Walk With Amal- Helping a little girl find her new home.

 

The Walk is a non-profit organization, established by Good Chance Theatre, raising awareness and gaining support for refugees. The organisation does this by walking with a 3.5 metre puppet who is 9 years old and called Amal. They’re bringing her to 8 countries from Turkey to the UK holding festivals of music, dance and theatre wherever they go. 

Creating a piece as part of this project has so far been incredibly educational- learning more and more about the struggles that come with the life of a refugee as well as constantly learning more about poetry composition.

Creating a piece of poetry for this event has given me the opportunity to delve deeper into working with abstract physicality expressing each and every word making all of them count. I see this as very important knowing the large number of people must have spoken to ‘Amal’ on her journey and how comforting the words have to be to make her feel comfortable and welcome. 

Although this does come with it’s difficulties as the physicality and poetry require meticulous construction, it is mainly enlightening and a pleasure to be a part of a cause so immensely important, extremely relevant and dreadfully controversial. 

E-mail me when people leave their comments –

You need to be a member of Sheffield Hallam University | Acting & Performance to add comments!

Join Sheffield Hallam University | Acting & Performance

Comments

  • Hi Kira, this is lovely. I'm really pleased that the opportunity to work on the The Walk by Good Chance has had such an impact on you. 😊 Also, I'd love to read your poem! 

  • A really good review, an insight into how the poems made you feel as a stimulus for creating engaging ideas!

  • Very interesting to read and really insightful into how you are doing on the course.

This reply was deleted.

About Blog

What is this page for?

You can use this page to share news. This might including show reviews, personal updates, thought pieces, reflections etc.

Not what you're here for?

Add an event

+ Share an opportunity

First year reflection


Coming here i was already prepared in terms of this module. In college we made websites and shot showreels and headshots, when this module started i really did want to refine my brand and website as i knew there was still much more i could do to…

Read more…
Views: 1
Comments: 0

" A cabbage !"


"feels like fragments of a mosaic" - The Guardian 2019 is a beautiful way fo describing this play.

When me and Mae were first told we would be doing a doulouge together we were really pleased. We know we are reliable and can work well…

Read more…
Views: 4
Comments: 0

Voice actors needed for audio comedy!


Second year screenwriting students need voice cast for their audio narrative series:

Gene B. Hammerfist - Middle aged, cocky and narcissistic (The host of the radio show "Hammerfisted")
 
Clive - The shows producer…
Read more…
Views: 2
Comments: 0

Mankind's Soundboard


We were given an instruction and introduction to Foley sound, the art of creating sound effects using sometimes bizarre methods that actually create rather genuine sounds. A particular example of this bizarreness was to use the crunching of…

Read more…
Views: 3
Comments: 0

bubbles


today we experiemneted with foley sound. This was my  first expereince doing things like this. This morning we learned about how the expererts use different things to create everyday sound. Examples of this includes using hands on a wooden floor…

Read more…
Views: 5
Comments: 1

(I)t came from outer space...


Our newest piece of work was the creation of an audio performance, an audio tour to be specific. The brief was to create one based on the Sheffield ampitheatre that combined actual historical facts as well as some original information, which is…

Read more…
Views: 24
Comments: 1

the discovery


when we first got the task to create an audio work for the amphitheatre I didnt even know it was a place. So when we wnet in our class break i was plaesed to discover its right next to wear i live. When i visisted I made sure to take olots of…

Read more…
Views: 30
Comments: 1