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Welcome to our blog space! We have been making theatre with and for our communities since 1972 and our mission will forever be to foster a more connected and equal society. So if you never want to miss a Bubble moment, read on…
'Museum of Me' is touring schools!
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Meet our new Youth Engagement Officer
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It’s Monday morning. I open my inbox and find the usual to do list, meetings to attend and an email from a Fergus Carr. I don’t know Fergus Carr
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“What an amazing experience, I spent my day with the guys from London Bubble Theatre Company as they continue their journey interviewing
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Making theatre intergenerationally is the topic of the day. We began with the From Docks to Desktops roadshow; a participatory exhibition of the
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We gathered in the rehearsal room, about 30 of us. Peth opened and welcomed and then I (Julia Voce, former member and
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Wednesday afternoon was an exciting day for Bubble and its Creative Homes project. Nine women from sheltered accommodations Frank Whymark and Ronald Buckingham shared
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On the agenda was children's play, children playing, children in plays, any which way you want to mash up those words! The
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How does participating in creative activities affect the wellbeing of young people? “It gave me something to look forward to doing when
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Having spent several months experimenting with the theatrical possibilities of work, we are now  doing the job for real it seems. The
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For the past nine months I have been immersed in the working lives of elders from Rotherhithe, Bermondsey and Deptford. I have
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We are currently working on a new piece of Theater called From Docks to Desktops. We have been creating pieces of drama
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How do you put the smell of a leather factory in jar? That was one of the thoughts that ran through my
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Introduction This document is designed to give the reader a brief insight into my experience of being interviewed by members of the
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Since October, I have had the wonderful opportunity of helping Claire at the London Bubble Theatre Company on a project called From
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Docks to desktops and also factories to flats. Courage Brewery was turned into flats. Warehouses have been turned into flats. New flats have
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I’ve been volunteering for a little while on the From Docks to Desktops project doing some recorded oral history interviews, and was
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On Friday 16th November I took two young people from our LB+ programme, Deshaye and Shaun to meet couples Joan and Bert and
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The Observer recently reported the results of a European Social Survey that exposed the intergenerational split in our society - ‘half of
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While attending the Giving Voice conference at the V&A I heard a lot of talk about engaging the  community in direct arts
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The starting point was a space, a huge recently created plaza.  It’s one of these very clean new public spaces, part square,
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On Monday night I went to ‘Shouldn’t all theatre be community theatre' an event organised through the Young Vic’s Directors program. The
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The second event in the Bubble’s 40th Anniversary Year, saw a fascinating discussion between the 3 Artistic Directors who followed founder Glen
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