Be Festival

2021

Archive 2021

Our summer season ran 9 – 11 July 2021. You can still watch our artist talks – just follow the Watch button in each event page!

Trees: An Audio Journey by Jamie Wood (UK) – 60 min
Five years ago, Jamie Wood walked for 10 days between Coventry in Warwickshire and Treherbert in South Wales. It was a homemade pilgrimage in search of roots, retracing the movement of his ancestors. He spread his grandparents’ ashes along the way and recorded the sound from the unfolding adventure. This…
Chaired Discussion: Challenges of Underrepresentation in the Arts
What are the current challenges that artists and the cultural industries are facing around diversity? How are we tackling them and what should our next steps be? During this 60-minute conversation our panellists will be discussing their experiences and sharing their views on tackling racism in the arts. A conversation…
Be Yourself with Ursula Martinez
An informal workshop exploring autobiography in solo performance. The aim of the workshop is to look at different aspects of autobiography, the self and personal identity as a provocation for generating solo performance work. The workshop is aimed at emerging artists/theatre undergrads of all ages. It will last 3 hours.…
Pangea (UK preview) directed by Gaël Le Cornec (UK/Brazil) – 50 min approx
Three women — three continents — one city. Grace wakes up one morning to the sound of the dawn chorus of local Parakeets calling her name. Intrigued (and a little bit terrified), she sets off to decipher their message. Along the way, she meets Edith, an eccentric English birder, and…
From Sunset to Sunrise: Part I (Sunset) by Edurne Rubio & María Jerez (Spain/Belgium) – 120 min
Long ago, it was thought that the sun was the wheel of a chariot that crossed the sky from East to West. Day after day, night after night, there is a cycle of sunsets and sunrises. Always the same, always different. Changing the colours of the sky, giving rise to…
From Sunset to Sunrise: Part II (Sunrise) by Edurne Rubio & María Jerez (Spain/Belgium) – 120 min
Long ago, it was thought that the sun was the wheel of a chariot that crossed the sky from East to West. Day after day, night after night, there is a cycle of sunsets and sunrises. Always the same, always different. Changing the colours of the sky, giving rise to…
Edurne Rubio & María Jerez in conversation with Augusto Corrieri
"What forms may performance take when we recognize that it is always enmeshed in non-human spatial and temporal scales and durations? Why not loosen, or even risk losing, the human two-way traffic of theatre, to see what kinds of impossible dramaturgies may emerge?” This quote from the book The Rock,…

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