The Golden Apples Players T:BUC Camp explored Good Relations through acting and drama.
The T:BUC Camps Programme, funded by The Executive Office (TEO), is a headline action of the Executive’s Together: Building a United Community Strategy.
T:BUC Camps aim to bring young people from different backgrounds together to make friends and learn more about each other’s cultures and traditions.
Based in the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, The Golden Apples Players offered young people the opportunity to train in the performing arts and to stage high quality amateur stage productions.
This novel and innovative Camp explored issues of Good Relations through studying Romeo and Juliet, and West Side Story, and how the re-telling of these stories in a local context might assist the young people to learn about and understand others from different communities.
The young people talked about both the “physical” and "invisible" barriers they encounter in their lives and how spending time with other communities, really helped encourage and facilitate understanding. They also talked about how taking on the roles of different characters in a performative context helped promote understanding of another person’s perspective.
Video Case Study for the Golden Apples Players 2022-23 camp: "When Hope and History Rhyme"