Prior to starting work with PECo theatre on the St Mary Redcliffe Sentient City project we asked Miriam to share with us a bit about her, her work and what makes her tick, creatively speaking. Who are you and what form does your artistic practice take? I am a playwright and director originally from Manchester… Continue reading You and your work – Miriam Battye
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You and your work – Poppy Phelps
Poppy Phelps is a visual artist, illustrator and street theatre maker from the Forest of Dean. Trained in Anthropology her artistic work experiments with visual ethnography, using visual and artistic processes to create engaging community research through illustrations, puppetry and performance. She makes carnival props, worked on The Psychedelic Kidnap Experience, initiated Utrecht clowning group,… Continue reading You and your work – Poppy Phelps
RNIB Place Based Theatre Club
Midway musings on Place Based Theatre Club at Action for Blind People / RNIB, No 10 Stillhouse lane, Bedminster. The Place Based Theatre Club is being funded by Bristol Ageing Better and is in association with LinkAge older people’s charity. Our aim is to create an inspiring and accessible course of sessions exploring making a… Continue reading RNIB Place Based Theatre Club
RNIB Memory Gathering Tea Party
With our Memory Gathering Tea Party at Bedminster’s Action for Blind People / RNIB only days, away here’s the Tea Party menu of events to get your taste buds tingling : Arrivals, tea and cakes: with thanks to Eddie’s coffee lounge for the delicious chocolate gateaux! Welcome and introduction – Rachel Aspinwall, PECo theatre director, Heather… Continue reading RNIB Memory Gathering Tea Party
Call Out for intern and volunteers – Place Based Theatre Club
Intern. PECo theatre are looking for an enthusiastic, confident and articulate intern to work with the company supporting the Place Based Theatre Club at the RNIB. Beginning October 4th and covering various dates including Saturday October 22nd up until December 2016. The role is approximately 1 day a fortnight and will suit someone who is interested in… Continue reading Call Out for intern and volunteers – Place Based Theatre Club
Notes on Blindness
We went to see this powerful and beautifully put together documentary about the journey of one man into blindness as part of preparation for our upcoming RNIB project.[part of our Sentient City programme] The use of sound and image was extraordinarily effective and plunged the audience into an immersive experience that stayed long after the film… Continue reading Notes on Blindness
Alessandro Acquisiti on why privacy matters
Thought provoking talk on personal data, privacy and the internet. Source material for our Future Tourist ideas.
More Earthed inspirations
photo of forest around Dro by Krista Burane ‘This kind of engagement with landscape is an engagement with deeper notions of time than those we are conventionally accustomed to. Our guides tell us about the way in which local people in the valley would carefully tend the fruit trees and vines, not for their own… Continue reading More Earthed inspirations
Sound of Snow and Ice
More inspirations for our RNIB project [Sentient City], this time from composer, producer, musician Joe Acheson, about the incredible work of a school for the visually impaired in Finland that teaches children how to use sound as a means to explore their surroundings. Listen here.
Snowdon, surveillance and society
Hard to believe Edward Snowdon has been in exile from the ‘Free World’ for three years. Here he asks, in a calm and measured way, what kind of society do we want to live in and why Obama should pardon him. Useful fodder for our Future Tourist fermentations! Hear him speak here.