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The Diversity and Cohesion Team recently had the privilege of working with the young people involved in the 2009 Alhambra Project. This Project is in its fourteenth year and is a West Yorkshire Police initiative, run in conjunction with the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford City Challenge Foundation Limitedand My Bus. This year pupils from four schools have come together to work on producing a piece of drama that explores community cohesion, guided by Heidi Thornton, Nick Hall, Brian Feather and Ian Walmsley.

Alina Khan, Diane Hadwen and Gemma Whiteoak were delighted to welcome the ‘cast’…..which includes some very familiar faces!... to Future House on the 13^th August. A good time was had by all.

The cast hail from four local secondary schools, Buttershaw, Ilkley, Queensbury and Tong. They spent a full morning involved in workshop activities led by Alina Khan based around the Identity, Heritage and Belonging and Stand up to Hatred resources. The information that they gleaned from this experience will be used to help the cast decide on aspects of the content of the drama on which they are working.

The Alhambra Project 2009 will showcase their finished work to approximately 2,000 pupils and adults from across the city, at the Alhambra Studios in September.

More details to follow nearer the time.