The Lyric Theatre will be bring art out into the streets of Bridport as part of its latest community arts project.

Right Up Your Street will also include collecting stories about how lockdown has been for people in Bridport, and is the latest project The Lyric has been running since having to close its doors for indoor performances in March 2020.

The project, supporting Bridport Rights Respecting Town, has been made possible thanks to funding from The Coronavirus Community Support Fund and will run from mid-May to the end of June.

It aims to find out how lockdown has been for us as a community and individually - what has gone well, what has been less good, how has it been for your street, your family, your friends and has it been fair, safe and kind?

Across six weeks five artists will be popping up in the streets around Bridport and West Bay, with free music, puppets, art, film and performance 'happenings' bursting out of the Lyric Art Van.

Bridport artists Kate Genevieve, Tom Hughes, Angie Porter, Jane Silver Corren and Marina Renee-Cemmick with Sophia Blee will each be hosting four or five events at various locations, completely free, and everyone is welcome.

Tom Hughes starts off the pop-ups and from the week commencing May 17 will present See What You Say Cinema, live streaming projections created from community contributions onto Bridport buildings and via YouTube.

Tom said: "I'll be partly using the crude 'Paint' tool but also hastily grabbing and cutting out images from the internet to collage together new compositions within Photoshop.

"There'll also be a webcam, live-streaming the footage of the projections to YouTube so that people at home can comment and suggest what they'd like to see projected."

In Angie Porter's pop-up Pressing Paws, she becomes the world's first street portrait artist for dogs. Angie, an artist known for her dog portraits, will be holding four days of free street portrait sittings for people with their dogs/pets. People can book a time slot with Angie on the day, and all sitters will receive a free portrait. Sitters will be given the opportunity to share stories about their experiences with their pets during lockdown.

The inimitable Jane Silver Corren dresses up as vegetables and sings songs to raise a smile and a laugh from the van, which she will transform into the Salad Ballad Bus, using costumes and songs to create a mini spectacle, and encouraging onlookers to help compose the songs.

Kate Genevieve becomes The Medicine Doctor, inviting us to dream big, aim high and complete a task in a pop-up filled with hope and positivity that considers the things we have to look forward to as lockdown ends.

Marina Renee-Cemmick and Sophia Blee will turn the Lyric Art Van into a Tinkerers' Cabinet of Curiosities. They will be creating puppets and characters from found materials and your stories, especially based on any objects that you may be willing to bring and share with them, that you have used, come across, or that has been a part of your past year. This object - 15cm or smaller - will need to be something that you don't mind donating to their artwork.

Dates, times and locations will be listed on the Lyric's website and social media as they are confirmed.

Alongside pop-ups around town, you can also take part from home. The Lyric is inviting you to have a go at writing a rhyme, limerick or haiku based on your lockdown experiences.

Contributions will form part of exhibitions, street art and presentations over the coming year. Email them to [email protected] or post the on Facebook, tagging The Lyric Theatre.

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