Projects in development
In 2010 You can see The Healing of Bran the Blessed at these locations
Conwy - Saturday 7 August
Swansea Museum of Maritine History Swansea docks - Saturday 14 August
Cardigan Quays festival - Saturday 21 August
New Ross, Ireland - Saturday 11 September
More dates and info later
Another new project for 2010/11
We are currently preparing a production Iachâd Bran which will feature one of the UKs' larger giant puppets based on the legend of Bran the Blessed and Small World Theatre will be premiering the performance in Cardigan in the summer and touring Welsh coastal towns as well as taking this ancient Celtic tale across to ireland later in September.
Link above to info about the performance and spectacle that is Bran the Blessed
Iachâd Bran - The Healing of Bran Will Take place on rivers and docks in 2010 / 2011
Our first attempt at drawing Bran in the air in 3D has led us to believe he will be one of the largest person shaped giants around.
Not only will he be massively impressive we hope to operate him with people power and not employ powered cranes, cherry pickers , helicopters or vehicle driven devices to hold him up.
The use of bicycles and tricycles is however not ruled out at the moment.
Bran will be one of the biggest giant puppets in UK in a story of Celtic reconciliation, a newly wrought myth for a new age of change
Toby in the making process. Time for reflection on the giant task
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Small World Theatre were engaged to deliver this Theatre in the Landscape project . We started in the Dryslwyn / Cwrt Henri community deciding on a play about Twm Sion Cati with a promenade performance in Gelli Aur arboretum.
This was a fantastically successful start to the Tywi Afon Yr Ooesoedd project.
The next group we worked with was a choir and members of the community near Llandeilo. We were based at Dynefor Home farm The show was based around the travels of Lord Dynevor , especially his trip to Egypt where he visited the tomb of Tutenkarmoon soon after Lord Carnavon opened it in the 1020s
"Reach the Heights"
Fantastic Workshops run by skilled and experienced Small World Theatre staff .
Essential training for those who are working with those not in education or employment or training
Reach the Heights is a Welsh Assembly Government initiative aimed at reducing the number of young people in Wales aged 11 - 19 years who are not in education, employment or training (NEET), or at risk of being so. The project has been developed to take advantage of the funding opportunities available from the European Social Fund (ESF) programme in Wales.
SWTnews2Small World Theatre will be training the trainers and those wishing to improve skills and work creatively
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A new Generation X intergenerational Theatre project in Cardiff
With five fantastic performances this was another great acheivement for the participants from Glyn Derw school, Ely, Cardiff and the Healthy Wealthy and Wise group based in Bishopston road Ely.
A DVD of the whole process is near to being edited and will be available soon.
Cardigan Wolfpack
Another intergenerational project In Cardigan is near completion and more information and picture will be available soon.
Reports in the local press had described the tension between older residents and young people refered to as a "Pack of Wolves"
The first show was performed at Small World Centre Canolfan Byd Bychan and a forum theatre session followed led by Rueben.
Link above to the previous projects
Next
Bill Hamblett, Small World Theatres' artistic director will be at this CPR Directors' Forum Presenting the work of Small World Theatre a couple of times during the week and also facilitating a discussion
FOR THE CURIOUS opening worlds of performance
DIRECTORS’ FORUM: THE SIX SENSES OF THE DIRECTOR
http://www.thecpr.org.uk/projects/conferences.php
Guest Directors to include Richard Gregory(Quarantine, UK), Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera, UK), Natalie Hennedige (Cake Theatre, Singapore), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens, UK) , Ruth Kanner (Ruth Kanner Theatre Group, Israel), Dasbeckwerk (Denmark), Tim Supple (Dash Arts, UK), Veenapani Chawla (Adishakti Centre, India), Anders Paulin (Sweden), Anuradha Kapur (India), Ralf Richardt Strobech (Hotel Pro Forma, Denmark) and others to be confirmed.
"Being a director is not a solo occupation – so most of my life is spent in a room with artists who are a lot more interesting than I am” Peter Sellars: Theatre and Opera Director
Whilst the role of a theatre director is essentially collaborative, the co-ordinating centrality of the role nevertheless makes it a singular, responsible, and therefore sometimes an isolated one, with attendant possible issues of insecurity. Across its many manifestations, the role requires the acquisition of a set of diverse tools for the trade, techniques, methods and knowledge/s, many of which are often acquired empirically ‘on the job’ and ‘in the moment’ through primarily ‘hermetic’ processes of making and rehearsal. Opportunities for exchange, development and training are primarily geared to the needs of the ‘emergent’ director and opportunities for exchange of the wealth of knowledge and experience of ‘mid-career’ directors and development opportunities are therefore rare.
The Arts Council of Wales have awarded CPR a project grant to host and curate a ‘Directors’ Forum’ that will bring together a broad spectrum of Wales-based, as well as UK and international theatre directors to work intensively across a nine day period, sharing and learning methods, approaches and skills through a variety of innovative formats to enable an examination of professional practice; revealing techniques, craft and compositional strategies which are often not articulated with little opportunity to share in a collegial spirit of collaboration.
The Forum will take place at CPR’s base in Aberystwyth from 9th - 18th April 2010 and participation can be across the whole or part of the Forum period. To register your interest in the project please contact us by email and a full programme of events will be sent to you as soon as it is available.
A new project for the company
The Grundtvig programme partners Germany, Iceland Sardinia, Poland, Austria and Wales
Creative in Difference
Ann, Bill and Becky will be leaving for Berlin this Sunday (18 Oct 09) to take part in the planning process with our European partners. The Grundtvig programme addresses the teaching and learning needs of those in all forms adult education of a non-vocational nature, as well as the institutions and organisations providing or facilitating such education.
Small World Theatre will be sharing practice and methodology and demonstrating our unique approaches to working in this sector
Sad news
Our very own ex chairman and President of Small World Theatre, Peter Heneker has died over this Christmas period
He has been a fantastically active supporter of Small Word Theatre and will be greatly missed
Only recently we have been promoting his poetry readings and workshops and his loss is keenly felt by the company.
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New appointees for Small World projects and work
We have recently appointed Sam Vicary to the part time post in admin on the Whatever The Weather Wales project
After an exhaustive selection process leading to interviews with short listed candidates Sam got the post
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