For our final PILOT Night of 2016 we landed in a new venue, the beautifully restored Stirchley Baths. The event was part of Arts SOAK festival and Play More co-piloted the event curating an eclectic mix of performances from some of the UK’s most exciting theatre companies.
Photos courtesy of Graeme Braidwood
Sebastian H-W – Chokolatl
Chokolatl is a performance lecture exploring my bittersweet relationship to hot chocolate. Part one-man-stand-up, part live cooking show, part confessional live art, It’s a show about roots, impersonation, loneliness and sacrifice: How can we find the grains of truth in our ever revolving mill of memories?
Chokolatl is currently being supported by CASA Latin American Theatre Festival and First Foods Artists Residence.
sebastianhw.info
@SebastnHW
#Chokolatl
Susie Sillett – The Cost of Money
Is love of money the root of all evil? Does it make the world go round? Is this a rich (wo)man’s world? Does it even exist?
Susie Sillett sets out to explore how and why we use money, in an attempt to understand the ways it has become central to human worth and the valuation of all things.
susiesillett.com
@SusieSillett
#costofmoney
Nathan Birkinshaw- KANYE WEST.
Nathan Birkinshaw is an artist who likes to look at our collective present culture and what it means to be alive today. A lecture performance on: How do you really know if you are the voice of your generation?
Is it because your mother told you that you’re special?
Can you just decide it?
Who’s going to stop you when you realize?
A work-in-progress about artists, narcissism and the future of creating work. Contains nudity and a few swear words.
Previously supported by Furnace: Scratch at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
www.nathanbirkinshaw.com
@NathBirkinshaw
www.facebook.com/Nathan Birkinshaw
Sinéad Brady – What would Milandra do?
Sinéad is a theatre maker and performance artist from Coventry. She graduated from Bristol University in 2012 with a Drama and Spanish BA (Hons) and has since performed at a number of events from Bristol right the way through to Spain, where she lived until 2015.
Back at home in the West Midlands, she is delighted to be giving you an insight into her alter-ego through her performance of What would Milandra do?
@SineadRoseBrady
Major Labia – Major Labia
Major Labia are a comedy collective of witty women. Graduates of the BAFTA-winning Television Workshop, the group has strong improvisational skills, and their approach to exploring representation is more raucous than righteous. Major Labia are here to offer an amusing look at society’s treatment of women, and are convinced that their sketch using Lady Macbeth’s ‘Out damned spot’ speech to villify tampon tax, was the sole cause of Call Me Dave’s recent arrival of humanity on the issue.
@major_labia
#majorlabia
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Venue: Stirchley Baths
Stirchley Baths is a newly opened community hub in restored Edwardian Swimming baths.
Art SOAK:
Art SOAK festival is produced by Arts Forum Selly Oak & aims to give local residents an opportunity to immerse themselves in the local arts scene with performances, workshops & creative walks throughout the Selly Oak district. 2016 will be the 5th Art SOAK.
https://artsforumsellyoak.wordpress.com/
Co-Pilot: Play More
Birmingham based arts collective, Play More, create subversive, playful and humorous experiences in non-theatre spaces to encourage people to get involved and play, more. They have delivered work in factories, pubs, city squares and music festivals with previous partners including the mac, Birmingham Hippodrome and Birmingham University. They like immersive and exploratory performance, working in unusual spaces and exploring the space between performance, spectacle and game.
PILOT Nights is funded by Arts Council England and The Sir Barry Jackson Trust.
