Invitation to exhibit at the SBTD national exhibition of UK performance design 2011:
Designers for performance are invited to exhibit at the four yearly SBTD national exhibition which is to take place in Cardiff in January 2011. This is an open exhibition though exhibitors must be, or become, members of either the SBTD, ALD or STC and the work exhibited must have been realised between 2007-2011.
This is a unique opportunity to take part in a celebration of UK design for performance over the past four years, and to be included in the accompanying catalogue. SBTD exhibition catalogues have long been recognised as the principal book for design reference and inspiration by professionals, schools and colleges in the UK and abroad.
Please visit www.theatredesign.org.uk/exhibitions/ for more details including hanging fees, venue details and themes. The closing date for submission of intent to exhibit forms is 30th April 2010.
National Exhibition 2011 Venue:
The new RWCMD Buildings
In January 2011, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama will host Transformation & Revelation, the Society of British Theatre Designers’ (SBTD) professional UK National Exhibition of Design for Performance which will inaugurate the new building as a major arts venue.
To read about the new building and for a little fore information on the 2011 national exhibition read this article from our Blue Pages Magazine.
International Contemporary Scenography Days:
IFSArts and The Scenographer magazine once again spearhead the International Contemporary Scenography Days.
Gearing up for SIB 2010 (Rimini, Italy 18-20 April)
The International Contemporary Scenography Days will once again be held at SIB, Rimini Fiera in Italy on 18-20 April.
Three days of talks and events embracing scenic arts.
Architects, engineers, technicians, theatre directors, set designers and lighting designers of world acclaim will be taking to the podium.
The architects and lighting designers
Among the numerous guest speakers invited to take part in our conference at SIB 2010 we are delighted to announce the American architectural practice Jon Jerde Partnership (www.jerde.com), a leading studio operating in the U.S., Europe and Asia, experts in the planning of public spaces destined for commercial and entertainment / leisure use. We welcome two European architects noted for their groundbreaking interactive architecture: from Italy, Luca Ruzza of Open Lab Company (www.openlabcompany.com), previously at Odin Teatret with Eugenio Barba, and from Holland, Rob Delfgaauw of NuFormer Digital Media(http://www.nuformer.nl). Also taking part are Bjarke Ingels Group – BIG (www.big.dk), a Danish practice comprising 80 architects, and from the U.K Theatre Project Consultants (www.theatreprojects.com) who have worked on projects for over 1200 performance spaces worldwide. This year we can also count on the presence of the American lighting designers the calibre of A. J. Weissbard (www.ajweissbard.com), and Anne Militello(www.annemilitello.com/).
Theatre
This year, in addition to renowned stage designers sharing their experiences, we have invited stage managers from the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi, the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Petruzzelli in Bari, and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
The speakers
Henning Brockhaus, Maurizio Balò, Darko Petrovic, Ralph Koltai, Lucia Goj ( Théâtre du Châtelet), Giorgio Marini, Pamela Howard, Jean-Guy Lecat, Kate Burnett, Peter Farley, Izuna Tanaka, Denise Lupi (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma), Massimo Checchetto (Teatro La Fenice Venezia), Tommaso Lagattolla (Teatro Lirico Petruzzelli di Bari), Saverio Santoliquido (Teatro Regio Torino), Benito Leonori (Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini)
Film
Our event this year focuses on European film production design. We have invited a number of set designers who have worked with directors such as Almodovar, Besson, Tornatore, Wenders. Production designers fromSpain, France, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria and the UK will form a panel discussion on the creation of a European association of film design guilds.
The speakers
Anxton Gomez (Pedro Almodovar), Hugues Tissandier (Luc Besson), Stephen Scott (Guillermo del Toro), Marco Dentici (Marco Bellocchio), Maurizio Sabatini (Giuseppe Tornatore), Thierry Flamand (Wim Wenders and Nicole Garcia), Anastas Yanakyev (Stephan Komandarev). The recent film designed by Yanakyev (“The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner” by the Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev) has been selected for nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 82nd Academy Awards® in 2010.
