What’s On
PASSING: A Short Film by Jo Bannon
PASSING is the upcoming short film from Jo Bannon, produced by MAYK and commissioned by The Space. The film invites us to pay attention to the barely visible but highly choreographed ways in which we all perform, or pass, on stage and in everyday life.
Mayfest 2024
Join us from 17-26 May in experiencing playful and ambitious live performance from Bristol, the UK and beyond.
Confluence
Design: Marta Celio
Four artists explore the ever-changing landscape of Bristol city centre in new residency programme, Confluence.
Over the past few months, MAYK have been collaborating with Asmaa Jama, Ryan Convery-Moroney, Travis Alabanza, and Verity Standen – four exceptional artists with close relationships to Bristol – to bring together a weekend programme of performance, film, installation and photography that explores personal and universal experiences of the city.
Using Bristol’s rich musical heritage as inspiration, MAYK are building an ‘album’ of new ideas that each respond to questions of belonging, transience, social history and how we collectively understand and navigate the city around us. Join us in pressing play for the first time, and leave your mark on a collective vision for our city’s future.
This programme of events is free and open to the public, no tickets required. Opening times are Friday 6pm–9pm, Saturday 11am–6pm, and Sunday 11am–4pm.
Performance Schedule (Asmaa Jama and Verity Standen):
Friday: 6.45pm
Saturday: 12pm, 1pm, 3pm (3pm Asmaa Jama only)
Sunday: 12pm, 1pm, 3pm
Confluence is free.
Confluence is a MAYK project, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks – Redcliffe's newest student accommodation managed by Fresh.
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting | Horizon Showcase
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting asks you to connect with the subversive act of lying down. It’s about public rest and acts of bravery we don't see. About scaling the distances and depths of human connection. The piece is part verbatim theatre, part meditation on rest, gravity and connection.
Horizon Showcase
Horizon Showcase is an exciting week-long programme at Edinburgh Fringe Festival that highlights shows from nine stand-out artists and performance companies, created in England.
Artists on Working With Difficult Histories
Come and take part in a conversation with Artist Rachel Mars and writer, historian, programme-curator and performer Dr Edson Burton about their respective practices, and the way history and its remembrance plays out in their work
FORGE by Rachel Mars
In 2014 the 100kg iron 'welcome' gate was stolen from Dachau concentration camp. A local blacksmith forged a replica. It was exactly like the original. Almost.
Over three days artist Rachel Mars invites you to bear witness as she welds together another copy of the gate accompanied by Bristol-based sound artist Dinah Mullen who creates a live sound-scape in conversation with the action.
The Politics of Memorials – How We Shape Memory in Public Spaces
Join Professor Tim Cole (University of Bristol), artist, activist and elected representative Cleo Lake and sound artist, poet and writer Ralph Hoyte in a discussion about contemporary issues and questions relating to memorial, public space and the place of art interventions relating to difficult histories in Bristol, and the UK.
Sold out: Civilisation
An award-winning experiment in theatrical realism and contemporary dance by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart and Morgann Runacre-Temple.
Sold out: Civilisation
An award-winning experiment in theatrical realism and contemporary dance by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart and Morgann Runacre-Temple.
Horizon Showcase
A curated programme of ten visionary artists presenting vital, genre-defying performance created in England.
C’mon in, the water’s lovely
What is the climate cost of keeping me well?
What is the climate cost of disability justice?
How can we square this with the disproportionate harm done to disabled people by a warming world?
The first public sharing of a new collaboration between visual artist Aidan Moesby and theatre maker Daniel Bye.
Oh Mother | Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Following the award winning Three Sisters, RashDash and their mums explore having and becoming mothers.
Mayfest 2022 | Bristol
Bristol’s trailblazing international theatre festival returns for its first edition in four years.
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting | Theaterfestival Bern
An invitation to pause. To rest. To listen.
I was naked smelling of rain | Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
I was Naked, Smelling of Rain is a heartfelt, life affirming story-telling experience exploring absence, presence, loneliness and dis/connectedness through the lens of weather, climate change and wellbeing.
Demostage
Demostage is our informal, temporary space for those working on creative projects to share their idea, provocation or problem and receive suggestions, thoughts and feedback from an audience.
Open to people who make all kinds of creative projects (theatre, music, games, sound, or beyond), we want to encourage discussion, collaboration, and critical discourse.
Presenters get five minutes to share and then audience members ask questions and give suggestions, ask questions or give feedback. Inspired by software developers who meet up, drink and demo the programs they’re working on, it’s not a scratch night – it’s an informal event in a bar (and this time, our virtual bar) to share ideas, concepts and plans.
To submit an idea for sharing at Demostage, please fill in our submission form here.
Audience booking open soon.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
This event will be BSL interpreted
Demostage is a concept created by Dustin Harvey's Secret Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dustin very kindly open-sourced the idea for us and we debuted Demostage Bristol at Mayfest 2016. You can find out more about Secret Theatre here: xosecret.org
Event Five
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Event Four
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Event Three
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A Crash Course in Cloudspotting – Raquel Meseguer Zafe
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Event One
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