The LBT likes to travel.  We pop up in community centers and schools, carnivals and fetes, to all corners of our Kirklees home. We develop close partnerships with communities and schools and deliver everything from outreach Youth Theatres to family creative play sessions to circus skills workshops to music and dance projects.

Our Community Engagement department can currently be found out in…

Dewsbury

We are working with schools and groups on a variety of arts and performance projects including a holiday project with Set 3 Communities and a Play in a Week project at Boothroyd Junior and Infant School.  Participants learned about the history of the Luddite uprisings in West Yorkshire, and created their own performance titled “Ned and The Engines of Mischief”. 

'I was moved to tears by the depth of understanding brought about by the work. The quality of drama, produced in just a week, was amongst the best I have witnessed in my long years.'  Head Teacher, Boothroyd Junior & Infant School.

Ashbrow  

We have just completed a whole range of projects in the Ashbrow ward funded by the Deighton and Brackenhall Initiative and called Take Centre Stage.  Projects included dance, drama, movement, music, circus skills, and storytelling which were delivered in schools and community groups all over Deighton and Brackenhall.  Altogether we delivered 411 creative sessions and worked with over 1,668 people.   

'The LBT has done wonders with these children who otherwise would be sat in front of the television, games consoles or hanging around the streets.  My child was very clingy.  These LBT sessions have majorly improved his confidence.'Parent from one of the drama groups

Look out for us soon in...

Dewbury West 

The LBT has recently received a three year Reaching Communities grant from the Big Lottery Fund, which will fund creative work with communities in Dewsbury West and will reach out to people in these communities who may not otherwise get involved with us.  The activities will also include collective projects with communities in Ashbrow and Crosland Moor.

The Reaching Communities project, amongst other things, will create weekly workshops, organise theatre visits and even create a theatrical production with young people and families in these communities.  The production will be performed on our main stage this summer, showcasing the talents of the participants and enabling them to explore and express issues of concern to them.

We are keen to have this project guided by the young people involved, and so there will be opportunities at every stage of the three years for participants to voice their views, and contribute to the project’s delivery and evaluation.

We are delighted to be launching this project, and we are looking forward to working with many young people across a range of meaningful and inspiring creative activities.

For more information contact Rose Condo, Head of Community Engagement, on 01484 484458 or email rose@thelbt.org

In partnership with schools

Our current partner school is Royds Hall High School. Under our schools partnerships scheme we offer special projects, ticket offers, access to work experience and much more. 

For information on activities in partnership with schools, please contact Naomi Sumner  (Community Engagement Officer) .

If your a group who would be inteested in a relationship with the LBT contact Rose Condo(Head of Community Engagement) .

All our outreach and schools projects are delivered by our highly skilled and experienced artists. All staff are fully CRB checked. 

Beth, 13, Becki and Jayden, 12 were all part of a planning group set up to organise The LBT’s Courtyard Circus, an outdoor family arts festival which took place on 4th August 2012 to mark the end of Take Centre Stage with the DBI. 

“It’s good to be able to be in charge”, said Becki.  “It was really cool when we were doing our planning meetings ’cause we knew we were working towards something that would happen.”  Jayden thought it was fun, “’cause rather than just going to the event you get to plan it yourself and to approve of things.” 

The day was fantastic and all three planning group members were very proud of their achievement.  Beth said, “I was really proud and I liked feeling as though I had done my part for it.”  Becki is even more ambitious “Who knows, in a few years we      might be having your jobs!”