This Halloween at dawn, on the Waterside of the New Forest in Fawley, a 200m chimney stack belonging to what was once the world’s largest oil-fired power station will be razed to the ground. Fawley Power Station’s incredible story is connected through the last 70 years with the interplay of politics, power, people, industry and [...]

Why is Take Part with us different? It’s the start of the new season here at Forest Forge and we are busy programming in our regular sessions, adding new ones, and planning the term and year ahead. It’s a great time when new stationary gets cracked open, a new notebook is started, and there is [...]

ARTIST CALLOUT: We are hosting our first Posthuman Symposium @forestforgeTC from 14-19 September. And are looking for 3 artists local to the Bournemouth/New Forest area to join us. This is an unpaid opportunity! The Symposium will explore alternative futures to human and non-human oppression, the climate crisis and neoliberalism. Artists will participate in discussions and [...]

Joy This week saw the culmination of more than 3 months’ work creating a show with our Youth Theatre. What started as a seed of an idea, grew into a show.  One day back in February when the days were wet and dark and I was madly, and with great hope beginning my master seed growing project [...]

Reflections on a pandemic year As we reach the one year anniversary of the first lockdown, we have been thinking not about what we have lost but about what we have learned, gained and what we want to keep. This time a year ago we couldn’t imagine that a whole 365 days later we would [...]

Local community called upon to help inspire a new play based upon the Fawley Power Station story We are so excited to have begun a participatory research and development process to help inform the writing of a new play for Forest Forge Theatre about Fawley Power Station. We are delighted to be working with Off [...]

It’s coming to the end of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek and we have been thinking about the children and young people we are currently supporting in different capacities.  There are lots of resources out there to support and help, but sometimes even that can feel overwhelming, and where do you start?  We often find that although we are [...]

We were delighted to welcome professional theatre designer, Lizzie Watts to our screens for another wonderful ‘Artists Talk’. Don’t worry if you missed it, here's Lizzie to tell us all about her talk and her advice on things to consider when it comes to designing for theatre!   Practical Theatre Design - an overview by [...]

We were delighted to welcome professional actors, and former Forest Forge Youth Theatre participants, Leah and Mhairi Gayer to our screens for another wonderful 'Artists Talk'. Don't worry if you missed it, here they tell us all about their talk, being in Youth Theatre, and their careers in theatre!   Just in case you missed [...]

We recently welcomed improv performer, actor, director, and writer, Pete Courtenay to our screens for our online Artists Talk. Here Pete tells us his thoughts on his talk and shares what mischief took place...   I was very flattered when I was asked by my friend Jo to do an ‘Artists Talk’ on Improv. She [...]