Now and Then

‘Now and Then’ was an intergenerational performance based project in partnership with Suffolk Artlink, with residents from the Mary Warner Homes (almshouses) in Boyton and the children of Hollesley Primary School. It got off to a joyful start in July when the school children bicycled over to Boyton and sang and played their trumpets to the residents and where they all enjoyed getting to know each other. Workshops and sharing sessions took place throughout the year in which the participants worked with Beeja Indian dance company, Suffolk stepdancers, and with poet Dean Parkin from the Poetry Trust. This culminated in two public performances on 12 February in Hollesley Village Hall in which the young, the old performed their own poems, danced and sang and took part in a dramatised version of Cape of Rushes (an East Anglian version of Cinderella). They were joined by the stepdancers, traditional singers, Beeja dance company and artists from Wonderful Beast .