Youth Led Festival at The National Coal Mining Museum
On the 6 th of July a special thing happened at the National Coal Mining Museum – The “Rock Hard Festival” – a celebration of young people’s artistic response to the miner’s strikes of 1984. Young people played, sang, acted, created visual art all inspired by the events of a year that sealed the fate of such an important industry to Yorkshire and the UK. YTYT were one of the performers – they performed a brand-new piece that documented the input of the strike on the community, “Have You Heard the News.” The script was created out of the ideas and inspiration of the young people in the cast in response to the National Coal Mining Museum’s exhibition about the 1984 strikes. Here are some responses of some of the young people who performed: Throughout this performance I learned a lot about how life was back then and how if affected different people Amelia As a member of the cast, I found that transferring the performance to a smaller space and overcoming the ambient noise aro