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  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    Stacy Makishi

    Stacy Makishi

    Vesper Time

    Thu 1 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    Stacy Makishi’s performance work Vesper Time takes a bold look at loss and mourning and her onetime wish to be a missionary. Vesper Time weaves together the undercurrents of Moby Dick and 80’s and 90’s pop culture to offer up a ‘vesper’, a secular evening prayer. Shot through with her characteristic wit, this solo show draws on Stacy’s stand-up comedy roots and her theatrical sense of the uncanny.

    Vesper Time is a Chelsea Theatre and Colchester Arts Centre co-commission and supported by the National Theatre Studio. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and produced by Artsadmin.

    “I admire Stacy’s raw and loving energy. It was refreshing to experience something so humorously absurd containing such powerful substance. Stacy Makishi managed to open my heart with complex laughter”
    Total Theatre

    www.stacymakishi.com

    Photo credit: Manuel Vason
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2014

    Tortoise in a Nutshell with Cumbernauld Theatre

    Feral

    Feral

    Thu 9 Oct | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

    Combining puppetry, immersive soundscapes and multimedia technology, the multi award-winning company Tortoise in a Nutshell build an entire world in front of the audience’s eyes. With barely a word spoken, Joe looks back at his childhood home and traces its journey from idyllic seaside town to community gripped by anarchy. Feral is a Fringe First Award winner, Total Theatre Award nominee and Edinburgh Festival sell-out show.

    Supported by Arts Council England

    “Mesmeringly inventive… technically, visually, aurally and politically, it’s a tremendous show”
    ★★★★ The Scotsman.

    www.showandtelluk.com/feral

    @TortoiseinaNut | @Show_And_Tell

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2013

    Performing Place Symposium

    The ShowRoom Chichester

    An Open Invitation:
    PERFORMING PLACE SYMPOSIUM

    Saturday 1st June 2013, Chichester University, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester.
    9.30a.m. – 5.00 p.m.

    The Dance and Performing Arts Department at Chichester University invite researchers, practitioners, artists and post-graduate researchers to a 1 day symposium that will explore, celebrate, problematize and articulate notions of experiencing, encountering, articulating and ‘performing’ place through creative arts inquiry.
    The symposium will include installation and performance work, academic paper presentations, informal discussions and opportunities to engage in dialogue with colleagues interested in exploring practices and processes of experiencing and ‘performing’ place, and associated notions of (amongst others) site-specificity, embodiment, mobility, location, space, place and performativity.

    The symposium aims to stimulate a sharing of knowledge and ideas in an informal, playful and participatory manner.

    The event will take place on Saturday, 1st June 2013 at Chichester University, Bishop Otter Campus.

    CONFIRMED CONTRIBUTORS:

    • Fiona Wilkie: ‘Walking/cruising/motoring: performing place on the move’
    • Carl Lavery: ‘Postgeopathological Ecologies: Simon Whitehead and the Body as Home’
    • Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow: ‘Experiences of Skript: A micro-installation’
    • Virginia Farman: ‘Performance in Urban Spaces’.
    • Victoria Hunter: ‘Dancing-Worlding the Beach’
    • Gregg Whelan: ‘What I Run About When I Run About Running’
    • Pete Phillips: GIFT-TAKE-MAKE-GIFT: A one-on-one performance encounter (running throughout the day)

    The day will also include a work in progress performance of a new outdoor dance performance piece, Everyday Hero, which is a development of the Mass touring show by Bicycle Ballet. Everyday Hero has been made with participants with visual impairments and 3 sighted dancers, and tandem bicycles. The work employs the structure of the Hero’s journey to explore themes of heroism found in the real life experiences of people with visual impairments.
    This is a free event, tea and coffee will be provided on the day, attendees are advised to provide their own lunch as there are no catering facilities on campus on that day.
    Please email Vicky Hunter at v.hunter@chi.ac.uk to reserve a place.

    We look forward to welcoming you soon!

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