Between the Mountains & the Sea - Home Education Workshop

The Project

Riff Raff Producing are working with Moray communities to co-create 'Between the Mountains and the Sea' - a large scale outdoor visual theatre production of a brand new folk tale in autumn 2025. We are looking for community groups and individuals to take part in this exciting project - imagine walls of choral sound, magnificent sculptural costumes, illuminated cavalcades of storytellers, fiery effigies and quiet exchanges of words of hope for the future. 

Projects as ambitious as this don't happen quickly! It will take place over two years in three phases, or 'chapters'. The first chapter is where we discover the characters and creatures in our story and we need you to help us create them! 

Come along to this free workshop especially for Home Ed kids and their families, led by musician, Adam Csenki and children's theatre director, Heather Fulton. The workshop will explore themes and create characters inspired by Moray which will be the starting point to create the new folktale and accompanying choral song.

A date for the session is to be confirmed. This registering of interest is your opportunity to let us know which dates suit you best and we'll do our best to accommodate the most participants possible. 

The creative session will last two hours followed by tea/biscuits/chat. Our artists are all PVG checked.

What happens after the workshop?

Our creative team will gather all the amazing ideas from the community groups we've worked with to create a new folk tale. Chapter One will then culminate in an informal, outdoor sharing event at the summer solstice (Fri 21 June) to which all workshop participants and their family and friends are invited. Here you'll have you'll have the chance to meet other project participants and to be amongst the first to hear the brand new tale.

You are also welcome take part in a craft/making workshop on Saturday 15th June, 11-1pm (location TBC) to help create decoration and artwork inspired by the new folktale that will adorn the space for the sharing on Fri 21st June.

Then what?

Chapter Two (funding dependent) would develop the folktale into a shadow play to be performed by community groups/choirs at a winter event in November, and the final chapter would be a large-scale outdoor community production in the autumn of 2025.There will be several opportunities to participate in Chapters Two and Three - this is just the beginning! 

For more information contact community@riffraffproducing.co.uk

Chapter One is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Arts and Culture Fund. We are seeking funding and sponsorship opportunities for Chapters two and three.