Industry Space
In addition to the numerous topics in discussion during the International Contemporary Scenography Days, an Industry space will be available exclusively for exhibitors at SIB that will allow them to interact with the public and the guest speakers at the conference. The space will host a select group of companies that will focus on a range of issues linked to advanced lighting technologies, mechanical engineering solutions for performance spaces and software programmes designed for theatre. These presentations, reserved for a specialist audience of professionals, graduates, educators and journalists, will take place within the conference area situated inHall B7 (Light & Stage Technology).
Universities and Academies
As in the previous edition, for universities, academies of Fine Art and film and theatre schools, with their respective faculties of architecture, stage and set design, SIB is offering a trade stand at no cost situated next to the area reserved for the conferences with entertainment industry professionals and the evening shows.
We invite teaching staff and students to take part in this exciting event.
All conferences will be conducted either in English or Italian with respective simultaneous translation facilities.
If you wish to take part, please write to request accreditation and to book a free trade stand.
We will then provide you with additional information write to r.neri@riminifiera.it
A Sense of Occasion:
Kate Burnett’s new curatorial project will be on display in Waverley
1851 Gallery from the 25 January – Friday 5 February 2010, 10am – 5pm
Monday – Friday.
When do spaces become places and garments or clothes become costume?
The design and making processes of visualising narratives into
performance offer rich models of reflexive learning, but what of the
artefacts, costumes and environments created? Inhabited, they both
transcend their materiality and gain significance from it. Animated by
narrative they find resonance and particularity.
The Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD) hold national
exhibitions that showcase contemporary design for performance. In
curating one and co-curating a further three of these quadrennial
exhibitions in both the UK and in Prague, Kate has had opportunities to
consider the afterlife of materials generated in an arts industry
context and ask what they can offer viewers and audiences who may never
have known the original production, material or contexts.
A Sense of Occasion will feature five garments, with an accompanying
narrative indicating the context and individual stories of the items.
The exhibits all belong to Kate’s mother, Lesley, and include two black
and yellow dresses by the renowned fashion house, Horrockses.
This small pilot exhibitions bring together her curatorial interest in
the re-presentation and re-reading of the ‘used’ artefacts, costumes and
environments of performance, with investigations into the narratives and
‘theatrical’ possibilities of objects, garments and places.
A Sense of Occasion
Kate Burnett
Waverley Building, Waverley St, Nottingham Trent University
25 January – Friday 5 February 2010, 10am – 5pm
Monday – Friday.
Admission Free
Guardian Careers:
is running a free, live Q&A event on CAREERS IN THEATRE DESIGN Friday 29th Jan.
The event will go live Friday 29th, 12pm-3pm. Don’t miss out on your opportunity for free careers guidance from people in the know, including designer and Chair of the SBTD Committee Ian Teague.
Log on here to have your questions answered by a panel of experts: http://bit.ly/8rOgfB
Alison Chitty: Design Process 1970-2010:
Renowned theatre designer Alison Chitty, who has designed many National Theatre productions as well as operas and plays all over the world, will be exhibiting her work at the National Theatre from 1 February – 28 March, marking 40 years in the business.
Alison Chitty was resident designer at the National Theatre for eight years, and is Director of the Motley Theatre Design Course. Her designs include many productions with Peter Hall (including Antony and Cleopatra and The Bacchae) and Peter Gill (including The Voysey Inheritance) at the National Theatre; operas including Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd and Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur and Gawain at the ROH; and Mike Leigh’s films Life Is Sweet, Naked and Secrets and Lies. She was awarded an OBE in 2004, received the Young Vic Award in 2008 and was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 2009 by the Royal Society of Arts.
The exhibition follows her process from sketchbook drawings, set models and costume designs for landmark productions including The Voysey Inheritance (National Theatre), Khovanshchina (ENO) and The Minotaur (Royal Opera House), offering visitors a unique opportunity to view work usually only seen in the studio, rehearsal room or workshop.
Alison Chitty is giving a Platform talk about her work at the NT’s Cottesloe Theatre on 2 March at 6pm.
