The tents

The Tents

Tent 1: Diary entries 

This tent is going to be filled with lots of diary entrys that have been torn up and lost, also we are going to hang washing lines on the top the tent using string and along it hang up some of the diary entries. Someone is going to sit cross legged in the middle of the tent surrounded by all the paper, and be looking at a blank diary.

 We Will Need:

• An empty notebook/diary 
• string
• scarp paper
• paper clips 

Tent 2: Nursery/ childrens tent 
In the tent we will be playing nursery rhymes in arabic to reprents that the kids are still kids and they have gone through such a traumatic event, Also it is going to play arabic songs that kids sing
We Will Need:

• Nursery rhymes in arabic 

Tent 3: supply tent 
This tent is going to have empty boxes that are labelled "water" and empty cans of food, this is going to demonstrate that in these camps they aren't going to have much food or drink to supply their families with.
We Will Need:

• Empty cardboard boxes
• Empty food cans

Tent 4: soup tent 
In this tent we are going to have a character cooking soup in her tent and when some of the audience comes into the tent she is going to offer them some soup, meaning that the audience can stay there the whole time if they would like to. 
we will need:

• Soup pot 
• large spoon 
• a travelling stove 
• pots and spoons for the audience 
• soup 

Tent 5: Art therapy 
This tent is where 2 teenage characters are having art therapy on the outside of this tent we are going to stick happy, lively, colourful pictures drawn by kids such as: as stick men families or flowers. But on the inside we are going to have drawings of the children's traumatising experiences. On the floor of the tent we are going to have lots of scrap paper and in the middle a tub of red paint. around the paint is going to be 2 kids dresses in white to show their innocence and purity, finger painting with red paint to show there innocence has been corrupted. During this performance they are going to ask some of the audience to paint with them, after they are going to be looking at the paint being fascinated by it. and they start putting paint on each other and the audiences hands, ans state "this is your fault"  "The blood is now on your hands"
We Will Need:

• Paint
• drawings

Tent 6: Ben's Tent
In Ben's tent all around on the floor there are going to be socks and Ben is going to talk to the socks. This is because his character is traumatised as all his family has died and the puppets he is talking to he thinks is his family. This symbolises how much he misses them and wants them to be back with him and in the background we are going to have Arabic music playing to convey there religion.
We Will Need:

• Socks
• lights
• music 

Tent 7: Memorial Tent 
In this tent we are going to have lots of pictures of people who have died with tea lights but its going to be an electric tea light. This is going to symbolise the loss of all the Syrian refugees, There is also going to be a missing persons wall because they really have that just in case the missing people find there picture and can notify their family.
We Will Need:

• Pictures
• letters spelling missing 
• Electric tea lights