This Season\’s Young Promoter, Bella Hubbard, has been talking to Artistic Director and Dancer, Jen Wren who is touring shows and workshops with Highlights this week. Find out about their show 6 Feet 3 Shoes in Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland HERE Bella: Why did you want to start performing? Jen: I grew up in […]
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This Season\’s Young Promoter, Bella Hubbard, has been talking to Artistic Director and Dancer, Jen Wren who is touring shows and workshops with Highlights this week. Find out about their show 6 Feet 3 Shoes in Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland HERE Bella: Why did you want to start performing? Jen: I grew up in
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ROBIN BROOKS has been a Highlights promoter in Barningham, County Durham, for 20 years. Performances take place in the village hall, a Grade II-listed Victorian school building. “The hall is a very good space for smaller shows and seats 50 comfortably. It has been refurbished over the past five years and people say how cosy
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Read the latest review from our Young Promoter, Bella who saw Mambo Jambo at Levens Village Institute on Thursday 28th April. On Thursday night, I had the privilege of being able to see the incredible Frankie and Pete in Mambo Jambo at Levens Village Institute. These people are amazingly well-travelled musicians who have travelled to
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We\’re delighted that Artistic Director of Slanjayvah Danza, Jen Wren, will be leading some Dance workshops, as part of the Company\’s tour with Highlights in May. Jen and co – dancer, Lowenna Hosken will be visiting Shap and Appleby Primary Schools in Cumbria, Middleton in Teesdale Primary School in Teesdale, County Durham and Allendale Primary
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On Sunday 27th March, our Young Promoter Bella Hubbard, saw Miss Nobodies, by comedian, writer and performance artist Ruth E Cockburn at Arnside Educational Institute. Read her review below! On Sunday evening, I was lucky enough to be able to go and see ‘Miss Nobodies’ starring the incredible Ruth Cockburn. Ruth not only starred in
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Our Young Promoter, Bella has been to see Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret, at Levens Village Institute. Read her review below and you can still catch the show which has three more performances with Highlights, in Cumbria and Northumberland – https://highlightsnorth.co.uk//event/stitch-in-time-a-knitting-cabaret/ Little old ladies knitting codes into scarves and songs about sewing machines…not two
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BARBARA SLACK and HELEN SWABY chat to Highlights about their time as key players on the team – Barbara as a co-founder and director and Helen Swaby as administrative officer. Both left Highlights in 2018. BARBARA: One of my first experiences of rural touring was when Northumberland Theatre Company came to the old village hall
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We\’re always delighted to get feedback from Schools about Participate workshops we offer by touring artists and companies each season and from local artist practitioners and companies. Here are some comments from children and teachers who participated in Maddie\’s Folk Music workshops this month. Maddie worked with over 100 children across schools in Cumbria and
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As part of our 25 Birthday Year celebrations, we hear from Tom Speight, long time Promoter in Castle Carrock, Cumbria. Once you get into rural touring, it kind of gets into you. It’s certainly got into me. And some. There I was, having just moved to the picturesque Cumbrian fellside village of Castle Carrock, 10
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Talking to the Box Office...
