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What was it like being part of Outcast Youth Theatre in the 1980’s

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For the full interview with Roy contact St Helens Archive Service. https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/article/3… Artist Collective Re-Dock have been working with St Helens Library Service aiming to capture people’s experiences of Creative St Helens 1982-1995. The is part of a wider two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Creative Underground’, coordinated by St Helens Library Service. We are asking people to come forward with contributions and memories that could be contributed to be saved for future generations within the borough collections at St Helens Archive Service.

Some proudest moments from running the Citadel in the 1980’s.

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For the full interview with Paul contact St Helens Archive Service. https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/article/3… Artist Collective Re-Dock have been working with St Helens Library Service aiming to capture people’s experiences of Creative St Helens 1982-1995. The is part of a wider two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Creative Underground’, coordinated by St Helens Library Service. We are asking people to come forward with contributions and memories that could be contributed to be saved for future generations within the borough collections at St Helens Archive Service.

What was ‘Deadfly’ recording studios?

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For the full interview with Dave contact St Helens Archive Service. https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/article/3… Artist Collective Re-Dock have been working with St Helens Library Service aiming to capture people’s experiences of Creative St Helens 1982-1995. The is part of a wider two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Creative Underground’, coordinated by St Helens Library Service. We are asking people to come forward with contributions and memories that could be contributed to be saved for future generations within the borough collections at St Helens Archive Service.

Working at The Citadel when it re-opened in the 1980’s

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For the full interview with Andy contact St Helens Archive Service. https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/article/3… Artist Collective Re-Dock have been working with St Helens Library Service aiming to capture people’s experiences of Creative St Helens 1982-1995. The is part of a wider two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Creative Underground’, coordinated by St Helens Library Service. We are asking people to come forward with contributions and memories that could be contributed to be saved for future generations within the borough collections at St Helens Archive Service.



More Screenings at Lucem House

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Over the past few weeks we hosted 3 screenings of our film ‘Another Country’ created as part of this project, looking at the creative period 1982-1995 and what enabled it to happen.

All the screenings were virtually sold out and there were lively discussions after each screenings often leading towards what needs to be in place for this creative period to happen again.

It was also a really good way for people to make connections, either old friends and colleagues or ones for new possibilities. It reminds me of the power of cinema – these connections would be unlikely to happen if we had just put the film on the internet. We’re planning more public outings of the film for next year.

Community Performance at PARR

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On 2nd April 23, we held our first in a series of community performances at Parr Boxing Club. This was the first outing of the short play with music that the students from St Helens College have been working on with direction from Roger Hill. The play sprung out of ideas from an original screening of The Houghton Project and focused down on celebrating what is amazing about St Helens today.

A key feature of the play is a song composed by some of the students and a dance developed by others that the audience are encouraged to copy and share.

Performing in a boxing club was actually a lot of fun – and the students used the boxing ring as a backdrop to the piece, creating another sense of surrealism

We had a good turn out – lots of families and young children who took advantage of the print workshop we ran in the foyer pre-show. This print making workshop was another opportunity for some of the design students from the college to get hands on experience of delivering workshops in a community setting. Led by their tutor Mark, the session used block printing letters to create fun artwork around the themes of the play.

We also used this an an opportunity to invite the audience to the ‘Amazing Day’ planned for 29th April as well as promoting the wider project showcasing some of the material we’ve already collected.

Borough of Culture Launch

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On Saturday 4th March, we’ll be part of the opening celebrations for St Helens Borough of Culture Year, held at The World of Glass between 10:30am – 3:00pm. We’ll have a stall to show you some of the collected material so far and outline our plans for the year. If you have any memorabilia from 1982-1995 that you would like to add the St Helens Archive, please bring it along, we’ll have a scanner to copy anything so you can keep the original. We’ve love to hear your stories and memories from that time too. Look our for our banner on the mezzanine level and hopefully see you there.