EVENT LINK: https://tinyurl.com/criptic-arts-2024
August 15th, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Virtual, Free
Experience new work in development by our Launchpad artists in anticipation of our upcoming Fall show in this online sharing. These pieces, once developed, will be shown at the Barbican as part of The Acts.
2024 Launchpad artists will be sharing work-in-progress style excerpts of the pieces they are developing as part of the programme. These pieces, once developed, will be shown at the Barbican as part of The Acts. This is a chance for audiences to see the work as it’s made, but also to give feedback which will help the work develop.
The completed “Acts” comes to The Pit Theatre at the Barbican for 2 nights, Friday 8th & Saturday 9th November.
The individual acts:
A.C. Smith brings To Rose On Her 18th Birthday, a love letter written by a mother to her daughter as she reaches for joy after twice developing cancer, aware her daughter may have inherited the same genetic risk.
Stephen Bailey and ASYLUM Arts present the darkly comedic Autistic as Fuck, exploring the complexities and contradictions of neurodivergence, masking, and the ways we’re told we need to tell our stories for them to be seen by non-disabled audiences.
Peyvand Sadeghian & Matthew Robinson use immersive projections & material from the NASA archives of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, to navigate awe, despair, wellness, and isolation in Over The Moon (working title).
Hugh Maylon & Steve Sowden intertwine classical myth with knotty reality, taking us to the seaside long after the holidays have ended in the liminal and unreal Humetheus and the Quest for the Bronze Cloak.
The Acts has been made possible with the support of Arts Council England & The Barbican Centre.
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Please note this event contains swearing, and references to death, loss and cancer.