Due to illness, we had to postpone the Selina Thompson workshop - and are delighted to announce the new date is:
Mon 9 June - 5.30 (for 6) - 9pm free at STUN Studio, Z-arts
New participants click here to book (if you booked previously, we will contact you!)
Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds. Her work is playful, participatory and intimate, focused on the politics of identity, and how this defines our bodies, lives and environments. Her recent work includes Dark and Lovely - storytelling from within a giant tumbleweave tent; It Burns It All Clean a commission for West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Transform Festival and Chewing The Fat, coming to Manchester in Autumn 2014.
Of this workshop she says:
I want to spend a couple of hours working with people on the importance of bringing their own authentic voice and stories, to the work they make. I feel that our lived experience, our thoughts, dreams and fears bring something truly unique and sincere to the work that we make: but that it can be quite scary doing that in a performance context, so it’s important to invest time and energy into nurturing our capacity to do that, and to keep things as ‘real’ – and in some cases unpolished – as we can. So we’re going to be doing exercises, (writing, performing, some where we’re just imagining and plotting things together), to help you feel more confident in bringing your voice, and your heart to your work: in a way that allows you to connect with your audience but doesn’t leave you feeling exposed.
We’re also going to devote some time to the very serious business of being silly.
It’s important
Click here book your free Workshop place, deadline 10am Mon 9 June
(Direct URL: https://habarts.wufoo.eu/forms/divergencymcr-booking-form/)
For info/queries contact: afreena@habarts.org
For info/queries contact: afreena@habarts.org