Schedule
New Day
- 2 - 4
All Locations
- Portland Bill, Portland, DT5 2JT
TICKETS
Who will you be working with?
Mydd Pharo, Wildworks’ Artistic Director
Mydd is an award-winning Director, Designer and Visual Dramaturg working in theatre, opera, TV, events and film creating both intimate and epic scale productions and installations throughout the UK and internationally. His work primarily focuses on immersive and interactive audience experiences and expands both conventional performance spaces and discovered ones.
Mercedes Kemp, Wildworks’ Founding Artist
Mercedes Kemp is a writer and founding member of Wildworks Theatre Company. She has recently retired after thirty years as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Falmouth University. Mercedes was born and grew up in Southern Spain. For the past forty-five years she has lived in West Cornwall, UK. Since 2001 she has worked with WildWorks, developing storylines and text for site-specific pieces in Malta, Cyprus, France, Belgium, the Occupied Territories of Palestine, Tunisia, Sicily, Colombia and all over the UK.
Victoria Abbott, Composer and Musical Director for Wildworks
Victoria is a choir director and choral composer based in West Cornwall. In the mid 90’s she accidentally formed The Singing Nuns and has worked with choirs ever since. She has been Musical Director on several WildWorks projects and is currently composing for Re-Voice, her third collaboration with theatre director Agnieszka Blonska. Victoria directs three choirs, The Tone Deaf Ensemble, Tuesday Night Fun Club and The Blazing Heart Chorus. Her passion is getting everyone to sing even if they think they are Tone Deaf.
Eleanor Williams, Wildworks’ Visual Artist and Designer
Ellie is a visual artist and designer working both independently and collaboratively across disciplines. She is an associate artist with Wildworks and has also worked with The Eden Project on large scale, narrative-led event design and realisation since 2006. For Wildworks, she has spent over 15 years working across the UK and beyond to create designs that bring stories to life, with communities, in unexpected locations and non-traditional performance spaces. Ellie is based in Cornwall where she relocated to study Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts in 2002, her work and interests are rooted in the connections we have to place, land and landscape.
Gwen Scolding, Wildworks’ General Manager
Gwen joined Wildworks 2 years ago and is managing Wildworks’ Uncommon Land project for b-side 2023. She loves making large-scale community events having worked as Project Manager for Emergency Exit Arts for over 10 years. Her own work and events have focused on raising awareness of current issues through interactive installations and events.
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. WE HAVE ONE PLACE AVAILABLE DUE TO A LAST-MINUTE CANCELLATION.
Email producer@b-side.org.uk to book
We are excited to announce that Wildworks will be running an intensive 2-day workshop on Portland for those who are interested in discovering an artistic response to the landscape. Anyone is welcome who has a love of being creative and would like to delve into what makes Portland so special.
We have 20 places available for artists, theatre-makers, or people who just love to write, sing or make stuff as a hobby.
Who are Wildworks?
Wildworks is the UK’s leading landscape theatre company. From our base in Cornwall we make site-specific theatre with communities locally, nationally and internationally. We reach audiences and collaborators all over the globe. Everyone is invited. Our work attracts people who do not go to the theatre. We’re to be found on beaches and woodlands, car parks, nightclubs and disused quarries, anywhere from derelict department stores to medinas, and from refugee camps to castles.
What will happen?
The five landscape workshops will be 1) Working in the landscape 2) Writing 3) Sounds of the landscape and singing 4) Making 5) Working in the Dark. These workshops will be interweaved so that each workshop can influence the next.
You will spend 2 days working with Wildworks core Creatives who have been part of this internationally renowned landscape theatre company from the very start. This is a real opportunity to respond to Portland’s landscape and biodiversity through learning, playing and creating.
This will form part of Wildworks’ Uncommon Land installation for b-side Festival 2023, a creative exploration of the local landscape and the people who inhabit it.
How do I take part?
Tickets are £15 for both days. If this is prohibitive to you attending please do get in contact and we’ll see how we can help.
Places will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
Please note that you must be over 18 yrs of age to take part.
Please do let us know if you have any access barriers and we will do our best to support you during our workshops.
Who will you be working with?
Mydd Pharo, Wildworks’ Artistic Director
Mydd is an award-winning Director, Designer and Visual Dramaturg working in theatre, opera, TV, events and film creating both intimate and epic scale productions and installations throughout the UK and internationally. His work primarily focuses on immersive and interactive audience experiences and expands both conventional performance spaces and discovered ones.
Mercedes Kemp, Wildworks’ Founding Artist
Mercedes Kemp is a writer and founding member of Wildworks Theatre Company. She has recently retired after thirty years as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Falmouth University. Mercedes was born and grew up in Southern Spain. For the past forty-five years she has lived in West Cornwall, UK. Since 2001 she has worked with WildWorks, developing storylines and text for site-specific pieces in Malta, Cyprus, France, Belgium, the Occupied Territories of Palestine, Tunisia, Sicily, Colombia and all over the UK.
Victoria Abbott, Composer and Musical Director for Wildworks
Victoria is a choir director and choral composer based in West Cornwall. In the mid 90’s she accidentally formed The Singing Nuns and has worked with choirs ever since. She has been Musical Director on several WildWorks projects and is currently composing for Re-Voice, her third collaboration with theatre director Agnieszka Blonska. Victoria directs three choirs, The Tone Deaf Ensemble, Tuesday Night Fun Club and The Blazing Heart Chorus. Her passion is getting everyone to sing even if they think they are Tone Deaf.
Eleanor Williams, Wildworks’ Visual Artist and Designer
Ellie is a visual artist and designer working both independently and collaboratively across disciplines. She is an associate artist with Wildworks and has also worked with The Eden Project on large scale, narrative-led event design and realisation since 2006. For Wildworks, she has spent over 15 years working across the UK and beyond to create designs that bring stories to life, with communities, in unexpected locations and non-traditional performance spaces. Ellie is based in Cornwall where she relocated to study Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts in 2002, her work and interests are rooted in the connections we have to place, land and landscape.
Gwen Scolding, Wildworks’ General Manager
Gwen joined Wildworks 2 years ago and is managing Wildworks’ Uncommon Land project for b-side 2023. She loves making large-scale community events having worked as Project Manager for Emergency Exit Arts for over 10 years. Her own work and events have focused on raising awareness of current issues through interactive installations and events.
