A Platform
to Thrive
Our vision is for live performance and performance makers to thrive; to be valued, resilient, and deeply connected to more people’s lives.
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improve the live performance sector
Our vision is for live performance and performance makers to thrive; to be valued, resilient, and deeply connected to more people’s lives.
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In our latest newsletter our Administrator Ella, shared with us all some useful resources in relation to how the creative sector can respond and is responding to climate change. Thanks Ella!
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We have invited Jessica Cheetham, Executive Director of @spunglasstheatre to deliver a 90 minute session to help demystify the process of applying to Arts Council Project Grants.
This event will look specifically at bringing the jargon language of the Outcomes and Investment Principles down to earth and giving practical points for how you can tell the story of your own projects whilst meeting the requirements for Arts Council funding.There will also be an opportunity to ask questions at the end.
A big thank you to everyone who came to our Work Party for Cheats session last week, and of course to the wonderful Rachael Clerke for running it!
Over two hours we helped one another to complete tasks that we'd hit a road block on. Why is it that doing other people's work genuinely feels easier than your own 😂 Sometimes we just need a fresh pair of eyes and someone to talk it out with!
Spotlight on... the wonderful @kiotabristol
Their upcoming shows take place on April 12th and 13th.
The 12th is a Ramadan Special featuring muslim artists of colour hosted by Shagufta Iqbal and 13th is Queer Kiota hosted by Aisha Ali 🥳
Kiota wanted the next series to bask in celebrating two of the many intersections of BPOC identities.
Tickets are out now:
https://hdfst.uk/E82248
https://hdfst.uk/E82251
Speaker Call Out!
As part of Greater Expectations: our series of events focusing on inclusion, we are reaching out for creatives living and working in Bristol to speak about their experiences of Class within the creative sector.
We are very eager to work with people we haven't worked with before or who might be outside of our usual networks so if you are interested please contact Aisha at aisha@theatrebristol.net for more information. This is a paid opportunity at £25 per hour (exact time TBC) and we are looking for 2 people.
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Theatre Bristol exists to support and improve live performance, championing inclusion, independence and the role of art and artists in society.
Our vision is for live performance and performance makers to thrive, to be valued, resilient and deeply connected to more peoples’ lives.
We combine open and generous grassroots support with strategic, collective action to make our theatre industry more exciting, more relevant, and more accessible to people in our city.
We offer a radical support service for artists – it’s completely free, open to anyone, and run by practising professional artists who offer their experience, knowledge and skills to others. This creates a strong network of independent artists, ensuring Bristol remains a brilliant place for people to make and see live performance.
Our support service helped director Selina Thompson create the award-winning show Salt.
Theatre Bristol made a hugely ambitious project happen when it was little more than a big idea from a very, very small fish of a company. I guess you could say that the key drivers behind this support were trust, space and guidance.
We know it is important to support artists with their journey and we know from personal experience, it’s not always an easy one.
We need your help to keep our services, like artist support, free to those who need it.
Gifting just £5 a month today could pay for a free Artist Support session, meaning an artist at any point in their career could receive expert, bespoke, one-to-one advice helping them navigate into and through the live performance industry.
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