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Over the years we have delivered many projects both in the UK and overseas:

'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack' (TANB) As part of our Arts Against Violence programme and a development from the F.U.R.I.O.U.S project 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (TANB)' ran from 2007 to mid 2008. We provided residencies for over 100 young people across London. Participants created innovative and though provoking pieces of work which investigated britishness, citizenship and what it means to be 'youth' in 21st century UK. These were performed at a four day showcase at the Hackney Empire.
Asylum Road In 2007 our young adult Refugee group, Fortune, performed a play about the history of asylum and refuge in London. 'Asylum Road' was set in a shipping container and led the audience deeper into its steel shell for scenes of the Hugenots, the Sons of Africa, the Kindertransport and political exile. The audience ended up alone, locked in the container, experiencing for themselves the uncertainty of an unknown future. The performance was heralded by audience members as an excellent educational tool in raising awareness for the voices of refugees.
Rose Bruford Symposium Pan has been part of the Rose Bruford Symposium for the last three years as it continues to develop its relationship with the College. In 2009 Pan animated an Identity themed strand of work at the Symposium
KiCaR (Kids in Camden at Risk) From 2007-2008 Pan ran piloted our first project specifically aimed at integrating different groups of young people in Camden, working to tackle rising feelings of territorialism in the area. Funded by St Andrews Holborn Charity the project worked in three youth centres for 6 months with young people in temporary housing, from junior youth exclusion units, refugee backgrounds and in foster care. The project was a huge success and not only integrated young people but also their siblings and families. This model has been used to develop our latest integration initiative Synergy.
Singing is It! and Street Songs In Autumn 2006 Pan started working with two international organisations - Folias Cooperativa Sociale in Roma, Italy and Dorozkarnia in Warszawa, Poland - on an International Youth Exchange project which took singing and the voice as its starting point. The second phase of the project, Street Songs, saw the London group used creative writing and voice work to juxtapose the reality of their lives in London with that of the glossy tourist image of London. The resulting songs were performed at Tate Britain.
Your Choice Your Voice This was an interactive theatre project dealing with perceived political apathy and disenfranchisement of young people in the UK. Funded by the Electoral Commission YCYV was piloted in secondary schools in Woolwich and Haringey for over 100 Young people. The plays dealt with issues chosen by schools such as student fees, voting, local government and gun crime. It was a highly successful model that proved young people can be interested in political change and active citizenship.
F.U.R.I.O.U.S book launch Pan took over Stratford Circus to launch its first major publication; the book which resulted from its F.U.R.I.O.U.S project (For us Respect Is Our Ultimate Statement) which had engaged over 200 young people in exploring racism and race-based violence through rap, song, performance poetry, video-scripting and graphics. The book was later distributed, with accompanying workshops, to ca. 5000 young people.
Threads of Silk This project ran in five primary schools across Tower Hamlets. It grew out of Pan's Silkwalk performance and explored the culture and history of the Spitalfields area with its rich heritage of migrant communities. It traced the history of the silk industry through storytelling and writing workshops. The project culminated at the Brady Centre with a sharing, and a book of children's poems, raps and stories was compiled.
Silkwalk Silkwalk was a performance project inspired by Alessandro Barrico's novella, Silk. Using film, text and movement it re-told a love story set between France and Japan in the late 19th century against a backdrop of the silk trading industry. It also intertwined this story with local history of the Spitalfields area with its silk industry and incorporated school performance into the final show.