Letters of Hope
Aerial performance and community workshops. Participants enjoy free writing & performance workshops, creating letters of hope to share with the community during and after the performance.
About the Project Creator
My name is Sarah Dobbs, I'm an aerialist and founder of Aria Art and Movement CIC.
I have undertaken a variety of aerial and narrative-driven commissions e.g. for Compass Presents (Bristol) and performed at Washington Arts Centre (Sunderland). I have also delivered projects such as Sea Sunderland, which commissioned local writers to make flash fiction films about the Seaburn area. We had a lead artist, Jessica Andrews, who is an award-winning novelist from Sunderland itself.
As well as working full time on Aria, I am a performer and director with Uncaged Aerial Theatre - we are an all-female aerial theatre company from Sunderland.
Aria was set up after a DYCP grant and then an Arts Council project grant exploring underwater movement and aerial dance with other aerialists and the community. I felt the change in my own body after being in the water and saw it in the increased confidence and creativity and connections of those I was working with.