Previous Projects
Take a look at some of our major past projects and highlights over the years. Our portfolio illustrates the breadth and span of our work and demonstrates how our practice has been developed and adapted.
Threads of Tooting (2022-23)
Threads of Tooting weaved together the story of the tailors, makers, and textile businesses housed in Tooting since the 1920s. Using interviews, research, and site visits, local people and schools created and curated a series of events to celebrate Tooting’s relationship with tailoring and textiles.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Speech Bubbles (2022-present)
In 2022, Bounce became a theatre partner in Speech Bubbles, a national programme supporting children who find communication challenging. We continue to deliver Speech Bubbles for primary schools in Wandsworth.
Weekly drama programmes take place in school time. It offers children an opportunity to have fun telling stories and acting them out. In doing so, they are supported to gain confidence and develop their physical and verbal communication skills.
Made possible with funding from:
- Wandsworth Arts Council
- Speech Bubbles
Sugar & Spice (2021-22)
Sugar & Spice was an intergenerational project celebrating the people, the places, and the spaces which helped shape the High Street as we know it today. Using oral histories and research, community groups joined together to celebrate the stories of their local community.
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Children animated heritage stories using shadow puppetry, drama, creative writing, collage and even tried a “trashion” show! The project culminated with a performance, touring exhibition, and a poetry night co-created with local people between 7-70 in age.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Turn Up Join In (2021-present)
Turn Up Join In is a collaging and lunch club, open to anyone in the community. We recognise that loneliness is a feeling that can affect anyone, no matter your background or circumstances. The club is a positive opportunity for people to socialise and make collage artwork together. Some of our members have said that the project helps them with their mental health, and others feel the value of an accessible space and company after living alone during lockdown.
Initially launched as a social prescribing pilot for Wandsworth Arts Service & Enable Leisure and Culture, Turn Up Join In flourished during the Autumn of 2021. So successful was the project that Bounce continues to source additional funding for it to continue today.
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Made possible with funding from:
- Wandsworth Arts Service & Enable Leisure & Culture
- Higgins Community Partnerships
- Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Things to Do in a Blackout (2019-20)
Despite common misconceptions today, during the Second World War crime rose by a startling 57%. The blackouts provided a cloak for all sorts of wrongdoings, from looting to more serious crimes of passion.
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Things to Do in a Blackout was originally intended to be a live performance - with the challenges of Covid-19, the project was revised and reimagined as a digital art project.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The Female Voice (2020)
A podcast series made in lockdown.
Young women interviewed guests about a range of topics from politics to female leadership to being ok with your hormones.
The work culminated in a magazine reimagining what women’s magazines should offer girls.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The #iwill Fund
Grace Dear Trust Projects (2020-22)
A digital lockdown offer for young people. Mixing youth theatre with podcasts and e-magazine making.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The Grace Dear Trust
StoryClub (2020)
StoryClub was formed in the absence of being able to run our projects in person throughout the lockdowns of the pandemic. StoryClub brought a weekly mini magazine full of creative tasks to make stories, art, and play at home. We started with the intention to provide a platform for children to do the things they do in our clubs and projects, from home, without having to be online. They could play and make stories, which could be sent to us for an online story time.
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At the same time, we reached out to food banks and charities to see if we could support their work. Within a couple of weeks StoryClub was supplied to Reach Academy, Learn English at Home, Hounslow Foodbox, Salvation Army Feltham, Homestart, Kingston Foodbank, Refugee Action, Learn to Love to Read, Dons Local Action group, St Georges Hospital, SmallWood Primary School, and Roehampton Community Foodbox. At its peak, 11,000 copies were being distributed weekly.
We also offered live online workshops for active participation. Using the power of our imaginations, we took ourselves on wild adventures around the world.
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Made possible with funding from:
- Kingston Council
- Wandsworth Council
- The Arts Council
- Bounce Theatre
Our Health Your Hands (2019)
A celebration of 70 years of the NHS with a mixed media exhibition.
Touring to schools across Kingston, the Stanley Picker Gallery, the National Archives and Kingston Hospital.
Made with Anstee Bridge.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Urban Art Stories (2015)
Urban Art Stories was an interdisciplinary project exploring the heritage of the urban art movement.
Young people from Hounslow collaborated with Bounce to undertake research across London about how urban art has evolved in both form and content. Their research was interpreted into an exhibition at the Saatchi gallery. Along with this they ran workshops, devised immersive performance and hosted a gig in the basement with urban artists.
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Made possible with funding from:
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
