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- New Art West Midlands 2014 - 10 days to apply
- A3 Project Space
- Arena Theatre launches drama summer school for young people
- Jestaminute Community Theatre bring you a new play’ An Angel Abroad..
- China Plate Shows, news and Recommendations
- Right Up Your Street – an Improvised Soap Opera
| New Art West Midlands 2014 - 10 days to apply Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:30 AM PDT
Submissions for New Art West Midlands 2014 close on Monday 1 July. If you graduated from Birmingham City University, Coventry University, Staffordshire University, University of Wolverhampton or University of Worcester with a Visual Arts degree in the last three years you have the opportunity to have your work shown in some of the most prestigious galleries in the region in New Art West Midlands, a show designed to showcase quality, innovative work by the best new talent in the region. Apply here.
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| Posted: 21 Jun 2013 03:44 AM PDT
A3 Project Space is a new gallery in Digbeth, Birmingham that will launch a responsive and evolving programme of exhibitions, projects and events next week. The opening exhibition, A3 Works brings together the work of over 50 artists who each approach the dimensions of the A3 paper scale as a limitless possibility. The exhibition includes new and existing works by contemporary artists and designers working nationally and internationally. The gallery launch takes place from 6pm on Friday 28 June 2013 and the exhibition continues until 6 July. The gallery is open Fridays and Saturdays 12-5pm.
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| Arena Theatre launches drama summer school for young people Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:19 AM PDT Arena Theatre launches drama summer school for young people Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre, in partnership with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, is offering a week-long summer school for young people during the summer holidays. During the week, participants will be developing technique, learning new stage skills and creating their own work, whilst having fun in a friendly environment. The summer school is open to young people aged 13 – 18 and will run from Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August, from10am – 3pm each day. It costs just £35 for the week. The summer school follows a successful drama taster workshop for young people in May, and marks the start of a new youth theatre in Wolverhampton, run by the Arena Theatre in partnership with Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In the autumn, the Arena Young REP will meet weekly on Monday evenings and will prepare work to show at the Young REP's annual festival in 2014. The Arena Young REP is the first satellite of the Young REP to be developed in Wolverhampton To reserve a place on the summer school and for more information, people can call 01902 321321 or visit www.arenatheatre.info.
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| Jestaminute Community Theatre bring you a new play’ An Angel Abroad.. Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:17 AM PDT Jestaminute Community Theatre bring you a new play' An Angel Abroad…' which is coming to a venue near you. Funded by Arts Council England and Worcestershire Council and based on real life accounts; this new production tells the stories of three relationships dealing with the issue of power and control. Gavin Shurvinton, Domestic Abuse Project Worker. said a very haunting performance that highlights the complexity of controlling abusive behaviours. The stories told are realistic and shows how these issues can affect everyone and anyone." |
| China Plate Shows, news and Recommendations Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:13 AM PDT Here is our latest China Plate news plus our pick of shows, events and opportunities. China Plate news… We've just returned from a fantastic 10 days at Pulse Fringe Festival in Ipswich, which was both exhausting and brilliant! This year's festival saw 47 fantastic companies presenting a hugely exciting range of work, as well as a brand new competition – the Suitcase Prize, which gave a £1000 to the best piece of work that could travel on public transport. The prize was an experimental new way of inspiring theatre-makers to create environmentally and economically sustainable work. All of the work was of an incredibly high standard, and we were thrilled to announce the inaugural winners as Two Destination Language, who presented an excerpt from their brilliant new show, Near Gone. There were numerous other highlights, including a day of scratch performances from some of the most exciting up and coming theatre-makers in the UK; bespoke work made with members of the New Wolsey audience, and the New Wolsey Young Company respectively; and a stonking line up of other shows. This spring we joined forces with Pulse, Sprint, MayFest and Sampled to create a brand new making opportunity, The Spring Festivals Commission. Over the course of the spring Made In China have been working on a new show, Gym Party which each festival showed as a work in progress showing. They're in the process of finishing it off at the moment and it will be opening in its finished form at The Almeida Summer Festival on the 12th and 13th of July: http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/gymparty After a hugely successful Spring Tour (with the show playing to sold-out audiences at Battersea Arts Centre), we're extremely proud to announce that Caroline Horton's Messhas been nominated for an Off-West End award for Best New Play! The awards will be announced next Spring. Mess also won an Argus Angel Award for Best New Play (Brighton Fringe). The show is now gearing up for a 10- week Autumn tour around the UK – dates will be announced soon. You can keep up to date with all Caroline's news via her website here. Inspector Sands' first show for children, Rock Pool, has finished its initial preview tour, and the company will be reworking and touring the show in 2014. Responses from audiences and venues alike were excellent, with many commenting that the show had equal appeal to both children and adults. Prawn and Crab are looking forward to more adventures next year, so watch this space for touring dates in 2014! Paul is currently in rehearsal at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme for Stones in His Pockets, which will be playing from 5th-27th July. This is the second show Paul has directed at the New Vic so do go along and see it if you're nearby! You can book your tickets here. We're really excited to be co-producing Action Hero's show, Hokes Bluff, in Edinburgh this year. The show has been chosen as part of the British Council Showcase, and will be part of Forest Fringe's 2013 programme. Hoke's Bluff uses high school storylines, inspiring locker room speeches and sentimentality to tell an underdog story that's been told a million times before, shifting and re-arranging the trite conventions and narratives of American teen movies to talk about what it means to be a winner on the inside. It'll be previewing at Warwick Arts Centre on Wednesday 24th July. Tickets will be available on the Warwick Arts Centre website shortly. Finally, we're extremely sad to announce that Rosie is leaving us..she's off to Australia where her soon to be husband has just become Production Manager at Sydney Opera House. We are of course sad to see her go… but wonder if this might be the start of China Plate Australia… Below is some more information on our projects, plus recommendations of some fantastic opportunities and events. Ed, Paul and Rosie China Plate present… Inspector Sands' |
| Right Up Your Street – an Improvised Soap Opera Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:11 AM PDT Foghorn's massively successful improvised soap opera is back… And this time there's singing! What does it take to create a successful soap? Dozens of writers? Months of planning? Millions of pounds? Not if you're Foghorn Improv! In this show we will create a gripping improvised soap opera from start to finish, using nothing but audience suggestions and our own imaginations. No scripts, no rehearsals, but plenty of laughs, tears, and leaps into the unknown. Right Up Your Street – an Improvised Soap Opera   |
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