WORKSHOPS PROGRAMME – 10:30am – 1:30pm @ REP Studios
Open to adults with previous performance experience. Sign up the night before at MAC.
‘Authentic Fiction: scripting self’ – Troels H. Findsen & Katrina Bugaj, Out of Balanz
In this workshop we’ll investigate how to use our own personal histories, experiences and beliefs, rather than fictional characters, to create new work. Using games, exercises and improvisations, we’ll look at how to use the actual and the imagined, the heightened and the everyday, side by side, in order to create works of authentic fiction. Out of Balanz’s approach is rooted in devising and ensemble theatre practice. With an emphasis on rigorous experimentation, playful exploration, and exchange, they seek to further the creation and understanding of artistic expression.
‘Abierto I’ – Greg Hicks
We will be using the physical disciplines of yoga, capoeira, butoh and chi-gung as a preparation to explore the actor’s visceral, emotional and intellectual relationship to classical texts. How do we create the conditions in our bodies to be open to impulse, intention, paradox and imaginative provocation? At the same time we will explore the formal structure of verse and how we can find the balance of unpredictability, form and inspiration.Greg Hicks is one of Britain’s finest actors having appeared copiously at the RSC, National Theatre, working for the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic as well as on TV and film. Over the years, he has explored different art forms such as capoeira or butoh to get into texts.
Presentation by Federico Sancho – 5pm @ AE Harris 
A presentation by BE FESTIVAL’s 2011-12 European Visual Arts Resident – Federico Sancho. His project AE Harris Security Devices has evolved several different layers over the year, and will feature a series of symbiotic events and experiences during the festival. This is a chance to discover more about the process and thinking behind the work.
BE FESTIVAL’s favourite band: Mellow Peaches – @ AE Harris
Mellow Peaches play a whole host of folk styles with bluesy intensity, fusing unshowy skill with a sense of humour, contemporary quirk, and, most importantly, a bounch of hummable tunes.