Join us for a fantastic evening filled with festive joy, live music and mingling at EXTERIOR: StageBase's Christmas Bash!
Whether you're an actor, crew member, or theatre enthusiast, this is your chance to celebrate the holiday season with mates who share your love for the stage. Whether 2024 was a bumpy ride or an awesome journey for you, it's time to celebrate!
Highlights of the Evening:
đ€ Live Performances
đš Fun activities and great venue
đ· Signature Theatre Cocktails
đș Dance & Mingling
Date:Â December 12 2024, Thursday
Time:Â 7pm - late
Venue: MatreSquared, Regents House, 2 Muirfield Cres, London E14 9SZ
Tickets:Â PWYW*
*If the cost is a barrier to your attendance, please get in touch with us at via the email address listed below and we will do our best to accommodate that. If you need to enquire about a refund, get in touch.
** Entry fee is solely used to cover the venue cost and all remaining money will be invested in our next development programme.
***venue is not wheelchair accessible.
Birmingham is known the world over for its theatre, dance, live music, and performing arts. But behind the scenes, making this happen, are 100s of people working to create wigs & costume, stage-managing, designing sets, running lights & sound, marketing shows, and building audiences.
Even when you already know these roles exist, they can often be seen as ânot for youâ or impossible to break into. We want to make these jobs and experiences more accessible, and to ensure the Backstage becomes as representative as the city of Birmingham itself.
We want to hear from young people who may not yet have considered a career in music, theatre, dance or live events in a non-performance role. You might be into building things, designing clothes, organising people, the tech-y bit of light and sound, or designing and painting sets. Or if you have no idea of what happens backstage, this could be for you!
The Workshops:
We have two consultation workshops on Friday 6 December at Birmingham Hippodrome:
Delivered by Dan Tsu (Lyrix Organix; Rumshack, Glastonbury Festival; Int. Beatboxing Championships), these interactive workshops give you a chance to tell us how to make Backstage roles and technical arts a place where you want to work, learn and create, whilst also learning a bit more about the industry.
We can help with travel expenses and participants will each receive a gift voucher. Plus - we'll make sure there is plenty of pizza, snacks and refreshments.
The consultations are supported by Birmingham Hippodrome, CBSO, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham Rep.
Bulletpoints is Ricochet Theatreâs series of new writing showcases
We select five 10 minute scenes or extracts from our script submission window and team the writers up with actors and directors who we also find via callouts. Previously, we have held Bulletpoints at the Pen Theatre, Golden Goose Theatre, Contact Theatre and Greenwich Theatre. It is a celebration of new writing and it is always a real pleasure to help emerging playwrights get their work seen in front of a supportive audience.
We are looking for actors to join our writing showcase Bulletpoints on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 January at Greenwich Theatre! Actors will be part of one of our five script teams, working with a director to stage one of our scripts which we received via open call. All applications must be done using the linked form, and you can find details about each script and the roles we have on offer at the top of this form.
As part of our commitment to diversity in the work we produce, we are keen to hear from people whose identities and backgrounds are underrepresented in the theatre industry.
FRESH is our annual festival of youth dance in Yorkshire. Youth dance groups from across Yorkshire come together for the day to take part in dance workshops before performing live on a professional stage. FRESH 2025 will take place on Saturday, 19 April 2025 in Bradford including a performance at Bradford Alhambra.
FRESH is the regional platform for One Dance UKâs U.Dance National Festival. One dance group will be selected at FRESH to perform at The U.Dance National Festival 2025 at Sadlerâs Wells.
Ignite your creativity. If youâre looking for a supportive and inspiring environment for your work, youâve come to the right place.
FUSE International is a platform for artists aged 5 â 30, and things are only becoming more ambitious every year.
The next festival will take place from 28 June â 6 July 2025.
Applications for 2025 will open on Tuesday 12 November 2024 and will close on Sunday 5 January 2025.
Established in 2009 by Creative Youth, FUSE International hosts over 80 events across venues and spaces around Kingston upon Thames every July. We provide a supportive environment for artists at every stage of their creative journey, from experienced performers to those putting on their first show.
FUSE International (formerly International Youth Arts Festival) takes place every year in summer in the stunning historical location of Kingston upon Thames, in London.
Applications open every Autumn and close in January. We have a wide range of spaces available during the festival, from small cabaret spaces to large scale auditoriums so whatever scale you feel ready to work to, weâre happy to help.
Pushback Theatre are delighted to present three months of drop-in writers groups for Trans+ Theatremakers and Playwrights, hosted at Theatre Deli as part of DeliMeets!
These groups, hosted from 3pm - 8pm on 11 November, 9 December, and 13 January, will aim to provide Trans+ Theatremakers and Playwrights the space, support, and community to make their next great piece of Theatre.
The sessions are free to attend and will take place in the cafe space at Theatre Deli, Leadenhall Street in London. The sessions will be chaired by award-winning Playwright and Theatremaker, Danielle James, and will invite writers to gather as a community and exists as writers in the space on a drop-in basis.Â
Calling all artists, sculptors, film makers, photographers, animators, illustrators!
Do you have an idea for a new artwork that is in the early stage of creation?
Bring it along to Creative Futures for Feedback Circle, an informal evening where visual artists from all disciplines come together to share their ideas and feedback on projects in the early stages of creation. Be the first to sneak a peek at exciting new works in progress and receive feedback that will support you to develop your early-stage artwork.
Where? The Courts, Bristol
When? Tuesday 3 December, 6pm - 8pm
Access to The Courts building is from Bridewell Street, with a step-free entrance in the passage between The Courts and The Island.
Tangleâs Artistic Director Anna Coombs started WOVEN in 2023 as a safe space for African, Caribbean and Global Majority creatives living in Swindon and the surrounding areas to meet and connect as an artist-led community.
The WOVEN network offers opportunities for peer-led meetings, soft skills training and practical theatre workshops, social events, and sharing projects and working practices. Our hope is to build a community where members with diverse skillsets can connect, form working relationships and support each other.
WOVEN meetings take place in Swindon and Southampton.
WOVEN is free to join. To find out more, please email Associate Producer Stefan Kwame Boakye at the address below.
Discover more about theatre and our productions from the people who make them; from conversations with the creative teams and actors to discussions on wider themes and context.
Our talks are now available online via YouTube, Instagram and zoom, and are mostly free.
If you are interested in applying to Guildhall School we would encourage you to attend an Open Day to find out more about the opportunities available at the School.
Youâll get to discuss the training with teaching staff, current students or recent graduates.
Visit our department pages for more details.
Production Arts:
Virtual Open Day, Monday 6 December
Music
Annual Viola Day (in-person), Thursday 25 November
Music Therapy Open Day (in-person), Monday 13 December
Acting:
In-person Q&A, Wednesday 1 December (booking opens Monday 1 November).
