The Society of British Theatre Designers

Edward Gordon Craig – Exhibition & Lectures:

Edward Gordon Craig was a pioneer of Modern stage craft, whose experimental theatre techniques have shaped live performance today. Space and Light will be an interactive installation that uses sound, light, projection and drama to engage the audience with Edward Gordon Craig, his life, works and visions. The exhibition will also feature a number of Craig’s beautiful woodcuts and engravings. This exhibition will be on show in the V&A Theatre and Performance Galleries from 11th September, 2010.
<strong><em>Future Venues: V&A Theatre and Performance Galleries; Gallery of Jan Fragner, Prague (as part of the Prague Quadrennial 2011).</em></strong>
<strong>Sir Michael Holroyd:</strong> The Forgotten Modernist a biographical and historical perspective, suggesting some early influences on his visionary ideas from within his extraordinary theatrical pedigree and tracing his development as a European modernist during a long, wayward life-in-exile which led to his achievements becoming largely forgotten by the end of his career. <strong>Liam Doona:</strong>  Second thoughts are best – Edward Gordon Craig and an education through theatre design. Craig’s legacy on the teaching and practice of 20thCentury theatre design.  Tessa Sidey:  Edward Gordon Craig-Creative Image Maker. The achievements of Edward Gordon Craig in the visual arts. In his own lifetime and beyond Craig’s immediately recognisable wood-engravings, woodcuts and etchings were widely exhibited, both in Britain and internationally. The speaker will argue that these images also had an important place in the wider creative revolution with medium and content being explored by modern artists in the twentieth century.   <strong>Dorita Hannah:</strong>  CRAIG’S SPACE-IN-’MOTION’ Craig’s influence on performance space and the paradox in his discourse between the void (an ‘absolute space’) and his scene (an ‘archetypal architecture’) presented in relation to its potential in creating contemporary sites for performance.

Scenography Expanding Symposium 3 On Curating:

Arts Council suspends unpaid job adverts:

The following notice has been given on artsjobs.org.uk, the Arts Council England’s Job Site:

Please note that due to the high volume of adverts for unpaid opportunities that contravene Minimum Wage Regulations we are temporarily suspending adverts for unpaid work, work experience, voluntary roles or internships. This is so we can make developments to the website that will help users to post genuine volunteering opportunities only and stay within Minimum Wage Regulations.

Arts Council England is committed to ensuring that artists and those who work in the creative industries are properly remunerated for any work that they do. We recognise that there is great value in people having access to proper work experience, where it is offered and arranged properly and is a mutually beneficial arrangement, but that this should never be used as a way of attempting to circumvent the Minimum Wage Regulations.

http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/

Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry:

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has launched a new inquiry and call for evidence into The Funding of the Arts and Heritage.

The Committee is inviting written submissions and requesting views on the following issues:

What impact recent, and future, spending cuts from central and local Government will have on the arts and heritage at a national and local level;
What arts organisations can do to work more closely together in order to reduce duplication of effort and to make economies of scale;
What level of public subsidy for the arts and heritage is necessary and sustainable;
Whether the current system, and structure, of funding distribution is the right one;
What impact recent changes to the distribution of National Lottery funds will have on arts and heritage organisations;
Whether the policy guidelines for National Lottery funding need to be reviewed;
The impact of recent changes to DCMS arm’s-length bodies – in particular the abolition of the UK Film Council and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council;
Whether businesses and philanthropists can play a long-term role in funding arts at a national and local level;
Whether there need to be more Government incentives to encourage private donations.

The Committee will also examine other areas of interest that are raised during the course of its inquiry.

A copy of the submission should be sent by e-mail to cmsev@parliament.uk and have ‘Funding of the Arts and Heritage’ in the subject line. Submissions should be received by Thursday 2nd September 2010.

For further details see their website

For up-to-date information on progress of the inquiry visit: http://www.parliament.uk/cmscom

Ralph Koltai – Stage 2 Metal Collage 2002 – 2010:

27 September – 14 November
Royal National Theatre, London

Ralph Koltai is Britain’s senior and celebrated Theatre Designer. He has embarked on a new challenge, returning to his roots as a 3-dimensional artist, creating a series of metal collages, mostly made from found objects on farms near his studio in France. Koltai selects panels or pieces, predominantly metal, and dissects them in a compositional form. Not in themselves narrative, many spring from his former theatre designs, and have evolved from his life-time approach to his theatre work. A sheet of rusty metal became a wall in Simon Boccanegra, a dish and sphere the entrance to Caliban’s cave in The Tempest.

Exhibition opening times:

Monday – Saturday from 9.30am – 11pm
and Sunday 12pm – 6pm (when there is a performance in the building)

SE1 9PX: Hidden Corners, National Theatre exhibition:

19 August – 19 September
Royal National Theatre, London

The public areas of the National Theatre occupy no more than a third of the total site, and some of the more obscure areas of the building are known to very few people. With the aid of the technicians, actors and craftspeople who inhabit them, Miriam Nabarro has sought out these secret spaces and presents them in an exhibition of photographs that will surprise and intrigue. Miriam Nabarro has worked as a designer on projects at the NT since 2007.

Exhibition opening times:
Monday – Saturday from 9.30am – 11pm
and Sunday 12pm – 6pm (when there is a performance in the building)

OISTAT ‘Sixty Second Theatre’:

An online exhibition ’Sixty Second Theatre’ organized by OISTAT Sound Design Working Group has just been launched to celebrate the World Listening Day, July 18th  2010.  The project aims to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the environmental awareness, to the acoustic ecology, and to the world around us.
 
Please link to http://www.oistat.org/content.asp?path=dpyvppgw or http://www.theatresound.org/world_listening_day.htm
to listen to this sound exhibition by the international theatre sound design community for a series of 60-second recordings of moments in their lives of the week leading up to July 18th 2010.

8th OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2011:

OISTAT (International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians) announces the next student competition for Theatre Architecture 2011.

You will find information on this competition in the attached file as well as on the OISTAT website http://www.oistat.org/content.asp?path=c1qgp8ps as of July 01, 2010.

SBTD Summer Short Courses 2010:

Click here for information about proposed Short Courses offered over the Summer, with a reduced rate for SBTD members. These will be located at Rose Bruford College in SE London.

Courses include; 3DS Max, SketchUp, Photography & Photoshop, Painted Illusion, Introduction to Hat Making, Drawing for Design, Auto CAD and a Website Day.

We need to hear from you as soon as possible if you would be interested in enrolling on any of the Short Courses proposed. If we get enough interest then the course will run!

Big Room, Little Room 2010:

Stage Design at Southbank Centre
Royal Festival Hall Foyer,
Southbank Centre Square Entrance
July 22 – 29  10am – 10pm
Private View  July 23  6-9pm

Part of an ongoing collaboration between Michael Vale, Associate designer for Southbank Centre, and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School looking at real and imagined stage designs for the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Royal Festival Hall.   Projects and actual designs are also included for large and small venues – comparing the nature of ‘Big Rooms and Little Rooms’ and how the designers for the stage manipulate and populate these spaces.