make-shift

“It was a great night and a very beautiful, thought-provoking and fun event!” House audience member, North Devon.

Paula and Helen warmly invite you to an environmentally aware house party with a difference... make-shift is a unique and intimate networked performance and discussion event that connects a house in Barnstaple, Devon with a home in Providence, Rhode Island, USA and online participants globally through a specially designed online interface.

Asking questions about daily habits of consumption and disposability, make-shift combines personal stories, webcam choreography, avatar puppetry and audience interaction to create real-time dialogue between houses and people across the globe.

Barnstaple house participant numbers are limited to 10 and booking is essential. Please reserve your place no less than 24 hours before the event. You will then receive further instructions on how to participate.

You can also join us for some remote interaction at the live interactive screening in venue X (meet at Queen's Theatre box-office) or participate online at www.make-shift.net.

"It conveys an intimate connection between performers, audience and arts that is rare to find. Yesterday I really thought I was forming a part of the art experience." Online audience member, Italy.

make-shift is devised and brokered by Paula Crutchlow and Helen Varley Jamieson. It is a Blind Ditch project originally commissioned by Beaford Arts and supported by UpStage, Exeter Arts Council and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

 

words and images
age 12+
75 mins

www.blindditch.org