WOMEN IN THE ARTS at SHU Performance Lab
TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF SUFFRAGE
A hundred years on from women obtaining the vote in Britain debates and activism around gender equality continue, from the #MeToo movement to #Stoptherobbery, #PressforProgress and #GenderParity campaigns.
Join us at the newly launched Performance Lab at SHU on Wednesday 21st March, at 6pm, to celebrate the centenary of suffrage by hearing about the work and experiences of three women in the Arts industry today.
To reserve your free ticket visit: http://bit.ly/2FCWB8a
Forming our ‘in conversation with’ panel are:
Rachael Walton
Rachael is a director, writer and performer. She has been making devised work for the past twenty-three years, primarily with her company Third Angel. During this time she has relived a lost relationship while walking backwards in fake snow for five hours, talked about birth with mums, played Mary Queen of Scots in a dress made of paper at the Schillertage Festival, she has murdered people, lit candles, danced on chairs, thrown up fake blood, bathed in public and misread peoples palms and misquoted the future.
In 2000 she devised and performed in Where from here which toured both this country and Hungary, Portugal, Germany and Belgium and had similar success in 2006 with Presumption which she directed and which went on to tour Italy, Armenia, Ireland and other European countries. She co-directed, What I Heard About the World, which is an English, Portuguese, German Co-production which has been touring since 2010: 92 performances over 13 UK cities and 8 countries. Since then she has had success directing Cape Wrath and 600 People and The Life and Loves of a Nobody, which have all toured nationally. Partus, Third Angel’s show about the complicated business of birth toured the country in Spring 2017.
Katie Vine
Katie Vine is a Producer at Manchester International Festival currently working on projects for MIF19 and beyond. Her projects at MIF have included immersive theatre, a video game, a dining event, a six hour film, a VR exhibition and various performance art. Prior to working at MIF she spent 20 years working in theatre as a Stage and Company Manager at the RSC, Royal Exchange in Manchester and international touring.
Naomi Paxton
Dr Naomi Paxton is a researcher, writer and performer. She trained at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now RCS) and has appeared in the West End and on tour in the UK and Internationally. She is the regular compère for Museums Showoff in London, and Carry on Curating at the V&A Museum, and her comedy character act ‘Ada Campe’ won the prestigious New Act of the Year competition in 2018.
Naomi’s research interests include the performative propaganda of the suffrage movement, and networks and cultural histories of feminist theatre. She is an Associate Artist of feminist production hub Scary Little Girls, is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker, and recently curated an exhibition in Parliament entitled What Difference Did the War Make? World War One and Votes for Women, which is available to view online at www.parliament.uk/whatdifference Publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays (Bloomsbury, 2013), Stage Rights! The Actresses’ Franchise League, activism and politics 1908-1958 (Manchester University Press, 2018) and The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage (Bloomsbury, 2018) www.naomipaxton.co.uk Twitter @NaomiPaxton
To reserve your free ticket visit: http://bit.ly/2FCWB8a
*Any questions/queries, please get in touch with Dr Hayley Bradley at h.bradley@shu.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you at the event!
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