Saturday 18 February 2017

NEW WEBSITE, NEW BLOG

We have a new website designed by the lovely people at Dust Collective, and the Third Angel blog can now be found over there at: www.thirdangel.co.uk/blog


Monday 14 November 2016

WHERE FROM HERE: Full Symposium Schedule

After a great deal of discussing and planning, we're nearly there. WHERE FROM HERE: 21 Years of Third Angel is this Thursday, 17 November, at Leeds Beckett University's Headingley Campus, in partnership with Compass Live Art.

There's still a few places available - you can book here.

Here's the full line up...



Where From Here: 21 Years of Third Angel
Beckett Studios, Headingley Campus, Leeds Beckett University

Schedule
All sessions are in Beckett Studio 1 unless otherwise stated.

Film / Installation – Ongoing (Beckett 1 Foyer)
Third Angel Film Museum
Aletia M Badenhorst – Emballage

Registration and Tea & Coffee (9.30am – 10.15am)

Prologue (10.15am – 10.30am)
Small Celebrations:
RashDash There Were Goddesses

Opening remarks by Oliver Bray, Hannah Nicklin and Third Angel

Act One: Audiences and Journeys (10.30am – 12pm)
Small Celebrations:
Hannah Butterfield Oenomel

Alexander Kelly
Telling other people’s stories

Kirsty Surgey
‘If the suit fits…’ Intertextual objects in Third Angel’s Cape Wrath

Jocelyn Spence
Between Cape Wrath and Class of ‘76


Lunch (12pm – 2pm, Beckett 1 Foyer)
and
Durational Performances (12pm – 2pm)
Gillian Dyson
Table (Beckett Studio 2)

Gillian Jane Lees and Adam York Gregory
Tangent (Beckett Studio 3)


Act Two: Objects and Words (2pm – 3.45pm)
Small Celebrations:
Massive Owl The Dolphin Hotel

Michael Pinchbeck and Linford Butler,
‘Building the room’: Remembering Third Angel’s Presumption

Andrew Jeffrey and Abi Goodman
‘Moss Valley Fieldwork’: towards a poetic for non-human animal encounters

Jodean Sumner
Strategies towards Reflexive Performance: Collecting and Performing Fakes

Caroline Horton and Dr Jacqueline Taylor
‘Rearrangements’: articulating and encountering alternative forms


Tea & Coffee (3.45pm – 4.15pm)

Act Three: Stories and Pictures (4.15pm – 6pm)
Small Celebrations:
Third Angel Popcorn

Christopher Hall
Making Popcorn

Oliver Bray
Third Angel: A Secret Journey

Henry Raby
Words + Pictures

Rachael Walton
The Umbrella Theory


Epilogue (6pm – 6.30pm)
Small Celebrations:
Action Hero The Third Angel Annexe

Closing remarks by Oliver Bray, Hannah Nicklin, Michael Pinchbeck and Third Angel


Post-show – Wine (6.30pm onwards)
Chris Thorpe

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Tuesday 11 October 2016

Future Makers: the future is now!

FUTURE MAKERS IS HERE!

If you're aged 14-19, live in the Sheffield area and have a keen interest in theatre or film (or both) FUTURE MAKERS is for you!

International touring theatre company Third Angel and award-winning film professionals have teamed up to offer taster workshops and practical advice on careers in theatre and film.

Running in the school holidays, FUTURE MAKERS is absolutely free and open to anybody between 14-19 years with an active interest in the arts.  Each full day workshop focuses on one area of theatre or film. We'll cut through the jargon, give each workshop a strong practical element to give you an idea of what it's like in the real world, and provide advice on how to get into either of these industries.

You can attend one workshop or more, and you need to apply to secure your place.

Autumn half term
Tuesday 25th October – Acting – From Auditions to Agents.
Wednesday 26th October – Introduction to working in Film

Spring half term
Tuesday 21st February – Theatre Design/Art Direction for Film
Wednesday 22nd February – Adventures in Sound.

Easter Holidays
Tuesday 11th April – Writing for Film and Television 
Wednesday 12th April – Creating a Theatre Company

Summer half term
Tuesday 30th May – Behind the camera
Wednesday 31st May – How do I become a director?


There are only twenty places on each workshop and we expect commitment and hard work.

Most of the workshops will take place at The Crucible Theatre, in Sheffield.


If you have any questions about FUTURE MAKERS please contact Rachael Walton on 
this email address or call her: 07971 242388



Friday 7 October 2016

Where From Here Symposium Line Up


Where From Here: 21 Years of Third Angel
A one day Symposium hosted by Leeds Beckett University and Compass Live Art
Headingley Campus, Leeds
Thursday 17 November, 10am - 6.30pm (followed by drinks)
FREE - but advanced book advised: click here.


