Aged 13-25 and live or learn in Hammersmith & Fulham?
This October, Youth Arts Festival is giving you the opportunity to get involved with creative experiences and training – and it’s all absolutely free.
The lineup includes 70 interactive workshops, exciting live performances, industry panels, and short courses for you to mix and match.
You could ask your questions about careers on stage and screen with the star of Netflix’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, India Amarteifio, learn how to become a session musician from an MD who has worked with Dua Lipa, Dermot Kennedy, and Jess Glynne, or have a West-End experience with Disney’s The Lion King.
You can also have some relaxed fun at our Paint and Smoothie Sip workshop, transform your friends in a Special Effects Prosthetics Makeup session, or finally learn how to crochet or play guitar in a beginner friendly class.
And if you just want to let loose over the holidays, make sure to join us on Thursday 29th October for a DJ Set from Bimini – drag icon, breakout star of Drag Race UK, a music artist who has supported international legends like Lady Gaga and Fatboy Slim.
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Dante or Die are currently recruiting for a Trainee Director as part of their InSites Trainee programme!
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Dante or Die are currently recruiting for a Trainee Producer as part of their InSites Trainee programme!
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All cultures have at some stage developed and some still conserve, forms of theatre that involves puppets and masks. This workshop investigates the mysterious relationship between the mask and life. Its purpose is not to teach how to play a theatrical mask, but to discover what occurs when we put one on. At first, the mask feels like a strange object that bothers us. Gradually however we begin to feel hidden, and we start to do things that we would never ordinarily do. We discover a new freedom that is greater than the naked face. Detached from our own face and words that we use in social contexts something emerges that is greater than ourselves, something more powerful, more visceral, more confident, more honest and we have the whole body to express it.
We will be using half masks: talking masks from the tradition of Italian commedia dell’arte.
These masks only come alive in situations of great urgency. They require a high level of playing and a rigorous physical discipline. They propose a theatre of immediate reaction. Driven by fundamental motors of the human condition, the playing is governed by the need to survive, physically and socially, in situations of hunger, fear, poverty, jealousy, vanity, pride… The universal passions and desires that lie under the thin veneer of education and manners.
This short workshop offers an opportunity to go deep down in our bodies and find in ourselves new, surprising gestures and voices. Together we will explore humanity’s tragic and comic contradictions though pure joy of movement and play.
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Told by an Idiot
ZooNation is offering a paid placement opportunity on our upcoming production Ebony Scrooge, at Sadler’s Wells East, as a part of our Behind The Scenes Initiative. The initiative aims to support Black and Global Majority talent in creative and backstage theatre roles, who are currently underrepresented in the sector.
For Ebony Scrooge the placement offered is with the Lighting team, learning from and shadowing our Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer.
The placement will take place across 14 sessions, which may vary between full days and split days. Within this placement, you will receive hands on experience of working on a main stage production with ZooNation.
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Please send a letter (max 1 A4) OR a short video or audio submission (max 1 minute) explaining why you are interested in this programme. Please include details of any relevant experience or transferrable skills you have to date.
Successful applicants will be invited to a Zoom chat with members of the team, where we can get to know you better and discuss the role in more detail. After this time, one applicant will be invited to join the programme.
Deadline: Monday 26 October at 12:00 (midday)
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The floor is yours. The story is ours.
CEILIDH is a brand new musical that invites you to step into the heart of one of Scotland's oldest and most beloved traditions. It’s a gathering of songs, stories and dances, all while sharing a dram or two along the way.
Led by a lively caller, you’ll be swept up in a whirlwind of music and memories from the moment you walk through the door. But as the music builds and the night takes hold, a story begins to unfold. A family story. One of love, legacy, and why tonight's ceilidh matters more than most.
Fresh from sell-out seasons in Baltimore and Pitlochry, CEILIDH makes its premiere at Shoreditch Town Hall. This joyous, irreverent, heart-pounding night is created by award-winning duo Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie (Noisemaker), and directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Sam Pinkleton (Oh, Mary!).
Whether you're on the floor and part of the action, or taking it all in from the balcony, CEILIDH meets you exactly where you are.
The band's already playing. Find yourself a hand to hold.
Book from £20 today!
Are you 14+, do you love Group 64? Do you have ideas and opinions that you'd like to share? Want to meet people outside of your classes? Sounds like you should join our Youth Committee!
We are Group 64’s Youth Committee, we are long standing members, who give important views, feedback and help to the Youth Director. We help to make G64 the best it can possibly be!
Application: Send us an email on info@g64.org.uk letting us know why you're keen!
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Go deeper with 3 person puppet improvisation
Blind Summit’s “extreme puppetry” technique is an improvisational, multi-puppeteer performance style that underpins all of their work. In this 3 day course we will revise basic puppetry principles and apply them to more advanced 3 person improvisation. This workshop is suitable for people wanting to explore more deeply their puppetry technique.
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Make a three person puppet and bring it to life in 2 days!
Do you want to make a puppet but you don't know where to start? This is the workshop for you. In this workshop you will design and make a simple 3 person operated puppet using materials such as cardboard, paper, tape, lolly pop sticks and hessian sack. You will learn to make joints that don't go back on themselves, sculpt a characterful head, learn a quick and easy way to make hands and feet, and put it all together. On the final day you have the chance to bring it to life with other participants to see how it works and think about fixes you want to make. We show you how to get started, and the rest is up to you!
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