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Join Cardboard Citizens and selected artists as they take over Toynbee Hall with an eclectic mix of performances and activities – from local map making, to karaoke singing and more, in response to the themes of home, gentrification and art as social change.
Cardboard Citizens creates theatre with, for and about people who experience homelessness, inequity, or poverty. They use theatre, art and training to empower individuals to make change in their own lives, and in their communities.
The event is informed by an ongoing partnership project as part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Community Programme. Community programme, a collaboration on a community-led installation sited at Angel Alley, the former public accessway that runs from Whitechapel High Street to Gunthorpe Street. The project explores the notion of social interconnectedness, co-operative support and the social ecology of this site.
The partnership is part of Cardboard Citizens’ new strand of local arts programming for Tower Hamlets residents. Over the next three years, they will co-create creative opportunities by, with and for communities across the borough.
For 30 years, Cardboard Citizens has used theatre to transform lives impacted by homelessness. Founded in London’s ‘Cardboard City’ (now the site of the IMAX cinema in Waterloo), they create theatre, art and training with and for people experiencing homelessness, poverty and inequity that explores, interrogates and challenges the injustices that are most alive in our world today.
Cardboard Citizens believes that theatre and art can transform; that it can challenge the individual to grow and ignite a fire in the belly of wider society to change. They create spaces where communities come together to heal, connect, find joy and create new possibilities, delivering workshops and public performances at their base in Whitechapel and in other arts and community settings across the UK.
Whitechapel Gallery and Cardboard Citizens are currently collaborating on a community-led installation sited at Angel Alley, the former public accessway that runs from Whitechapel High Street to Gunthorpe Street. The work will explore the notion of social interconnectedness, co-operative support and the social ecology of this site.
The partnership is part of Cardboard Citizens’ new strand of local arts programming for the residents of Tower Hamlets. Over the next three years, they will co-create creative opportunities and performances by, with and for communities across the borough.
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