DorkyPark: Open for Everything

Very interesting sounding performance at the Tramway this weekend : 'Open for Everything' is a travel through the stagnation of Roma communities in Europe to whom chances to work like any other citizen are rather low, where itinerant traditions have been replaced by sedentary life beside the uprootedness of the group of dancers who move around the world following working opportunities.

"Featuring a cast of 30 musicians and dancers, Open for Everything is a journey through the stagnation of Roma communities in Europe.

Since 2010 choreographer Constanza Macras has been researching the different ways of life, dance styles and music of the Roma in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the course of this work, she has brought together a large ensemble comprising Roma musicians and performers, amateurs aged 8 - 80 and dancers from her company DorkyPark for this performance."

Alongside it is the exhibition 'To Gypsyland' by Delaine Le Bas' should make for an interesting double bill.

DorkyPark: Open for Everything Fri 26 & Sat 27 April 7:30pm £14 / 10

Tramway

25 Albert Dr  Glasgow, G41 2PE 0141 276 0950

Tramway Family Day: Sunday 11 March

Tramway Family Day: Impossible Bodies aims to introduce children to contemporary performance through a fun, hands-on workshop and short performance presentation. Based on Colette Sadler’s performance, We Are the Monsters, the workshops will lead participants through an exploration of movement and transformation, facilitated by Colette Sadler and members of stammer productions.

Across the building a range of drop-in, free activities suitable for ages 0-12 plus parents and carers will take place offering the opportunity to make puppets, create mobiles and streamers, and play with live visual projections.

Performance tickets cost £2 each and are available in advance from Tramway box office.

All other activities are free, drop-in and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis

Pecha Kucha

Tramway’s Pecha Kucha events are fastpaced presentations featuring a range of creative thinkers, artists and performers drawn from Glasgow’s rich artistic community. No two events are the same, no two presentations are the same, but speakers have to stick to the strict Pecha Kucha format: showing 20 slides for 20 seconds each.

The theme for this Pecha Kucha is overlap, and they've invited the following speakers to share their thoughts, musings and associated images with you
Bryony McIntyre and Barry Essen of Arika (Creators of film & music festivals), Jessica Ashman (Animator & Director), Nick Fells (Composer, Performer & Sound Artist), Dave Fennessy (Composer), Rohan Gunatillake (Innovation Producer & Consultant), Kirsty Logan (Writer), Stuart MacDonald of Creative Frontline (Creative Industries consultancy), Julia Malle (Visual Artist), Toby Paterson (Visual Artist), Charles Blanc & Tristan Surtees of Sans façon (artist architect collaboration), Roy Shearer (Designer, Maker & Musician), Hanna Tuulikki (Artist & Musician)

July 14th, 7:00 pm -9:30 pm

Tickets are £4.50 / £3.50

Entity - Fri 27 - Sat 28 May 2011

Wayne McGregor / Random Dance’s production of Entity  arrives at Tramway after sell-out shows at the Venice and Lyon Biennales and wide critical acclaim. Performed against a pounding soundscape by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator, Jon Hopkins and award-winning composer Joby Talbot (The Divine Comedy), Entity is a staggering blend of bodies, lights, technology and film, which confirms McGregor’s place at the cutting edge of contemporary culture. Technically astonishing, emotionally uncompromising and hard-hitting, McGregor’s work defies categorisation.

A prolific dance maker, in the past year Wayne McGregor has created new work for The Royal Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre and the Australian Ballet. He has directed opera at La Scala, Milan and produced headlining sets for The Big Chill festival.

Fri 27 - Sat 28 May 2011

7:30pm
Tickets: £15 / £12
0845 330 3501

Tramway: Call for Creatives

Another fun little sounding project for Southside Creative types to get involved with at the Tramway.

Project description

The nexy Tramway Family Day explores storytelling and early years literature.  

Explore reading, writing and storytelling in a day celebrating early years literature. Taking inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the event will take place across Tramway's spaces and be suitable for babies, toddlers, primary school age children and their families.

We are looking for a couple of things for next family day, and maybe people looking for experience in costume or set design can benefit from these opportunities.  

1. Set design / dressing - create a cost effective 'Mad Hatter's Tea Party' table set that can be set up simply within 20 mins and is child-friendly. Uses 20 chairs and 2 trestle tables. Space approx 5m x 7m.
2. Needs to be sturdy as will be used 3 times during the day. Nothing breakable or unsuitable 4-12 yr olds.
3. Set design / dressing - create a comfortable child-friendly Alice in Wonderland-themed storytelling corner.Must be fire-proof, able to fit around 35-40 toddlers and parents within it and be simple to set up / clear away.
   Thoughts so far include a 'chess board' made from black and white cushions sewn together, with foam chess pieces as extra cushions / or a garden space? Needs to sit on floor space approx 5m x 7m and withstand full day of use from babies and toddlers.3. 4 student actors required as storytellers on the day. They will be given 3 children's books each to learn and will need to perform them to groups of 30-40 parents and toddlers / young primary school children on rotation between 10.30am and 3pm. Need to have no fear as the audience likely to be distracted and noisy!
   Microphones optional.
4. Costume design - We would love to have a queen of hearts and / or White Rabbit running around on the day. Anyone up for helping make this happen? Anyone up for volunteering to dress up?
5. As ever event volunteers required the week before the event and on the day to help with decorations, making up goody bags etc.  

Please see the event illustration (from Erin McGrath) as reference for the style we are using for event promotion and general decorations on the day.  

Submission instructions

We are open to suggestions and getting creative!

The event will take place on Sunday 8th May 10am - 6pm.

Interested?  

