tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42950427271673150232024-02-07T01:43:36.406-08:00Firebird Theatre NewsFirebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-55179816212878390022017-12-08T09:05:00.001-08:002017-12-08T09:05:15.132-08:00Our December 2017 Newsletter<div align="center" style="margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">To all our Friends and Supporters, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a
very happy New Year</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">2017 has been an amazing year with our production <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart </i>being a real
highlight and receiving great feedback and reviews from our audiences. It is
hard to believe that the performances were back in May!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Now we are working with producers, MAYK, to plan a tour of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark</i> in autumn 2018 to venues in the
southwest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We are also planning a workshop for schools and colleges to
run alongside performances of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Next year will also see the beginning of a partnership
project with Bristol Old Vic, running taster workshops for new people who are
interested in making theatre and are potential future members of Firebird
Theatre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We are also talking to the Theatre Department at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Bristol</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> about them holding a Firebird
Theatre archive as part of their Theatre Collection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We have been working with Cath Greig and MAYK on a research
and development project which is about looking at how Firebird can continue to
develop as a Company and have a strong future. As part of the project we have
taken part in workshops run by Verity Standen, Nik Partridge and Laura
Dannequin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Please see below for feedback from the Company and photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">This year we have received support from Arts Council England
via their Grants for the Arts funding stream. They have supported us making and
performing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart</i>
and the Research and Development Project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We have also received grants from the Yapp Charitable Trust
and The Odin Charitable Trust which have contributed to our running costs and
donations from our Friends and Supporters. Many thanks to all the people who
support us in this way, also to trustees, families and friends who support
every aspect of our work, from the business side to helping us get to
rehearsals and performances.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To end this newsletter, we finish off with some comments
from audience members for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a
Beating Heart</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">This is a gorgeous
piece of theatre that implicitly argues for the existence and potential of
theatre, along with continued, active expressions of compassion for all members
of society. This work tells the story of Firebird Theatre. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Review for <a href="http://exeuntmagazine.com/"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">exeunt</span></a> by Rosemary Waugh</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">“Loved the thread of the myths
and people’s personal stories. I liked the audio visuals that also held the
story together. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Overall it was stunning.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">” </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">“Very moved by the powerful
performance. It was extremely brave to stand and give personal performances of
things that people hoped would be forgotten. We must never forget.”</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">“I always leave a Firebird show
uplifted and my life enhanced. I was very moved to hear the personal
stories and loved the way they were woven with the Firebird stories. I
was very impressed with the Design.” </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Feedback from Firebird for the workshops, all photographs by Ed Goater and Olivia Watkins</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Workshop with Verity Standen, 16th October</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The Power of Voice by Olivia Watkins</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">We starting of some voice exercises to help us start off. For this
workshop about voice, it was very interesting to the group, with some ideas
what we did: A food game: what is your personality as a food then the Name
Jam/sounds of music – very good experience. Then we did rounds: Deer calling
and a sea one. And we did Hocketing: singing backward and forth numbers and Hey
Jude/ Yellow Submarine. We all work very hard to complete this workshop. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">She was called </span><a href="http://veritystanden.com/"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "times new roman";">Verity Standen</span></span></a><span style="color: black;">. She was leading
the workshop. We all think we like her to come again. We did some feedback of
what she did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">And now I have finished my blog. The End. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://veritystanden.com/"><i><span style="background: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "times new roman";">Verity Standen’s</span></span></i></a><i><span style="background: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"> work as a composer, director and performer explores
the human voice and how it can be celebrated and transformed through live
performance.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Verity, fourth from left, with Fiirebird</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Workshop with Nik Partridge, 6th November</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="background: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #b00000;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Nik was a
nice lively chap – very enthusiastic and he didn’t muck about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">His warm
ups were excellent and he was very good at explaining about what an exercise
was for and his instructions were very clear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Some of the
exercises were difficult to understand but most of us got there in the end. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">We noticed
how good he was at adapting his exercises for us but also he didn’t give up –
he’d play a game with us for a while until we got the hang of it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">We loved
that he used drawing and writing – it gave us time to look and think.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">He was also
very good at interpreting movement. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">There was a
good mix of teamwork, work in pairs and individual work – a good mix of
different exercises: voice, movement, story telling, and choreography.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The whole
workshop was upbeat and fun. It would be good to work with him again; we would
love to work with him again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">We enjoyed
it very much. Nik was a very open person.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b00000;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Nik
Partridge, </span><a href="https://www.nikpartridgedirector.com/"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.nikpartridgedirector.com</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Nik is a
director, workshop leader and facilitator.</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Workshop with Laura Dannequin, 20th November</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We loved
this workshop because Laura gave us lots of ideas. We would like to work with
her again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">She helped
us all take part and I like that very much. Some of the work Laura did with us
might help us when we are on stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">She helped
us to look at each other, to watch each other; she kept us focussed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">It was so
good that Laura let us be us, explore our own movements, our own rhythms, our
own bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Laura was
very respectful of us all and she gave us a lot of confidence. Some of us feel
like we can’t dance or move very well but she helped us to see ourselves
differently – she helped us to see/experience what we could do NOT what we
couldn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The dance
that Marilyn and Laura did together was beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Laura made
us feel safe to experiment. She helped us develop our ideas. She helped us to
make beautiful dances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">I loved the
different music. The music was lovely and really helped us explore our own
movements and rhythms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The
