Kids From Ings Make A Song And Dance About It By Rich Mills

Park Life or Parky Musical is a production created and developed by a group of young people from Ings Estate, in East Hull. Through 10 weeks of workshops, facilitated by Creative Play, the group who aged from as young as 4, created their own mini musical.

The workshops held at St. Marks Church, where Partners 4 Change (a Hull DOC project) is based, brought out the creative energies of the group. With support from Sue Wicks, one of the Hull DOC Participation Worker based at St. Marks, the group aim to carry on the success of Parky The Musical, and possibly develop the idea into a full blown musical production.

On Monday 13th July the group gave their premiere performance, at Craven Park Stadium's function rooms. Along with dance and drama groups from other parts of the city, the St. Marks group were the only ones that were community based, rather than from a school. All credit must go to the group, who produced a brilliant and vibrant piece of theatre.

With a mixture of dance, poetry, music and song, they could not be faulted. The overall message of the piece was about the lack of park spaces, and places for young people to "lark" in that are safe. The strength of this message shone through as of great relevance to their young lives. There are plans to carry on the workshops based at St. Marks, and anyone in the area is invited to join in and take part.

Over the summer holidays, Partners 4 Change have developed a whole range of activities for young people, from 10.00am through until 4.00pm, every week day. These activities range from Arts & Crafts, Digital Media, Sport, Dance & Drama, and much more. To find out more about the summer activities, contact Hull DOC at St. Marks on (01482) 707476 or (01482) 709664 for information and registration details.

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