This beautiful musical encourages acts of kindness and that’s why the theatre and the Producers of Come From Away have partnered up to help the community by running a food drive for the South & East Bristol Foodbank. The collections will go straight to the bristol areas to help those in need and will be distributed by the food banks.
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00:00So could you tell me a little bit about what you have recently announced you are doing
00:05in collaboration with the Come From Away tour?
00:08Yeah, so we've decided to do a food drive for a local charity. We're going to do it
00:14for South East Food Bank, which is our nearest one. It's mainly because for anyone who's
00:22seen Come From Away, you'll know that the whole message of that musical is about human
00:30kindness, coming together as a community, volunteering, just sharing sort of love with
00:38strangers really. So we thought, why not celebrate the show by doing something really nice for
00:44our community?
00:47And what can people expect or what can people bring as part of this collaboration?
00:54So what we're asking is anybody who's coming to see the show, because the food drive is
00:59going to be running for the whole time that we've got Come From Away, which is the 20th
01:03until the 31st of August. So we're going to be asking any patrons coming along if they'd
01:09be able to bring a can of pulses or a canned meal of some kind, shampoo, I think toilet
01:18roll. We've got a whole list of things that we're just going to ask if anybody can to
01:23bring with them. People who aren't coming to see the show are welcome to donate as well.
01:28It's just that the donation point is going to be in our box office. So the box office
01:33is now only open 90 minutes before performance begins. So we just want to make sure people
01:37definitely know that so they don't come to the theatre and disappointed that they can't
01:41make a donation. But I think especially right now with everything that's happening in the
01:45news, sadly, all these riots that are happening, it's never been more important to remind people
01:51that there is kindness out there. There's good people and people who care about our
01:56community and want to be there for other people.