Artform: Lighting Design for Theatre Yanni is a Manchester-based director and theatre-maker who specialises in new writing with a focus on exploring the fluid concepts of time, identity, and memory. Hailing from Hong Kong, she strives to create work surrounding East Asian communities and to champion other underrepresented narratives in a positive light. A drama […]
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Artform: MusicWebsite: manasamitra.com Supriya is the founder of Manasamitra. She is a singer-composer trained, since the age of 5, in Carnatic (classical South Indian) vocal music in Bombay (Mumbai). Since setting up Manasamitra in 2005 she has collaborated with musicians from different genres and disciplines. She strives to create inclusive music which explores the relationship
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Artform: Spoken Word & Poetry Website: facebook.com/sarahcrutwellspokenword Sarah Crutwell is a Poet and Spoken Word Performer based in the North East. Her work aims to address the things we lower our voices to talk about and explores areas such as mental health, sexuality, gender roles, ingrained sexism and freedom of choice. With a background in theatre
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Artform: MusicWebsite: ruthlyonmusic.com Ruth Lyon grew up in North Yorkshire, before moving to Newcastle to study Fashion Design at Northumbria University. Meanwhile, she began fronting the folk rock outfit Holy Moly & The Crackers, with which she has toured the UK and Europe extensively, plus soundtracked the end credits of Ocean’s 8 with the track
Artform: Poetry Website: rowanthepoet.com Rowan McCabe is a poet and a professional waffler from Newcastle upon Tyne. Aware that poetry isn’t a proper job, he decided to create his own and became the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asks what is important to them. He then goes away and writes a
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Artform: Animation & Production Website: robinwebbanimation.wordpress.com Robin is a freelance animation & film artist based in the heart of the North East of England where, alongside his own practice, he designs and runs participatory and educational animation and filmmaking projects throughout the North. Robin offers a range of workshops, from one hour to a full
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Artform: Game Design Website: nearlythereyet.com Petra Szemán is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. They are a BA Fine Art graduate from Newcastle University (2013-2017), and has exhibited since at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Foto museum Winterthur in Switzerland, NTT Inter Communication Centrein Tokyo, as well as various
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Artform: Circus Skills Website: nearlythereyet.com Nearly There Yet uses creative, physical work to excite, engage, and entertain. They connect people through an ordinary approach to the extraordinary worlds of circus and performance. In addition to creating engaging and entertaining shows, they also run circus skills classes across the country. Their classes focus on developing individuals’
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Artform: Puppetry Website: movingpartsarts.com Moving Parts Arts is based in Newcastle Upon Tyne and offers all kinds of innovative workshops in puppetry making and storytelling. They can offer general making/performance workshops, or they can theme workshops. If a school want a bespoke theme, they would need to factor in additional costs for development time. Puppetry
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Artform: Music Website: katehalsall.co.uk Kate Halsall is a musician, composer and experienced teacher working in schools in Cumbria. She has led music and composition workshops for many schools, colleges, universities and festivals in the UK and abroad. Kate performs and commissions music for piano and other keyboard instruments and collaborates with a wide range of
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