Hack Your Age
Hack Your Age: Imagine Technology For Your Future
A series of creative arts workshops, imagining and exploring the future of technology, it’s problems and it’s promise. All ages welcome.
5 – 20 February 2025
Intro session: Wed 5 February 4.30 – 7pm, The Citadel
Workshop sessions: Mon – Wed 10 – 12 February 10 am – 2 pm, The Citadel
Performance session: Sat 15 February, The Citadel
1pm Lunch
2-5 Rehearsals
6pm Show time
Final session: Thu 20 February 4.30 – 6.30 pm, Codebase
Locations:
CodeBase:
CodeBase Edinburgh
37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
EH1 2EL
Citadel Youth Centre
175 Commercial Street
Leith, Edinburgh
EH6 6JE
Lunch Provided!
About:
The internet is becoming more embedded in our lives. But what information does it collect about you? Do you think it is designed for you? Do you know how it works or what it looks like? Do you trust it? Will it be important to your future happiness or health?
We are inviting those who are starting to consider their old age, now or in the future, to join us at the Citadel Youth Centre for a a workshop series over the course of two weeks.
Through discussion, storytelling, theatre and crafts, we will make props and short performances based on your own future selves. We will explore what matters to you when it comes to the future, and the role technology might play in this (or not!). You will have a chance to “break the internet” in a safe space and make your own fictional technology for an imagined future. No specialist knowledge is required to enjoy this workshop – just bring your imagination and curiosity.
Hack Your Age blends tech and drama to explore what the role of technology will be in the future especially in our older age. It’s for younger and older people from all backgrounds and cultures.
In the programme we will:
- Explore what technology means in our lives today.
- Invent new technology that might exist in 10, 20 or 50 years time.
- Create and perform dramas about how that technology might work and go (badly) wrong.
- Present a performance of the plays using prototypes of the new technology we invent at 6pm on Saturday 15th February for an invited audience.
For more info and to take part, contact Ryan McKay at:
