Trestle Fun Palace

Everyone an Artist, Everyone a Scientist

Trestle Arts Base will open its doors as a Fun Palace from 2-5pm on Sunday 4th October.

Together with students and staff from Beaumont School, Marlborough School, young people from the local community, professional artists and scientists, Trestle is hosting an afternoon of creative activities for 11-25 year olds.

As Article 27.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says :

“Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”

In the early 1960s, Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price conceived the Fun Palace as a ‘laboratory of fun’ and ‘a university of the streets’. It was to be a temporary and movable home to the arts and sciences, open and welcoming to all. For all sorts of reasons, wasn’t possible in 1961 and the Fun Palace never came to fruition as a building. The idea however, of a space welcoming and open to all, bringing arts and sciences together, where everyone is an artist and everyone a scientist, remained a GREAT idea.

Co-Director Stella Duffy has written a blog post about the leap from the 1960s idea to now, and explaining how the campaign got going.

On 4 & 5 October 2014 there were 138 local, temporary Fun Palaces across the UK and beyond, made by local people for their own communities, bringing together arts and sciences, free and fun, linked by the digital Fun Palace website – Everyone an Artist, Everyone a Scientist. We welcome many more, from everywhere and anywhere, to join us in 2015 and beyond.

Trestle Fun Palace will be a fantastic opportunity for young people in the local area to come together and take part in the event or just hang out and watch the fun. You can just turn up, it's free! Our cafe will also be open to buy drinks and snacks.

To get in touch call 01727 850950 / email: takingpart@trestle.org.uk / tweet: @trestletheatre
“Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it... Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what’s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.”
(Joan Littlewood & Cedric Price)

www.trestle.org.uk|www.funpalaces.co.uk

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For more information visit http://www.trestle.org.uk/whats-on/trestle-fun-palace/