Sugar Sheds will showcase personal stories

THE untold stories of the people of Inverclyde are to be brought to life by a team of 200 volunteers along with professional artists and performers at an event in Greenock's historic Sugar Sheds.

Site-specific performance White Gold will feature drama, movement, music and aerial performance, inviting the audience to walk through the events and immerse themselves in the experience, part of the 2014 cultural programme.

The multi-art form production is being overseen by Mark Murphy and will feature arts organsations Iron Oxide, All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, Tigerstyle and the Beacon Arts Centre.

Personal stories have been gathered from local people by Inverclyde Community Development Trust, finding memories and anecdotes - old and new - that have affected the lives of the storytellers. The idea is that, echoing their past industrial use, the Sugar Sheds will be a store for stories and a refinery for their production.

"Our team has collected lots of stories over the years, but this was something quite different," said Paul Bristow of Inverclyde Community Development Trust. "White Gold asked us to look at a series of 10 questions, such as 'who do you wish you'd told you loved?', 'which song means most to you and why?' and 'tell us the story of a door you wished you had never opened' and our volunteers sat down with folk to see where those conversations would take us."

Anyone aged 16 years or over can take part by emailing laura@ beaconartscentre.co.uk

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