Wrexham teenagers take part in virtual time capsule to document their time during lockdown

Teenagers across Wrexham are taking part in a virtual time capsule project to document their experiences during the coronavirus lockdown.

The group, which are part of the District 14 youth theatre at Ty Pawb, are creating weekly videos about their lives during isolation as part of the Coronavirus Time Capsule.

The project, which was launched by Company Three, encourages teenagers and young people to document their experiences and use the videos as an opportunity to express themselves.

Andy Taylor-Edwards, who runs District 14, said the “voices of young people at this time are perhaps under represented.”

Locally all 16 members of the group, who attend St Josephs, Darland, Rhosnesni High and Bishop Heber schools, are taking part in the time capsule project until they are able to meet in person again.

Andy said: “I felt it would be a good idea to give these teenagers a chance to reflect on the situation and meet online once a week.

“It’s keeping these young people connected and created and injecting some much needed purpose.

“Personally, I think it would be a great thing to report and to show how the lockdown is impacting young people.”

The project has been welcomed by members of the theatre group, who say it has helped them feel a sense of normality during such uncertain times.

14-year-old Dave, said: “From being involved in the coronavirus time capsule project I get a number of things out of it.

“Firstly it prevents me from getting bored, but more importantly it helps to make me feel like I am still apart of something even if we all are stuck at home.’

Erin, also 14, added: “I like being involved in the time capsule project because once we all go back to normality, we will have evidence of the memories that we made at home and the new skills that we learned.

“It will be useful to others to see what happened at this time for years to come.”

Nathan, 13, said: “The project brings the outside in as I haven’t been out of the house for 3 weeks since school closed.

“I get to see my friends, be a part of history and so that I can look back and remember.

“The thing I get out of doing the time capsule is being able to carry on being creative and being involved with things that I did before the pandemic,” added 13-year-old Dylan.

“Also it gives us all an opportunity to reflect on this situation and realise that we are all in it together.”

There is a devoted @D14Time twitter feed for the time capsule and weekly films are uploaded on YouTube every Friday. You can view the first film, below:-