COMMUNITY PANTO PROJECT

For 2024/25’s Community Pantomime Project, the Grand Theatre has once again collaborated with Heath House Studios. We decided to use this year’s project to celebrate 130 Years of Pantomime here at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre.

The project began back in September, when Pauline from Heath House Studios visited 25 local community groups to deliver a free two hour textile workshop. During these workshops participants designed, stitched and crafted a variety of fantastic creations that you can see in the gallery below.

The exhibit, ’130 Years of Pantomime at the Grand’, features around 300 pieces of work, each one created by the participants involved. The them of an art gallery was incorporated, with each piece of work representing a Pantomime that has been performed here over the last 130 years – from our very first panto in 1894 – Sinbad the Sailor to our most recent production of Beauty and the Beast.

This project has been fully funded by Wolverhampton Grand Theatre as part of their charitable aims.

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For more information on this project or to enquire about how your group can become involved in future projects, please contact our Outreach department  outreach@grandtheatre.co.uk

A huge thank you to the following Community Groups involved:

Refugee and Migrant Centre Walsall, Black Country Mental Health, Council of Bangladeshi Organisations – Chai & Chat, Yemeni Community Association at Cradley Heath Women’s Wellbeing Group, x2y, Compton Care, Dudley Gay Men’s Group, Wolverhampton Breast Care Action Group, City of Wolverhampton Council Young Carers Support, Friends of Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Friends of Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Brushstrokes Sandwell, Gatis Community Space, Kayani Crafty Fingers Aaina Ladies, St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School, The Way Youth Zone, St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School, African Caribbean Community Initiative, Refugee and Migrant Centre Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Creative Embroiders, Murray Hall Community Trust, Yemeni Community Association Greets Green, 3rd Wombourne Guides.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre and Heath House Studios would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped and supported this amazing project.