different music suited each task/exercise. And helped us get in the mood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Thank you,
Laura; we would love to work with you again. We will keep in touch and please
keep in touch with us. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We would
love to see some of your work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Laura
Dannequin, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.lauradannequin.co.uk/"><span style="color: blue;">www.<b>lauradannequin</b>.co.uk</span></a><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=laura+dannequin&form=EDGEAR&qs=AS&cvid=a208488c972e4126a9c38bcd38abe23e&cc=GB&setlang=en-US&elv=AXXfrEiqqD9r3GuelwApulraho0AVgZGamPwYU79svG19kvLxELJOfjZFbii8vpPOe*iPznB5s6RpQOyoyBTCTMoQKflawe2R5DTU04lIsh8"></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Laura is a
French-born performer / choreographer / performance maker working predominantly
with and in movement.</span></span><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><strike><br /></strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"></span><br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-30304087954767248252017-11-25T09:18:00.001-08:002017-11-27T09:45:48.955-08:00Agenda and invitation to Firebird Theatre's Annual General Meeting: all welcome!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">You are invited to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt; margin: 0px;">Firebird Theatre’s Annual General
Meeting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;"> on Saturday 9<sup>th</sup> December
2017 at 10.30am for a 10.45am start in the Upstairs Rehearsal Room, Bristol Old
Vic, King Street, Bristol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;">From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark
and a Beating Heart</i>, Photograph: Paul Blakemore</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; margin: 0px;">Following the meeting, there will be an opportunity to meet
the Company informally and to share Christmas refreshments together. There will
also be a stall selling Firebird Theatre merchandise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Please feel free to invite friends and people you know to Firebird
Theatre’s Annual General Meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Entrance to the meeting will be via the Stage Door in the
Rackhay, off Queen Charlotte Street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We hope you can come to our meeting. We would very much
appreciate you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">letting us know if you can accept our invitation. Many thanks.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt; margin: 0px;"> <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Please send RSVPs to: <u><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px;">info@<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">firebird-theatre.co.uk</a></span></u>
OR by post to: Firebird Theatre, 5 Dial Hill Rd., Clevedon, N. Somerset BS21
7HJ OR by telephone/text to: 07890 524 226</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">FIREBIRD
THEATRE </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Annual
General Meeting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Saturday
9<sup>th</sup> December 2017 at 10.45am </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Clore Studio at Bristol Old Vic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">A
G E N D A</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> 1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Welcome
from Mel Scaffold, Chair of Firebird Theatre’s Trustees, introducing all
trustees and an explanation about how voting works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>2. Apologies</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To approve Minutes of the last AGM,
dated 10<sup>th</sup> December 2016</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Matters Arising</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To receive the report of the Chair</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To receive the Treasurer’s Financial
Report </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Appointment of Trustees </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Report from members of the Company</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Any Other Business</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The meeting will end at 11.45am with a short performance by
members of Firebird Theatre and thanks to Gary Hall, who retired as Trustee
earlier this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> There will be drinks and Christmas nibbles in the Bar after
the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Thank
you for coming to our meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;">Firebird Theatre Ltd . Registered in England and
Wales No. 5728116<br />
Registered office: 5 Dial Hill Road, Clevedon, North Somerset BS21 7HJ</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;">Registered main Charity Number: 1115658 <a href="http://www.firebird-theatre.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.firebird-theatre.co.uk</span></a></span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: blue;"></span>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-24352081615868509942017-10-17T03:50:00.001-07:002017-10-17T03:50:58.752-07:00Firebird Newsletter, October 2017<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">A Firebird newsletter
and some up-dates to share with you: October 2017</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">After our 3
week summer break, we have been very busy, picking up on the Research and
Development Project, planning a workshop around <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart</i> for schools and colleges; planning
Taster Workshops for new people to name just a few things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We are
really pleased to let you know that Bristol Old Vic Outreach Department <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>are going to work with us to run the taster
workshops for new people who are interested in making theatre and possibly joining
Firebird Theatre in the future. We are starting with a pilot workshop in
December and the Old Vic will host this and the other workshops in the New
Year. The pilot workshop will be led jointly by Firebird Theatre and Bristol
Old Vic. This is a very exciting development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We visited
the Theatre Collection at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Bristol</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> in September, which was very
interesting and we want to go back for more visits. We will also be talking to
the archivists at the Theatre Department about putting together a Firebird
Theatre archive to be housed as part of their Collection; another very exciting
development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">University: right, Olivia and Chris looking at what is thought to be a weight for opening and closing trap doors on stage. Photo on left: looking at what has been found under seats at the Old Vic in days gone by, Marilyn holding up an old Crunchie bar wrapper! Thanks to Jo Ellsworth and Jill Sullivan, from the University of Bristol Theatre Collection for an excellent and very interesting visit.</span></div>
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Sonoko returned home to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> on the 8<sup>th</sup> October and
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was a very good experience for us to work with Son<span style="font-size: small;"></span>oko and we will not forget
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questions about how we work so she can include them in her study. We are doing
this via email and hope we can share some ways of working with her that will be
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working with MAYK to plan a tour of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Spark and a Beating Heart</i> next year. We are also working on the Research and
Development Project that is being coordinated by Cath Greig. This involves us
in looking at how we work and also doing some workshops with other artists: we
are working with Verity Standen, Nik Partridge and others; we will let you know
how we get on in our next newsletter but for the time-being here is a photo of us all after our workshop with Verity Standen, which was really good and helped us with ideas about voice, focus, working together, using song and more. A bit more about Verity's and other workshops next time.</span></div>
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seeing some great theatre in November and December: Up Down Man by Myrtle
Theatre at the Tobacco Factory, <a href="http://www.myrtletheatrecompany.co.uk/updownman.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.myrtletheatrecompany.co.uk/updownman.html</span></a></span></div>
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Registered in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;">England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;">Wales</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; margin: 0px;"> No. 5728116</span></div>
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Registered main Charity Number: 1115658 <br />
