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Today Is A Roots Day

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Added by Gavin Porter on July 9, 2013 at 21:00 — No Comments

Anglesey Assembly Wrap Up

Well that was a whirlwind of a week.

 

I travelled up to Anglesey on Train on Friday morning, 5.05am, with crust in my eyes, to get involved in the WalesLab DIY festival that was taking place on the Saturday and Sunday, hoping that the experience of a free spirited creative experience with creative people would set me up ready to direct my first assembly, rehearsals starting on Monday.

 

With the issue (Energy) already being selected Monday was the first day the…

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Added by Gavin Porter on June 27, 2013 at 23:00 — 1 Comment

Anglesey, Energy Island?

 

‘Anglesey is an island full of energy: people energy, potential energy, wind and nuclear, and it is energy that Assembly will explore.’

Assembly is a performance/debate event that responds to a local issue in a creative setting, leaving space for the audience to discuss and react.…

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Added by Gavin Porter on June 12, 2013 at 22:30 — No Comments

Anglesey Assembly - 20th June, 7pm, Llangefni Town Hall



So the time is fast approaching the for the first Assembly I will have been involved in since my appointment as Creative Associate in May. I am beginning to get excited about what will be created between now and the 20th. I am beginning to put a team…

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Added by Gavin Porter on May 29, 2013 at 21:30 — No Comments

My first trip to Anglesey

Wednesday 15th myself, Matt Ball, Simon and Laura took a trip up the Anglesey to begin to make links with people on the Island in readiness for NTW's month long residency during June. Getting there was an experience, we found it was cheaper to fly than to travel on the train, so we jumped onto a 19 seater plane which was a lot more pleasant than it sounds. As I am responsible for the Anglesey Assembly I was keen to meet both people from the creative community and active community members to…

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Added by Gavin Porter on May 17, 2013 at 0:30 — No Comments

Finding Our Future

On Friday 29th April I had the pleasure of working with five really talented young performers (Hassan, AliAdamEnbe and Fahmi) from Cardiff on an Performance/debate event at Butetown Youth…

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Added by Gavin Porter on May 1, 2013 at 23:30 — No Comments

The Second Day of the next (exciting ) phase of my life

It seems like I go on about it all the time but I am still amazed that at the journey that I have gone on over the last three years since the fateful (in a good way) day that I walked into an workshop being held in Butetown Youth Pavilion run by NTW for their 10th show The Soul Exchange. I can remember so vividly how close I came to walking out of that session. Not that it…

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Added by Gavin Porter on April 30, 2013 at 2:30 — No Comments

Ideas Exchange 05 - On The Road To De Gabay Video

Ideas Exchange 05 - On The Road To De Gabay from National Theatre Wales on Vimeo.

On 1st, 2nd and 3rd March 2013, De Gabay will be taking place on the streets and in the homes of Butetown. De Gabay is a theatre production…

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Added by Gavin Porter on November 28, 2012 at 4:20 — No Comments

Jobs Growth Wales 6 Month Placement

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Added by Gavin Porter on September 5, 2012 at 21:42 — No Comments

WelcomHome

On Friday 31st August myself and Kyle Legall were involved in an NTW Assembly inspired event devised, written, performed and hosted by a group of young people from the Butetown, Grangetown and Riverside areas of Cardiff. The event happened at the Old NatWest Bank in Bute Street and explored the idea of Home and what it takes to make a home. WelcomHome was part of the…

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Added by Gavin Porter on September 5, 2012 at 21:38 — No Comments

Ideas Exchange Review

 

The evening of Sunday 24th I was privileged to be part of the production team for the fourth and last Ideas Exchange of this run. 

  Ideas Exchange was born out of National Theatre Wales’ Assembly program. Way back in January 2011 NTW produced their tenth show The Soul Exchange in Butetown, Cardiff, and myself and…
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Added by Gavin Porter on July 11, 2012 at 4:00 — No Comments

Ideas Exchange 04 - Tickets are available

The Ideas Exchangecame out of National Theatre Wales' Assembly programme. The aim was to provide a platform for creatives from Butetown and the surrounding areas to produce participatory theatre events that would explore relevant community issues.

The Ideas Exchangeis produced by local artists Gavin…

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Added by Gavin Porter on June 6, 2012 at 1:50 — No Comments

Photos from IdeasExchange 02

Here are some photos from the 2nd IdeasExchange which was held in the Wales Millennium Centre on the 4th…

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Added by Gavin Porter on November 17, 2011 at 0:30 — 2 Comments

1st De Gabay Poetry Workshop



The first De Gabay workshop was held on Saturday 29th Oct at the Wales Millennium Center. the workshop was delivered by Daud, Ali and Ahmed Yusuf under the guidance of Adbul Shayek. And I must say what a successful afternoon it was. In attendance were about 25 young men giving up their Saturday afternoon to take part in something that must have been new to the…

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Added by Gavin Porter on November 1, 2011 at 6:35 — 1 Comment

1st Day on the job

Myself and Yusuf have started officially at NTW. My role is Creative Associate for De Gabay and I am really looking forward to the next nine months. I, like everyone else involved in De Gabay, have been 'chomping at the bit' to get going on this project (in what ever guise) and now…

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Added by Gavin Porter on October 18, 2011 at 0:48 — 3 Comments

Prestatyn Film Team

Friday 4th September saw me make my second visit to Prestatyn and work with the Prestatyn Film Team, who are supported by the wonderful Jan Miller and Ryan Hall.

 

The brief was to make a film over a two day period.

 

The group is made up of around ten young people from the Prestatyn area. These young people have a genuine passion for making films…

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Added by Gavin Porter on September 12, 2011 at 18:00 — 1 Comment

Prestatyn Film Workshop

We set ourselves the task of making a film in 36 hours and we almost completed it. I boarded the trian for Prestatyn at the 5.10 thinking about the two days ahead. I'd been prepping for the workshops but couldn't be too specific because, as is often the case, individuals in the group possessed different skills.

 

From speaking to the (genuinely…

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Added by Gavin Porter on April 21, 2011 at 21:48 — 1 Comment

The Lizard Brain

Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our

projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our

"lizard brain" as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us to

"thrash at the beginning" of projects so that we can ship on time and

on budget.







Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain from 99% on…

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Added by Gavin Porter on September 5, 2010 at 4:30 — 1 Comment

And So It Begins

It was good to meet up with everyone in Manchester yesterday to talk about NTW10. Really looking forward to see what we will create for the Butetown show. Mad to think that at the beginning of the year I had never seen any kind of theatre and now I'll be involved in this production. I think we are going to produce that everyone involved, including the Butetown Community, can be proud of. Here are a few links that people may find interesting.


This is a short documentary…
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Added by Gavin Porter on July 4, 2010 at 5:00 — 4 Comments

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