IT'S OUR 50TH BIRTHDAY! 🥳 #YV50
Today marks 50 years since we first opened our doors & what a better way to celebrate this milestone than by sharing with you our brand-new year-long programme of work entitled #WeAreTheNewTide
Check out this thread for more info 👇
First up, our 50th Birthday Projections 📽
Starting tonight, each evening the front of our building will become a giant canvas, illuminated by a video projection by @duncanjmclean, celebrating the people & productions who have contributed to our history over the last 5 decades.
The #YV50 Projection Project is a homage to the entire community who make up the DNA of the Young Vic and it will run Monday to Saturdays, from 7.30pm until 10.30pm
Find out more: youngvic.org/whats-on/50th-…
#WeAreTheNewTide
Image: @photostagephoto
Also launching today: #YVUnforgotten, a free interactive installation that questions & engages w/ the conversation within #BlackLivesMatter about statues being torn down, asking us what monuments could be newly elevated.
YoungVic.org/TheUnforgotten
The installation - created by Artists @sadeysa & @AnnaFleischle - features statues commemorating three trailblazers of the Black community: Mary Seacole, Marsha P. Johnson & Ulric Cross.
You are invited to contribute by submitting your own nominations & tagging #YVUnforgotten
Finally, the 1st piece of live theatre since we closed in March: #TheNewTomorrow festival on 3 & 4 Oct.
A free festival in co-production with Wessex Grove where brilliant writers and artists will look at what the next 50 years will hold for us.
Writers include: @JadeAnouka, Marina Carr, Jasmine Lee-Jones, @ruth_madeley, @angplays, @stefsmith, @jackthorne, @IsobelWB, Steve Waters.
The festival will be streamed online, w/ a limited number of FREE in-person tickets available via ticket lottery. Details to be announced soon
#TheNewTomorrow #YV50 #WeAreTheNewTide
“The beginning of our 50th year marks a moment of change for everyone, but it is a year I go into with absolute optimism, for We Are The New Tide”.
-@kwamekweiarmah, Artistic Director.
You can find out more about our #YV50 birthday plans on our website: youngvic.org/blog/we-are-th…
#WeAreTheNewTide
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