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Manipulate Festival: Open Studio - Dusk Till Dawn

This intimate Open Studio brings drama on the small scale: a plant surviving a storm, a moth using celestial navigation to find its way, a barn owl quietly hunting for prey.

Manipulate Festival: Open Studio - Dusk Till Dawn

About Manipulate Festival: Open Studio - Dusk Till Dawn

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Colour slowly fades from the world, and the moon bathes everything in blue. What inherits the world as we sleep?

Roam through a beautiful, eerie and visual world, where nature has taken hold. Inspired by the camera-less photographic technique of cyanotype and playing with shadow-puppetry, brush up against nocturnal creatures, fungi, plants and natural forces.

This intimate Open Studio brings drama on the small scale: a plant surviving a storm, a moth using celestial navigation to find its way, a barn owl quietly hunting for prey. Unfamiliar shapes gather as the darkness draws in.

Through our Open Studio programme, Manipulate Festival is supporting Scottish artists at a critical juncture in their practice to develop new projects and new ways of working. We invite audiences to join us for this experimental sharing at the end of a week of creative research and development.

In the Open Studio session, audiences can explore some of the ideas developed by the artists and ask questions, alongside opportunities to try out materials and techniques that the artists have used in their research process. Through the programme we aim to bring artists and audiences closer together and to de-mystify the process of creating new performance works.

The way the work is presented to audiences may change and more details will be announced closer to the Festival as the artists’ plans evolve.

More details of this event will be announced soon.

Touch and sound will be heightened in the work, with lowered lighting. Please get in touch with us at info@manipulatearts.co.uk with any questions.

Credits:
Hopeful Monster is an ensemble working collaboratively to create playful visual theatre inspired by the natural world and informed by science. Our work is mainly non-verbal and finds joy in moments of transformation. In evolutionary theory, a ‘hopeful monster’ is what you get when a sudden genetic mutation produces a radically new organism. Like our namesake we aim to create work that is weird and wonderful. Our debut show Hopeful Monsters has toured to puppetry and visual theatre festivals in the UK and internationally including being selected for the prestigious world puppet festival FMTM in 2023.

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