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Posted: 23 Nov 2012 11:16 AM PST


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His dark Materials: Adie Blundell's imagination unleashed at Herbert art Gallery and Museum

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST

In his debut solo exhibition, Coventry artist Adie Blundell presents disturbing masks, highlights from his obsessive collecting of Victoriana and drawings of albatrosses.

Midlands Artists in West Africa Forum, MAiWA

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:43 AM PST

The Midlands Artists in West Africa Forum (MAiWA Forum)is an open-access forum for creative practitioners in the West Midlands whose work is connected to West Africa – including artists, makers, writers and other creative practitioners in the region.

This artist-led initiative will provide a platform for dialogue across disciplines between practitioners. Forum members will have the opportunity to share and reflect on practice and to explore how cross-cultural experience can be used to enrich our ways of working. In so doing, we aim to establish a community in the West Midlands for internationally-minded creative practitioners to collaborate, discuss, network and develop in an outward facing environment.

To become involved and help shape the development of MAiWA Forum, please join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/542716792409463/

 For more information please contact Joanna Skelt or Siân Conway by emailing:maiwaforum@gmail.com

 

Stage Manager, Vamos Theatre Company

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:41 AM PST

Vamos Theatre, one of theUK's leading full mask theatre companies, is seeking an experienced stage manager for the rehearsal and production week period of its new showFinding Joy, from 7th January 2013 to 7th February 2013. Rehearsals will be held in Malvern, Worcestershire. Ideally, Vamos Theatre would like to offer the role to an applicant whose base is in/near the Worcestershire area.

The role will include DSM duties in rehearsal, as well as coordinating pre-tour production and technical requirements. The successful applicant should be organised, reliable, tactful and have a sense of humour. Vamos Theatre prides itself on a friendly, efficient and creative working atmosphere.

Finding Joy is a comic, anarchic, touching and heroic full mask adventure which tells the story of Joy and her grandson Danny. Joy is creative, funny, loves to dance, and is losing her memory: Danny is rebellious, fearless, bright, and always getting into trouble. When out of the blue, Danny decides to become Joy's carer, where will their unexpected and playful bond lead them?

Finding Joy is aimed at an intergenerational audiences of 12 years +, and will tour to theatres, arts centres, and rural and community venues throughout 2013, and internationally in 2014.

Based in Worcester, Vamos Theatre creates innovative full mask theatre that brims with visual inventiveness, music, puppetry, dexterity and hilarity.  Vamos has been awarded two year project funding from Arts Council England Grant for Arts Programme. You can read more about the company at www.vamostheatre.co.uk.

The fee is £400 per week

To apply, please send you CV and a short cover letter: the closing date is 3rd December and interviews will be held in Worcester on 5thDecember.

Please email applications to info@vamostheatre.co.uk

Performers wanted for The Future Makers, Banner Theatre

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:39 AM PST

Performers wanted for The Future Makers by Banner Theatre

(Actors, musicians, singers, rappers, electronic music creators)

Description:   Banner Theatre are currently looking for three talented, professional and committed performers for The Future Makers, a new show touring in spring/summer 2013 to youth and community audiences in the North West and West Midlands.

The Future Makers explores the impact of austerity, cuts and closures on young people today.

We are one of Britain's longest established community theatre companies with forty year's experience of working with trade unions and marginalised/disadvantaged communities.

For this production we are looking for three individuals (male or female) who can meet all three of the following essential criteria:

1. Strong acting skills, preferably with a playing age of 16-29.

2. A high level of proficiency/talent in one or more of the following areas:

-        Singing (pop, rock, RnB, punk, ska styles).

-        Rapping/spitting (hip hop, pop, dubstep, punk, fusion styles).

-        Guitar (pop, rock, metal, thrash, punk, ska, RnB, funk, hip hop styles).

-        Electronic music creation (dubstep, post dstep, drum n bass, fusion styles).

3. A passion, interest and critical awareness around the subjects of politics, social change, campaigning and activism (especially in relation to issues that affect young people).

The recruitment process will involve a one day audition in Birmingham to take place in January 2013.  Successful candidates will be invited to contribute to two days of workshops to develop material in Jan/Feb 2013.  The Future makers will tour to youth and community venues in spring/summer 2013 over a three month period.   Payment will be equity contract rates.

Please email CVS, clips/links to examples of your work and a short paragraph to state how you meet the above criteria to mailout@bannertheatre.co.uk

Closing date 14th December 2012.

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