Events

Adventures in Objecthood Nicola Dale will discuss her position as a visual artist working between sculpture and performance, movement and stillness, the contemporary and archival. With reference to her performance ‘In Mourning’ for The Whitaker Museum and other recent commissions, she will explore how her interests play out across solo, collaborative and participatory work. Whether […]

Co-Creation: Making Performance with Communities and Young People Restoke put the people of Stoke-on-Trent at the heart of creative adventures. They make performances, plan events and run workshops alongside people who may not usually meet, forming new bonds of friendship, understanding and solidarity in the city.Clare Reynolds is the co-founder and co-director of Restoke and […]

Daphna Baram is a London-based stand-up comedian, researcher and journalist whose work explores stand-up comedy across borders. Her PhD at Lancaster University (2025) focused on how immigrant comedians in the UK negotiate their identities to live audiences in the UK. She has performed twelve solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and regularly appears at festivals and […]

Born and raised in Kolkata, Prof. Sukanya Chakrabarti is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the School of Film, Theatre, and Dance at San Jose State University. Both as a scholar and an artist, she is interested in spaces and their contribution to meaning-making, placemaking and storytelling. She is the Editor of the journal […]

In 2021, Simon’s book WHERE? was published by Little Toller. A hybrid work of prose, drawing, painting, photographs and collage, it connects themes of belonging and grief associated with his father’s death in 2017 to the folklore, customs and social histories associated with his childhood home on Titterstone Clee Hill in Shropshire.   Simon is […]

Viven Gardner is Emeritus Professor, Drama and Film at the University of Manchester. Their current research centres on gender, sexuality and representation in and through performance in the period 1890-1920, developing original work on the New Woman and the Actresses' Franchise League. Projects include: an edited edition of the autobiography of musical comedy and music […]