Everyday Heroes –
Partnership with New Charter Housing Trust

A three year partnership with the New Charter Housing Trust Group and its Academy in Ashton-under-Lyne designed to explore approaches to creating sustainable cultural change in the neighbourhood, and to break down perceived local barriers between concepts of ‘school’ and ‘community’

The final partnership project was Everyday Heroes– an outdoor site-specific theatre event which took an audience of residents and community members on an evening ‘theatre’ walk around a local Crescent telling the stories of Ashton-under-Lyne’s ‘everyday heroes’. Performed by community members with brass bands, line dancing, disco and a street party vibe, the piece took place in gardens, on top of cars and along the street itself. The event ended with the chance to sing a few favourites on karaoke, before a fire installation, lit by community members, illuminated the sky. The theatre piece was directed by Evie Manning and produced in partnership with Chol Theatre and pa_Boom.

The partnership was supported by a research-based framework developed and delivered in collaboration with Manchester University.