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Deep Trash Escoria22nd September 2018, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club (London)
I was invited by CUNTemporary to be part of the selection and curation process for its live art club night Deep Trash Escoria. I also hosted the night, warming up the audience and introducing each of the participating acts. This edition of Deep Trash was dedicated to Spanish-speaking and Latinx contexts.
Read Alex Fernandez's review of the event for curating the contemporary.org here. |
Images courtesy of Orlando Myxx and Thomas Hensher. Full album of credited works here.
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Theatre, Interactivity, Democracy1 4th April 2015, Unicorn Theatre (London)
Ahead of the general election, this event was conceived by and co-delivered with Duška Radosavljevic, and coincided with the London run of Ontroerend Goed's interactive piece Fight Night. Aimed at a cross-section of young and adult audiences, the discussion that followed the show endeavoured to extend our ideas about democracy, capitalising on the rich history of theatre as a democratic medium and promoting the notion of personal agency through interactivity. Participating speakers were: Alexander Devriendt (Artistic Director, Ontroerend Goed), Maddy Costa (theatre critic), Vladimir Shcherban (Associate Director, Free Theatre of Belarus), Sasha Padziarei (translator), Simon Startin (theatre-maker and London Bubble Associate), Annette Mees, (Coney Co-Director), and Iain MacKenzie (Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent). The event was supported by ETRN and School of Arts, University of Kent. More information here. |
2011 - 2014, various venues around Kent
2012 Canterbury Culture Award as 'Cultural Pioneer' As part of Accidental Collective, I co-created Pot Luck's first season with Daisy Orton. We co-produced its second season (2013-14) with Cathy Westbrook and Phoebe Marsh as associate producers.
Pot Luck was more than just another scratch night! It was an artist-led and award-winning platform dedicated to supporting performance-makers, showcasing and developing their work, and building bridges between artists and new audiences. We programmed a variety of work by over 70 artists, from theatre to dance, from cabaret to live art. In a nutshell, it was like tapas but in performance! In its second season we also had a commissioning strand, which saw different headline artists create new work in response to each location; they were: Daniel Somerville, Marcia Farquhar, Little Bulb Theatre, Genetic Moo, Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari, and fanSHEN. There was always also opportunity to mingle, have a drink, and chat in a friendly and informal atmosphere; part scratch night, part showcase, part networking, part party! Every Pot Luck event was different and has its own unique flavour. Rather than being based in one place, it moved from venue to venue. In its two seasons, Pot Luck travelled to the Jolly Sailor (Canterbury), Tom Thumb Theatre (Cliftonville), Creek Creative (Faversham), The Ballroom (Canterbury), Gulbenkian Theatre (Canterbury), Limbo (Margate), Marine Studios (Margate), The Criterion / Blue Town Heritage Centre (Sheerness), The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge (Canterbury), The Avenue Theatre (Sittingbourne). Pot Luck was funded by Arts Council England and Kent County Council. More information about it here. “Pot Luck is very exciting, accessible, approachable and always more than the sum of its parts.” (audience member)
“Really cool idea! Never experienced this venue like this. The work by all the artists was great, and made even better by the fact some of it was ‘rare’ and you could meet the artists – like a mini-community tonight! Great work.” (audience member) "Pot Luck offers a platform for performing work that has no equivalent and did not exist before. There is now a place where performance artists from a wide spectrum of performance art disciplines can go and try things out, and where we can keep updated with what everybody else is doing. It's not surprising that it has so quickly become a key player in the region's artistic scene.” (Estelle Rosenfeld, artist) |
Images courtesy of Pete Fry.
Videos courtesy of Hope Fitzgerald, and Jason Brooks. |
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Images courtesy of Matt Wilson.
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"This event was unique not just for its open call, but also for the complexity of bringing so many artists and academics together from around the world under the umbrella of Grotowski and his influence and ongoing practices today. Pablo led the organisational team with his customary imagination, creative flair and organisational acumen, making sure there were rigorous debates and activities but also great fun."
Prof. Paul Allain |
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