Chantal Williams's Posts - National Theatre Wales Community2024-03-29T10:31:56ZChantal Williamshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChantalWilliams543https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3003263200?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=36zl0a2crtqbi&xn_auth=noCommon Wealth: COULD YOU JOIN OUR SOUNDING BOARD?tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2023-06-21:3152760:BlogPost:3424222023-06-21T09:41:12.000ZChantal Williamshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChantalWilliams543
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<p>We are seeking members with a diverse range of views, knowledge and backgrounds to help us make, shape and…</p>
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<div class="clearfix type-text--formatted field field--body field--label-hidden type-text-with-summary field__item"><p>We’re looking for people curious, interested and passionate about making change, to join our Sounding Board in Cardiff. The Sounding Board meets every two-months to discuss, inform, share and collaborate with us on creative productions, opportunities and projects.</p>
<p>We are seeking members with a diverse range of views, knowledge and backgrounds to help us make, shape and grow our work. You might be a community leader, a passionate mother or father, nan or grandad, you might be young or old, curious about the arts and theatre, or a social change warrior or looking for something new and different to do. We are interested in those who aren’t already connected to the arts, who believe in what could be possible.</p>
<p><strong>What will it do for you and your community?</strong><br/>The Sounding Board acts as a catalyst – bringing people together, creating a network, creating opportunities in areas which have been neglected, developing leadership & artistic skills and offering entry points into the arts.</p>
<p><strong>Why?</strong><br/>Common Wealth wants to create a movement that centres and supports working class communities to see themselves as artists, decision makers and leaders. We love collaborating and know that our work is better when we make it with people from the places we work in. We want to make work that means something. This starts with important conversations and ends with high-quality performances. We want our work to not just be relevant, we want it to be yours.</p>
<p>We have an exciting programme on offer, co-curated and built with our Sounding Board. Over the next couple of years we will be making a show about undercover policing and injustice with activists, researching a show about Welsh language, class and identity with council estates in Cardiff and Bethesda and delivering our free artist development programme ‘Everyone is an Artist’.</p>
<p><strong>What to expect as a Sounding Board member:</strong></p>
<p>• We meet for two hours (with cake!) 6 times a year for active sessions provoking conversation around our work, investigating how we can collaborate to develop ideas, continuing the mission of shifting agency and creating social change.<br/>• You will be reimbursed £11 per hour (£22 per meeting) regardless of personal circumstances. Feel free to ask us more about how this works.<br/>• Access to a ‘Go See Fund’ to go and see live performance.<br/>• Paid opportunities to work on our shows<br/>• Training in areas you’re interested in. This could be: community leadership, storytelling, creative workshop leading, sign-language. You get to decide as a group.</p>
<p><strong>How to get involved:</strong></p>
<p>If you’d like to be part of the Sounding Board we’d LOVE to hear from you.<br/>Please email <a href="mailto:chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk">chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk</a> with a paragraph or a short video filmed on your phone about you and what interests you about being a part of the Sounding Board</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> 5pm, 10th July 2023</p>
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<p><strong>Common Wealth</strong> are thrilled to host Phil Minton’s incredible project<span> </span><a href="https://www.philminton.co.uk/feral-choir">Feral Choir</a><span> </span>– a series of vocal workshops with non-professionals and self confessed non singers, leading to an outdoor performance.</p>
<p>Phil Minton will facilitate a two day workshop and performance in East Cardiff encouraging the exploration of voice, inviting participants to take a vocal leap and explore possibilities…</p>
<p><strong>Common Wealth</strong> are thrilled to host Phil Minton’s incredible project<span> </span><a href="https://www.philminton.co.uk/feral-choir">Feral Choir</a><span> </span>– a series of vocal workshops with non-professionals and self confessed non singers, leading to an outdoor performance.</p>
<p>Phil Minton will facilitate a two day workshop and performance in East Cardiff encouraging the exploration of voice, inviting participants to take a vocal leap and explore possibilities through vocal exercises and improvisations.</p>