<a href="http://www.firebird-theatre.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.firebird-theatre.co.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-40128615258270779092017-08-31T01:53:00.000-07:002017-08-31T01:53:01.745-07:00Summer Holiday Newsletter<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Dear
Friends and Supporters,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We are
currently on a 3 week summer break but still have news we want to share with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">On our last
day before we broke up, 14<sup>th</sup> August, we were joined by Sash, Maria
and Richard, to discuss the Taster workshops we would like to run over the next
few months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">It was very
helpful to hear their ideas and realise how enthusiastic they are to get
involved in making theatre. We hope to link-up with Bristol Old Vic’s Outreach
Department to deliver these workshops and hope to give you more news about these
in the next couple of months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We start
back on 11<sup>th</sup> September with a meeting with producers, MAYK, to discuss
possibilities for touring <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a
Beating Heart</i> and to plan parts of the Research Project that is being
coordinated by Cath Greig.</span></div>
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planning a workshop that can run alongside <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">On 25<sup>th</sup>
September we are visiting </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Bristol</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> to look at their Theatre Collection
– part of the visit will be to see if it is possible for Firebird to be part of
the Collection. The other reason for visiting is to see one of the world’s
largest archives of British Theatre history and live art. <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/about"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/about</span></a></span></div>
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holiday, Olivia and Dan are attending a one day film making workshop in
Plymouth as part of the Random Acts Film Project run by Random Acts, Calling
the Shots and Biggerhouse Film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Finally, we are including some more rehearsal photos taken by Paul Blakemore of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart.</i></span></div>
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Summer Days until we’re in touch again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Here is
some more news from us all at Firebird Theatre!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Firstly, a
few more photographs from our current production: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart</i>; all photographs taken by Paul
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Our Celebration Party at River
Station on the 27<sup>th</sup> July:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> On 27<sup>th</sup> July we had our celebration Bash at River
Station on the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Cumberland Rd.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> This was an opportunity to thank
all the people who helped us make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark</i>:
Kate and little Joseph from MAYK, our producers; Sam, who interpreted each show
into British Sign Language; Frank from Redweather who did all the filming and
projections; Claire Williamson, who helped us collect all our stories, thoughts
and ideas at the beginning of making work around Firebird’s 25<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary (2 years ago now!); Mel, Jo and Jude, our Trustees; Fionn, who
acted on stage with the Company, playing the part of the storyteller; Kevin and
Fiona, who supported the production and members of the Company; Cath Greig, who
is coordinating the professional development project that we will begin in
September and last but not least, all the Firebird performers apart from
Sharlie who was on holiday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">There are
obviously a lot of people missing from the above list, particularly Adrian, our
musician; Anna, our Stage Manager; Paul, our photographer, Ben, our lighting
designer and many other people from the technical and support team who helped make
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark</i>. Unfortunately, these people
couldn’t come to the Bash but we didn’t forget them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Sharlie
wrote a speech to be read out at the Bash before she went on holiday; she said
everything we all wanted to say and so we include it here as well: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To all the amazing people that helped to make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart </i>a success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Thank you for all your hard work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To Firebird, you are all amazing people. What a fantastic
celebration of 25 years work and here’s to the next 25 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">I am sorry I can’t be here to celebrate with you but have a
great night and see you soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Finally a BIG thanks to Ali and Bob who own River Station; they were our hosts for the
evening and did us proud – Ali’s food/buffet was excellent.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Other news:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> Sonoko from Japan who visited us a
few weeks ago with Scott, our Australian visitor has been working with us over
the last 2 weeks, helping us look at ideas for the workshop we want to plan to
run alongside <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark</i> when we perform
it at other venues – it will be for disabled and non disabled children, young
people and we hope will be relevant to adults as well. Sonoko has been doing a Residency
at Bristol Old Vic since spring, she returns to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> in October – we have loved working
with her and hope we can keep in touch with her when she gets back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We continue
to wish you all a good Summer; Firebird is closing for 3 weeks over the August
Bank Holiday time and we will back back in September to begin the research project
into making Firebird strong for the future (the professional development
project). We will be in touch again in October, uintil then best wishes from us
all in Firebird Theatre</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">To finish off, as
promised in our last newsletter, we are including extracts from Sharlie’s
Report from the Conference she attended in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Birmingham</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> last month, supported by Anna
Griffith.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">On the Verge Conference, </span></b><st1:city><st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Birmingham</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> Hippodrome, </span></b><st1:date day="4" month="7" year="2017"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Tuesday 4<sup>th</sup> July 2017</span></b></st1:date><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">, including a performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i> on the evening of the 3<sup>rd</sup>
July</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The
Conference was asking: How do we open up our main stages to Learning Disabled
performers? How do we build structures of support that encourage Learning
Disabled Actors to flourish? How doe we ensure Learning Disability is central
to the diversity debate?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Are we On
the Verge of a breakthrough??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">What will
happen on the day: we will examine these questions frankly and supportively
through a dynamic and thought –provoking day of conversations, workshops and
performances. The conference brings together performers, directors, programmers
and casting directors to create a platform for sharing best practice across
arts organisations.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Feedback from Sharlie</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Curious Incident</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We arrived
at the Birmingham Hippodrome and were made very welcome. We were given an
information sheet on what to expect in the performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">They had
set-up a sensory room, toys and crayons for people who need to leave the
theatre during the play. We were also offered sensory toys if we needed them as
went into the theatre – these were to help people if they were feeling anxious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Overall I
felt I’d been hit by a hurricane. It was a whirlwind of activity and I just
loved it. I have to say that the young man who played Christopher was
fantastic. I truly believed in his character. I would recommend seeing this
play to everyone.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Comment for Firebird</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">: I could not tell what had been
done to make the performance relaxed. I found the music and the sound effects
to be too loud and the talking was too quiet/drowned out by the music and effects.
