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For all online events, you will be sent a link to access at least 2 hours before on the day of the event via email. This information will be sent to the email address on the account used when signing up to this event

Access First: Creating Creative Art with Quiplash
Using their past production Unsightly Drag and Friendsas a case study, they will talk you through how they have adapted their work from pre-pandemic life, to now, to looking to the future. They will identify what they think has been successful, and talk through mistakes they’ve made and how they have addressed them to make sure they continue to do better. They will also leave time for chats, questions and conversations as this is a big and ever-shifting topic for everyone!

Wise Children: Release the Art Inside
‘In order to release the art inside of anyone, I believe they have to be without fear; so, we must work to make a fear free environment’ – Emma Rice, Wise Children’s Artistic Director. This practical workshop will explore how to create a fear-free environment and release the artist within. Led by Wise Children’s
Head of Performance, Laura Keefe, and Head of Music, Ian Ross, it will be a relaxed, interactive session, mixing exercises and discussion, perfect for early-career ensemble and theatre makers.

Reducing our Impact with Kill the Cat
Kill The Cat are passionate believers that creating work with a smaller carbon footprint does not have to limit your creative ambition. Join them as they explore what it is to put environmentalism at the heart of your practice and look forward to what the creative sector could look like post Covid.

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Steps Toward Building your Practice with Adam Carver
Suitable for artists, producers, and freelance creatives looking to establish or develop their creative practice full-time, we will explore strategies for building a sustainable career, avoiding burn out, monetising your skills, knowing your worth, and the lived reality of working in creative industries

Anti-racism in Action with Yassine Senghor
While anti-racism will be the core focus of the session, we will also be looking at building inclusive practice that considers the impact of our work, what we are saying, who we are reaching with it and how we can platform the voices of the most marginalise.

Rewriting the Future with Edalia Day
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Inspired by how Edalia made Too Pretty To Punch, her show tackling transphobia in the media, you’ll do a series of spoken word writing exercises and performance tasks designed to take complex ideas and emotions and communicate them in a way that’s exciting, fun and thought provoking

Hemisphere with Mellow Baku
e. A contemporary adaptation of her script Beyond The Dome, a futuristic narrated play for young people (performed at Curve 2017, directed by Steven Luckie, with music by Marcus Joseph), that explores freedom from limitations and boundaries, following the character Ital, as she challenges an oppressive system and finds her voice.

Scratch that Itch
Featuring work from Esme Sears, Andy Chaplin, James Reilly and TECTUM.

Lights Up (Premier)

No Woman's Land by Zoo Indigo

Little Mess by Foan & Fortune

Kilburn (Not London) by Simon Marshall
- A live extract from the play, performed by Derbyshire actors John Booker (Paines Plough) and Louis Greatorex (BBC, Netflix)
- An interactive Q&A with the team about the participation process, including Plus One young dramaturgs
- An exclusive performance by Kilburn (not London)’s composer; singer-songwriter Lucy James, with music from her original score and reimagined covers of dreamy pop classics
- Be the first to access the full production when the play goes live on Saturday night!

Accessibility
We want to welcome all and are working hard to make as much of the Festival as we can accessible to all. We know that access provision is constantly evolving and that your individual acces needs might change over time, so we’ve set aside a buget for access to cover things like captions, or BSL interpreters and easy read documents from workshops.
When booking please let us know your access needs. It helps us if we have a little time to make sure we can properly book and prepare the provision, so if you can do that before 19th May 2021 that would really help us, help you.
Please tell us if you required BSL or any other access provision in the booking notes, when booking

Donate
We’d love to keep supporting theatre makers in the future though, so if you can spare a penny or two then we’d love you to send us a donation when booking.