Miranda Colby Browne sang 'Oh Ms Believer' with our Team. The a capella arrangement was a commissioned piece and was used to accompany a piece of devised drama by our company members.​

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Award-winning dancer and choreographer ​​​​​​​Little Peaches led us in a powerful dance involving a huge piece of fabric that we danced behind, through, and in front of.

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Ballroom dancers Dave & Loretta Littler helped us bring an important story to life by pretending to lead a Rumba class onstage. It was all part of a sequence about acceptance, self-worth, and what real beauty is. 

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Actor Ellen Buckley came to us through our partnership with The University of Chester. She helped our members devise some funny drama scenes and even joined us onstage in one scene. She was also very busy all night as she helped us out a lot backstage.

 

Award-winning author Daniel Whelan helped members create their own 'monstrous' characters in his workshop. These characters were used as inspiration in the scenes with Ellen. Although Daniel didn't perform with us, he was in the audience and was brought into a scene briefly with a little sneaky audience participation!

 

We performed 'Fix You / Sit Down' one final time, thanks to our friends Choirs For Good who let us use their track. We performed this together with Choirs For Good last in last year's Sharing as well as in The Kaleidoscope Project at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.

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Our raffle was so successful this year, with some really cracking prizes sourced by our PR Fairy Denise! We also included a homemade gift from different Work in Progress members with each prise, too -- which were extremely popular!

 

​Yet again we all received trophies afterwards -- and so did all of our Visiting Guest Artists, Andy, Lesley Collins (our incredible Deputy Stage Manager / Miracle Worker) and Dr Pamela Barnes and Dr Ruth Dockwray, our friends and researchers from The University of Chester. Even Possum (Little Peaches' assistance dog) received a personalised dogbiscuit!

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Sue & Kay, two of our members who weren't able to be with us at the Sharing, were presented with their trophies the following week at our party (and of course Kay's assistance dog Louis received HIS personalised dog biscuit!). Everyone was also given their own framed headshots, and we shared stories and memories from our fantastic Sharing!

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And then... We started working on our NEXT one! We love what we do and we are NOT going to stop!

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Thank you to everyone who came to support us, who filled out feedback forms, donated to Work in Progress, and of course to our wonderful sponsors. We couldn't do it without you. THANK YOU for helping us make the arts accessible to ALL.​

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Extra special thanks to our UNBELIEVABLY INCFREDIBLE team of Volunteers: Adele, Caroline, Jack, and Graham. They do so much more than people realise to help our members in so many different ways. Graham is moving on to participate in another group on Wednesday nights now, so we said goodbye to him with gratitude and thanks. He's been with us from our Pilot Project in 2022 up to now and helped us find our feet and grow as a group. We hate to see him go but we're happy he'll be pursuing another interest. He has promised to come visit and we'll hold him to that!

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We'll be sharing some photos in our Gallery) as soon as we can. Until then, here are the pages from our programme. We can't wait to do this again in 2025!!!