Please email us your ideas in brief along with

*Name

*Contact Tel / Email

*Rough idea of costs / timescale

Deadline for entries: 25th March at 5pm  

Rosemary James

Audience Engagement Officer

FOOTPRINTS

Audience Engagement Project

Leave Your Mark On Tramway
mailto:mrosemary@tramwayfootprints.org.uk

www.tramwayfootprints.org.uk/

Tel: 0845 330 3501

Pecha Kucha - Current Affairs

                      Image from www.rosssinclair.co.uk

The Pecha Kucha series of events hosted by the Tramway in 2010, showcased a whole host of Artists, designers, performers and writers.We didn't make it to all the events, you have to be fast as tickets sell out quickly, but the events we went to were really interesting and a good mix of people, experience and disciplines.

If you've never been along before, Pecha Kucha is a format where speakers take the floor for just over six minutes, presenting twenty slides for twenty seconds each. Our next event will be bigger than ever, representing the broad range of creative thinkers based in Glasgow and taking place in our main theatre.

Thankfully the Tramway have a new series of Pecha Kucha nights scheduled for 2011 and the first of these takes place on the 29 January. As you would expect there is a wide range of creative thinkers at the event, ranging from environmental artist Ross Sinclair to Scottish dance artist Rosalind Masson, and actor Tam Dean Burn.

Due to the popularity of the previous events, this Pecha Kucha will be held in Tramway one which has a bigger capacity - so more chance of getting tickets

Sat 29 Jan 2011 @ 7:00pm

£4.50 / £3.50

0845 330 3501

Pecha Kucha 3 - Wednesday 27 October

The Tramway will be hosting it's third Pecha Kucha event, Measured Acts, on Wednesday 27 October. If you didn't make it along to the last one or have never heard of Pecha Kucha before here's an over view:

Artists and creative thinkers take the floor for just under seven minutes when they will share with us their passions, hopes and fears. Pecha Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo in 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for chitchat, it rests on a concise presentation format based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds.

Speakers this time will be Ruth Barker, Kate Davis, Ginny Hutchison, Craig Mulholland, Dierdre Nelson, Mick Peter, Alex Pollard & Ian Hetherington, David Sherry

The last one was  very interesting

Tickets £4.50 / £3.50

online at www.tramway.org

over the phone 0845 330 3501

or in person at the box office

For tickets contact the Tramway Box Office 0845 330 3501

Glasgow Film Festival @ Tramway - 25 February 2010

Mouth Room/After School Special - 25 February 2010 [8pm]
London based artist James Richards has curated two programmes of film and video work for Tramway by artists including Duncan Campbell. Supported by Lux, London. Mouth Room (49mins) Duncan Campbell, Michael Curran, Kim Fielding, Stuart Marshall, Anne McGuire and Stephen Sutcliffe. After School Special (64mins) John Smith, Corin Sworn and archive footage from the C-100 Film Corporation. Tickets £4/£3 available from GFT or Tramway box office.

Tramway Family Day - 27th February 2010

The Tramway are hosting a full day [10am - 6pm]of free activities and events especially for families and young people created to explore documentary film, and how we create stories using still and moving images.

They will think about how we take photographs to document our lives, to capture important events and places so we can look back and remember them and preserve them. Our own photographs help us remember our past. Memories can change over time and sometimes two different people might remember the same incident in two different ways. How do we know which one is the right one?
The participants will explore their own imaginations and create stories inspired by old slides, photographs and found objects.

Workshop 1: 12noon - 1.30pm, ages 6-9 years

Workshop 2: 2pm - 3.30pm, ages 6-9 years

Workshop 3: 4pm - 5.30pm, ages 10-13 years

The workshops are free but you will have to book them in advance

From 10.30 - 11.30, Star Catchers will be using projections of light to transform T4, our Starcatchers artist in residence Katy Wilson, in collaboration with visual artist Euan Sinclair, will create a sensory treat suitable for young children. Drop-in to the space for the full hour or just five minutes: with no need to book.

Throughout the day the Hidden Gardens will be inviting families to spot the first signs of spring Explore the hidden corners of the Gardens with a Spring Nature Trail (activity sheets will be available for families 11am-3pm). The Environmental Artist in Residence will be leading creative family workshops (more details and booking info available on the day) and then at the end of the day take home a bunch of freshly cut Spring daffodils for a small donation.

On top of all this there will also be a quiz running throughout the day and Tramway will be providing special lunch deal for participants.

To book a workshop space, find out more about the activities happening during the day, or what else is happening at Tramway call our Box Office: 0845 330 3501. For more info visit: www.tramway.org

Autumn/Winter Show at the Tramway

The Tramway will launch their Autumn Winter exhibitions this Friday night with the opening of two major shows. Lara Favaretto, an Italian born artist, sculptor and performer will exhibit new work alongside London based film artist Hilary Lloyd until 20th December.

Lara Favaretto, uses sculpture, photography, film and installation to create artworks that produce a sense of magical fantasy and urgency, forming an immediate bond with the viewer through a sense of play.

For Tramway’s epic main gallery space, Favaretto will create a kinetic sculptural environment with various motor powered elements. These choreographed and durational sculptures will explore Favaretto’s ongoing artistic investigations into the idea of festival in its various incarnations, drawing on its popular forms and associations such as the carnival or circus. These themes often assuming the form of sculptural objects, installations or events united by the careful planning of their collapse, disintegration or corrosion, thus exploring the significance of an artistic gesture that accepts eventual compromise.

Lloyd creates video, film and slide installations which to date have focused on the themes of the modern city, its subcultures and the people that operate at it’s fringes, her gaze articulating both a personal relationship with her subject, and the processes of reconstructing the act of looking. Lloyd creates a form of ‘anti-portraiture’, shooting situations and protagonists with a contrived passivity that allows the viewer to form their own narratives from her rhythmic and highly charged compositions.

For more information click here