    2007 saw the fourth and most ambitious production yet from Shrewsbury Heritage Celebrations.
We presented A week of performances, talks and music recalling a turbulent period in Shrewsbury’s history.
Highlights included PLAY THE MAN - a community play, written by Peter Cann and performed by over 100 local actors and musicians at Shrewsbury Castle and a major re-enactment by the Sealed Knot Society in the town and the Quarry.
You can now view Play The Man video clips here and photos here
S.H.C has now been set up as an independent community arts organisation, with a constitution, adopted on January 30th, 2008. Heritage Lottery funding provided the basis of the Celebrations in 2005, 6 and 7.
In 2008 we hope to raise more funding to enable us to contribute to the major celebration of the Charles Darwin bicentenary in Shrewsbury in 2009. If funds are raised, we shall prepare some scenes to be performed in the town on several weekends in 2009, as part of a Darwin Tour.
To this end, we hope to begin workshops in the summer of 2008 and perform a prototype scene during the Heritage Open days in September 2008, in collaboration with SABC Tourism. Advertisements for these will appear here and in the media in April/May 2008. |
