SEAS had two main centres in Gothenburg – a day-time venue and Info Centre in the Gothenburg City Museum and a night-time venue at Pustervik Theatre. In Alingsås the main site was on and around the square Lilla Torget. During a two day programme in Alingsås, the main square, Lilla Torget, was the site for [Read more...]
As with the SEAS Coastal event the shows, the management team and international technical team were spread across the three places, with the two Bulgarian projects, Fantomat and Suitcases appearing in both Helsingør (in Axeltorv, the main square) and Helsingborg (at Dunkers). Suitcases was felt by the Helsingør partners to have worked well (they described [Read more...]
During the event, DEPO (an art gallery) served as SEAS unofficial headquarters for internal meetings and project management as well as hosting Borderline and The Kiss and Waste Project. We decided to place Borderline indoors so it would not get lost in a city where mosques broadcast the call to prayer five times a day. [Read more...]
SEAS Costal was designed as a cross-border event. The plan was to move events between Varna and Balchik during the seven days of activity in Bulgaria – premiering in Varna and relocating one by one. Several events remained in Balchik throughout (such as Kiss and Waste and Underneath), while Sfumato’s workshop performance was shown first [Read more...]
We worked very closely with entrepreneurial, independent producers from Odessa’s alternative music and cultural events scene, especially with the DJ and performance collective Ukr.Tele.Kom (who worked with Hotel ProForma on Relief) and the venues Club Skraf and Exit Club who provided the link to the younger and emerging artists in the region who the institutions [Read more...]
Skegness International was lucky with the weather: there was plenty of sunshine and hardly any rain despite being deliberately scheduled in the autumn in order to extend the usual holiday season. The Skegness hotels reported an increase in off-season bookings during the event – one comment was “You can’t get a bed in Skegness – [Read more...]