ASSEMBLE!

ASSEMBLE! is an arts project conceived and delivered by independent artist Nic Green, in collaboration with Hydra arts and Clifftop Projects , two arts organisations based in West Dunbartonshire. Together throughout 2023/24 we will be working with the people and communities of West Dunbartonshire as part of the wider national project of Remembering Together: Co-Creating Community Covid Memorials.

ASSEMBLE! took the form of a mobile, pop-up theatre, transferable to community centres, parks, riversides, schools and car parks in West Dunbartonshire. Each ASSEMBLE! event invited members of the local community alongside local artists to share their experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, through performance. These performances spanned story, song, movement, music and composition, poetry, spoken work and video. Each performance was documented through written text, scribed live during each event, and spoken back as the last performance. Each audience was also documented with a short video portrait.

The project was funded by the Scottish Government: Riaghaltas na h-Alba and Greenspace Scotland.

ASSEMBLE! portraits

Below is a series of the 10 second video portraits from the ASSEMBLE! events we have facilitated that document the communities and groups we have met so far.