I could not stay for the Q & A afterwards because of the noise, I was
overwhelmed.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The Conference</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">There were
around 150 people at On the Verge. It was held in a small studio and several
rehearsal spaces at the back of the Hippodrome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The
conference started with 2 keynote speeches by Lyn Gardner and Richard Hayhow
and then there were breakout groups. I attended two Breakout sessions:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Breakout session 1</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> Led by BecauseWeCanCanCan and
Richard Hayhow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">This group
just talked about themselves and didn’t really give us chance to ask questions.
Also they didn’t give a lot of information about their company, just about the
actors.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Breakout session 2 Led by Richard
Newnham and HiJinx Theatre</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We were
shown a video of a sitcom Richard had made with support from HiJinx. It is
called ‘Flat Mates’ and can be found on YouTube. They talked about getting
funding from a group called Unlimited and how it was put together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We had lots
of people talking but they went on so long and about many topics that it was
hard to keep up. Also I would have liked to hear about Hi Jinx and the theatre
they make as well as the video that Richard had made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The session
in the afternoon with Henry Normal was good – it was about his son and I really
enjoyed it.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Points for Firebird to consider</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">: I felt this conference was more
for non disabled people: artistic directors and staff <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>than the actors/performers themselves, as far
as I could tell there were not many disabled people at the conference so it
became ‘talking about the performers’ rather than the performers discussing
issues that were important to them, getting their work out there!.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">I would
have liked more break-out sessions and the chance to talk with other
performers. It would have been good if more companies had been involved so we
could have shared information about how we worked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">With lots
of the issues that people were discussing, I thought: Firebird is already doing
this! It made me think that Firebird needs to get out there more. If we could
have shared A Spark and a Beating Heart with people at the Conference I think people
(and us) would have got so much from it. We could give a lot to conferences and
sharing our work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">I also
think Firebird is thinking properly about making relaxed performances, changing
the environment and the play to make it easier for an audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Sharlie
Yea.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-78168165668925574412017-07-23T08:16:00.000-07:002017-07-23T14:32:03.494-07:00An update: for all our friends and supporters<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This is a short up-date of our activities throughout
the summer. We are meeting on Mondays for a shorter time than usual for
July and August. We are doing a lot of planning sessions for the research we
will do in September around the professional development of Firebird Theatre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We are also planning a workshop for schools and young people that will
be part of taking <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating
Heart</i> further afield. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We are talking to new people who want to learn more and are interested
in being part of Firebird Theatre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We will be visiting </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Bristol</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">’s Theatre
Collection in September to see if it is appropriate for Firebird to be part of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">On Monday 17<sup>th</sup> July, we had 2 visitors: Scott Gooding a drama
practitioner from </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Melbourne</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Australia</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> and Sonoko, who is
from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> and currently part
of a residency at Bristol Old Vic. It was great to meet them both and good for
us to talk about our work and tell them about Firebird and how we work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In our next newsletter we will be including a report made by Sharlie <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>about the <i>On the Verge </i>Conference she
attended, which was held in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Birmingham</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> on 4<sup>th</sup>
July. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Finally, we are including more photos from <i>A Spark and a Beating Heart. </i>We hope you enjoy them.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sharlie's story, told by Penny and Sharlie. The story of the phoenix told by Fionn.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The end of A Spark with the ensemble watching fireworks projected on the screen by Frank Spencer</span></td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-24657664150609397962017-06-10T07:14:00.000-07:002017-06-10T07:14:10.108-07:00Newsletter for June 2017<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First of all, we want to thank all the people who managed to come to see </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Spark and a
Beating Heart </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the Trinity Centre in May. It was a very
special time for us and we so appreciated sharing our work with an audience. Please see the Home page of our website for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">feedback and reviews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We do hope to be performing the show
again and If you didn't catch it this time round, then there
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are currently evaluating </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A
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England and making a gentle start on our latest project, which
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Firebird Theatre for the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the next few weeks we will be posting photographs from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A Spark and a Beating Heart </i>for everyone to see - there are lots of them! <i> </i></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The opening : What is a Firebird? With Sharlie, Dan, Penny and ensemble</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Telling our stories, featuring Penny and Fionn, with music by Adrian</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Left: Fionn as storyteller. Right: Adrian, composer and musician: the firebird looking for five perfect notes </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Other news: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We will be working with Cath Greig
on the research development project, Cath will coordinate the project. It will
involve us working with people with whom we already have
established strong working relationships over the years, like
MAYK, Frank Spencer and Ruby Spencer Pugh and also new people
who we haven't worked with before. The Company artists will be
central to the project and it will be the start of an exciting
process. We will continue to share information with you about
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please contact us if you have any
questions, information or ideas that you would like to share
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All best wishes and thanks from us
all in Firebird Theatre; we hope you have a great summer!</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-47590733315363724822017-04-09T06:42:00.000-07:002017-04-10T01:19:33.498-07:00Latest news!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last Monday we did a run-through of </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Spark and a Beating Heart </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with Adrian Lee and Fionn Gill, both of whom are performing with us in May - Fionn is the story-teller and Adrian is composer and musician. It is VERY exciting to be working with them both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank from Redweather Productions filmed the run-through, which will be useful for us all and help us to polish our performances. We still need to do a lot of work but we are very happy with our progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank is also making a promotional video for the show and when he has done the final edit we will post it on our website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We will continue to keep you up-dated and hope to see you in May for our performances of </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Spark.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, Tomas Brice joined us last Monday and took lots of photographs, here is a small selection. A big thanks to Tomas.</span><br />
