homes

Newport City Homes are a local social housing provider and landlords in kind of The Place, Newport.
OTHER PARTNERS

The Cab / Reality Theatre

Local arts and social venue

Our Chartist Heritage

Chartists aimed to improve living and working conditions for all through Parliamentary reform.

Riverfront Theatre

At the heart of the arts and entertainment scene in newport