YEP Creative Play (8-13 year olds)
YEP x Alder Hey
YEP is Young Everyman Playhouse… a place of playful creativity for young people to be themselves, tell stories and gain confidence.
Working with outstanding professional artists, being in YEP you’ll explore your own creativity, learn new skills, and make new friends in our welcoming and supportive groups and sessions.
YEP x Alder Hey
Building on our longstanding collaboration with the Arts and Health Team at Alder Hey we are running YEP x Alder Hey – a youth theatre for 8-13 year olds.
YEP x Alder Hey is FREE and for young people who are currently under the care of Alder Hey Health Teams as an Outpatient and facing disadvantages due to the impact their illness has on their lives. No previous experience of drama is necessary.
Sessions are designed to support you to connect with your community, develop wellbeing and resilience, and explore your creative storytelling skills.
In sessions you will:
• build confidence
• make new friends
• make decisions together
• explore creativity
• learn storytelling and theatre-making skills
• have an opportunity to share work
• meet creative professionals
Our practitioners are artists and have lots of experience working with young people. We are young-person led. This means that we build and create stories together. Young people have agency to make decisions that shape their learning and support each other to grow.
YEP x Alder Hey runs January-July 2025 for two terms.
Term 1 (Skills & Story Development)
• Learn creative skills and techniques
• Build friendships
• Develop and explore storytelling techniques
• Begin to build creative ideas around a shared story.
Term 2 (Devising)
• Bring together creative skills to make, rehearse and share a story with friends and family.
Sessions will take place:
8 - 11 (primary age)
Saturdays 9.30am - 11am
11 - 13 (secondary age)
Saturdays 11.15am - 12.45pm
at
Liverpool Everyman Theatre
Hope Street
L1 9BH
Accessibility:
There will be up to 15 people per session.
There is step free access to the Stage Door and lift access to level one, where our sessions take place.
You will have a tour of the spaces at your first session. If you want to do this any earlier let us know.
We have a breakout space that you can use if you need to take a moment. Staff will always be nearby.
At the beginning of every session the practitioner will let you know the plan. If you want this in advance let us know.
We have accessible toilets and a changing place.