Holding On and Reaching Out is a performed lecture and storytelling event. In this session, members of the Citz Participate team, including Neil Packham and Elly Goodman, reflect on their long-term work with communities. The presentation offers insight into a pivotal moment in the history of the Citizens Theatre: the large-scale transformation of its building and organisation.
Through stories from practice, lived experience and reflection, the team explores how this process of rebuilding became an opportunity to rethink what it means to be a civic theatre, and how to ensure that community voices, skills and imagination remain central during periods of change.
Holding On and Reaching Out is both a reflection and an invitation – to consider how cultural institutions can deepen connections, hold on to what matters, and continue to grow together with the communities they serve.
Citizens Theatre | Scotland