GIFT: Gateshead International
Festival of Theatre
Friday 28th April – Sunday 30th April 2017
Various Locations in Gateshead
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| Will There Be Stew - Zoe Murtagh |
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| Best of BE: Vacuum Cie Philippe Saire - Photo: Alex Brenner |
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| Possibilities that dissapear before a landscape. El Conde Photo: Claudia Pajewski |
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| Best of BE: Overload Sotterraneo Photo: Alex Brenner |
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| Noise Lab: CHALK |
Get involved at GIFT: As well as workshops and networking
opportunities, there will be a free lunchtime discussion each day of the
festival held at Prohibition Bar. These conversations will offer an opportunity
to hear from some of the programmed artists, as well as hear about other initiatives
from across the UK including Yorkshire’s Stand and Be Counted Theatre Company
who will offer a performative talk about how performance work can do more to engage
and support asylum seekers and refugees locally and nationally (Sunday 30th,
1pm).
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| PUG Party hosted by Hannah and Rosa - Photo: Chris Bishop |
Returning for 2017:
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| Best of BE: Situation with Outstreched Arm - Photo: Alex Brenner |
GIFT
ONLINE
Homepage:
www.giftfestival.co.uk
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Twitter: @GIFTfest https://twitter.com/GIFTfest
HashTag: #GIFT2017
Festival Information
Dates: Friday 28th to Sunday 30th April 2017
Venues
Caedmon
Hall at Gateshead Central Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, NE8 4LN
St
Mary’s Heritage Centre, Oakwellgate, Gateshead, NE8 2AU
The
Central, Half
Moon Lane, Gateshead, NE8 2AN
The
Prohibition Bar, Arch 3 Brandling Street, Gateshead, NE8 2BA
Baltic
Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Tickets:
Festival
Passes allowing access to all events: £40 (Full Price) £25 (Concessions)
Tickets
for individual events vary between £5-14.
CONFIRMED PROGRAMME
Friday 28th April
LittleGIFT: Noise
Lab – CHALK
10:15am, 11:15am, 12:15am
BALTIC
Welcome to NOISE LAB! An experimental noise
making space at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art created by Chalk. At Noise
Lab young children and their grown ups will play with innovative musical
instruments and sound making devices to create amazing soundscapes that will be
recorded and mixed by a sound artist.
Will
there be stew? – Zoe Murtagh
11am – 4pm (drop in)
St Marys Heritage Centre
An early exploration of ideas on the theme of home
& heritage in uncertain times. A postcard to the homes you haven’t found yet and a
love letter to those you have. Following on from Zoe’s previous solo performance The
Lamppost Petition about family stories, protesting, measuring life through cups
of tea and growing old ungracefully, this is an opportunity to aid the
development of a new piece of work that hopes to question our pride, prejudices
and potato intake.
Lunchtime
Talk - hosted
by FanShen
1pm – 2:30pm
The Prohibition Bar
Lunchtime Talks are an informal space for people to
come and listen, while eating their packed lunch. A couple of artists share something they’re
thinking about. Then there’s a conversation. It’s a space to talk about the
ideas that keep us getting up in the morning to do this thing we do.
La posibilidad que
desaparece frente al paisaje (Possibilities that
Disappear before a Landscape) – EL
CONDE DE TORREFIEL
7.30pm (75 mins)
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Possibilities that
disappear before a landscape is a
theatre piece to
be read and
to be observed. The
piece is thought
of as an open
book, where the
imperceptible world of atmospheres, thoughts
and memories are
described. Meanwhile, the scene
is organized as a model, a naïve
game of representations, nice and fragile.
An empty stage
is presented to
the audience, occupied
at first, only
by a screen
over which is projected
a fragmented narrative
journey across ten
European cities. Ten landscapes that
head the public
towards the darkness
and the violent
territories of people's minds.
PUG
PARTY – hosted by PUG
9pm – 11:30pm
St Mary’s Heritage Centre
Back in July 2016, Hannah, Rosa and Jamie met a
fisherman in Leazes Park. They asked him what
he thought a radical new performance club night should be. The man replied, Cheap.
Good transport links. Fun. These became the three pillars of PUG.
PUG wants to grow community driven, interdisciplinary
and queer performance practice in the North East and create a home for live art
that is accessible and progressive.
Expect a dynamic evening of charm and contrast with a
line-up of experimental comedy, dance, art and things-in-between. Above all PUG
is a party. It’s about coming together, challenging each other, having a dance,
a laugh and maybe making a new best friend*.
*dog reference.
SATURDAY 29th APRIL
Lunchtime
Conversation - Kate
Craddock and guests
1pm-2:30pm
The Prohibition Bar
Festival Director Kate Craddock will be joined by
guest artists who are performing for an informal discussion that will tease out
some of the core themes in the work presented at GIFT 2017, offering
audiences the chance to hear more about the performances in the programme and
an opportunity to input into Kates’ future plans for GIFT.
Movement
Workshop - Simone Kenyon
2.30pm –
4.30pm
Caedmon Hall (Meeting point)
Site-responsive movement workshop with Simone
Kenyon. Simone will introduce participants to her own processes for creating
site-responsive performances, exploring Gateshead as
inspiration.
Something
Terrible Might Happen – Uncanny Theatre
5:30pm (60 mins)
The Central
Join us for a night of
laughing in the face of fear and playing games with the things that really
scare us. Part theatre, part stand-up, part childish prank by people old enough
to know better. Be careful though; something terrible might happen.
