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Bristol Museums and Libraries have been working with Bedminster and Filwood organisations to capture and share community stories through a grant-funded Sharing Stories project. These stories are now available for everyone to discover in a whole host of exciting formats at Bedminster Library and Filwood Library over the next two months. The culmination of six …
We’d like to say a big thank you to all those who generously donated prizes to, and to all those who bought tickets to the Christmas raffle organised by acta Company. With your help, they raised over £500 which will go towards touring the production they’re currently working on, based on this history of Bedminster …
In this online seminar series, we have been hearing from Community Theatre practitioners from around the world and learning lessons from across our borders. For this seminar, we’ll hear from two practitioners who are migrants themselves, and now work here, predominantly with other migrants. Through sharing stories, strategies, and successes we hope that this free …
We are recruiting two community connectors for a short-term project in Bedminster, working for 13 days between June – October 2024 (flexible hours with key dates to be arranged with successful candidates) The role: The community connectors will be responsible for engaging members of the local community (Redcliffe and Bedminster) in sharing stories and taking …
This week, we are proud to be a part of The Big Give Arts for Impact match-funding campaign. All donations made, between midday 19th and midday 26th March, will be generously match-funded by New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture – meaning your gifts will go twice as far. The funds raised will be dedicated to …
Our associate director, Ingrid Jones, has recently been working with UWE Bristol and Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury to create a play from people’s ‘water stories’ – their experiences of Tewskesbury Floods, the good and the bad. This play – a drama piece about local water resilience and climate change, was been co-created with community members of Tewkesbury. It is a …
Elevate is a scheme run by acta and supported by The Singer Foundation and Arts Council England. It is aimed at community theatre practitioners and socially engaged artists who are interested in working with a specific community, and would like to develop their knowledge and practice of community and socially engaged theatre and arts practice. …
We’re taking a small rest between Wednesday 20th December 2023 and Thursday 4th January 2024. You are welcome to email us or call us and leave a voicemail in that time but please don’t anticipate a response until the New Year. We hope you’re able to take some time for yourself, too. Stay creative!
This newsletter was sent on 1st December 2023 to our newsletter subscribers. If you would like to be one of the first to hear acta news, please sign up to our newsletter here. Welcome to acta’s December 2023 newsletter. We can’t quite believe that this is the last month of 2023 – it certainly rushed …
The volunteers that run our Creative Wellbeing Café are taking a well-earned break over the Christmas period. The last session of 2023 will be Thursday 30th November, 10.30am – 2.30pm. The café will reopen on February 8th 2024 10.30am to 2.30pm, and we look forward to another year of creativity! We’re also looking for more …
acta is a registered charity and relies on the generous support of donors to continue our work making theatre each year. We are currently seeking additional donations for our wide ranging community theatre programme over the year ahead.
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