There’s a gem of a museum embedded in Birmingham University and now this fact has been acknowledged nationally. The Lapworth Museum of Geology has just been shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year award. Roisin and I went there this afternoon to learn about what all the fuss is about and it turns out the fuss is about a beautifully designed, beautifully laid out museum full of amazing objects. Continue reading “Rock Hard” »
Rock Hard
May 18th, 2017Very Difficult Maths
May 3rd, 2017
With a busy office full of people I often plug myself into some music and headphones in order not to distract or be distracted by those around me. However today I hadn’t got to that point when I heard Lucy ask our current university placement Laura to help her with a problem… Continue reading “Very Difficult Maths” »
Artist/Designer Call Out
April 24th, 2017
We are looking for an Artist/Designer to design and create an image for the main entrance doors to Stan’s Cafe’s performance space @AE Harris. At the moment the doors are looking rather tired and battered and we want to transform them into a distinctive and welcoming entrance.
You can download an ARTIST BRIEF which gives more details and contains images and dimensions.
To apply please send portfolio in a digital or scanned format along with a brief CV or biog. We’d be grateful if you could also download and complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
Please submit to Laura Killeen, General Manager, at laura@stanscafe.co.uk by 10am on Monday 15 May. You can also contact Laura if you have any further questions.
The joy of index
April 23rd, 2017worries from Oli Clark on Vimeo.
“First time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything.” Steven Wright.
I love lists. I don’t love them in the classic interview answer way: “I’m a very organized person, I love making lists”; I love them in the cliched contemporary theatre director way: “I love reading lists”.
Lists are a simple way of breaking away from the tyranny of ‘the story’ because they don’t share the rules of a story. They have beginnings, middles and ends only in so far as there is always the first entry, the last entry and some in the middle. Continue reading “The joy of index” »
Fun Times
April 20th, 2017Best of BE FESTIVAL UK 2017 from BE Festival on Vimeo.
It’s good to see BE Festival are on the road. They are touring three pieces from the 2016 Festival including one of my favourite shows of that (or any) year Vacuum, which I raved about here. It is around the UK so chase it down.
Closer to our home, we’re looking forward to a rare Birmingham appearance from our Sheffield friends Third Angel. They are bringing their show 600 People to mac.
It’s time to get out and about.
Neuroscience Conference
April 13th, 2017
Where better to fry your brain than the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience?
The various stall holders here insist that none of their equipment will fry your (or a mouse’s) brain, merely measure or stimulate it’s activity. This is more than some of the speakers can guarantee, but then that’s not their fault, I’ve the right to be here but no right to understand anything that’s being said. Continue reading “Neuroscience Conference” »
Wrapped Up
April 11th, 2017
Craig and I have just got back from a week in Freiburg as the mini team working on a new spin on our show Of All The People In All The World. This gig followed on from one in the same town last year and for convenience we called it The Great Art Giveaway. The web page is up for it now. If you haven’t explored that section of the website you can see accounts from all the different presentation of the show dating back to its inception in 2003.
Artist Opportunities
April 5th, 2017
We have an exciting summer term of Creative Learning projects in schools and we are looking to collaborate with new Associate Artists in a couple of them so the call is out for a Carnival / Visual Artist and a Film Maker / Video Artist, if you are or know one of these, please read on. Continue reading “Artist Opportunities” »
Brookfields’ Primary Poets
March 30th, 2017We’ve just had clearance to share a new web-page with you. It documents our winter adventures with years 3 and 4 at Brookfields Primary School. Together we explored their local area taking photographs, we wrote lots of poems inspired by these photographs, created a newspaper with selection of these poems and performed a selection of this selection for parents in the school hall. It was great fun, the photographs and poems are lovely as you can see if you explore the page and the digital copy of the newspaper embedded above.
What a treat to work with such lovely young people and their great teachers.
The Countryside
March 27th, 2017
In 1995 we performed Voodoo City at Prema Arts Centre, it was only driving away afterwards that I started to consider what a ridiculous event it was. We were importing a lump of urban angst to a beautiful Gloucestershire village. Desecrating their idyll with a vision of towerblocks, concrete and ring-roads. Beside this we’ve always enjoyed our visits to Prema and Dartington and other rural venues but the uncomfortable memory of that Voodoo City clash has probably fed into our caution about performing in the countryside. Continue reading “The Countryside” »
