Thank you so much to everyone who came along to ‘Rubbish Heap Rising’ at Avon Heath Country Park on Saturday.
Thanks to your support, and the generosity of Avon Heath Country Park, we are delighted to have raised £56 for the Yak Pack Theatre Project. Every single child who came on Saturday and had such fun, has helped to enable children in some of the remotest villages in the world to have the same experience. Thank you so much.
[photo credit: Carol Dawkins & Louisa Lindsey-Clark]
The Yak Pack Theatre Project is all about sharing the joy of stories, the magic of books and your imagination. It's about making music together.
But its more than that. This photo is of the ‘rubbish heap’ that was part of the set on Saturday.
The story 'Rubbish Heap Rising' is about plastic pollution at the specific request of Spitian people, especially Nono-ji, the nominal King of Spiti. They have a real and growing problem with plastic waste, partly due to the double–edged sword that is the tourism industry, and partly because there are no recycling facilities at all in the Spiti Valley.
When we are performing this show in the Himalayas, we will be litter-picking each day along trekking routes and around villages, and using it in prop-making craft workshops and to create the rubbish heap for the show each day. All the rubbish we collect as part of the Project will be taken to recycling facilities outside the valley when we leave Spiti.
We have been inspired by the work of Spiti Ecosphere and the Australian artist Michael Heckenberg who created the ‘I love Spiti’ sign from plastic bottles which stands on the roadside as you drive into the main village of Kaza. Visitors are encouraged to take a photo of themselves by the sign, and pledge to use water refills stations rather than buy bottled water whilst in Spiti. You can read more about this project here: https://the-shooting-star.com/2017/09/20/i-love-spiti/
[photo credit Shooting Star.com, featuring Ishita of Spiti Ecosphere at the I Love Spiti sign]
If you'd like to donate, please go to our fund-raising page , Thank you x
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