Storyhouse is collaborating with Chester Zoo to create a pioneering new conservation project for teenagers.
The special week-long summer scheme, running from Monday, 31 July, is aimed at 14 to 16-year-olds who will get the chance to consolidate and develop their awareness around the most pressing challenges the Earth faces.
Young people will work with experts from the zoo and Storyhouse in exploratory workshops where they will be helped to establish their knowledge and creative skills and encouraged to use their voices as a force for real change.
They will also produce an original creative response during the sessions which highlights the current climate and ecological crisis.
Sessions, running from 9am to 4pm each day, will either take place at the zoo or at Storyhouse in Hunter Street.
And the week will culminate with a creative sharing at both Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre and Chester Zoo.
Storyhouse has previously teamed up with the world-beating conservation organisation on events and projects including half-term ‘make and take’ activities at The Nest in Bridge Street in autumn 2021 as part of the Chester Designed by Nature project, and a session on Taking Action for Conservation and Sustainability Education at last November’s Storyhouse Climate conference.
Chester Zoo’s conservation team works in six regions around the world, representing some of the planet’s most biodiverse habitats including Africa, Latin America and South East Asia as well as the UK. Its research aims to help in decision making which improves the work it does with animals and plants in its care, influence the sustainability of wild populations and inspire others to join in the zoo’s challenge to protect the living world.
The week-long conservation project costs £170 for Storyhouse Members and £180 for non-members.
For more information or interviews, contact:
Nancy Davies
Marketing and PR Manager
Storyhouse
07886 743531
About Storyhouse
Storyhouse is one of the UK’s foremost cultural centres incorporating a library, theatres and a cinema. It is one of the country’s most successful arts buildings, with more than one million customer visits each year.
The pioneering new library within Storyhouse, where members of the community work alongside city librarians, boasts the longest opening hours of any UK public library and is open every day until 11pm. It runs over 2,000 sessions a year for marginalised communities
The company also runs a highly successful theatre company and the country’s most successful regional open-air theatre, in the city’s Grosvenor Park and Moonlight Flicks open air cinema.
Storyhouse currently holds the official title as the UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre and was the overall national winner in the 2018 Guardian Public Service Awards