<p>Feral Choir is open to anyone (singers and non-singers) who takes delight in the freedom to experiment and has a curiosity to express themselves, including children (we’re advising 9 years +).</p>
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<p>Feedback from previous choirs includes:</p>
<p><em>“Thank you for the most fantastic experience to let us express ourselves in this way”</em></p>
<p><em>“A new heart in my voice”</em></p>
<p><em>“You have let the sun enter into my head”</em></p>
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<p><strong>WHO:</strong><span> </span>Adults and accompanied children (9 years+)</p>
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<p><strong>WHEN:</strong><span> </span>Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June, 2023<br/>11:00am to 3:00pm</p>
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<p><strong>WHERE:</strong><span> </span>St Mellons Hub, 30 Crickhowell Rd, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0EF<br/>(Except performance on Sunday 11 June, 1:30pm- 3pm in nearby subway)</p>
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<p><strong>BOOK</strong><span> </span>your<span> </span><strong>FREE</strong><span> </span>place by following this link:<br/><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-wealth-hosts-feral-choir-with-phil-minton-tickets-616978197397">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-wealth-hosts-feral-choir-with-phil-minton-tickets-616978197397</a></p>
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<p><strong>ACCESS:</strong><span> </span>The workshops will take place indoors at the Hub, with the performance taking place in a subway, a short walk away. To discuss any access requirements, please contact<span> </span><a href="mailto:chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk">chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.philminton.co.uk/"><strong>Phil Minton</strong></a><span> </span>comes from Torquay in the UK. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s- then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980′s. For most of the last forty years, Phil has been working as an improv singer in groups, orchestras and situations, in various locations worldwide. Some composers have written pieces that especially employ his extended vocal techniques and improvisations. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher and ongoing duos with all the above. Phil also sings with many other musicians including Audrey Chen, with whom in the last ten years, he has performed worldwide. Since the eighties, his Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries. More recently, Phil has on going Duos with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Guylaine Cosseron, Hugh Medcalfe and Szilard Mezei.</p>EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST: Creating Your Stage!tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2023-05-09:3152760:BlogPost:3418342023-05-09T10:30:00.000ZChantal Williamshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChantalWilliams543
<p>Everyone is unique and has something different to offer, which means there is always a stage waiting for you to share your niche. It’s time to come together and starting building the foundations of the stage you want to create!</p>
<p>Utilising your specific skill set, come and explore with<span> </span><a href="https://www.azararm.com/">Azara</a><span> </span>and learn how to create your stage, like they have.<br></br> It’s going to be wild fun, think movement, writing, drag, laughter and…</p>
<p>Everyone is unique and has something different to offer, which means there is always a stage waiting for you to share your niche. It’s time to come together and starting building the foundations of the stage you want to create!</p>
<p>Utilising your specific skill set, come and explore with<span> </span><a href="https://www.azararm.com/">Azara</a><span> </span>and learn how to create your stage, like they have.<br/> It’s going to be wild fun, think movement, writing, drag, laughter and tears… would you expect anything less?!</p>
<p><em>“Azara’s witty combination of spoken word and effortless groove takes the audience on a night out that leaves you longing to dance”</em><br/> **** Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian</p>
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<p><strong>WHO:</strong><span> </span>Participants aged 16+</p>
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<p><strong>WHEN:</strong><span> </span>Friday 23 June, 2023, 10.30am – 2.30pm</p>
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<p><strong>WHERE:</strong><span> </span>St Mellons Hub, 30 Crickhowell Rd, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0EF</p>
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<p><strong>BOOK</strong><span> </span>your<span> </span><strong>FREE</strong><span> </span>place by following this link:<br/> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-with-posh-club-favourite-multidisciplinary-artist-azara-tickets-616993543297">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-with-posh-club-favourite-multidisciplinary-artist-azara-tickets-616993543297</a></p>
