âWhat do you call a memory that never happened?â 13-year-old Kyla asks an imaginary group of peers as she rehearses the speech she plans to give at a belated graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020, whose primary school career was cut short by the pandemic. As she starts secondary school and says goodbye to childhood, Kyla is grieving, not just for those formal markers of transition from one stage of life to another, but for the little personal markers of her self-identity: her ability as an organiser, her talent as a dance captain.
Kyla is the central character in Shaun Dunneâs new play What Did I Miss?, which was to be the centrepiece of the Dublin Theatre Festivalâs family programme in 2020, an annual partnership with the Ark, a cultural centre for children. Like all arts organisations around the country, the global pandemic presented the Ark with a challenge: how to reach young audiences when coming together is problematic.
Children across Leitrim invited to share what they missed during lockdown
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This June, Brightening Air and The Ark Children’s Cultural Centre, are exploring and sharing children’s experience of lockdown in a number of ways.
At its centre are free live streamed performances of an uplifting new show ‘What Did I Miss?’ by Shaun Dunne, which offers a window into children’s experience of the pandemic and the milestones they’ve missed along the way. Meanwhile, a schools engagement programme encourages children to share how it was for them.
The Ark, in partnership with Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh, will also be giving voice to some of the experiences of children in Ireland to the Government.
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Updated / Monday, 15 Feb 2021
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