Casting; Acting Opportunities

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Calling all aspiring actors!

We, a group of three 3rd year drama students, are looking for 7 actors to fill character roles in our final “New Directions” performance. The piece is based on King Lear, and we will need up to 3 female and 4 male actors.

Please be aware that this is NOT part with your course, and therefore will not yield academic credit, and indeed has no association with any drama societies on campus.

The piece is around 25 minutes in length, and is set to include elements of many different types of theatre, including physical theatre and verbatim performance. Should you be successful, there will be multiple roles you may take on for the piece.

Auditions will be held in hourly slots from 6 – 9pm on Tuesday 15th November, in the Aphra Theatre. Do not feel the need to prepare anything in advance, as auditions will take place in a workshop style format.

If you are interested (and we hope many of you are), or have any questions at all, please email sh727@kent.ac.uk, and feel free to turn up to any of the hourly slots from 6 – 9pm.

We look forward to meeting you!

Applications now open for International Youth Arts Festival 2017!

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Applications Deadline; 27th January 2017 at 5pm.

Theatre, music, dance, film, comedy, circus, cabaret, visual arts, workshops and other art forms will be celebrated and championed for the 10 days of the festival by emerging young artists from all over the world.  Hundreds of events across various venues including Theatres, Pubs, Parks, Streets and Galleries will be showcasing the best of youth arts in the most dynamic atmosphere that is simply not worth missing.

More information about applying is available here: www.iyafestival.org.uk.

Festival dates; 7th to 16th July 2017

SUBVERSIVE MIGRANTS/ SHEILA ROWBOTHAM

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When: Thursday 17th November 2016 at 4pm
Where: Grimond Lecture Theatre 2, University of Kent, Canterbury

Sheila Rowbotham (University of Manchester) will discuss her new book Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States, which relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, from Old World conventions toward New World utopias.

Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements.

The talk will be followed by a drinks reception in Grimond Foyer.

Experiences of War – Three First World War Plays

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When; Monday 21st November 2016
Time; 18:00 – 21:00
Where; Aphra Theatre, Grimond Building University of Kent
Price; FREE!

What did the men who wrote Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh make of the Great War?

Fresh from their celebrated performances at the Somme centenary, Threadbare Theatre Company presents three plays written during the First World War in a Music-Hall style evening of laughter, singing, and reflection, including The New Word (1915) by J. M. Barrie and The Boy Comes Home (1918) by A. A. Milne. These plays provide a fascinating insight into the experience of war both for the men at the front and for those left at home. Although written 100 years ago, the issues of masculinity, generational difference, loss and fear, hope, pride and identity are as as relevant today as ever.

Experiences of War is an event hosted by the Popular and Comic Performance Resaerch Centre at the University of Kent.

Booking is essential – BOOK HERE

Actors needed for Canterbury Christchurch Filmmaker

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Lead role: Male, comfortable running, comfortable around ouija boards, comfortable with coordinated fighting.

Supporting role: Male, comfortable running, comfortable with coordinated fighting.

Needs to be available in December for rehearsal and dates for production are January 23rd onwards.

Please contact 3rd year Canterbury Christ Church University Film student Cameron Tait  camerontait1994@gmail.com

 

Double Edge Theatre Artistic Training Programmes

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Double Edge’s Adam Bright has contacted Paul Allain to share a link with students for Double Edge’s training programmes. This year he has been a part of creating a scholarship programme for non-US students to apply for a tuition break to attend Double Edge Theatre trainings. “I have a great passion to work with students from the UK and just a few months ago helped to create a training group in London made up of alumni of our programmes. I plan to be visiting a little more frequently to work with them and other groups in and around the city.” Intensive training dates Winter 01 – 07 January 2017  Spring 10 – 12 March 2017  Here’s a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1jGFKoTqxVTVTY0SmdxcEN6Wjg/view

Adam Bright Co-Producer and Actor Double Edge Theatre (001) 413-628-0070    You tube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IDN6QqUzw

Contact us at: training@doubleedgetheatre.org    www.doubleedgetheatre.org

 

Performers wanted

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Blean Pre-school, a registered charity and committee run pre-school based in the village hall in Blean, Canterbury are looking for a brave volunteer who would be able to come and entertain around 20 children aged between 2-4 years at our Christmas party on Friday 16th December at around 10 a.m. They enjoy the usual kind of party entertainment – silly magic tricks, balloon modelling, slapstick etc.

This is a voluntary position, however, thanks will be paid in chocolate.

for more information, please contact bleanpreschool@hotmail.co.uk

Digital Rep

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We have now launched Digital Rep, our new online feedback platform where you can submit feedback about your course, school or faculty at any point throughout the Academic Year. This information is vital to not only help your Student Reps make changes to improve your academic experience, but also for you to have a voice in your education. We have launched this following the development of our Course Rep Review and the creation of our new Education Strategy in partnership with the University.

Below, you will see a video explaining how Digital Rep works. It’s really easy to give us your feedback, you just need to tell us something that works well, something that doesn’t work well and something that could be improved. With this feedback, our Student Reps can work to improve your Academic Experience, as well as sharing with the University the things that they do well. You can start logging your feedback now, so please tell us how you feel so that we can listen to your voice and make the changes you want to see.

To access Digital Rep and start giving your feedback, follow this link! http://bit.ly/KUDigitalRep”

Film Students Casting Calls – Actors Needed

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Please contact the film makers directly for audition details, these will all happen within the next month.

  1. Female actor needed aged 18-25, Male actor needed to play elderly male, Female actor needed to play mature character, 7 extras to play supporting roles. Shooting in Canterbury. Contact Alessandro am2238@kent.ac.uk
  2. Male actor needed, Female actor needed for 6 minute short film, no dialogue – 3 days shoot ( approx. 15 hrs ). Shoot dates 8,10,13 November .Contact Charlotte ca443@kent.ac.uk