2022 Events
Club Origami
5th - 6th April 2022
Get inspired by beautiful, imaginative performance and play. Bring your little ones along to Matson Library for a morning of unique paper performance and play. Penguins, monsters, the sea…if you can dream it, Takeshi and friends can make it and bring it to life – just from paper! Enjoy a gentle, creative performance with live music to fire up your imagination. Then get stuck into the giant pile of scrunched up, torn and folded paper for yourself.
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This was suitable for under 5s but older children were welcome.​
Mix & Move 22
15th July 2022
After not being able to perform for the last 3 years due to COVID-19 we brought back Mix & Move.
A fabulous showcase of our Youth Participation Groups in this years Mix & Move.
There was performances by GL4's and Strike A Light's Youth Theatre Groups. GL1 Youth Dance Juniors and Youth Dance Company will also be performing as well as BEATS music group alongside Multi-Story Orchestra. We also worked with pupils from Robinswood Primary School to create a piece for Mix & Move.​​
Destiny
29th September 2022
A “captivating” ( ★★★★ The Guardian) show
that followed a teenage girl growing
up on a Chippenham council estate.
Born below the breadline, she's desperate to see beyond the neighbourhood and find hope in hopelessness.
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Christmas Meal
12th December 2022
In partnership with The Redwell Centre and The Venture White City, we cooked a Christmas dinner for 100 elderly and isolated residents in the Matson, Robinswood and White City ward. We used The Kings School as our venue.
John Pfumojena Workshops
19th - 21st April 2022
John Pfumojena is a Mbira and Marimba musician, actor and composer.
​John and an ensemble of performers came to Matson, to run workshops with the Gloucestershire based artist JPDL.​
John was developing a new show called Bunker Of Zion which toured to Matson later in the year.​
The Greatest Showman Pop Up Cinema
7th July 2022
This was a free family event to watch the singalong version of The Greatest Showman at Robinswood Primary School.
NINE 22
13th August 2022
Following on from the research and development in 2021,​
Bootworks Theatre Company returned to Matson to run a week of workshops with children from the local area who will then perform on the Saturday evening. The project will strive to champion the voices, perspectives, and world-views of local young people. This project was support by Strike A Light.​
Wonder Gigs
12th October 2022
Wonder Gigs are a series of accessible, enjoyable music sessions suitable for both big and small ears alike, alongside with sensory visuals and interactive fun from Filskit Theatre. This ran alongside the toddler group at Matson Baptist Church.
Christmas Tree Festival
5th - 16th December 2022
Matson's first Christmas Tree festival. Local organisations decorated Christmas trees for the local community to come and visit. ​The church was open on multiple days for families to go and visit the trees.​
Bunker Of Zion
26th - 27th August 2022
Bunker of Zion brings together an underground collective of artists to tell their incredible stories. Through energetic live music, dance, and song, you will experience a colourful celebration of Zimbabwean culture.
Set in a world where music is forbidden, the Bunker is a centre for joy, a meeting place, a defiant celebration of culture in a hostile world.
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Bunker of Zion has been developed with artists and communities nationally with the Collaborative Touring Network. People from Wigan, Torbay, Peterborough, Thanet, Medway, Gloucester and Scarborough have shared their stories and talents to make this show. For more information and tour listings, visit www.ctn.org.uk.
GL4's associate artist, JPDL worked with members of the local community to create parts of the show.​​
Santa's Grotto