PRACTICE LAB is a year-long peer-to-peer skills exchange programme with twice-monthly free workshops by and for migrant theatre makers, offered in partnership with Rich Mix in London. These workshops are aimed at broadening the knowledge base of the migrant artist community and extending our network of creative connections
If you’re a first generation migrant theatre maker, PRACTICE LAB is for you!
To sign up for a workshop, just email the artist leading the workshop to reserve a place. They will contact you directly with more information.
All workshops take place at Rich Mix, East London’s vibrant home for culture and creativity - 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA, England.
Sunday 12th May, 3.30-5.30
Documentary Performance: How to Write Real Stories for the Stage - led by Emma Dorfman
Do you have a passion for verbatim or documentary theatre? Perhaps you’re itching to share your own story with an audience but not sure where to begin? This hands-on workshop will offer practical tools, tips and tricks for developing new performance work from real events, whether they be biographical or autobiographical.
To sign up for this workshop, please email Emma.
Wednesday 29th May, 6.30-8.30
Cultivating Presence - led by Lola May
Community Building using World Music, Movement, Storytelling and Improvisation.
What does it mean to be present? Is there a way music can help us achieve this? This will be a session of exploring how music and movement can help us become more present. Using storytelling and improv, we will also connect with each other and in that way, build community. This session is open to all disciplines and backgrounds - please bring one piece of music or a song that you connect very much with.
To sign up for this workshop, please email Lola.
Wednesday 3rd July, 6.30-8.30
Building The Ensemble - led by Shane Dempsey
This workshop will draw on core strands of European Ensemble Training. In this engaging and playful session, participants will create physical scores, develop a heightened approach to physical transformation and make bold choices while working as an ensemble. This sessnion is open to all artists who are curious about developing new approaches to ensemble practice.
To sign up for this workshop, please email Shane.
Wednesday 31st July, 6.30-8.30
Reinventing the classics - led by Paula Rodriguez
This workshop is for anyone interested in storytelling. We'll explore classics with fresh eyes and create new tales inspired by our heritages, focusing on marginalized voices such as those of women and migrants. Fragments from Shakespeare and Calderón de la Barca's works will guide us throughout the process; participants are also welcome to bring their choice of classical/ancient texts to work with. This is a safe space where everyone is welcome!
To sign up for this workshop, please email Paula.
Sunday 8th September, 3.30-5.30
Theatre + Technology - led by Marisol Spensieri
What might a hyperlinked narration look like? During this session, we will explore ways in which concepts from the tech world can inspire, or even be applied to, the process of theatre making. We will also explore new material via extracts from a piece in development. Rather than providing set answers, this session will be a playground to imagine new possibilities together. Open to all artists and disciplines!
To sign up for this workshop, please email Marisol.
More workshops will be announced soon!
If you’d like to run a workshop, please contact Anna on anna@projekteuropa.org