The Club on the Edge of Town
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'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what I believe.'
A deeply moving memoir of how a group of artists fed their local community during the Covid pandemic.
When crisis hits, and audiences stay home, what's the most useful thing a theatre company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop-help-shop for those in need. In fifteen months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels.
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Alan Lane is Artistic Director of Slung Low, an award-winning theatre company based in the oldest surviving working men's club in the UK. Slung Low specialise in making large scale productions in non-theatre spaces with community performers at their heart. During the Covid crisis, the company was the ward lead for social care referrals in Holbeck and Beeston, nearly 8000 homes in South Leeds. They ran a non-means tested self-referral food bank from March 2020 to June 2021. Lane was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to South Leeds during the crisis.
Content
- FRONT COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- NO ONE GETS TO STOP OTHER FOLK GETTING WHAT THEY WANT
- TERMS OF REFERENCE: AN INTRODUCTION
- THE CLUB ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
- THE CURSE OF RICHARD CURTIS
- BIG NIGHT IN
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- NEW PARTNERS
- A BLUE PLAQUE
- WHAT WE BELIEVE
- BLUE ON BLUE PLAQUE
- WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
- FINGERNAILS IN THE CAR PARK
- A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF 130 WHITE MEN
- A POWER GRAB SHUT DOWN
- LETTER TO OUR 200 NEIGHBOURS
- INVITATION TO CARE
- THE FOODBANK IN HOLBECK
- YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A SYSTEM
- STRANGERS IN THE ATTIC
- GIVE US YOUR FOOD
- CALL ME, TEXT ME, MISSED CALL ME
- THE OTHER ADAM SMITH
- BE USEFUL, BE KIND
- BEER GARDENS IN CAR PARKS
- HOLY JESTERS
- LADYLIKE WORK PLACE
- AN ART GALLERY ON THE LAMP POSTS
- SNOOKERED
- INGRAM ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL
- MANNA FROM MECCA
- CORPORATE GREED SOCIAL FEEDING
- TELLING STORIES
- TELL ME THIS BEFORE YOU EAT
- PETE
- SEX WORKER MANAGED AREA
- MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND
- MORE PETE
- ERIC AND LEANING IN
- A CHIP ON MY SHOULDER AS BIG AS A PIANO
- HIGH QUALITY CCTV: PETE'S CONCLUSION
- SIDE BEFORE SELF EVERY TIME
- FOOTBALL FANS AND TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS
- HOW DID OUR NAME GET IN THEIR MOUTH?
- WHY DOES A THEATRE COMPANY RUN A FOODBANK?
- YOU CAN BET
- I DON'T WANT A LOT FOR CHRISTMAS
- WHAT'S THE HARDEST THING ABOUT IT ALL?
- KEEPING OUR PROMISE
- WE ARE ALL POWERFUL
- THANKS
