Working in partnership with the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and Living Classrooms Foundation we selected 17 young people with the enthusiasm and curiosity to join a two-day Home Grown workshop.

Most did not know each other nor had taken part in such a workshop before. The days were testing and intensive but most importantly physical with a series of lifts, jumps, movement phrases and catches taught individually, in pairs and in smaller groups. The content was designed to test concentration and build trust with each exercise developing on from the next.

The culmination of the creative intervention was a performance made by and for the group at the Creative Alliance Theatre. Key life moments were used as inspiration to demonstrate their newfound confidence in their own bodies and mind-set.