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<p><strong>ACCESS:</strong><span> </span>The workshop will take place indoors at the Hub. To discuss any access requirements, please contact<span> </span><a href="mailto:chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk">chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.azararm.com/"><strong>Azara</strong></a><span> </span>is a multi-disciplinary artist that likes to share personal politics on sexuality, gender, racism, classism and homophobia through live art and film using poetry, breakdancing and theatre. They are also the host of one of the most well-known queer cabaret nights in London, Duckie and, The Posh Club, the rowdiest afternoon tea for over 60’s. Azara really enjoys creating work that unites a desire for introspection within the audience and themself, but through that a celebration of individuality should reign supreme.</p>Freelance Opportunity at Common Wealth - LOCAL CREATIVE FACILITATOR – CARDIFFtag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2021-12-02:3152760:BlogPost:3390022021-12-02T12:14:34.000ZChantal Williamshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/ChantalWilliams543
<p>Common Wealth are recruiting a local facilitator for an exciting project happening in a Cardiff East primary school in Spring/ Summer 2022. As part of the Moving Roots Touring Network, Common Wealth are working with musician and performance maker, Kid Carpet on ‘Epic Fail’, a co-created show devised from time spent exploring failure with Year 5 at a Cardiff East School and 3 other primary schools in the UK, supported by other Moving Roots partners.</p>
<p>The local facilitator will be Kid…</p>
<p>Common Wealth are recruiting a local facilitator for an exciting project happening in a Cardiff East primary school in Spring/ Summer 2022. As part of the Moving Roots Touring Network, Common Wealth are working with musician and performance maker, Kid Carpet on ‘Epic Fail’, a co-created show devised from time spent exploring failure with Year 5 at a Cardiff East School and 3 other primary schools in the UK, supported by other Moving Roots partners.</p>
<p>The local facilitator will be Kid Carpet’s collaborator: joining in, assisting and leading elements of workshops and rehearsals and finding those nuggets of creativity to make the show the best it can be. Essentially being Kid Carpet’s second pair of eyes and ears.</p>
<p>The local facilitator will also devise and deliver a legacy project in Cardiff East, inspired by Epic Fail and supported by Common Wealth.</p>
<p>Fee: £4800 for 8 weeks work between February – August 2022</p>
<p><a href="https://commonwealththeatre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Local-Creative-Facilitator-Recruitment-Pack.pdf">Download application pack</a></p>
<p>DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: <strong>5pm, 3 January 2022</strong></p>
<p>Interviews will be in the week beginning 17th January.</p>
<p><a href="https://commonwealththeatre.co.uk/about/jobs/">Common Wealth - Jobs & Opportunities (commonwealththeatre.co.uk)</a></p>
<p>Welsh language application pack available.</p>
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<div dir="auto">We are looking for solo acts to be part of a uniquely special show staged in East Cardiff in May 2021. We are looking for all acts, singers, dancers, comedians, rappers, spoken word artists, jugglers, circus or variety acts of any kind!</div>
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<p>Common Wealth are a site specific theatre company based in both Cardiff and Bradford. We are currently looking to recruit and pay a team of 6 people from Cardiff East (St.Mellons, Llanrumney, Rumney and Trowbridge) to make up a sounding board, a group that will help us develop and shape ideas for Moving Roots.…</p>
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<p>Common Wealth are a site specific theatre company based in both Cardiff and Bradford. We are currently looking to recruit and pay a team of 6 people from Cardiff East (St.Mellons, Llanrumney, Rumney and Trowbridge) to make up a sounding board, a group that will help us develop and shape ideas for Moving Roots.</p>
<p><a href="https://commonwealththeatre.co.uk/projects/moving-roots-touring-network-2/%C2%A0">https://commonwealththeatre.co.uk/projects/moving-roots-touring-network-2/ </a>;</p>
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<p>We will over 3 years be delivering work in East Cardiff that will look to empower local people, be relevant and provide paid work to local artists.</p>
<p>Are you passionate about social change, theatre or ensuring that the arts serves our community? or would you just like to opportunity to train, see work and broaden ideas of what the arts is and why it has value?</p>
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<p>We would love to here from you, great ideas come from anyone at anytime. We value this and look to make up an amazing team who can pull from our resources to develop themselves and Moving Roots.</p>
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