Earlier this year, we commissioned 20 Artists from York and N.Yorkshire to produce a brand new five minute piece each, as part of Green Shoots. The line up contained a broad range of professional artists – poets, performers, singers, dancers, digital artists – and their brilliant works premiered on our stage on 07 and 08 June.

Now Green Shoots finds a new home online. All the artists have worked hard to create digital versions of their work, and we’re delighted to share the with you now.

Together, these 20 shorts are a real celebration of the tremendous talent and ingenuity we have across our region – bringing together twenty wonderful local artists into one brilliantly eclectic project.

Each day this week we’ll be releasing more content so keep an eye out here and on our social channels…

If There Was Ever Anything Worth Hoping For Then She Hopes

By Alexander Wright

Spring In My Step

By Dora Rubinstein

I’ll Go T’other

Written by Gus Gowland

Performed by Joe Douglass

‘Don’t Mow, Let It Grow!’

Directed by Sam Conway (Little Leaf Theatre)

Performed by Alice Boddy

Music and Video by Josh Hutt & Sam Conway

The Three Alottmenteers

Written by Kate Bramley (Bad Apple Theatre)

Performed by Richard Kay, Danny Mellor and Meg Matthew

Hang On Little Tomato

Direction & Choreography by Hayley Del Harrison

Digital Lead Stan Gaskell

Performed by Charlotte Wood

The Ocean

Written and performed by Carey Simon

Pianist Cynthia Wood

The Ballad of Blea Wyke

Written and performed by Hannah Davies and Jack Woods

Stones on the Riverbed

Created by Nettle Soup and Polychrome Studios

Performed by Georgia Firth and Josh Liew

Greenfingers

Written and performed by Fladam

Beanstalk

Written by Paul Birch

Performed by Paul Birch and Mark Gowland

Boss B***h

Created by Bolshee in collaboration with Kitsch (Elle Bennett)

Baby Bird

Written and performed by Ela Portnoy

Green Shoots

Choreographed and performed by Ana Silverio (Terpsichoring)

All the Word is Green

Written and directed by Sam Bond

Her Face / My Face

Written and performed by Esther Irving

Tatu Dances: Stories of Healers

Written and performed by Butshilo Nleya

The Sapling

Created by Libby Pearson and Emily Chattle

Green Man

Written and performed by Joe Feeney

Beckon

Created by Robert Powell, Ben Pugh and Kitty Greenbrown