As National Theatre Wales Creative Associate I have been tasked with the challenge of evolving the ‘Assembly’ strand of our work.  I have to cycle across Wales, in order to enjoy, explore and familiarize myself with the Welsh landscape.  I have experienced some of the beauty on offer across the country & felt the best way to experience more would be a bike journey.  My 13 day journey will begin on 2^nd September 2011 and will finish if all goes accordingly on the 14^th… Continue

6:20pm Wednesday evening, I rush into Cardiff Arts Institute only to discover people eating in the space Word 4 Word is supposed to take place.  There are a few poets already waiting & my host Ali Goolyad hasn’t turned up yet.  I rush around with Gem White sorting the room out around the diners and out of the window I see Ali strolling in, the relief!  Now at least I have a host.

The only other stressful moment in the first ever NTW supported, CAI hosted Word 4 Word, was when I…

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During a Skype meet with Henry Alles, performer/director from Dutch rural arts organisation Peer Group, a conclusion was reached that a visit was in order to understand their specific way of working.  This would make easier the organising of Henry’s trip in October to Rhayader for a phase of R&D. 

So I braced myself for a train, coach, plane, train, car travel combo and set off on my…

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National Theatre Wales is currently hosting Jeton with a view to exploring possible links and ideas that may grow between Jeton the writer and NTW or between the two national arts organisations.  He has been in Cardiff and further afield since Saturday 28^th.  Below is little more about his work and what he got up to during his visit.

Jeton Neziraj is Artistic Director of National Theatre of Kosovo in…

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Blue Touch Paper: making new collaborations in contemporary culture

 

The London Sinfonietta is launching a new programme that offers composers and collaborators from arts and science backgrounds to join them in developing ground-breaking new interdisciplinary works.

 

Blue Touch…

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CAKE SUBMISSIONS

 

Deadline: Mon 16 May 2011

 

CAKE is looking for 3 x 3-minute guerrilla theatre pieces that will take place on one day in a variety of venues in Falmouth.

 

The May session of CAKE will be taking place as part of the Fal River Festival. 27th May - 5th June 2011



The same 3-minute pieces will then be performed during the evening, along with one longer piece of 30 minute max.. Venues to be confirmed, however…

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We have had a wonderful response to our upcoming event:  A Gala Evening with Wole Soyinka

 

A lot of you have been asking about the Exclusive Reception which will be a post show gathering for a selected audience. 

Tickets are £75, this will permit you access to the conversation with Prof. Soyinka and Jude Kelly OBE in the Purcell…

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Please find attached information about the Almeida Theatre’s Trainee Workshop Leader Programme for 2011/12, in partnership with Central School of Speech and Drama.  The course is for anyone - writer, director, actor, technician, or just interested in theatre - who is passionate about working with young people and interested in gaining facilitation experience (within a Producing Theatre environment) as well arts education-focussed project planning skills.



 



Applicants can also… Continue

So three weeks in to the job and I think I am going to head back off to London...................................

only joking.

 

I’ve been getting quite stuck in and learning about the intricacies of NTW workings.  So after many inductions and policy reading sessions I have started to embark on the creative aspect of the job. 

 

The first was last week at our launch photo shoot, some serious equipment and some amazing ideas and artists taking part – keep it…

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NEW WRITER’S AWARD 2011

£1500 Bursary for emerging writer available now!

 

As part of an international theatre for young people project Emergency Exit Arts (EEA) is offering to support an emerging writer aged 16 – 30 with a bursary of £1500 to develop a new 30 minute piece of outdoor performance to be premiered in 2012. The new work will be produced by EEA in 2011 to perform in 2012 as part of the Olympics Cultural Festival. The winning writer will be announced to the…

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Having spent a week in Wales I felt that I needed to tell you all about my amazing and at times extraordinary first week in Wales.

I was given the opportunity through Step Change (programme with the National Theatre in England) to come out to Wales and shadow my mentor John McGrath. John came to London in mid June and I had a meeting with him and we decided that coming to Wales would be a good idea and a great comparison to my first placement in the historically rich and rooted building of… Continue

National Theatre Wales’ Assembly is developing into democratically-elected projects to be delivered across the length and breadth of Wales.

 

Rehearsals are underway in west Wales for Assembly 02 on the 4^th of May 2012 and now Assembly 03, mid Wales, requires your online votes to decide how we proceed. We also need fresh proposals from you for Assembly 04 taking place in North Wales, so get thinking and bring us to your town to get that conversation…

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Hello everyone.

My name is Abdul Shayek and I am the new Creative Associate for the 'Assembly strand' of National Theatre Wales.  Some of you may remember my last visit to Wales whilst on placement, thought I would blog my re-entry on to the Welsh Theatre Landscape.  For those who didn't or did catch my last blog 2 years back about hikes, trips to the seaside and recon mission in Brecon Beacons, I am back and this time it's for good.

 

So who have National Theatre Wales…

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