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    • Ages and stages

    Ages and stages

    Ages and Stages is a continuing research collaboration between Keele University and the New Vic Theatre exploring the impact of theatre on ideas about, and the experience of, ageing.

    Our 12 month ‘follow-on’ project - ‘translating research into practice’ - involves: establishing an intergenerational theatre company; devising and touring a new performance piece; developing and delivering an inter-professional training course; and scoping out the potential for a Creative Age Festival with partners.

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    Ages and Stages Theatre Company

    Our age our stage video

    Ages and Stages intergenerational workshop Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent Performance of Our Age, Our Stage - New Vic Theatre, July 2012 Performance of the Vic documentary, Fight for Shelton Bar Rehearsal for Our Age, Our Stage

    Poems about the Ages and Stages experience

    Colin Ramsell, performer and member of the Ages and Stages Theatre Company, has written these fantastic poems about taking part in our two productions, 'Our Age, Our Stage' and 'Happy Returns'.

    'Happy Returns' poem 'What's on' poem

    coCREATE

    Community Centred Creative and Collaborative Methodologies (CoCREATE) is Keele’s community-centred, creative and collaborative research methods network, supporting public engagement in research. coCREATE brings together researchers with a passion for public engagement together with local, national and international partners and communities. Innovating across different themes and through new technologies and shared creative skills and practice, we involve communities in producing and exchanging research-based knowledge.

    KISI

    Keele Institute for Social Inclusion (KISI) draws together a vibrant community of partners across sectors to tackle the issues of inequality on a local, national and global scale. The Institute promotes and supports a wide range of interdisciplinary research, co-created with external partners, that seeks to identify, explain and overcome social, economic, political and cultural obstacles to egalitarian respect and social inclusion.