Contacting the World » Contacting the World http://www.contactingtheworld.org Contacting the World is a pioneering, biennial festival and collaborative project for young people across the globe, produced by Contact Theatre in Manchester, UK Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:59:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 CTW Day Three http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-3/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-3/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:18:52 +0000 admin http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-3/ 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 Ning www.contactingtheworld.ning.com

]]> http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-3/feed/ 0 CTW Day Two http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-2010-day-2/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-2010-day-2/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:07:29 +0000 admin http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-2010-day-2/ 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.

]]> http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-2010-day-2/feed/ 0 Morning After Discussion CTW 2010 http://www.contactingtheworld.org/morning-after-discussion/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/morning-after-discussion/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:17:07 +0000 admin http://www.contactingtheworld.org/morning-after-discussion/ 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 the performance process came together.

]]> http://www.contactingtheworld.org/morning-after-discussion/feed/ 1 CTW Day One http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-one/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-one/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:18:40 +0000 admin http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-one/ 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.

]]> http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-day-one/feed/ 0 Contacting the World twinning video http://www.contactingtheworld.org/contacting-the-world-twinning-video/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/contacting-the-world-twinning-video/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:03:53 +0000 julia http://www.contactingtheworld.org/?p=300 Find out which theatre company is twinned with who for Contacting the World 2010.  Click here!

]]> http://www.contactingtheworld.org/contacting-the-world-twinning-video/feed/ 0 Brilliant Video of CTW 2008 http://www.contactingtheworld.org/brilliant-video-of-ctw-2008/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/brilliant-video-of-ctw-2008/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:42:22 +0000 aaron http://www.contactingtheworld.org/?p=273 Here’s a brilliant video about the last Contacting the World campaign in 2008.

]]> http://www.contactingtheworld.org/brilliant-video-of-ctw-2008/feed/ 0 CTW 2010 Media Release http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-2010-events-coming-soon/ http://www.contactingtheworld.org/ctw-2010-events-coming-soon/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:57:54 +0000 admin http://www.contactingtheworld.org/?p=62 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 global community.  150 young people from twelve young theatre companies from countries including Jamaica, Palestine, Iran, Demark, The Netherlands, USA, UK, Switzerland, South Africa and India will be randomly twinned to engage in a seven month long exchange process to create brand new, visionary and truly global theatre/art.

Leading up to the Festival in July 2010, the journey of these young artists will be played out simultaneously across the globe and revealed on line as the collaboration intensifies. CTW10 looks set to stage a truly global event Manchester firmly at its epicentre.

For further press enquiries contact

James Stanley

Communications Officer

Contact

+ 44 (0)161 274 0627

Note to the Editor

Conceived in 2002, Contact’s unique initiative has taken place every two years so far involving over 40 countries and just under 1000 young people.

Contact is one of the UK’s leading, award winning arts organisations working with young people.  It is based in Manchester in the North West of England.

Companies selected for participation in CTW10 include

10p Mix Up, Manchester

20 Stories High, Liverpool

Outhouse Collective,London

Junges Theater Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nowhere; The Poetry Circle Nowhere, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Radiator Factory, Copenhagen, Denmark

First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble, Madison, USA

Jamaica Youth Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica

84theater, Tehran, Iran

CuciOtak, East Java, Indonesia

Sophiatown Ambassadors, Johannesburg, South Africa

Working Title 2.0 , Mumbai, India

Contacting the World is grateful for the support of its key partner, the Arts Council of England.  The Festival will take place in Manchester in July 2010.

Contacting the World was granted the International Fund for the promotion of culture’s quality label in 2005 in recognition of its value by UNESCO.

www.contact-theatre.org

ENDS 7/1/10

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