Working with ‘Lights Up’ memory group to produce a video
about their club. Lights Up - Living well with dementia through the arts.
Lights Up is a partnership of organizations co-ordinated by West Oxfordshire
District Council. The final film was shown at The Theatre, Chipping Norton on 12th April.
Partnership and further information see links below:
Creative Dementia Arts Network
Hospital Radio Cherwell
Lights Up - Living well with dementia through the arts. The Chipping Norton Memory Club remember a time in post-war Britain before computers, when Buddy Holly was in the charts and you had to find a payphone to call a friend. The Lights Up group using their memories develop an improvised radio drama. Where they find themselves stuck, at Chipping Norton train station. The year is 1957 and a small landslide followed by sheep on the track. Causes the train from Banbury to Wales to run 1 hour late.
Hospital Radio Cherwell
Tuning in
with
Lights Up - Radio drama
Hear Radio Drama made with Lights Up group
A Very Strange JourneyLights Up - Living well with dementia through the arts. The Chipping Norton Memory Club remember a time in post-war Britain before computers, when Buddy Holly was in the charts and you had to find a payphone to call a friend. The Lights Up group using their memories develop an improvised radio drama. Where they find themselves stuck, at Chipping Norton train station. The year is 1957 and a small landslide followed by sheep on the track. Causes the train from Banbury to Wales to run 1 hour late.
Broadcast Wednesday evenings throughout
December 2013 at 10pm as part of
The Midweek Theatre on Hospital Radio Cherwell
Broadcast the week of the 23rd December on Witney Radio
2014 the drama broadcast on:
Preston Hospital Radio
Banbury Live - Community Radio
Newspaper write ups:
Sharon Woodward (workshop artists)
The
best improvised line ever, I thought I was going to have to be physically
removed from the room. After the Spy leaves the
briefcase in the WC and the Police Officer becomes suspicious, the line is
uttered, “Watch that man carefully and make sure he doesn’t go to the
toilet”.