Working Boys Club’s new and exciting project cocreated with primary school pupils
Jason and Adam Dupree, identical twins from Poole set-up the Working Boys Club in 2020. Both started in the trades: Adam as car mechanic and Jason as an electrician but both are skilled creative artists too and they combined their creative talents with their technical abilities to create a fun and accessible performance style. Their current show Serving Sounds has been an international success and will be appearing at Glastonbury Festival later this month as well as at festivals in the UK and Europe across 2024. Serving Sounds is a tactile sound installation that creates connection through music – a bar that serves bass rather than beer.
Jason and Adam are now pivoting their technology and creating a new sound work for families. They have been utilising creative young minds to help them develop and design a new show Noisy Noise Noise.
Noisy Noise Noise will be a tactile sound experience for young children and their families. With funding support from BCP Cultural Hub (a partnership organisation that brings together regional schools and cultural organisations to deliver creative and educational projects), Working Boys Club have been running a series of interactive workshops in primary schools across Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch with over 200 eight and nine year olds to develop and design this next show.
Adam Dupree has been bowled over by the creative input from local pupils:
‘We had a great time meeting and working with a load of schools all over Christchurch, Poole and Bournemouth. The creativity and energy from the pupils exceeded our expectations. We’re very excited to build Noisy Noise Noise with all the great ideas generated by the kids and we’re looking forward to returning to the schools to share what we’re developing.’
Teachers were also highly enthusiastic about their pupils’ immersive experience:
‘Our kids were buzzing after their workshop last week. They thoroughly enjoyed it and the staff did too.’
‘A pupil who finds activities more challenging stayed and participated throughout the whole workshop and had a wonderful time.’
Pupils were effusive about the day: ‘It was the best day I’ve ever had.’
The Working Boys Club will be bringing all their experiences together for an irresistible installation that plays with young imaginations.