Play on Productions worked with Manchester St George’s Day Committee and Manchester City Council to deliver the St George’s Day Parade 21st of April 2024.
Play On Productions led an eight-month professional development project for 100 young people from across London. Culminating in ‘Circle of Power’ dance performance and touring exhibition at V&A, Bow Arts Trust and East Potential Gallery. Inspired by V&A’s 2010-11 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes exhibition, the young people interpreted the V&A’s global cultures collection to produce art works that explored…
Play On Productions partnered with South Ribble Borough Council and Leyland in Bloom to deliver Leyland Scarecrow Festival 2025. The project delivered impactful community cohesion activity across Leyland. A programme of 10 free scarecrow making workshops were delivered in 7 strategic community spaces to ensure a representative spread of Leyland’s different regions. 154 people took part in making workshops, plus…
Play On Productions’ TTTI exhibition transformed Whitstable’s Horsebridge Arts Centre into one giant time travel portal, transporting participants and audiences back in time to Whitstable’s past. A three-month participatory art piece and month long exhibition by artist Alexis K Johnson, filmmaker James Johnson, commissioned artists and 50 residents. Known locally as the ‘unofficial’ tourist information centre, the Horsebridge regularly directs…
Play on Productions created a bespoke series of shadow puppet films to be screened as part of a special performance of Born By the River at Lock & Quay Pirate Festival, Bootle on Saturday 24th May 2025. Born by the River is an original musical created by Brian and Jane Elizabeth Dawe.
The ‘Libertalia’ project opened up a new paradigm of artistic working by bringing international artists, people & place into contact with combined arts co-creation. Between November 2020 and July 2024 European artists took part in 6 labs in Gothenburg, online, and then in Bootle, UK to co-create the ‘Libertalia’ outdoor arts performance for the people of Liverpool to enjoy.
Play On Productions worked with the Indian Association Manchester to put on a large scale performance of the Ramayana story in October 2024 at the 15th Dashehra Diwali Mela in Exchange Square Manchester. The performance in four chapters that went on throughout the day and into the night utilised dancers from the North West, huge puppets and film projected onto…
Passport 2 Pimlico saw 500 residents take to the streets to re-imagine and re-enact the 1949 Ealing Classic ‘Passport to Pimlico’. A three-year series of live performances filmed in public spaces across Pimlico by artist Alexis K Johnson and filmmakers James Johnson and Paul Cowie. Exhibited in Tate Britain and Hyde Park reaching an audience of 15,000. It represented Westminster…
Play On Productions worked alongside Preston Black History Group led by Clinton Smith to put on the Battle of Bamber Bridge commemoration event at Ye Olde Hob Inn on June 21, 2025. The 82nd anniversary of the 1943 conflict between Black US soldiers and white military police over segregation.