Monday 1 February – Sunday 28 March
Monday – Saturday 9.30am – 11.00pm, Sunday 12pm – 6pm
Press and private view: Tuesday 2 February, 6pm – 8pm
Admission: Free
Crafts Council requests help with research:
Making value: the economic and social contribution of craft makers The Crafts Council has launched a major research project into the economic and social value of craft, focusing on portfolio working craft makers who engage with other industry sectors and community and education contexts.
They are looking for makers and organisations who apply their craft skills/knowledge/creativity in other industry sectors (eg fashion, television, carnival, leisure, tourism etc) and/or in community settings (eg youth, older people, criminal justice etc) who would be interested in taking part in this interview based research.
The findings from this qualitative study will fuel their policy work, create content for their national conference on 22 June 2010 and provide a rounded view of the sector’s impact which can’t be fully captured by statistics.
For more information visit the Crafts Council website
Advisers & tutors – a new resource from a-n (The Artists Information Company)
A new resource is available from a-n, a dedicated area on their website which makes it easier to research the tools, materials and resources they have available for advising and supporting artists and art and design students.
Visit the BCUC site for more details
Building Sound:
Ella Finer and Fabrizio Manco present ‘Building Sound’, an on-going research experiment in ways to describe and articulate experiences of sound making and reception within theatre, theory and practice.
As both Finer and Manco’s doctoral studies at Roehampton University are concerned with an interrogation of sound within theatrical space, the aim of building sound is to provide thinkers and practitioners an opportunity to offer their own ideas from their respective practices about sound within an actual and a virtual space.
Both the symposium and website are investigations into interdisciplinary dialogues about working with sound.
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The ‘Building Sound’ Symposium
Olivier Stalls Foyer, National Theatre, Southbank, London.
Friday 5th February 2010; 1-4pm
Free admission, please contact info@buildingsound.org to reserve a place
Ella Finer and Fabrizio Manco have each chosen a selection of speakers to come together and describe what sound means to them; to provide an interdisciplinary hearing and sharing of ideas and definitions, leading to an open discussion.
Speakers are Professor Jonathan Ashmore, Ansuman Biswas, Yvon Bonenfant, Ross Brown, Stephen Cleary, Marcia Farquhar, Simon Fisher Turner, Maggie Pittard and Mariella Greil & J. Milo Taylor.
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The ‘Building Sound’ Website
As well as hosting information about the project and storing archival sound from the symposium, the form of this website itself is the result of an attempt to question how to build a website beyond text.
The concept for the ‘Building Sound’ Website is by Ella Finer and Fraser Muggeridge, and designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio and Wolfram Weidner.
‘Building Sound’ is Part of the AHRC ‘Beyond Text’ Programme, as a student-led initiative.
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive – Hamlet Prototype:
Funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Endowment for the Humanities, the Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a free resource that will in time reproduce at least one copy of every edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in quarto before the theatres were closed by the Puritan parliament in 1642.
Currently, there are 32 copies of Hamlet available to view – all contributed by the project’s partner institutions, which own the majority of pre-1642 quartos: the Bodleian, the British Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntingdon Library and the National Library of Scotland.
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive—Hamlet Prototype
Here you can view full cover-to-cover digital reproductions and transcriptions of thirty-two copies of the five earliest editions of the play Hamlet. You can view quartos separately, or alongside any number of copies. You can search, annotate, make public or private sets of annotations, create exhibits or character cue line lists, and download and print text and images.
Linbury Prize 2009 Winner:
Ales Valasek has been named as the overall winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2009, for his proposed staging of Going Dark – a one-man show for production company Sound & Fury.
Four young designers, including Valasek, will now be given the chance to turn their designs into actual productions. The other three winners were Samal Blak, who will design Verdi’s Othello for Birmingham Opera Company, Jean Chan who will produce the staging for The Garbage King for the Unicorn Theatre, while Ruth Sutcliffe will create the set for The Duchess of Malfi at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton.
Each winner will receive £2,000 prize money with an extra £1,000 to Valasek as the overall winner