“Anything we can do to involve children in the Arts must presage a richer society in the future” Jeremy Irons

Jarrold Retail has contributed to an exciting project supported by the Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts in conjunction with Norwich Playhouse. The START project involved 550 year 8 students from six Norfolk Schools creating work around modern interpretations of Romeo & Juliet. As part of the project students attended workshops at Norwich Playhouse where they saw Joe Calaco’s production of Shakespeare's R+J set in a 1950s boys boarding school, and Rannell a hip hop dance company. The students produced A1 posters reflecting their impressions and were really engaged with and stimulated by the project –these are young people who had little or no access to or interest in the Arts before this project

Jarrolds supported the project by providing book tokens for the Cross-Curricular Start Project Competition and for individual students chosen to represent their schools, by providing relevant books and A1 art boards, and there were also special window displays in Exchange Street at the beginning and end of the programme.