We've just finished a great day at Gloucester Cathedral - over 100 children from local schools worked together to produce another performance of Down To Earth!
Schools present today were: Horsley Primary, Avening Primary, Bream Primary and The Croft Primary school. Even though the various coloured sweaters stayed separate at the start of the day, it was great to see children from different schools chatting together throughout the day.
Amie (one of our Scene Change Theatre Company facilitators) led the performance as the Arbitrator who demands that a representative group change their ways or have their world taken away. As the group journey to China and a mystical museum of extinct and endangered animals, they realise that they must change the way they live or face extinction themselves. The message is hard hitting, and the challenge clear - however, the reality of cutting back on the 'things' we want, walking instead of driving, turning down the heating and eating less meat is easy to talk about on a day like this. Tomorrow is another day. We hope the challenge sticks as we challenge our own way of living each day.
Many thanks to Sarah Law, Education Officer at the Cathedral for helping us throughout the day - we look forward to our return visit on 30th April.