DIY 10: 2013 - Call for proposals (Deadline approaching)

DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists.

20 projects will be supported from July to November 2013. Each project will receive £1,000.

DIY 10 is a LADA initiative developed with: Abandon Normal Devices (North West), Artsadmin (national), Buzzcut with Imaginate (Scotland), Cambridge Junction (East),…

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I thought you might all be bored of looking at my face so I figured I would type a blog.

Last week I was lucky enough to get a hold of the keys to the NTW Warehouse to start work on a project called Escape Earth. It  began after going to a few spoken word nights around Wales and discovering some very interesting very talented people. I thought it would be a good idea to get these people in a room together and talk about working on a project. So after weeks of trying to get…

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Emma Rice is the Joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh. I asked her a few questions about the current production of Steptoe and Son, which comes to Cardiff next week as part of a major national tour…

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     As swell a party as the MGM version in 1956? The production team seemed aware the packed first night audience would be thinking of Kelly, Crosby & Sinatra. The Millennium Centre's safety curtain was dressed-up as for a film, with an American-accented voiceover. The opening sequence, featuring the whole company, had enough energy and style to convince us they could carry it off.

The choreography and band were worthy of the West End, the cast clearly enjoying…

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Hijinx Theatre are delighted to announce that we have appointed Clare Williams as our new Executive Director. Clare was the Director of Cauldrons and Furnaces, the Cultural Olympiad Project for Wales, and is the former Executive and Artistic Director at Theatr Harlech. We are very excited to be welcoming her on board.

I'm writing this through a jet lagged fog. So if it's incoherent babble (see food blog) then please excuse me.

It's now 18.30 Wednesday evening Tokyo time so 10.30 in the morning for you lot (Japan really is in the future).

You know that feeling when you're on holiday; that first view of the coastline as the plane gently arcs towards the runway? and how it makes you know your on holiday. I didn't get that. The first I saw of the Tokyo was as the plane wheels hit the tarmac with…

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HIGH SOCIETY

Is the chorus right?  Has this musical ‘Got that thing’?  High Society, which is running all week at the WMC, is a saunter back in history to a pre-war period when the idle rich could squander their time on the vagaries of love and marriage.  Such an outdated plot needs something special to lift the interest level and this version of the musical has found ‘that charm’ to do just this.  The difficult to please…

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When I was a teenager I played in a string quartet. We spent an afternoon once 'busking' in a local park near the tea shop. A few people dropped in some change and the occasional fiver while we were playing but when we'd finished, a lady who'd sat and listened for the full two hours came over and gave us £20. She explained that she'd pay at least that for a concert in a concert hall and that's what she thought her experience was worth. 

I've just come across…

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New Sausage "Caligulata" goes on Sale

Our emperor, Caligula, has revealed the "Caligulata" his new gourmet product made out of seven meats while his visit to Hong Kong.  More info.

Suited and booted I headed to the Welsh Government offices in Akasaka, Tokyo today and met Mr Takeharu (Tiger) Nakagima, Ms Yoko Kobori and Mr Goro Okada to talk about our production. Ms Kobori was very impressed with the Japanese cast for the production - many of whom are well known television actors here in Japan.



We had a wonderful conversation about Wales and made many connections with locations and people - Tiger regularly runs along the Cardiff Bay barage, touches the Penarth… Continue

£16,995 y flwyddyn (pro rata)

19.5 awr yr wythnos

Swydd am gyfnod penodol o 3 mlynedd

Cefnogi'r gwaith o weinyddu gweithgarwch Loteri FAWR Dysgu Creadigol Sherman Cymru, a'i gydlynu, gan weithio'n agos gyda chydweithwyr yn y tîm Dysgu Creadigol, i sicrhau trosglwyddiad rhaglen eang o brosiectau cymunedol ac allgymorth cyfranogol a ariennir gan y Loteri FAWR

Mae croeso arbennig i siaradwyr Cymraeg…

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£16,995 per annum (pro rata)

19.5 hours per week

Fixed Term Position for 3 years

To support the administration and co-ordination of Sherman Cymru's Creative Learning BIG Lottery activity, working closely with colleagues in the Creative Learning team to ensure the delivery of a wide ranging programme of participatory outreach and community projects funded by the BIG Lottery

Welsh speaking candidates are…

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Here’s a picture of the theatre space yesterday – as the designers and crew worked to construct our ‘in the round’ set, with 360˚ video projection.  It’s the first time the space has been used this way at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, so everyone is very excited to see the set go in.  The design team is really top quality, full of great ideas and a strong drive…

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Whenever I go away I tend to send my long-suffering lady pictures of what I'm eating. I think she finds it ammusing (or at least humours me) so I thought I'd share my food diary with a wider audience.... Sorry.

Premier Inn, Gatwick

Apostrophe, Gatwick…

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So the last few days have been quite manic and hectic as work on the Assembly started to really get underway.

Here is a compressed or as compressed as can be update.

 

Wednesday: 

British Council Presentation: I met lots of great theatre producers and enthusiasts who came along for a presentation at the British Council…

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Life can be strange.

This time last week I'd nipped home to have lunch with my baby daughter, before heading over to Newport to see Tin Shed's new space in an old MFI. This Monday I'm on  a train to London as the first leg of my Journey to Tokyo.

My only previous experience of Tokyo was…

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High Society

Musical comedy should have strong melodies sung well and acting with impeccable timing.  High Society at The Wales Millenium Centre was a show of two halves.  Half the songs are memorable,  some are even classics - ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’, ‘Just one of those things’ and ‘Well did you evah’ (yes, the spelling is correct!).  The other half are best forgotten.  In this production half the cast could both sing…

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