Rural Arts Festivals: Heads Up Festival in Hull, United Kingdom
This season, I joined Vancouver’s Theatre Conspiracy on the UK Tour of their award-winning Foreign Radical. Following the successful presentation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and receiving The Scotsman Fringe First Award, Conspiracy was the first Canadian company invited to join the Battersea Arts Centre’s Collaborative Touring Network. This was a unique opportunity to experience the networks activities from the inside and meet with some of the folks leading arts festivals in the UK rural areas.
How Independent Theatre Works Down Under
Australia has a healthy independent theatre scene for many reasons. Firstly, we’re a creative mob and like to tread the boards, write, play music, dance, paint and sculpt. We even sculpt sand. There are choirs for homeless people. Yes, we have homeless, too.