On The Edge of Me is a solo dark comedy about the life of recent graduate, Remi, who confronts life as she knows it. The performances fuses storytelling, poetry, live music and audience participation to explore the themes of graduate blues, love, anxiety, unemployment and mental health.
“It’s a very familiar situation for a millennial crowd, and Mercy is so keen to talk about modern life and mental health with such honesty and warmth that you can’t help but leave this possibly pessimistic tale feeling optimistic.”
Oscar Balfour, ★★★★
“Brilliant, poignant and touching.’” International Youth Arts Festival Review
Exploring survival in the most fiercely competitive job market of all time, this piece is based on real-life testimony. Experience a play where the voice of one actress echoes the struggles of an entire generation of people facing unemployment, anxiety and depression.
The Artists
Written and performed by Yolanda Mercy, live music by Alex Leith, Directed by Jade Lewis, Produced by Gemma Lloyd and Dramaturgy by Jules Haworth. Supported by Arts Council England and O2 Think Big.
Why is this part of Doing Things Differently?
This one woman play, developed by Soho Theatre with groups of young women, explores unemployment, mental health and self worth. The play offers a platform to explore a range of resonant questions for today, with the express intention of changing people’s lives.
Age 14+
Doors open 6.30pm
Show length 1hr
]]>present the sequel to the enormous RaffleMania; RAFFLEMANIA II: STRIPWRECKED.
Feat. YxB Pete Dunne, IMPACT Wrestling's Mandrews, Wild Boar, Eddie Dennis, Nixon Newell, #CCK, Chief Deputy Dunne, Love Making Demon and all the characters of the Weird & Wonderful World of ATTACK!
Bring your PayPal receipt/transaction number as proof of purchase on the night!
Doors 7:00PM - Show Starts 7:30PM
]]>Researcher/word hoarder Alex Wardrop and careful artist and Arts psychotherapist Georgina Huntley are per/forming pharmacy. Through mixing inscription potions we will ease, balance, disrupt, agitate, heal, hurt, cure and/or poison.
In our interactive arts installation we consider the emergency of the current historical moment through the collecting, categorising, collaging and sharing of words. Inscription positions will emerge to cure or poison the emergencies of this moment that you will share with us.
We will mix up a remedy – or a poison – for your nastiest ailments, existential angsts, calcified blockages of power, silly woes, serious worries, calm thoughts, political grief, beastly hurts, bad feelings or too obvious forgettings.
Our pharmacy is per/formed through our interactions with you. In sending us a word or short sentence of the emergency you want to be cured or poisoned, you become part of the formation of new meanings and maybe the de/re-formation of old ones.
Any healing emerging from our performance/art/pharmacy will be participatory and, sometimes, ambivalent.
For help with your emergency, please send us a word or sentence to: makinglearning@gmail.com
Alternatively come down to Trinity on 9th June between 14:00-17:00 and join in on the day.
We will mix up your remedy, or position, and put it in a bottle for collection at the Trinity Centre between 14:00 -17:00 on 9th June 2016.
In this interactive history workshop, we time travel to meet colonial Australia’s first cook book writer - Mina Rawson. We will watch Mina arrive on the beautiful shores of Butchulla country, with her gun, her Pacific Islander slaves, her husband, and her dreams of making money in global capitalist networks through conquering the land and together analyse what our reactions to her actions can tell us about how we eat and live today. Are the margins of time, violence and the colonies at the dinner table with us still? What might it mean to kick colonisation out of the kitchen? A gentle and provocative engagement with how history can affect and inform us today.
Have you ever wanted to wear a robot? Or wondered how the lyrics in songs get you dancing? Perhaps you've found yourself moving in sync with everyone around you?
We're looking for curious and playful participants to come and take part in a one off and groundbreaking live research event that might just get everyone dancing. Created by the award-winning Guerilla Dance Project, no previous dance or movement experience is necessary in order to take part. Just bring along with you an energy and openness to see what happens on the night!
Please Note: Participants should be aware that the event is being filmed and that any data gathered will be used for non-commercial academic research. The Trinity Centre is accessible to wheelchair users. For more information please click HERE.
Transference is a collaborative project created by Guerilla Dance Project, Cambridge University, Exeter University and Watershed. It has been funded through the Being There EPSRC research project.
Tickets are free but should be reserved in advance.
]]>here are now seniors' dance companies in many cities. They work with professional choreographers to make dance pieces which build on the presence, experience and movement characteristics of elders and create stunning theatre. The best known is probably Sadlers Wells' Company of Elders, and there are companies in Bath, Cardiff, Caernarfon, the North East and various London boroughs to name a few.
