THANKS to local grant funding, a borough-based theatre company is about to offer young people in Thurrock the change to get involved in and online arts project.

As reported on Thurock Nub News in April award-winning theatre company, Rendered Retina, received funding from the by the Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme through its Community Action Fund. Fo support its project ' A Salvaged Thurrock Online'.

The project consists of free workshops for young people aged 14 to 20 who are interested in The Arts. Over the course of five weeks they will have the chance to learn skills in 5 areas of theatre and production including: Scenic Design, Script-Writing, Song-Writing, Object Manipulation and Puppetry.

This will result in an online work-in-progress performance that will be shared to the public. Funded by the Thurrock CVS VSDF Arts, Culture and Heritage Fund. Workshops happen weekly starting on Monday 20 July and you are able to sign up to as many workshops as you like. Check out this link.

"We're extremely excited to be able to offer young people in Thurrock the chance to learn new skills and connect with like-minded people during the current global pandemic. We've got some wonderful people leading these workshops so we encourage as many people as possible to sign up." Tom Mangan, Co-artistic Director, Rendered Retina Theatre Company.

Rendered Retina are a multi-award winning theatre company based in Thurrock who create and tour their own work to festivals across the UK and Europe. They also offer performances and workshops to schools across the South East with a mission to encourage creativity and play through performance. They were recently awarded Best Emerging Company and the International Youth Arts Festival 2019.

Other awards include Best Show at Paris Fringe 2018 and the Creative Award at Prague Fringe 2019.