MERMAIDS: Musical in a day workshop
SATURDAY 7th October
10 - 5pm (with a sharing at 4pm)
AMATA
Have you ever wondered how a musical is created? Come along and join us for a unique, day-long workshop where you’ll join a professional workshop process with theatre-makers, Jen Fletcher and Harry Blake, to learn and perform new parts of a brand new musical: Mermaids.
Mermaids is a warm-hearted comedy about a drama group in a remote Cornish Fishing Village. A feel-good show about teenage obsession, local politics, and our need for glitter in a world full of grey. The day will culminate with a performance to family and friends.
Workshop fee: £5 per person for ages 11-17. No previous experience necessary.
This event aims to provide places to young people who may not otherwise have opportunities to participate in musical theatre. The event has been highly subsidised in order to keep the cost of attending to a minimum. However, if the cost is an obstacle there are a small number of bursary funded places available.
This workshop is presented by Falmouth International Arts Festival, ImPOSSIBLE Producing & Sea Witch Theatre.
FOR ALL THE FAMILY
-
JAM FIRST THEATRE
CORNISH KNOCKERS
Friday 6th October
4pm
Solksinn Church, The Moor
Cornish company Jam First Theatre created their sell out Christmas show 'Elfish'. Book up quick to see these brilliant performers, fresh from performing in Londons West End, with their next show Cornish Knockers. The two hungry Knockers are up to their usual tricks and have managed to break out of the mines to find themselves on an autumn adventure up on ground level to stop their tummy's rumbling!
Full of magic, mayhem and mischief!
This show promises to make you laugh your bum off.
Suitable for ages 4-104
Tickets: £10/ £5
-
ARTHUR'S CLUB
ARTHUR’S CLUB LIVE
Sunday 8th October
11.30am
Maritime Museum
Castles, crows, and rowing boats. Mermaids, dragons and tiny islands surrounded by the sea... Arthur's Club, a place where everyone is welcome, a place where stories come alive.
Arthur's Club uses key word signing woven into the storytelling throughout, so sign and spoken word are intrinsically linked.
Join Cornish performer and Makaton teacher Rebecca Hulbert for an inclusive children’s theatre show featuring original stories written especially for Arthur's Club by a team of award winning children’s storybook authors including James Henry (Hey Duggee, CBBC), Rebecca Cobb, (Missing Mummy, Aunt Amelia), Anna Wilson, (The Wide, Wide Sea), Naomi Jones, (The Perfect Fit), Anna Mansell (The Tempest, Trebah Gardens), and Craig Barr-Green, (Christmas in Cornwall). Stories From The Island is supported by Wildworks and directed by Wildwork’s Artistic Director, Mydd Pharo. Designed by Ellie Williams (Wildworks) with original music by composer Matthew Thomason.
Running time - approximately 45 minutes.
Age guidance 3-9 and their grownups
Tickets: £8 adults/ £5 kids
-
ABANDOMAN
FUTURE FEST
Sunday 8th October
2pm
VENUE CHANGED TO THE CORNISH BANK
Abandoman's "Future Fest" is the ultimate creative challenge! Set in a future dominated by AI, together we'll build a vibrant, eclectic three-day music festival in just one hour. Experience the power of collective creativity. "Killer punch lines… Genius" - Stage
Age 5+
Tickets £10 / £5 Concession
CRAFTIVISM
40 years on from the iconic Greenham actions of Embrace the Base, Carry Greenham Home and women dancing on the silos at the nuclear air base, FIAFEST are excited to host social archivers Greenham Women Everywhere and performers from Scary Little Girls in an afternoon of print-making, radical bunting, information sharing, memory recording and song!
Chat about the impact of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with local Greenham Women and Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan, while enjoying craftivism, cake with Caroline Wilkins as we create a space for the change we want to see in the world!
