Raising The Roof
A page to accompany our Grant Application
Raising The Roof
In partnership with Leap Confronting Conflict, Rose Bruford College Playing ON has been running Raising The Roof for the past 2 years Care experienced young people have developed stories with fictional characters inspired by real life.
These videos give a taste of the engagement work that we have been delivering, and will deliver alongside the fully realised production in future.
You’ll meet Artemis (pictured left), Lewis, Keelan and John, who will be mentors on the programme, and Ashley who is now a Playing ON Associate in Training.
Raising The Roof
The Method
This is an excerpt from a performance event early on in Raising The Roof, due to Covid it was held on zoom.
In this video you will hear some of Lin’s poetic writing, see Ashley’s nuanced and truthful performance of characters co-created in sessions, and experience how we work with participants as Jim Pope invites the audience to co-create one of the characters in the story being told.
Previous Resources
Playing ON has produced 2 short films for use in training social workers and foster carers which will be co-delivered by Leap and Playing ON. Ellie’s story, below speaks directly of some of the issues facing care experienced young people when they apply to higher education. This has informed the direction of the next iteration of the programme.
Our work in Lewisham
Here is some spoken word from the project, the full production was held at Climate Home, as part of the Lewisham Borough of Culture.
Our Drilling Diamonds participants shared their thoughts on the process with a film maker.
Eliezer is joining our Writers Group.
Eliezer is a Lewisham based actor and graduate of the Playing UP course for NEET young people, which Jim set up at NYT. Eli, with a couple of other professional performers, was employed to perform alongside young people in the production.
We have continued to support Eli by employing him on another project, supporting him with audition preparation for drama schools and by introducing him to other organisations in our network including New Horizons, who employed him to star in this short film.