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  • The Club on the Edge of Town

  • A Pandemic Memoir
  • By: Alan Lane
  • Narrated by: Alan Lane
  • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Summary

"There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons, no one gets opera. That’s what I believe."

A deeply moving memoir of how a group of artists fed their local community during the COVID pandemic.

When crisis hits and audiences stay home, what’s the most useful thing a theater company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop help shop for those in need. In 15 months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels.

With music from RashDash.

©2022 Alan Lane (P)2022 Alan Lane
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Wow! a must Listen!

Absolutely loved this! gripped from start to finish!
perfect that it's narrated by the author.. you can really feel like you are on the journey wirh him. inspiring!

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Brilliant and important

This is an extraordinary account of people being brave and brilliant in the face of one obstacle after another. An incredible book

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Incredible story told incredibly

Inspiring story of the power of kindness and adaptability when everything else falls apart. You won’t regret listening and it’ll stay with you for a long time.

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Heartwarming and Heart-breaking

An incredibly honest tale of an inspiring group doing amazing things for their community. Thank you Alan.

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Wow. We all need to hear this.

The depth of emotion and the inspiration contained in this book is profound. Exceptional.

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A glorious book

This was recommended to me, I loved reading the book so much I wanted to hear Alan read it. This is a remarkable story of what kind, decent people can achieve

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Everyone needs to hear this

The power of humanity and the sheer goodness of some people to effect change and help the most vulnerable. Should be required reading/listening for everyone. Thank you Slung Low and Alan Lane.

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How need can drive growth in people's hearts and minds

Excellently crafted and passionately narrated by the author, this book lays bare to the world the events of just one small corner of a northern town during the pandemic. How necessity spawned a collective solution but born of a simple mantra. Be kind, be useful. We go again tomorrow.
Set against the complex social challenges of the COVID pandemic, the SlungLow theatre company lived it's mantra to provide a supportive safety net for the most vulnerable in the community they operated from.

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Fantastic!

Shows us the love we can have for other people in times of need! A moving memoir

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Listen, Learn and be Humbled

Anyone reading this should be aware that I am totally biased in my view as I am wholeheartedly an Alan Lane and Slung Low Fanboy.

I have both read and listened to this book now and have gotten different things from both mediums. Through both, Alan has made me laugh out loud, think deeply, and more often than I'd like to admit, forced me to fight one or more tears back.

This is a beautiful account of how an exceptional group of committed people put their lives and souls into supporting thier community in a time of need. Not because it was their job but because they could see that they had skills and talent that would help and their values wouldn't let them sit on that knowledge. Alan and the Slung Low team are a beacon to us all. They remind us that we are all capable of effecting change and when we work together worlds can change. The best bit is they are exactly like you and me, they just decided to act.

Read the book. It is fantastic it's easily digestible and the stories are short so you don't feel commited to huge chapters which is good for people like me. But please please please listen to this. Hear the lived experiance of Alan and his team. Feel the passion, the anger, the dispair and the joy of the journey they went through as they did their bit, and more, when everyone else was busy throwing stones at them from the sidelines. I am reminded by this book to be stronger than my excuses, to do more, and so it is not an overstatement to say I am a better person for Alan sharing these stories with us.

Be kind.
Be useful.

Slung Low, thank you. Keep going.

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