Forthview Primary Announces Family Encounters Commission

Fake Moustache News is part of Imaginate's Creative Encounters project, which is placing children at the heart of the creative process. Forthview Primary School pupils commissioned Suzi Cunningham and Alex McCabe to create a performance called Soup for the North Edinburgh Community Festival and Edinburgh International Children's Festival Family Encounters.
Soup by Suzi Cunningham and Alex McCabe from Moonslide
Soup will see two chefs attempting to make soup using a range of vegetables and utensils while getting into comical situations with sketches, tea-towel acrobatics and kitchen pot music making. This idea was selected by P4-P7 children from Forthview Primary School in Pilton who will work closely with the artists to develop the characters, compose music and choreograph dance routines for the final performance.
Suzi and Alex said: "Working in communities to explore dance, clown, and collaborative cooking, we've found that this can open minds, hearts and mouths to wholesome vegetable goodness. Soups bring generations together. They represent at once ancestral wisdom and individual creativity: they bind families and cultures together, they recycle off-cuts, and they are made for sharing."