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-80880423724720099182017-03-30T13:33:00.000-07:002017-03-30T13:33:59.745-07:00A Spark and a Beating Heart - update<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now have four lovely flyers to publicize </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A Spark and a Beating Heart, </i>images by Paul Blakemore and design by Matthew Austin at MAYK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We think they are beautiful and hope you do too. We are emailing or posting them, one at a time over the next few weeks up until the performances in May, to people on our mailing list. We will also show them on our website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have been rehearsing using props made by Ruby Spencer Pugh. Ruby is our set, costume and props designer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last Monday we tried out the golden apples that Ruby has made for the garden scene in <i>A Spark.</i> Here's Dan 'stealing one of the golden apples'!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This coming Monday 3rd April we are doing a run-through of </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Spark</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for the first time, working with Fionn Gill and Adrian Lee, both of whom are joining us on the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is an exciting but frightening time - we only have a few days of rehearsal left and lots of things have to come together over the next few weeks. Having said that we are now ready to share our work with an audience and we hope people will come and see <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>A Spark and a Beating Heart</i></span> - we think it is special production <i></i><i></i>and we hope you do too.</span></div>
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-4751295041816132562017-03-12T11:28:00.000-07:002017-03-12T11:28:35.637-07:00Working with Adrain Lee, musician and composer<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last Monday, 6th March, we had our first practical session with Adrian Lee. Adrian is working with us as composer and musician for </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Spark and a Beating Heart. </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He is telling the story of the firebird who is looking for five perfect notes to create a beautiful melody for its song, through specially composed music for this production.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adrian is a musician with the British Paraorchestra and has a lot of experience of composing music for the theatre and television. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is wonderful to be able to work with him to realise all our ideas and creative ambitions for </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Spark and a Beating Heart. </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In April, Adrian will join us again, along with Fionn, for a run-through of the performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We will keep you up-dated, step-by-step, with how the work is developing, leading up to the performances in May.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Adrian working with the Company, photo by Penny Goater</span></td></tr>
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Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-17426650825883221632017-03-05T14:03:00.001-08:002017-03-05T14:03:11.020-08:00Latest news <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Monday 28th March we had a production meeting with most members of the technical and design team<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>joining us at the Public Hall, Shirehampton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our rehearsals continue and next Monday 6th March, we will be working with Adrian Lee from the British Paraorchestra. Adrian will be composing music around the story of the firebird that is looking for 5 perfect notes to create its beautiful song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharlie and Dan wrote a poem about</span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> A Spark and a Beating Heart </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">during one Monday lunchtime, we would like to include this in our Programme. Not only is it a beautiful poem but it shows how the work continues to inspire and influence the Company. Here is the po<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">em.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, we are posting some more rehearsal photographs that have been taken by members of the Company and also Tomas Brice, who visited us when he was home from University. Thanks to Tomas as well as the other photographers in Firebird.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photograph by Penny Goater: Brian and Sharlie reheasing Brian's story</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-30395783201508772292017-02-25T13:03:00.001-08:002017-02-25T13:03:43.580-08:00Rehearsals continue<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last Monday, we finished our devising and rehearsing sessions with Fionn Gill - we hope to get-together with Fionn again in April for a run-through of <i>A Spark and a Beating Heart</i>. Next week we have a m</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">eeting with the production team and on 6th March we have the day working with British Paraorchestra member, Adrian Lee. Adrian is composing music for <i>A Spark and a Beating Heart </i>around one of the phoenix/firebird myths and will play live with us at Trinity Centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a busy time but we are very proud of our work and although May is getting closer, we feel we are well prepared for the performances.</span><br />
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-18966047332414456512017-02-15T05:48:00.000-08:002017-02-15T05:48:35.410-08:00Filming the second part of Chris's story<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chris Wiltshire, Firebird performer, has had a day filming with Frank Spencer at Redweather Studios. He has filmed the second part of his story for </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Spark and a Beating Heart </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- we are trying out lots of different ways of telling our personal stories and the myths and legends of the firebird and phoenix for this performance. </span><br />
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-61710587811719392422017-02-11T08:50:00.000-08:002017-02-11T08:50:19.677-08:00Rehearsals for A Spark and a Beating Heart<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are enjoying our rehearsals with actor Fionn Gill; he has helped us develop the script and our ideas about storytelling for </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Spark and a Beating Heart. </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are very excited that Fionn will be performing with us; we have never worked this way before and we are learning so much from all the people we are collaborating with on this new production.</span><br />
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-56936730371353264912017-02-03T07:43:00.000-08:002017-02-03T07:43:14.356-08:00
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releasing our publicity, we would like to give you the performance dates for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart</i>. Please put </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">one of these dates in your diary!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">In association with Bristol Old Vic,
Firebird Theatre will be performing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Spark and a Beating Heart </i><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>at Fyfe
Hall, the Trinity Centre, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Trinity Road, Bristol BS2 0NW on 11, 12
and 13<sup>th</sup> May – times to be confirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Firebird is proud and excited to be
performing in this beautiful venue, in the heart of the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">This new production tells the
personal stories and collective memories and experiences of the Firebird
performers. The experience of the youngest members of the company is very
different to those nearing retirement. We use first-hand stories of the Firebird
artists (captured through work with local writer Claire Williamson),
intertwined with the myths and legends of the firebird and phoenix. The show mixes
the personal and the political, telling stories of the past, the present and
our aspirations for the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Alongside these stories, we
celebrate making theatre together over the last 25 years and more; stressing
the importance of theatre as a place where people have a voice and can form
immediate and important relationships with audiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We look very forward to sharing this
new work with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We received 3 year funding from The
Odin Charitable Trust, which is wonderful and much appreciated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Isabelle Sallis and a team from </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Kingston</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"> are running in the Paris Marathon
in April. They are raising money for four charities, one of which is Firebird
Theatre. If you would like to sponsor the KU Paris Marathon Team and support
Firebird at the same time, please visit. <a href="http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/KUParis2017"><span style="color: blue;">www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/KUParis2017</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We made £480 at our Christmas Sale
