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The Bill Brookman Foundation is a direct-action voluntary organisation which organises theatre/arts events world-wide and in Britain using the arts for social cohesion and celebration in adversity. (We are a fellow organisation of Bill Brookman Productions Ltd, a street arts and theatre company. If you've come to the wrong site you might like to click there now!)
A single leg amputee in Rokel, Sierra Leone, blows fire from a aerial rig as part of our De War Don Don festival in January 2006. |
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Come to our Summer Residency in August - read the participant pack
Latest Project - A Peace project in Somalia Bill has again been asked by the UN to set up a peace project, similar to Caravane de la Paix which he set up in Haiti in 2006 and ran successfully for 18 months. This time the idea is that he will be in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Read more here. Combating recruitment of child soldiers and other worst forms of child labour The Foundation’s most recent principal project was requested by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), to assist with their International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). Based in Turin and Geneva, IPEC has developed SCREAM, an arts-based package which can be used to educate children in all societies about such subjects as their rights and international law on the employment of children. Bill was assisted with aspects of this work by the newly formed Young Foundation Group - the youth wing of the Foundation. A role-play session with 14-year-olds in Lira, Uganda in November 2008, ends with an impromptu exhibition describing their experiences and celebrating their work. Bill Brookman acted as consultant to revise and devise a new module of SCREAM on Worst Forms of Child Labour, to assist potential child soldiers, porters, ‘wives’ and other young people to resist recruitment before, and assist rehabilitation after, armed conflict in developing countries, and as an educational tool for children in industrialised countries.
Bill made trips to Uganda in November 2008, and to Nepal in January 2009, to field test his new SCREAM module.
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Recent past projects:
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We run events throughout the year:
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Our Summer Residency is held in August. Visitors from all over the world are welcome to stay with us in Leicestershire, UK. We run drama and arts projects, addressing, for example, social issues (a circus project with disadvantaged youth) or green issues (a Green Day with local disabled children) as well as pure dance, theatre, and arts projects in beautiful English settings. |
Designing an aerial rig for Sierra Leone in the beautiful garden at Nanpantan Hall, Leics. |
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Our Symposium is held in Loughborough, UK, early in the year. We meet, eat, drink and plan future projects, attracting visitors from the USA, Japan, and Western and Eastern Europe. |
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We are also looking for organisations that can host our projects. We are keen to run arts festivals or projects that make feel better about themselves after adversity. If you feel you would like to promote or assist a project at a local level please get in touch! Bill@BillBrookman.co.uk.
Bill in Kosovo