Contacting the World

Series of workshops from Jamaica Youth theatre, Kingston, The Radiator Factory, Denmark and the Leadership Summit.
JYT workshop, understanding Dub Poetry, The Radiator Factory and exploration of parkour, rap and street culture, along with a Leadership Summit dance workshop.
To find out more about CTW companies and The Leadership Summit, explore the website or visit our [...]

Sophia Town Ambassadors, Johannesburg, South Africa ran a public workshop, Encountering our Ubuntu Spirit. The workshop explored the connections to people we have never met using poetry, dance, song and music.
CTW companies will be running public workshops throughout the festival week. To find out more, check out the CTW 2010 brochure.

A group discussion from Day Two of CTW 2010 in which participants devised a series of musical responses to Contacting the World 2010 opening night, which included performances from 10p Mix Up, Manchester and Working Title 2.0, Mumbai. Members from 10p Mix Up and Working Title 2.0 discuss where their ideas originated from and how [...]

A video summary of the first day of the “Contacting the World” 2010 festival, Manchester.
The video consists of workshop footage led by CTW companies 20 Stories High, Liverpool and 84 Theater, Iran. Along with an interview with one of the participants from 20 Stories High.

The company representatives finally came to Manchester last weekend for two days of intense meetings, workshops, a lot of food and to mark the start of festival anticipation! Sadly members of 84theatre and Jamaica Youth Theatre were unable to attend due to logistical reasons but all the other members can be seen here on the [...]

Contacting the World has started in earnest.

In January 12 diverse performance companies from 10 countries, comprising 150 young people, were selected to take part in this unique international collaboration that will culminate in a summer festival of premiere performances

Find out which theatre company is twinned with who for Contacting the World 2010.  Click here!

Here’s a brilliant video about the last Contacting the World campaign in 2008.

Check out the gallery showing the 12 companies involved in Contacting the World 2010.

Contacting the World 2010 Launch

January 2010 marks the launch of Contacting the World 2010, Contact’s revolutionary international theatre project for young and emerging artists.   Contacting the World brings together the newest, most exciting and innovative young theatre companies from across the globe to help redefine the way in which collaboration and internationalism combine in the [...]