Just A Little Longer

Just A Little Longer

13th & 14th March at 7pm

Acting Now - 47-51 Norfolk Street Cambridge

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‘Just A Little Longer’ is an original play devised  by LGBT+ young people in Cambridge in collaboration with LGBT+ charity The Kite Trust and directed by Acting Now director Marina Pallares.

We’re not just one issue, we’re made up of multiple issues that overlap. If we work together, we can make change happen.

Through a collection of stories, join us as we learn how to keep strong as a community and to smile even when we cry. We’re done with waiting. It’s our moment, it’s our escape, it’s our hope. All we want is just a little longer.

Date and Time:

7pm, Wednesday 13th March 2019
7pm, Thursday 14th March 2019

Location:
Acting Now
47 – 51 Norfolk Street
Cambridge,
CB1 2LD

BOOKING REQUIRED (Free booking with donations on the day of the event) - Get your tickets through our Eventbrite page or emailing us at hello@actingnow.co.uk

Refreshments and drinks on sale from The Box Café before the event. 

The Kite Trust
The Kite Trust is Cambridgeshire’s leading organisation working with LGBT+ young people. For 25 years the charity has proudly promoted the health, well-being, and inclusion of LGBT+ young people across Cambridgeshire; raising awareness, supporting, and educating the local community.

Acting Now
At Acting Now we believe theatre is a catalyst for social change and should be for anyone and everyone, not limited by gender, sexuality, physical ability, condition, language or background. Our projects use the language of theatre with disadvantaged groups of varying abilities to enable them to find their voices in a safe and encouraging environment. Throughout the workshops, we also build social and emotional skills, self-expression and self-esteem and address the stigma attached to certain conditions. The projects culminate in original theatre performances based on the stories that emerge from the group.

Marina Pallarès-Elias to take part at Zinegoak Film Festival

Raw Theatre workshop at Zinegoak Film Festival

Friday 15th February 2019

Bilbao, Spain

Acting Now’s director Marina Pallarès-Elias will participate at Bilbao’s International GayLesboTrans Film and Performing Arts Festival, Zinegoak.

On Friday 15th February and as part of the Festival side activities, Marina will offer a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop with a LGBTBIQ+ collective.  Together with the participants she will create a theatre piece about identity and diversity.

The Festival:

Bilbao’s International GayLesboTrans Film and Performing Arts Festival, Zinegoak, was conceived in 2004 as tool to raise awareness through culture, films and the performing arts.

Organized by Hegoak association, this annual event has become a benchmark of LGBT festivals internationally. It is held in February in the city of Bilbao, and in a large number of Basque towns in March.
Zinegoak presents over 100 scenic and audiovisual projects (feature films, short films, documentaries…), many of them awarded in different international competitions.

The Jury of the festival is composed of international audiovisual and/or LGTB connoisseurs and, each edition, Zinegoak Honorary Award is bestowed upon a LGTB filmmaking- related personality in recognition of their work or career path.
Zinegoak’s cultural program focuses on quality cinema and performing arts. Likewise, all related activities and events are based on and foster not only non-discrimination on grounds of affective bonds, sexuality or identity issues, but also the denunciation of recurring human rights violations throughout the world, while striving to increase visibility of new family models.
Previous editions of Zinegoak brought together over 10,000 spectators, with effects rippling through the Basque Country and beyond.

The festival is held in over a dozen spaces within the city of Bilbao, plus 30 additional venues in Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Araba.

Know more about Zinegoak

Raw Theatre, Acting Now’s own methodolgy, to be presented in Barcelona

Raw Theatre or Theatre of Yes Training.

The beauty of theatre working with people at risk of social exclusion.

Sat 2nd and 3rd March 2019 At CRA'P, Barcelona, Spain

Bookings

Acting Now director Marina Pallarès-Elias will present her methodology Raw Theatre for the first time in Barcelona, Spain.

In collaboration with CRA'P, she will offer a two-day workshop open to anyone in which it will be shown how by creating a provocative and emotional performance, we are able to transform the lives of people who suffer social exclusion.

Participants will discover how using Raw Theatre methodology, Physical Theatre techniques and the power of beauty as a language we can help to change stereotypes that people in situations of vulnerability are often confronted with.

Instead of developing a leafleting campaign to raise awareness of people suffering oppressive circumstances, Marina proposes the creation of an emotional performance from often hidden personal stories where the important result is collective catharsis between spectators and actors. In this work, hidden questions are answered and emotions and desires hitherto deprived of space to be shared are revealed.

We will reflect on these questions along the training sessions:
- Yet how can we create a high-quality performance with people who are not professional actors but have stories that should be shared?
- How can we use powerful performances as an axis of change?
- How can emotions be the motor for the struggle against the social oppression that many groups suffer?

Through years of creating plays with groups around the world, Marina Pallares-Elias has realized the importance of scenic quality as the axis of change to break stereotypes that people in situations of vulnerability are often confronted with. Instead of developing a leafleting campaign to raise awareness of people suffering oppressive circumstances, Marina proposes the creation of an emotional performance from often hidden personal stories where the important result is collective catharsis between spectators and actors. In this work, hidden questions are answered and emotions and desires hitherto deprived of space to be shared are revealed.
Raw means raw: raw meat, pure, frank, wounded, natural, fresh, not cooked, wild, clear and true. Raw is hard to see. Raw is not easy to find. Raw also means collective, looking at the wound for collective healing. Raw means connecting with emotions and with ourselves by taking off our daily masks and discovering our inner selves.

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Acting Now’s Marina to participate at Caius Diversity Day

Caius Diversity Day 
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge on 2nd February 2019

Marina will participate at Caius's first Diversity Day, an event which will aim to create a forum for discussion and understanding on a platform that will reduce the disconnect between culture societies, College spaces and members of the University that have not had the chance to navigate identity in either of these spaces.

The Forum Theatre workshop Marina will offer has been is designed to strengthen community activation and trust-building through interactive exercises developed from the fundamentals of creating Forum Theatre images. In this workshop, participants will explore community and personal issues using their storytelling and image building techniques and explore how different styles of presenting multiple perspectives can aid positive problem-solving.

Visit the event site here (Note that this event is now sold out).

If you are lucky to have ticket for this event we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Know more about Acting Now's Forum Theatre / Theatre of the Oppressed workshop in this video: