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This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
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Status: Director
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Ryan Mellish and Martin Malcolm (directors) set up Critical Moment CIC to help communities tell their stories and to provide short paid commissions to the community of freelance theatre artists. In our first year, we have raised over £6,000 in arts funding (from The Mayor of London's Make London fund and the Arnold Clark Community Fund) to do this, as well as funding from NHS Somerset.We have worked with the following volunteer and community groups to deliver our Speaking Stones project in Crystal Palace (a digital map of talking, singing artworks, showcasing stories written by local people and performed by professional actors): The Paxton Centre, Palace Acappella Community Choir, Legacy Youth Zone and local heritage charity The Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Community benefits: local people, young and old came to our writing workshops and also joined with the community choir. Our launch events for our digital map were completely booked out and enthusiastically attended by the local community. Our map is permanently available online as an encouragement for families to enjoy a free day out and about in the area, finding and listening to our audio clips. On its launch, it received over 800 views in the first seven days and the number of visitors continues to climb every time the sun comes out.We also produced Open Door, a live Zoom performance during lockdown funded by NHS Somerset. This was a short play and follow-up discussion about gay civil rights, for LGBTQ+ History Month and for an audience (mainly) of Somerset NHS workers and their LGBTQ+ Network.Community benefits: our performance was well-attended and well-received at time (during lockdown) when no other events for LGBTQ+ History Month were scheduled anywhere else in Somerset. We have gone on to develop plans for other performances with the Somerset NHS LGBTQ+ Network.We produced 5 days of funded R&D workshops for a new musical Supernovas for Super Loners (about the mental health crisis) and for a new play Red Rain (about the struggle for gay identity in rural settings). We received in-kind support for some of this work from Theatre Deli, which exists to serve the community of theatre freelancers we also seek to work with.Community benefits: we are developing productions which will address significant issues of mental health and gay identity for future audiences. But we have also directly benefitted the freelance actors, designers, photographers, writers and musicians we engaged for these R&D days, who were all paid at industry rates for their work. This was particularly important during the pandemic when theatres were closed and other support for theatre freelancers was sadly lacking. Our R&D gigs provided funding and a ray of hope for struggling artists to help keep their careers alive during hard times.In our first year, through Speaking Stones, Open Door and our R&D projects, we have provided 40 paid gigs to the community of freelance theatre professionals we aim to support. We have worked with five community organisations and directly with around 70 community volunteers and stakeholders (through our workshops and community choir).
Stakeholders include our Speaking Stones writing workshop writers. They gave us written feedback on our workshops (via a questionnaire) and we have used this feedback to help us plan even more responsive workshops for the coming year. We also worked closely with stakeholders Palace Acappella Choir and the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs to plan Speaking Stones. We were guided by their advice and feedback, as well as that of The Paxton Centre in running our project: all these organisations have contributed closely to the shaping of our work and we are actively engaged in discussions with them about producing future work.We have also received feedback from our community audience for Speaking Stones, via our social media. This includes, for example, suggestions for how to reach different parts of the community (feedback which was invaluable to us) and individual comments such as: 'I love the intention underpinning 'giving a voice to the art on your street', and the dinosaurs, and the wonderful community of Penge. Thank you for your work. I am so moved by what you are doing. Can't always get to things because of carer responsibilities-will do one day and love seeing what you do on twitter! PS we need what you are doing more than ever!' Speaking Stones aims to encourage the people of Crystal Palace and Penge to explore their neighbourhood and also to bring the outside in for people who can't get out and about. The above quote sums up how successful we have been in meeting those aims.For Open Door, we held a live Zoom Q&A with our audience after the play for feedback. And we have made plans since with stakeholders the Somerset NHS LGBTQ+ Network, to develop ideas that came out of this Q&A for a follow-up event next year.For our R&D work, we worked closely in rehearsal and discussion with our stakeholders in the freelance theatre-making community. We talked and listened to writers, actors, musicians and other theatre freelancers as they helped us revise, rework and develop the musical and play we are preparing. These were ongoing in-the-room conversations on the process of theatre-making.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
4 April 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Mr Ryan Mellish
Status: Director