Blow
Off - Julia
Taudevin
7:45pm (70 mins)
Caedmon Hall
Explosive guerrilla-gig-theatre from Julia Taudevin,
with music by Kim Moore with Susan Bear and Julie Eisenstein. Half Pixies-style
rock gig, half dramatic monologue, this fierce and playful feminist work
explores the psychology of extremism through the story of a woman intent on
blowing capitalism and the patriarchy sky-high. With haunting melodies and
progressive punk riffs this ‘dynamite hour of sexual politics’(Guardian) is ‘one of the most
memorable shows of the year’ (Scotsman).
GIFTed: Late Night Lip Sync Cabaret – Bonnie and
the Bonnettes and GIFTed guests
9:30pm (doors)
The Central
Hosted by the highly colourful and super talented
Bonnie and the Bonnettes, this special cabaret event will feature performances
by current Northumbria University Performing
Arts students. Expect a hilarious, subversive lip-sync mash up!
SUNDAY 30th APRIL
To
Suit – Lizzie J Klotz
11am, 1pm, 2.30pm Free
Performance Event
BALTIC
To Suit is a dance-theatre live and film work that
explores the relationship between
man and woman.
Developed through an investigation into human interaction, the work
draws comparisons to bird courtship rituals, using
body, voice and sound as a means of communication.
Performative
Talk - Stand and Be Counted Theatre Company
1pm – 2.30pm
The Prohibition Bar
We’re asking questions about accessibility, we’re
taking to the streets, we’re writing to our local MPs, we’re making work that
challenges and questions the systems...we’re preaching to the converted...?
Stand and Be Counted Theatre Company invite you to
their performative talk. This is a space designed to share practice and open
discussion about how performance work can do more to engage and support asylum
seekers and refugees locally and nationally.
Into
the Mountain (Work in Progress) – Simone Kenyon
12 midday Free
Performance Event
BALTIC
A solo performance uncovering the subtle shifts and
developing perceptions of a place. One woman’s attempt at navigating and moving through the
elements of the mountain she brings back upon her return. Physical conversations move in relation to
the prose of The Living Mountain, exploring encounter and attempts to develop
an understanding of a place through the physical act of being there. Into the
Mountain will be the first of a series of performance works in relation to the Cairngorms Mountains in North East Scotland. Credits: Supported
by Cove Park through the Jerwood
Trust residency programme and The Tramway.
GIFTed: Workshop with Sotterraneo
(Time tbc)
Caedmon Hall
Open to GIFTed participants, this workshop will
offer participants the opportunity to gain insight into the highly original
theatre making processes of the award winning company form Italy, Sottereano
ahead of their performance as part of Best of BE FESTIVAL.
Seven
Tables – Gillian Dyson
3pm Free
Durational Performance
BALTIC
“carrying, placing, standing, stacking,
upturning, moving, addressing, looking”
...
Seven Tables is the latest iteration of a practice-based research
into the relationship between the female and domestic objects, and what the
performance of these does to unsettle our understanding of the
homely.
The Great GIFT Get Together
5pm
Caedmon Hall
An opportunity for participating artists,
producers, programmers and audience to get together for dialogue and exchange:
to share networks, and open up opportunities.
Best of BE FESTIVAL 2017
8pm (120 minutes
including post show discussion)
Caedmon Hall
- Travel across Europe in a night
- Head-spinning performances from Europe’s four corners
- A grand tour of boundary smashing European
performance in one exhilarating night
Birmingham's genre-bending European arts festival takes to
the road and shines a light on the continent's diverse and emerging talent in
theatre, dance and performance art.
GIFT
has operated as the only North East host of the Best of BE FESTIVAL tour since
2012.
Experience
the highlights of the 2016 festival with three exceptional shows from Italy, Germany & Switzerland each lasting 30 minutes. BE FESTIVAL shakes up
the idea of conventional theatre by crossing borders, disciplines and blurring
traditional boundaries between audience and artist. The annual summer festival
invites European performers to perform at Birmingham REP, and celebrates European culture and community.
Vacuum
- Cie
Philippe Saire
A
transcendental performance created by Philippe Saire, one of Europe’s
leading exponents of experimental choreography where movement and visual arts
converge and bodies weave through black holes and shards of dazzling light. The
slo-mo optical canvas mesmerises as two male forms float through a vacuum
created in space. The show has been programmed at the 2016 edition of
Internationale Tanzmesse Düsseldorf and is part three of the Dispositifs (stage
devices) series by Philippe Saire who has played a significant part in
developing contemporary dance in Switzerland.
Situation
with Outstretched Arm -Oliver Zahn
The
saluto Romano, the olympic salute, the Bellamy Salute or in its most common
form, the Hitler Salute. One of the most powerful and violent symbols of the
twentieth century is re-contextualised on stage through physical performance
and essay. The German production takes a unique cross-disciplined approach to a
controversial subject, one that has re-emerged across Europe
in extremist organisations. Oliver Zahn was nominated in the ‘Best Emerging
Artist’ category in Theater Heute’s 2015 critics poll.
Winner
of the ACT Festival Price at BE 2016
Overload
- Sotterraneo
Overload
is a fast paced and explosive physical theatre performance by four Italians
intent on dissecting the noisy interruptions that bombard our day to day lives.
Through a witty and physical narrative, the show jumps from one distraction to
another analysing the feeling triggered by something ending prematurely and our
perpetual sense of confusion. Sotterraneo are a multi-award winning theatre
collective born in Florence in 2004 and previously won the the BE FESTIVAL
2012 1st Prize with Homo Ridens.
MEDIA QUOTES for Best of BE FESTIVAL
‘It
is difficult to imagine a more rewarding and enjoyable night out’ ★★★★★
What’s On Stage
“Ground-breaking
new theatre from across Europe” The Guardian
“The
evening is structured like a fresh and tasty three course meal” The Times
“A
bonanza of European performance” The Stage
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