From the Ground up is a project that has developed through the collaboration of four organisations; Artlife, The Regal Theatre in Minehead, Theatre Melange and Take Art with the aim of encouraging creative people at a local level to work together and also to encourage local arts promotions. Funded by Arts Council England Thrive2, the project is now drawing to a close with a final event where performers, musicians, creative practitioners and workshop leaders are invited to present 'what they do' to an invited audience comprising Somerset village hall promoters, arts centre/theatre and festival programmers
Presentations and extracts of work will start at 2pm and run through to an approximate 9pm finish. Each will have about 15minutes and the following companies and individuals will be taking part:
1. Richard Burley & The Magpies with melodic and thought-provoking music from this 4-piece band
2. Yvette Staelens presents an extract from The Lost Singers of Somerset and accompanying exhibition
3. Southern Folk - country folk and comedy duo
4. Fat Cat Theatre present an extract of a family puppet show
5. Sarah Joy - songs with voice and guitar
6. Rosie Schneider - a presentation of photo art
7. Alison Jacobs - a demonstration of iPad Art
8. Nick White with family theatre show Yer Tis
9. Leela Bunce from Shinetime presents a laughter workshop
10. Fire River Poets with a poetry reading
11. Highly Strung with string band music on fiddle, banjo and guitar
12. A promotional film of an arts workshop from Mosaic Sound and Vision
13. Appalachia - 4-piece bluegrass band
14. Presentation of Learn Clarinet in a Day by Louise Toomer
15. Hayley Barker presents her solo dance piece Womanish
16. Uncommon Players with an extract of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
17. Rob & Jenny Williams - acoustic folk songs and slides
18. Presentation by Clive Linthorne and Kelly Smith about a new theatre piece Bud by Nick Darke
19. Goya present an extract as a Trio and a film about Reactions! workshops
20. Spindrift with guitars and songs
21. Tor Theatre present an extract of Lilith an original piece theatre
22. Darren Hodge - instrumental acoustic guitar
23. An extract of Not About Heroes, a play about friendship
24. Kate Luxmoore & Lekan Babola with a funky reinvention of folk story and song
25. Musicians Ben & Alfie with original songs
26. Fire spinning outdoors by Kerrie Seymour
We hope you agree that this is a pretty exciting and varied line-up and that it should be an immensely enjoyable afternoon and evening. The programme won't necessarily follow the above order as we are still scheduling and working things out.
We would like to really encourage you to attend the whole day from 2-9pm, however, if you find you need to arrive late or leave a bit earlier then we can accommodate this. There should be plenty of short breaks throughout the day. Delicious Supper will be provided.
If you are a promoter or programme, it would be great to have you come along. Just fill in the booking form and we'll see you there.