Light Steps takes children on a magical journey using light and colour, music and dance
Light Steps by Adesola Akinleye
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.
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
Can I Start Again Please tells parallel narratives in parallel languages (English & British Sign Language) which intersect, diverge and build to create a mesmerising mix of verbal and visual theatre.
The piece desiccates and dissects childhood trauma via an exploration of Wittgenstein and semantics. Can I start Again Please investigates the power and failings of language – language that tells and hide truths – sparring across the heard and the unheard, the spoken and the unspoken.
The script is poetic and full of humour and is performed by Sue MacLaine and Nadia Nadarajah with a bright, coursing and relaxed reciprocity.
The piece is fully accessible to British Sign Language users.
Winner: Total Theatre Award for ‘Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form’ Edinburgh Fringe 2015
“This gracefully intelligent production faces up to so much: trauma, barely articulable feelings, the limits of language. You emerge wondering how a staging so kind can be so devastating.”Maxie Szalwinska, The Sunday Times
“MacLaine’s challenging, devastating and devastatingly good piece…raises pertinent questions.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“How do you make sense of abuse? How do you take it apart to process it? This profound and poetic piece—almost a performance sculpture—makes a start.” Matt Trueman, Fest magazine
Booking is now open to MAYK friends, and will open to the public at 10am on Friday 11 March. Become a MAYK friend and get priority booking, too.
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.
“When St Paul and the Broken Bones emerged from their small-town-Alabama home and started playing shows, it was almost as if a fully realised group of old pros had stepped out of a time capsule from its Muscle Shoals’ heyday” (Village Voice).
On Half the City, the band’s debut, “St Paul (aka Paul Janeway) leads the charge of the soul-band, delivering truly amazing, gut-wrenching vocal performances”(PopMatters).
Grit, elemental rhythm, tight-as-a-drumhead playing, and a profound depth of feeling: these are the promises of a great soul band. And St. Paul & The Broken Bones deliver on those promises.
Half The City is the compelling full-length Single Lock/Thirty Tigers debut of the Birmingham, Alabama-based sextet, who have already created a maelstrom of interest with their roof-raising live shows and self-released four-song 2012 EP. Produced by Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, and recorded and mixed in the storied R&B mecca of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the album harkens back to the region’s classic soul roots while extending the form with electrifying potency.
An emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls on the outer limits of creativity and building regulations.
The Castle Builder tells the true story of an inmate in a Norwegian psychiatric institute who over five years built a castle on a remote headland.
The show spirals outwards from personal accounts into tales of other outsider artists who’ve been inspired to build gigantic extraordinary structures, alone, in secret, and without artistic validation from the real world.
Vic Llewellyn and Kid Carpet re-imagine these stories and tell them with live music, projection and heartfelt storytelling.
“Mark E Smith could have been their co-writer; that’s a compliment” – Pilot Nights, Coventry
“The Castle Builder is already total magic. What a world.” Tanuja Amarasuriya, Sleepdogs
“gorgeous collision of the daft & profound” – Kate Yedigaroff (MAYK/Mayfest)
Booking is now open to MAYK friends, and will open to the public at 10am on Friday 11 March. Become a MAYK friend and get priority booking, too.
Developed with support from MAYK and Bristol Old Vic Ferment.
A collaboration between Trinity and Invisible Youth, to raise funds for Felix Road Adventure Playground in Easton & school projects in Dunkirk & Calais Refugee Camps.
Featuring:
The Carnyvillains
Zen Hussies
The Undercover Hippy
Mutanta
Pete Not Bombs
Miss Radida
DJ Clod the One and Only
+ special guests TBC
Join us beforehand for FREE pre-event: ‘The Refugee Crisis: What Can We Do?’ an evening of live music and refreshments, information, talks and discussion about the refugee crisis, 6pm-8pm.
Plus all-night info area & featured works from ‘From Syria With Love’ exhibition of Syrian art.
Every year seems to bring more bad news; the poor have to pay for the mistakes of the rich. The cuts have hammered education, benefits, pensions, housing and the NHS. At the same time, global climate change and corporate land exploitation have caused extreme weather patterns, with oil wars and arms sales stirring up conflict across the Middle East and beyond.
However, people have been fighting back, through strikes and the taking up of arms. If capitalism collapsed tomorrow, we ask ourselves: would we be ready?
As anarchists, we have developed concepts around mutual aid, co-operation, and direct action, but how do we put these into practice?
At this year’s Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, we will create a space for people to explore these ideas. How will we create a better, more equal society? How will we hold people to account for their actions, if we abolish prisons and the police? If revolutions happen tomorrow, we won’t have all the answers, and an anarchist society will not occur overnight. But the core principles of anarchism offer us the building blocks for the future, and a roadmap on how to get there.
We’re showcasing the best of Bristol so join us for what is always a great day out.
We are currently pulling together a fabulous programme of live performances, workshops, activities and stalls for all so if you have a great idea get in touch: info@3ca.org.uk
More info coming soon…