We are delighted to announce the line up for Where From Here, our 21st anniversary symposium.
The day's papers will reflect on the past, present and future of Third Angel, and explore the territory of work we have inhabited and influenced over the years, from making live art, durational performances and video art through to our theatre making practice and collaborations with other artists. It's also a chance celebrate Third Angel's longevity and place this into context in the current political, economic and artistic climate.
The programme for the day includes performances, short films, presentations and papers; it will be of interest to performance academics, teachers and students, plus audience members interested in finding out more about the work. We're thinking of it as something in between a symposium and a one-day festival. So we are very pleased that with the support of Leeds Beckett University's School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, the Symposium is free to attend.
The final line up is still being confirmed, but we are very pleased that Where From Here will feature contributions, presentations and performances from artists and academics including:
  • Aletia M Badenhorst
  • Oliver Bray
  • Gillian Dyson 
  • Lucy Ellinson 
  • Christopher Hall
  • Caroline Horton & Dr Jacqueline Taylor
  • Andrew Jeffrey
  • Alexander Kelly
  • Gillian Jane Lees & Adam York Gregory
  • Dr Hannah Nicklin
  • Michael Pinchbeck & Linford Butler
  • Henry Raby
  • Jodean Sumner
  • Dr Jocelyn Spence
  • Kirsty Surgey
  • Chris Thorpe
  • Rachael Walton


Plus the premiere of The Small Celebrations, new video works by:
  • Action Hero
  • Hannah Butterfield
  • Massive Owl
  • RashDash
  • Third Angel
The full schedule will be announced later in October. 
Where From Here: 21 Years of Third Angel is convened by Oliver Bray, Alexander Kelly, Michael Pinchbeck and Hannah Nicklin. Compass Festival of Live Art runs 11-20 November 2016.
Image: Rachael Walton in Where From Here (2000), photographed by Rob Hardy.

Thursday 29 September 2016

The Desire Paths in Sheffield


This weekend we will be out in Tudor Square, in front of the Crucible Theatre, drawing a giant map of the city centre renaming the streets of Sheffield.

As research for this, we’ve been reading The Sheffield Street Names Study Guide* by Mary Walton. It’s a really engaging tour of the city and the origins of its street names.
“Between the two roads ran several lanes, jennels, alleys and yards. A lane will admit some traffic; an alley has front doors in it; a jennel runs between the side walls of buildings; but a yard is a weird and wonderful thing.”
It’s full of great detail, from the brilliant fact that Bridge Street used to be called simply Under-The-Water because it used to flood a lot, to stuff you didn’t realise you were aware of until it’s pointed out to you: “Gate means street and Bar means gate.” (You can download it here).

It also confirms something we do all know. City centre streets were often named after a direction of travel (London Road), after the builder’s or landowner families, to commemorate military victories, or to indicate the activity or industry that they led to, what was made there. A street was known for one activity.

Street names were instructions as to what is made there, where they’ll take you, or they commemorate events from the past. But who gets to choose what events, which people, are honoured in the street names of a city?

Of course now the streets are busier, cities throng with pedestrians, and all of those people in the streets carry different hopes and dreams for their lives. Whilst there might not be as much manufacturing apparent in the streets of the city these days, there are plenty of new industries out there. And in the hearts and minds that travel along those streets, we are making the future.

So on Saturday that’s what we’re doing: commemorating the future. Renaming the streets of Sheffield after the hopes, dreams and ambitions of the people who live in them.

We hope you can come and join us.** And if you’re not in Sheffield follow our progress on Twitter and Instagram at #DesirePaths.

Third Angel presents
The Desire Paths
10am – 6pm on Saturday 1 October
(map left out until 4pm Sunday 2nd)
Tudor Square, Sheffield
Commissioned by Sheffield Year of Making

Created/produced/performed by
Hannah Butterfield
Lucy Ellinson
Hilary Foster
Nicki Hobday
Liz Johnson
Gillian Lees
Alexander Kelly
Stacey Sampson
Rachael Walton
Bethany Wells
Ellie Whittaker

With documentation by
Joseph Priestly.

With thanks to everyone at Sheffield Theatres and Theatre Delicatessen.

*published by and © Sheffield Libraries Archives and Information.
First Published in 1977. Reformatted and additional images added 2011.
Download it here: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/archives

**we’re providing rain cover, so come take shelter with us.