Name: I Dig Canals: Tipton
Start: 2022-11-22T19:30:00Z
End: 2022-11-22T21:30:00Z
Location: Tipton Green Methodist Church Hall

I Dig Canals: Tipton

Sharing the stories of ordinary extraordinary women through theatre, poetry, music and song.At the moment, like every other theatre company we're at home working things out via Zoom calls!We're offering online writing workshops with the waterways as the focus and working on more audio and video material to share online.You can see more about our work, and our podcasts, books and short films on our websitewww.alarumtheatre.co.uk

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Stand by for winching and rocking, pulling and sweating, bucket-hoists of mud and canal-clearing clobber.

Tipton Green Methodist Church Hall

It’s 1970, and we’re off to a rally of boats on the Staffordshire &amp; Worcestershire Canal. On the way we’ll meet Sheila and Josie, Tina and Jean as they put on their sturdy boots and roll up their sleeves. Women labouring, cooking, boating, organising… united by a common cause - to save the Black Country waterways. Written and performed by Kate Saffin and Heather Wastie, I Dig Canals is a new show from Alarum Productions based on the oral histories of the women who campaigned to save the canals of the Black Country during the 1960s and 70s combining theatre, storytelling, poetry and music.“It is rich with detail, conveys the grittiness and romance of life on the canals and gives the women involved a great way of capturing and sharing their memories.” Traci Dix-Williams, Chief Executive - Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust“I Dig Canals is a wonderful evocation and celebration of the vital part that women volunteers played in the saving and restoring the canals of the Black Country and the wider network.” Keith Hodgkins, Chairman, Tipton Civic SocietyIn 2020 we were Highly Commended in the Women’s History Network Community History Prize for this project.This performance is hosted by <a href="http://www.tiptoncivicsociety.co" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tipton Civic Society</a>

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