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Join us for an exclusive ‘work in progress’ development sharing of this powerful and important new project. This is the first of our our new Gulb Lab performances.

Over twenty-five years ago, fresh out of circus school, Matilda made an aerial- theatre solo called Lifeline. It was based on the simple metaphor of the vertical line of the rope as the timeline of a life – she went from birth to death, through every age.

Now in her fifties, as a mother and older woman, as she navigates her recovery from leukaemia, she is returning to this work – to the rope, the air, the themes of age, time and change – but with a new vision. Now ‘lifeline’ refers not only to the length of a life, but to explore how telling a life, just might be one way of saving it.

Improbable: Lifelines

Sat 10 October

ART31

ART31 takes its name from Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, which states that ‘Children have the right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities’.

ART31 is a vision created with, by, and for young people in Kent, championing the belief that all children and young people have an entitlement to access high quality arts and culture, to empower them to achieve their creative potential, and to genuinely engage young people as equal partners in any decision making that affects them.

The ART31 Youth Board is made up of young people from across Kent aged 13-25 who steer its governance, and influence policy and practice across the county and beyond, challenging the creative sector to examine existing ways of working and integrate young people into the core of their practice.

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