Elevate Masterclass – Forging Relationships with Theatres and Running a Building
Drawing from over 20 years working across a range of freelance and artistic leadership roles, this interactive conversation led by our Creative Director and Joint Chief Executive Martin Berry will explore practical steps that freelance artists can take to build meaningful relationships with arts organisations.
Free and exclusively for Elevate members.
Mon 14 Oct, 5:30PM
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Scaffolding
Sheridan is having a bad day. Her church is closing, Adult Social Care are on her case and she can’t work out what ingredients she needs to make a bomb. With no one else to turn to, she climbs the scaffolding around the leaking church steeple with a few questions for whoever is in charge.
From multi-award-winning Documental Theatre, Scaffolding is an explosive show about strength, love and community.
★ ★ ★ ★
‘Little gem of a play’
The Stage
Mon 14 Oct, 7:45PM
Book NowARTISTS’ SOCIAL
Co-hosted by Exeter Northcott and Theatre Royal Plymouth, this is an opportunity for Elevate members to come and spend time with other creatives, share ideas, and meet the artist development teams for both theatres, who will share their plans for their work with artists moving forwards. Each attendee will receive a complimentary drink.
Free and exclusively for Elevate members.
Tue 15 Oct, 5:30PM
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ELEVATE SHORTS
Exeter Northcott has commissioned four local playwrights to pen a collection of brand-new short plays, brought to life by a team of directors and actors from across the region. Elevate Shorts is an evening of new writing that puts South-West stories centre stage:
Salvage by Helen Thomas, directed by Jon Nash
Shout Out To My Exe by Ed Viney, directed by Jon Nash
Soup by Holly Fitzpatrick, directed by Roisin McCay-Hines
A Summer of Birds by Laura Horton, directed by Roisin McCay-Hines
Tue 15 Oct, 7:30PM
BOOK NOWElevate Masterclass – Fundraising for Freelancers
Off the back of a successful run of Scaffolding at Edinburgh Fringe and drawing from their experiences building a theatre company from scratch, Lucy Bell and Naomi Turner from Documental Theatre lead a hands-on introduction to fundraising, featuring a range of tools and tips that freelancers can use to optimise their chances of finding funding.
Free and exclusively for Elevate members.
Wed 16 Oct, 5:30PM
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ARTISTS’ FAILSPACE OCTOBER 2024
Failspace is an informal gathering for South West-based artists, making a playful space to embrace FAILURE. Join us to chat, laugh, question and share the best (and worst) of our collective endeavours.
We will provide snacks, a free drink, a warmly facilitated discussion and an opportunity to network with other artists.
Wed 16 Oct, 7PM
BOOK NOWNewsicals
An informal afternoon of drinks, chat and ideas for new musicals, hosted by Documental Theatre.
Devon has a growing musical theatre scene. A number of exciting and ambitious new musicals are being developed right here in Exeter and the surrounding areas. Newsicals will showcase original musical theatre songs by local talent.
Thu 17 Oct, 1PM
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ORPHAN PLANET
Orphan Planet is an autobiographical theatre piece combining real stories. once lost, now found, family footage and space exploration. All to try and answer the question of how to live with grief. Written and performed by Danny Laine.
Thu 17 Oct, 7.45PM
BOOK NOWPlay, Pint, Pasty
Moveable Type Theatre Company are excited to bring their lunchtime theatre to the Barnfield Theatre.
Black Pill and Paternity is an exploration of the seductive power of incel culture, its violence and misogyny, and a possible way out.
Two young men meet online and find themselves hounded by their histories and tied together by a single tragic event. As they grapple with a culture that tells them to hate and resent, can they find redemption in their connection to each other?
Fri 18 Oct, 1PM
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Elevate Festival Resident Company: Squeeze Box
We’re providing a local theatre company with space and support to spend some time making.
Squeeze Box is a creative organism, a mycelium of makers, who support the artistic vision and disabled-led practise of Hugh Malyon. Their process allows us to understand the power of humanity more deeply, whilst developing together and growing as a care-centered transdisciplinary collective. Squeeze Box opens direct conversation on care as a universal experience through installation, performance and workshop.
FIND OUT MOREElevate Masterclass – Access and Care in the Rehearsal Room
Squeeze Box invites you into a space of empathy and care, challenging perceptions and overcoming ableism together, in their relaxed, workshop-style Q&A.
Free and exclusively for Elevate members.
Sat 19 Oct, 4PM
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Playwrights for Hire
Look out for our resident busking playwrights stationed around the Barnfield Theatre across the week of the Elevate Festival. They will be armed with laptops, caffeine and a blank page waiting for your brilliant ideas for one-page plays.
Give our playwrights an idea, title, or any other prompt of your choosing, and they will craft you your very own, very free, very short play right there on the spot! You’ll get a copy to keep, a copy will be displayed in our gallery, and at the end of the week, artists from across the Elevate Festival will come together to perform as many new one-page plays as they can stage in an hour!
Sat 19 Oct, 7PM
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Our free Elevate membership gives South West artists access to exclusive opportunities, press nights, social events and discounts, including a 10% discount at the Northcott and Barnfield bar and café, and ticket discounts on selected shows.
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