About Mind The Gap
Mind The Gap is an opportunity for older people to meet and explore the creative arts in the safe surroundings of Salisbury Playhouse. The group meets fortnightly for coffee, conversation and creativity!
Cathedral Flower Festival Craft Workshop
Mind The Gap have been invited to help create a crafty shoal of fish for Salisbury Cathedral’s flower festival in May. Come along to this relaxed session and make a beautiful fish from paper, fabric and other materials for this city-wide community project.
Friday 9 May
Hardy & Eliot Ensemble Devising: Workshop 1
Sam Holland-Bunyan is a theatre director specialising in devised ensemble projects. Her theatre company ‘Hinterland’ generates work that explores attitudes towards ageing. Using the poetry of Thomas Hardy & George Eliot as a jumping off point explore techniques for creating performances.
Friday 23 May
Hardy & Eliot Ensemble Devising: Workshop 2
The second week working with Sam to create an ensemble piece based on the poetry of Thomas Hardy and George Eliot. Please try to attend both sessions if at all possible.
Friday 13 June
Louise Jordan: Resistance, Resilience and Activism
Join local songwriter and performer Louise Jordan to explore how we can respond creatively to heritage events of 2025: the 25th anniversary of Greenham Common’s return to public ownership & the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 when women chose active resistance to Nazi tyranny.
Friday 27 June
Fashion Repairs with Katy England, Salisbury Museum
Work with the team from Salisbury Museum’s Fashioning Our Future project to find out about more about mending and learn to repair your treasured clothes. Bring along a garment to repair or try out different mending techniques using the materials provided.
Please note this workshop will take place at Salisbury Museum, Cathedral Close, Salisbury
Friday 11 July
Folio Theatre: Workshop 1
Folio is a dynamic, female-led new writing theatre company, proudly based in Wiltshire.
Over the summer we are thrilled to be hosting a residency with the company creating work with older people. In this session meet the team and learn more about the project.
Friday 25 July
Folio Theatre: Workshop 2
The second of our workshops with Folio Theatre, exploring writing for performance.
Mind The Gap EXTRA with Folio Theatre
Further Folio Theatre Sessions will take place for free over the summer on Friday 8th August; Friday 15th August; Friday 5th September & Friday 19th September at Salisbury Playhouse from 10.30am - 12 noon.
There will also be a performance opportunity on Wednesday 1st October 1pm at Salisbury Playhouse to celebrate Older People’s Day.
Folio Theatre: To book for these sessions please email takepart@wiltshirecreative.co.uk Places will be limited. It would be beneficial for participants to attend as many sessions as possible, but not essential.