and Auction after the Annual General Meeting on </span><st1:date day="10" month="12" year="2016"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">the 10<sup>th</sup>
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Many thanks to everyone who helped raise funds by baking, running a stall and/or
donating items for sale or auction.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Your
help is much appreciated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">MAYK is producing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Spark and a Beating Heart and</i> the
Creative Team working with Firebird Theatre are:</span></div>
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Gill, who will perform alongside the Company;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">Adrian
Lee, musician from the British Paraorchestra, composing and playing music in
the show;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">Ruby
Spencer Pugh, set, costume and prop design;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">Frank
Spencer, film and projections;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">Chris
Swain, lighting design;</span></div>
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Blakemore, photography;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0px;">Anna
Griffiths, Stage Management;</span></div>
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Manager.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">The show will be British Sign
Language Interpreted and we hope to have an audio described performance too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Apart from rehearsal sessions,
recent work has included voice recordings with Frank, working with Fionn,
having a photo shoot with Paul and a Production Meeting before Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">We will keep you updated with all
information as and when and we hope we will see you in May, if not before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Sending our very best wishes for a great
start to 2017 from us all in Firebird Theatre </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-59240496962287318202016-08-12T07:35:00.000-07:002016-08-12T07:35:33.763-07:00Our Summer Newsletter<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On May 30<sup>th</sup>
we took part in the Celebrations for Bristol Old Vic’s 250<sup>th</sup>
Birthday. We performed extracts from the last 25 years of Firebird’s work and
also three pieces of work in progress on the Main Stage at Bristol Old Vic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our patron,
Kathryn Hunter, performed alongside us, dancing Steve Knight’s shadow dance
from <i>The Nine Lessons of Caliban</i> and performing an extract from <i>Faustus</i>, again
one of Steve’s roles. This felt very important to us and we know Steve would
have loved Kathryn’s involvement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Also for this
performance, Jack Drewry, Ed Goater and Ruby Spencer Pugh provided music and
support on stage. Frank Spencer made projections and film especially for this show, which made an amazing and accessible backdrop to the performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So, we wish
Bristol Old Vic another Happy Birthday and thank them and Kathryn, Jack, Ed,
Ruby and Frank for supporting our work in such a wonderful and exciting way. </span></div>
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to Sherrie Eugene who interpreted the performance into British Sign Language.</span></div>
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beginning of June, we moved into the Public Hall in Shirehampton whilst the
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We thank
Amanda at the Public Hall for being so welcoming to Firebird. It is a lovely
big space and although we miss being at the Old Vic very much, we are very happy
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Prior to the performance on the 30th May, Kathryn Hunter ran a workshop for us as well as rehearsing for the Bristol Old Vic Celebrations. She worked with us on the three extracts from our new work, which was really helpful. We hope to have more of these sort of sessions with workshops from people like Kathryn.</span></div>
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having 'closed' sessions on Mondays so we can focus on structuring the material for the
new work, which is going well. When this process has finished we hope we’ll have a
draft script that will form a basis for collaborative work with the artistic team.
Members of the artistic team have not been confirmed yet but we hope they will include Ruby
Spencer Pugh, set/prop/costume design; Composer/musicians from the Paraorchestra; Frank
Spencer, film and projections; Chris Swain, lighting design; Anna Griffiths,
stage manager.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Again, we cannot definitely confirm
other artistic input but we would like to work with Tristan Sturrock, Kathryn
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are proud and pleased to welcome Mel Scaffold as a new Trustee for Firebird. Mel is co - director at Theatre Bristol and brings a huge amount of experience and expertise to Firebird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You will see a new film on our website of work in progress performed at Bristol Old Vic on the 30th May. The film was made by Frank Spencer who not only contributed hugely to the performance but also managed to set-up a camera in the auditorium so that we had a record of performing on the Main Stage: big thanks to Frank. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Some of us are getting involved in the Choir for Extraordinary Bodies and Diverse City's </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
‘Doing things Differently’ in Bristol over the weekend of 16 – 18 September. There is a lot happening over the weekend and the performances are free. Please visit <a href="http://www.doingthingsdifferently.org.uk/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.doingthingsdifferently.org.uk/</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally, Jenny Stafford has retired from Firebird Theatre after nearly ten years with the Company. We wish her well with all future enterprises and would like to thank her for all she has given Firebird. We have all enjoyed working with Jenny and recognise what she has brought to the Company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We thank everyone for their constant
support – it is very much appreciated. We particularly thank families and supporters who have helped make our move into the Public Hall so easy, supporting us by helping with transport and planning journeys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We wish you all a good summer and we
will be in touch again when we have more news to share.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-57174650154986433502016-05-06T12:56:00.000-07:002016-05-06T12:56:27.560-07:00Performance at Bristol Old Vic, Bank Holiday Monday 30th May 2016
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Please join
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are very
excited to let you know that we will be performing on the main stage as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250<sup>th</sup> Birthday Celebrations.</span></div>
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performing excerpts from our work of the last 25 years, including new work in
progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are very
proud to announce that our patron, Olivier Award winner Kathryn Hunter, will
perform on stage with us. As you can imagine, this makes the performance even more special to us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are also
joined by Jack Drewry who worked with us on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Breadhorse</i> and Frank Spencer from Redweather Productions whose documentary
film about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prospero, Duke of </i></span><st1:city><st1:place><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Milan</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is on the home page of our website. Frank will use film and
projections from past productions made by his partner Ann Pugh, as well as new
films that he has made especially for this performance.</span></div>
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provides live music and the Firebird Theatre artists who will be appearing on
stage are: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Daniel
Bryan, Stephen Canby, Brian Davis, Penny Goater, Kevin Hogan, Tina Kelly, Mary
Lansdown, Sarah McGreevy, Marilyn Rees, Jenny Stafford, Chris Wiltshire and
Sharlie Yea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We do hope
that you will be able to come and see us on the 30<sup>th</sup>, tickets are
free on a 'first come, first served' basis and our performance will last approximately 30 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is so
much happening at Bristol Old Vic over the Bank Holiday weekend, for more
information about the 250<sup>th</sup> Birthday Celebrations, please visit <a href="http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/birthday.html"><span style="color: #447d75;">http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/birthday.html</span></a></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-63976169055499471472016-05-06T09:13:00.000-07:002016-05-06T09:13:40.756-07:00Money raised for Firebird
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are pleased to report that
Isabelle Sallis ran an 8 mile road race around </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hampton Court</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> on the 3<sup>rd</sup> April and
raised £212.27 in sponsorship money for Firebird Theatre! A big thank you
to Isabelle (who also joined us on our sponsored walk last year) and all the
