Vivid Roots Collective

Join us for our next in person workshop in Inverness, this time with award-winning theatre company Jordan & Skinner !

Mel Jordan, from Jordan & Skinner, is going to lead participants through an introduction to their process of creating accessible, physical theatre using political, feminist clown, movement and improvisation.

🗓 Friday, 9th October
🕢 11am-1pm
📍Inverness Cathedral Community Hall

Ages 18+ only.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can from £5.

All participants will have access to a £6 discounted ticket to see DO NOT PASS GO at Eden Court Theatre and Cinema on Thursday 8 October, 7pm.

Book your ticket here: https://events.humanitix.com/feminist-clowning-workshop

Are you scratching the surface of a new idea? Do you have a work in progress that you want to share with an audience? ✨

Our next Scratch Night on 13th November in Inverness is the perfect space to test that new material and share it with a welcoming, supportive audience who are there to give encouraging feedback!

And you won’t be doing it alone. The Vivid Roots Collective team is here to support you, from the first step to the moment you step into the room.

You'll have access to a £250 budget which they may use to buy materials, or pay themselves and other artists and get all travel costs covered!

🎭 Apply for our Scratch Night, more info on our website: https://vividrootscollective.co.uk/scratch-nights/

🚨 Reminder 🚨

The deadline for our fully funded theatre residency is next Monday, 31st August, 9am.

🗓 Residency Dates: Monday 7th November to Friday 11th November

💷 Artist Fee £1,350 (2 weeks at £600, plus holiday pay)

👛 Development Budget £750 (materials and resources to support the residency)

📌 Lyth Arts Centre

This residency is for any theatre practice 🎭

ℹ More info on our website: https://vividrootscollective.co.uk/residency-programme/

Applications are now open for our second scratch night on Friday 13th November at Glen Mhor Hotel 🌟

We are looking for artists to deliver scratch performances, who will have a 20-minute slot to introduce and present their work to an audience.

They'll receive a budget of £250 to use as they fee fit (pay themselves, pay others, rehearsal space, props, etc.)

If you have any questions, please join us for our info session on Wednesday 9th 6pm.

🕢 DEADLINE Monday 21st September 9am
🎫 SCRATCH NIGHT Friday 13th November

More info on our website: https://vividrootscollective.co.uk/scratch-nights/

Two weeks ago our artist in residence Angela worked on her project about the Klondykers in the 1980s in Ullapool.

The week was filled with research and capturing recollections from everyday folks sharing their experiences of the Klondyker years.

And at the end Angela did a beautiful sharing of the work in progress! We can't wait to see where the project takes you! 🤩

This Wednesday at 6pm! 🙋

Join us for a relaxed session about the residency Lyth Arts Centre and if you have any questions, there will be a Q&A at the end.

More info about the residency and how to sign up to the info session on our website: https://vividrootscollective.co.uk/residency-programme/

💼 We're hiring! 👋

We're looking for theatre maker(s) to work on our new project 'Our Green Future'.

This new project is delivered with young people at Glen Urquhart High School. They will participate in devising workshops, exploring how they imagine their futures within the context of the climate crisis (if at all).

We are recruiting Highland-based theatre-makers to develop a new performance concept, based on the ideas explored by the participants, with the view to developing a performance to tour to secondary schools in the future.

ℹ Info session 6pm Wed,26th August
⏰ Deadline 9am, Thurs, 10th September

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us.

Thank you so much to everyone who joined our acting skills workshop with Steph Smart a couple of weeks ago 🥰

It was great fun and Inverness Town House was a spectacular space to work in.

Keep your eyes peeled for more workshops coming soon! 🌟

Join us next Friday for a sharing and conversation with our artist in residence's project in progress at Macphail Centre 🤩

It's free to attend and part of our second artist in residence programme!

Angela Stone will be sharing more about her project centred around the period of time in the 1980s when Ullapool was a major hub for the Klondykers (the herring/mackerel processing factory ships that anchored in Loch Broom during the Winter seasons).

🗓 7th August
🕔 2pm-3pm
📌 Macphail Centre

Book your free ticket now: https://events.humanitix.com/artist-in-residence-performance-sharing-free

Our next residency will be at Lyth Arts Centre 🤩

The residency will be for 5 days from Monday 7th November to Friday 11th November and will be supported by an industry mentor, who will be selected based on the nature of the resident artist’s practice.

ℹ Info session: Wednesday 19th August 6pm
🕚 Deadline: Monday 31st August 9am

👛 Artist Fee: £1,350 (2 weeks at £600, plus holiday pay)
💷 Development Budget £750 (materials and resources to support the residency)

More info on our website: https://vividrootscollective.co.uk/residency-programme/