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.
b-side has 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.
