archipelago arts collective newsletter

Thoughts for October: In Observation of Observation

In our first ever guest blog, Emma Nielsen - a recent Acting graduate of Leeds Conservatoire and performer based in Yorkshire - talks about her experience of observing our recent research and development of Shirley: An Awakening.

Thoughts for September: How it Feels to Make Impossible Things

In celebration of a year since we launched the film of our production, Mother of the Revolution, we are giving audiences the last opportunity to watch it for free this weekend, and celebrating Betty Beecroft and all it means to make the impossible happen.

Event Announcement: Makers in the Face of Doom

We’re so excited to announce Makers in the Face of Doom, an artists and communities event at Sheffield Theatres on Saturday 13th September, where we’ll be reckoning with some big questions...

Thoughts for July: Why ‘Feedback’ isn’t just noise

In revolt of an era of ‘we are unable to offer individual feedback’, we’re considering how we can all be better critical friends and champions for artists and their art.

Thoughts for June: What it is, isn’t and could be...

Right now, we’re on the precipice of a new project, Shirley: An Awakening, a radical gig-musical contemporary retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Shirley, and we’re back in the place where you have some idea, but by no means a complete vision, of where the work is going...

Thoughts for May: Cultural Capital (honesty about funding nos and why it won’t stop us sharing)

Beth and Seán talk about the honest impact of funding yeses or nos and how we want to take some power out of this hellscape. We also hear from artists Yolanda Mercy and Adam Z Robinson on their own processes of this too.

Thoughts for April: Showing our workings

For our first ever monthly look-ahead, archipelago arts collective co-directors Beth and Seán talk about why we’re wanting to show our workings.

Celebrating 5 Years of archipelago arts collective and launching our new website!

We’re so excited to mark 5 years of archipelago arts collective by launching our new website and celebrating all we, with our amazing teams of artists, participants and audiences have achieved over the last 5 years.

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Mother of the Revolution: The Film