They produce dance performance which stands up in terms of artistic excellence and telling content, and showcases older people's creativity.
It's time for this to happen in Bristol!
Two taster session are taking place in April and May to kickstart Bristol's own Dance Performance Company for over-55s. The company will be for people with or without dance experience, whatever your age, size, background or movement range.
If you love dancing, used to dance when you were younger, have always wanted to dance, or are drawn to performance, this company is for you! The focus will be on developing and expanding movement and dance skills, exploring different aspects of movement, and creating a dance performance based on members' ideas and experiences.
The company will be led by Julia Thorneycroft.
Julia has many years experience of creating, directing and teaching dance in professional, community and academic contexts. She is Programme Leader for the Dance Foundation Degree,City of Bristol College, and has Artistic Director roles for Kinesis Youth Dance Company, and Julia Thorneycroft Young Dancers Company. Her performance company, Julia Thorneycroft Dance, creates accessible dance theatre that explores current social themes and human nature, engaging the core human emotions of its audience. She is committed to reaching out beyond traditional theatre space into outdoor festivals and rural touring.
https://juliathorneycroftdancetheatre.com
For further information or to book a place at one of the taster sessions, please contact Jude Williams:
Phone or text: 0798 936 1389
‘Life can express itself and realise its freedom only through forms yet forms must necessarily suffocate life and obstruct freedom’ Georg Simmel
Forms/Movement: sky maps, road signs, street zodiacs, framed cartographies, spatial signifiers- travel routes ruled and governed by collusive eras and monetary systems that collapse and repress; each is as ineffectual as the last. We recreate the monolithic and archaic, streets of repetitive movement, plan upon plan, layer upon layer of ash and bone ad infinitum, built upon the foundations of another immovable transitory flight of being, a swirling mass of margins where there is no guidance and we bear witness to transparent city walls that breathe, contract, grip and expel.
The City (Transition) is a solo performance that uses sound and video improvisation, performance, composition and collage.
Bio: abher behn‘s creative output spans over two decades of music and sound composition, writing and visual work alongside art/feminist activism and DIY/community organising. Her belief in the necessity of a politicised feminist community and autonomous space for self identified women, queers and people of colour alongside the creation and sustenance of a non-corporate DIY cultural ethic without compromise, has remained the backbone of her life and work.
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The choreography of NEST has been accumulating over a period of 4 years since the early stages of my pregnancy with my daughter. It is a performance that shows life and art as the same. It is a piece about the function of love in ordinary life. The choreography took form as a settlement- a transformative relationship between my body, mind and memory. It examined in detail the repetition of forms that generated unique variables and deviations of meaning within the dance. This encompassed adaptations on the journey? through pregnancy to motherhood.
The work began to interrogate strands of survival and began to be a piece which related to everything around me. I began to translate the mythological female ability to multitask as an instinctive predisposition to reside within an inter-connective continuum. I began to unravel encounters with evolution and alternative creationist belief systems questioning news as a window to the world. How can I re-map my beliefs through relativistic perspectives- using real and imagined scenarios with my mother and family, negotiations with nature and civilization, the origins of sex, propositions of gender, interfaces with cars and strangers.
NEST examines the utilitarian aspects of fantasy, the fabric of humanity’s constructed reality, both of which are inter-dependent with our ability as human beings to fabricate and imaginary realms.
*amended time from 7pm
Maggie Nicols and Deborah Withers will facilitate a performance based on the exercise 'One Note Leads to Another'. The performance will invite participation for the audience through sharing long notes and repetitive phrases broken into discrete elements.
For this event a range performers will gather in clusters across the floor of Trinity's, Fyfe Hall producing a sprawling live soundtrack to accompany the expanded film work Goldf". This work draws deeply upon Owen's interest in layman’s relationship to politics, participation and performance. His work aims to expand ideas of cinemas and how narrative is forged through the competition between soundtrack, voice and performance. Starting at 7.30 musicians will converse, build and resist amongst the bits .
“How can you write about lives you have never lived. Spaces you have never visited” Immersion is key for critically acclaimed artist and performer Selina Thompson. She has worked as a hairdresser, spent time with job centre employees and service users in order to create shows that shows that are intimate, playful – she's worn a giant dress made out of cake - and deceptively poignant.
For her latest show 'Salt', Selina has undertaken an intensive tour of the UK, talking to old friends, hairdressers, academics, teenagers, artists, her nan, granddad, & god daughter before boarding a working cargo vessel, retracing the ancestral voyage from England to Ghana to Jamaica in a quest to connect past and present Black experience. She has returned rich with ideas for her new show but she is missing one crucial ingredient. You. She needs to know what's it like to be Black in Bristol. She needs our help.
Meet Selina, listen to her tales of travel, and share your experiences at an informal afternoon gathering at the Trinity Centre. Music and buffet provided.
Selina's show 'salt.' will be performed at the Arnolfini as part of Mayfest on the 12th, 13th, 18th & 19th May. Tickets available here:
http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/mayfest2016/salt-2/
Salt is co-commissioned by Theatre Bristol and Mayfest as part of the Mayfest 2016 programme.
Sue MacLaine & Nadia Nadarajah are performers in 'Can I Start Again Please'; the award winning show that explores the capacity of language to represent traumatic experience. The piece is performed in English and British Sign Language
Sue is a qualified & registered interpreter specialising in performance interpreting and Nadia is a native sign language user with a specialism in Visual Vernacular.
The workshop will explore approaches to translation, visual vernacular, creating a BSL script for auto-cue, use of auto-cue. It will be a mixture of practice and theory.
The workshop is aimed at people who are working as professional British Sign Language/English interpreters.
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Mayfest is Bristol’s unique annual festival of contemporary theatre. We are dedicated to presenting a broad range of unusual, playful and ambitious work from leading theatre makers from Bristol, the UK and beyond.
Mayfest is produced by MAYK in collaboration with Bristol Old Vic and works in partnership with other key arts venues across Bristol to present work in both established theatre spaces and non-theatre spaces all over the city.
Mayfest’s Artistic Directors are Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff.
A mix of work so tasty it makes you want to up sticks and move to Bristol permanently
The Guardian
A pulse-racing programme of work ranging that offers fledgling local companies cheek by jowl with artists of international reputation
The Guardian
]]>Light Steps takes children on a magical journey using light and colour, music and dance.
This interactive performance is for all the family to enjoy. We follow Alex, a kaleidoscopic rag doll, through portal moments in time, tracing a wonder-ful day from sunrise to sunset. We experience the world of the arts through Alex’s wondrous eyes. The piece takes inspiration from artist Spencer Finch’s exhibition; The Skies can’t keep their secret, with live music and dance.
Show 10.30am
For children age 3+ (and their families)
Luca Silvestrini’s Protein is coming to Bristol with its celebrated outdoor show (In)visible Dancing.
Dance Village Bristol are working with Protein Dance to create (in)visible dancing for performance during the week leading up to and at Bristol Harbour Festiva, and they need six local performers to join the cast and be part of this unique live event.
Auditions will be held here at Trinity Centre Sunday 15th May.
Apprentices will work and perform alongside company members and participating community based dance groups.
The opportunity would particularly suit recent dance and performance graduates & experienced under graduates based in and around Bristol.
You could be involved in co-creating a new piece of dance theatre especially for the Dance Village programme at Bristol Harbour Festival and perform alongside Protein’s dancers
Dates of residency performances: 11-16 July 2016.
If you have dance experience and would like more information or to get involved, please contact Katy Noakes on katynoakes@yahoo.com and let us know why you would like to take part. Deadline 30th April.
Please include a contact email and telephone number.
Please note: position is paid expenses only
Get a taste of (In)visible Dancing at https://youtu.be/A0pNP_q_sZc
(In)visible dancing at Dance Village is supported by The Island, Arnolfini, Theatre Bristol, ReStaged, Bristol City Counci and Arts Council England
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Some acorns DO fall far from the tree...
Gather under the branches for the biggest day in the woodland calendar, Drop Day! Arnold the acorn is about to drop from his tree and begin his amazing adventure in search of somewhere to put down his roots. Join Arnold as his story flies in the wind, wiggles across the land and splashes into the sea... Who will he meet along the way and will he ever find the perfect spot to call home?
Taking place in a special bell tent, Arnold's Big Adventure features beautiful shadow puppetry, wonderful original music to sing along to and plenty of thrilling surprises along the way...
Following the success of her one-woman show, The Tap Dancing Mermaid, Tessa Bide returns with an intimate, interactive production perfect for a child’s first theatrical experience, with plenty for parents to enjoy too! “Tessa Bide understands children in a way that can’t be taught” (Children’s Theatre Reviews).
Suitable for children aged 3 - 10 years and their grown-ups.
Limited tickets available so do please purchase in advance.
“just brilliant, so creative and engaging with the children (and the adults)...it was pitched just right”
★★★★★ Whatsgoodtodo.com
One day intensive with extended class and the opportunity for a hands-on play within our new virtual reality project 'Immersion'
Please email to book a place.