people who sponsored her, we really appreciate your support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We will use the money to pay
for a British Sign Language Interpreter and access costs for the Company
artists for the performance we are doing on Bank Holiday Monday 30<sup>th</sup> May. Without this sponsorship money we could not afford to do either, again thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Isabelle, number 2716, running for
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-50848633768169089932016-05-06T08:57:00.000-07:002016-05-06T08:57:21.822-07:00Firebird Theatre: Company update, May 2016
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since we
received the funding from the Arts Council’s Grants for the Arts programme, we
have been working with Claire Williamson to start collecting our stories and
experiences. There is a lot of material from these writing sessions and we now
have the task of shaping it into a new piece of theatre. We will be working
with different people during the next stage of the process; we have had a
workshop with Fionn Gill and hope to do more work with Fionn. We are also
working with Kathryn Hunter and Jack Drewry over the next few weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are now
meeting with other practitioners and over the next few weeks, we will be able to
confirm the other members of the team who will work with us on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Firebird is 25</i>, as well as other guest artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In April we
went to MAYK’s Mayfest Launch, which we really enjoyed. We saw Candoco’s
<i>Counteracts</i> at Bristol Old Vic and some people took part in the workshop they
did afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We met
Jamie Beddard and Claire Hodgson from </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Diverse</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">City</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">, they will be bringing their
company, Extraordinary Bodies, to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bristol</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> in September and are inviting us to
get involved and maybe showcase some of our new work, which will be very
exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally, we need to move out of
Bristol Old Vic at the end of May because of the major renovations and
building works that will be happening in the theatre. Bristol Old Vic has
offered us a huge amount of support over the years, in particular a space for
us to meet and rehearse once a week. We have so appreciated this support and
the help they are giving us now to try to find an alternative venue. Firebird
will remain an Associate Company and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bristol Old Vic will continue to offer support
whenever they can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">If anyone knows of
anywhere that may be suitable for Firebird to meet and rehearse, please contact
us, we would love to hear from you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We need a physically accessible
venue that is not difficult to get to and is on a main bus route. Ideally, we
would like to meet every Monday for a minimum of 5 hours in the daytime; we would
like somewhere that is consistently available to us all year round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">As soon as we know where we’ll be
meeting and rehearsing and we have settled in then we will let you know.</span></div>
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performance on the 30<sup>th</sup> even more important to us all; a great way
of bidding farewell to Bristol Old Vic for a while until they re open in
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work to celebrate 25 years of making theatre and to look at how Firebird wants
to develop over the next few years.</span></div>
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in Bristol Old Vic’s 250<sup>th</sup> birthday celebrations in May 2016 and a
lot of ideas for our contribution to these came from our own Annual General
Meeting held on 5<sup>th</sup> December. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Company presented small
excerpts from every one of their productions since 1990 at the </span><st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AGM</span></st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> and we would like to try to replicate these in some way for the Old Vic’s
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also, at the </span><st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AGM</span></st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, Antigoni, one of the Firebird trustees, produced a lovely cake with
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">25<sup> </sup>years of performing in the professional theatre.
Formerly known as the Portway Players, members of the company met in 1985 at
the Portway Day Centre, a social services resource and activity centre based in
Shirehampton (five founder members still work with Firebird). In 1990 the
Portway Players made their debut performance at the Bristol Old Vic. In 2005
The Portway Players changed its name to Firebird Theatre and became an
Independent Theatre Company. 25 years on from their very first show at the Old Vic, <b><i>Yellow Sun, Red Moon</i></b>, Firebird is now an associate company of
Bristol Old Vic and this is where we meet and work every Monday.</span></span></span></div>
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for us because it mirrors the journey made by the Portway Players to become Firebird
Theatre. It started in Woodwell Rd not far from the site of the old Portway
Centre in St Bernard's Rd., Shirehampton and ended at Bristol Old Vic in King
Street, Bristol</span>. </span></div>
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<br />Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-57557913073850297982015-05-26T09:39:00.001-07:002015-05-26T09:39:12.917-07:00The first Steve Knight Memorial Workshop, April 20th 2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On April 20th we had our first workshop in memory of Steve Knight. The workshop was led by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Joêl Daniel, a dancer and choreographer. Thanks to everyone who donated money to the Memorial Workshop Fund, we nearly have enough for four other workshops in Steve's memory.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We would also like to thank, as always, Bristol Old Vic for letting us use the Clore Studio for this workshop.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This felt like a great workshop to do in memory of Steve because it was all about movement, which felt like a celebration of what Steve loved doing with Firebird: dancing and making strong movements on stage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joêl got us working in lots of different ways: we looked at how we moved together, as a group. This was called shoaling with different people taking the lead and the rest of us following. We walked together, using different movements, small movements to a rhythm, in a sequence, and keeping pace as a group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joêl helped us to explore a canon of repeated movements, clapping/rhythms to help us keep to a pace and making journeys together: fast and slow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We worked on different levels and from chairs as well; we explored positioning on stage and focus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We all liked working with</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Joêl and would like to work with him again on
our new work. We liked the warm up he gave us and the way he explained things. He included everyone in the workshop, getting us to move one at a time and then altogether.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We liked the fact that Joêl asked us about Steve; we told him about Steve's shadow dance from The Nine Lessons Of Caliban and he asked us about Steve's movements and got us to try to remember them by doing them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We liked the way he got us to move towards different fixed points in the rehearsal room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There were difficult bits too - it was difficult to count and make up different moves that we had to remember... remembering moves was hard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had never really done a workshop like this before and it was a great thing to do - it will help us to look at how we move on stage. We would like to work with Joêl again. We would also like to see him dance when he next performs in Bristol. In the meantime, we are excited to receive a copy of White Caps on DVD from Joêl, a performance by the Dance Company that he used to work with called Champloo. We will be watching this next week and f</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">inally, Joêl's website goes live next week, it is: <a href="http://www.joeldaniel.co.uk/"> www.joeldaniel.co.uk</a></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is with great sadness that we let
people know that our dear friend and colleague, Ann, passed away on Wednesday
25<sup>th</sup> February after a short illness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ann, who worked with Redweather
Productions, made all the wonderful films on The Firebird website and also
developed the use of projections in our performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ann made nine films for Firebird:
six short films which show the development of The Breadhorse in 2013; two films
of The Lying Doctors, 1998, and a documentary film in 2007. These films were
always just right – always saying more about our work than anything else could.
