Baa Baa Baric: Have You Any Pull? (2007—)

By Mark Storor

 
A photograph of four young people, dressed in white aprons and black bowler hats embellished with fresh flowers, holding small bouquets of flowers.

A photograph of four young people, dressed in white aprons and black bowler hats embellished with fresh flowers, holding small bouquets of flowers.

Baa Baa Baric: Have you Any Pull? is a twelve year undertaking by artist Mark Storor in collaboration with the people of St Helens, and commissioned by Heart of Glass.

Since 2016 Mark has partnered with Merseyside Police, Change Grow Live, St Helens Young Carers, St Helens YMCA, Rainford High Technology College and Peter's C. of E. Primary School.

The project poses the question: Is the most brutal act of barbarism civilisation? Confronted by its own set of negative statistics, St Helen’s is a town symbolic of national inequality. In a radical act of rebellion Baa Baa Baric harnesses the powers of creativity, imagination and possibility, refuting labels and challenging the status quo.

An enactment, a visual manifesto and a fairy tale, Baa Baa Baric: Have You Any Pull?is an artwork that recognises the mighty strength of our youngest children to take on the challenges of the world, gives older men in St Helens a voice from beyond the grave and communities a platform to share wisdom and dance to a different tune.

The first part of this long-term project culminated in a series of thought provoking acts, which took place in St Helens town centre in September 2017.

More information:

Website: http://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project/baa-baa-baric/

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Mark Storor

Mark Storor is an award-winning artist with an international reputation and extensive experience of working collaboratively with a wide range of organisations and communities, including work in hospitals, prisons, schools and housing estates. Working in the unique space between live art and theatre, he has been described in the British press as: ‘a genuinely visionary theatre maker,’ ‘an alchemist,’ and ‘one of the most distinctive voices in British theatre’. He specialises in platforming the voices of those we all too rarely choose to hear and usually works over several years to create extraordinarily beautiful, tender and uplifting work in which community participants and professionals work side by side in genuine partnership.

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