Check In Festival

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!

‘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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.