Her interview style and what she did with a camera is recognized as outstanding
by many people, locally, nationally and internationally, not least ourselves. When
she made films for us, s</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">he made us feel relaxed, she knew what we wanted to say and
she would support us to say it: she got our message out and we know that
whatever we said was as important to Ann as it was to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ann also brought something very
special and artistic to three of our productions in particular; she made
projections of artwork made by Carol Chilcott, company artist, photographs and
film for The Tempest, Nine Lessons of Caliban and The Breadhorse. These were
projected during the performances along with the words that were spoken in the
show. This made our work stronger and also acted as an access tool for
audiences. She also made sound recordings for performances, particularly for
The Tempest and Nine Lessons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ann has been in our lives for a long
time and has supported us to do some amazing work; she has also been
instrumental in making important things happen for us. Ann enabled us to
develop some very powerful work which we could not have done without her. She
made the film of The Lying Doctors over 15 years ago, which is still incredibly
strong today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many people know of Ann’s strengths
as an amazing filmmaker who has captured and recorded very important moments on
film for many organizations. She also did so much more, not least for Firebird
Theatre and our sister organization, Artists First, of which she was Chair of
Trustees and a brilliant fundraiser. Ann was fun, calming, a real team player,
unassuming, a blower of trumpets for other people – not her own, she got on
with things, she was a doer and she certainly did for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Out of good working relationships,
friendships grow and Ann was a wonderful, strong, generous friend to us and she
will be missed, more than words can say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Our love and thoughts are with Ann’s
family: Frank, Ruby and Ben. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Please click on this link for Ann’s
films of The Breadhorse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Please click on this link for Ann’s
short documentary film about Firebird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Please click on this link for Ann’s
film of The Lying Doctors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-20586164900429438192014-11-23T04:03:00.001-08:002014-11-23T04:03:51.395-08:00The final episodes of Prospero, Duke of Milan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">On Monday
24<sup>th</sup> November we are performing the last two episodes (3 & 4) of Prospero, Duke of Milan.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prospero tries to read his books but gets interrupted all the time; he asks <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">We have
found this work very exciting and it will be great to get feedback from the
Schools and everyone else that has been involved. MAYK will be putting together
an evaluation report and we look forward to discussing how we might improve and
develop our work around relaxed performances in the future. We will post the Report on our
website when it is completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antonio ends up doing Prospero's job all the time, he gets ambitious<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It has also
been good to work with new people to make this happen: Jenny Sherlock, stage
manager; Jenny, Hal and Robel from Made in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Bristol</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Lydia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> who is helping us explore how we
work with volunteers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He starts to put together his own army, a treacherous army - they plot and whisper <br />
and plan to get rid of Prospero and Miranda so that Antonio will be Duke of Milan.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It is also
good to work closely with Bristol Old Vic: Christine and Aidan, Lucy and
members of the Outreach Department. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to everyone who has helped us develop this work. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The treacherous army put Prospero and Miranda into a <br />
rotten butt of boat and cast them out to sea. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boat did not sink and Prospero and Miranda<br />
did not drown - what happens next? Please see<br />
William Shakespeare's The Tempest! </td></tr>
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Firebird Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00398115370636853871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295042727167315023.post-52652502048449796132014-11-12T01:54:00.000-08:002014-11-12T01:57:58.218-08:00Prospero, Duke of Milan, Episode 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Monday morning (10th November), Firebird performed the first episode of Prospero, Duke of Milan in the Basement at Bristol Old Vic. We welcomed students and teachers from Briarwood and New Fosseway Schools. Unfortunately, Kingsweston School could not join us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were really pleased to find out that the students from New Fosseway are studying The Tempest as part of their timetable at school, so Prospero is perfect timing from their point of view. It will be very interesting to find out if the performances helped them with their schoolwork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Students and teachers will contribute to the evaluation report that MAYK will put together after the performances. We think we will learn masses from doing this work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The performances were made special by the support of Lydia and Made In Bristol volunteers, Robel, Hal and Jenny who took on the roles of ushers and ice cream attendants - Marshfield ice creams went down very well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was great to work with Paul again. He took a group photo of the audience for our Access and Resource pack. He also filmed some of the performance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Next week is Episode 2, when we will introduce Prospero's family: his daughter Miranda and his brother, Antonio. Also we will show Prospero's love of books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are some more of Paul's wonderful photographs from Episode 2.</span><br />
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