AUTUMN 2012
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
east.by.south.east
The Roddick Foundation
welcome After four years and eight programmes presenting the most ground-breaking contemporary performance from across the UK, Europe and beyond, we’re delighted to present our new look brochure. We wanted more emphasis on vibrant images, more space for words to intrigue and inform and more pages for our growing programme of performances, workshops, events and artists’ development work. You can also check out our new website at www.thebasement.uk.com More than ever, we’re working in partnership with organisations, locally, nationally and internationally: Reckless Sleepers seminal performance Schrödinger is presented in partnership with South East Dance at The Old Market Theatre. Our east.by.south.east project, a partnership of six performance venues across the East and South East regions, will present Under Construction, a packed day of works-in-progress. Fresh from his Olympian interventions, and presented in association with House, Richard Dedominici’s Popaganda will focus his satirical surrealism on global politics and pop culture. In December, the extraordinary, hilarious and provocative Still Standing You is presented in partnership with Campo in Belgium and Inbetween Time in Bristol. Other must-see events will be coming your way presented in partnership with Black History Month, Brighton Digital Festival, Brighton Photo Biennial, CineCity and The Space. Huge thanks to all our partners for helping us build such a rich and exciting programme this Autumn. After the great success of the recent workshop by New York’s seminal Elevator Repair Service, we bring you workshops from the sensational Stacy Makishi and Belgian / Portuguese duo Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido, two great opportunities for artists to get involved. So take the plunge this Autumn, and immerse yourself in a programme of sensational performance.
Helen Medland Artistic Director
film/PERFORMANCE/MUSIC Lighthouse and The Basement present:
BRIGHTON DIGITAL FESTIVAL CLOSING PERFORMANCE NIGHT Various Artists Brighton Digital Festival culminates with a bang and a fabulous array of performances to dazzle the senses. Expect the fantastic, the futuristic and the confounding in an evening of music, performance and audio-visual delights.
Sun 30th September 8pm (doors) Free
The evening will feature the uncanny robot orchestra of Brighton band, Space Dog, brainchild of Brighton’s award-winning composer, digital artist and roboticist, Sarah Angliss. Surely the only live band on the circuit to give equal billing to its human and robot performers, Spacedog’s highly original act has been embraced by audiences from folk clubs to esoteric electronica festivals, Steampunk nights to science museums. They will be joined by an array of other performers and artists who have been involved in making the festival happen. Brighton Digital Festival is a celebration of digital culture that takes place across the city for the whole month of September. With over 100 exhibitions, performances, meet-ups, workshops, outdoor events and big-ticket digital conferences, it’s Brighton’s fastest growing festival. Bringing internationally renowned artists and performers, together with cutting edge digital thinkers and makers, the festival acts as meeting place between art and technology. Brighton Digital Festival is run by members of Brighton’s arts and digital communities, administered by Wired Sussex in association with Lighthouse.
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Supported by Arts Council England
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Image: Melita Dennett
Image Credit: Cecilia Wee
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SUPPER CLUB Various Artists Hosted by pioneering performance artist and provocateur Richard Dedominici, Brighton’s most vibrant night of contemporary performance returns, poking its mischievous fingers into every atmospheric nook and cranny of The Basement. If you’ve never been, it’s time you tasted this rich concoction of the experimental, the eccentric and the intoxicating.
Sat 6th October 8.00pm (doors) £8 £6 Under 25’s/concs
Artists from across the UK present bite-sized chunks of performance, video art, interventions, installation and interactions. This month’s line up includes Hunt & Darton, Michael Pinchbeck, Catherine Hoffman, Yve Blake and Molly Naylor fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe. The evening will include our new Quickfire round - 15 smash ‘n grab nuggets of fearless performance.
QUICKFIRE WORKSHOP RICHARD DEDOMENICI In this free, day-long workshop for students/artists, Richard DeDominici will challenge and cajole participants to produce a 3-minute solo performance to be presented at Supper Club the following night. It’s a great opportunity to work with an anarchic and thought-provoking artist and perform at one of the most exciting contemporary performance nights in the country.
Fri 5th October 1.00pm - 7.00pm Free
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PERFORMANCE
POPAGANDA Richard DeDomenici Sit back and relax to the dulcet tones of Richard DeDomenici as he ham-fistedly attempts to destabilise global cultural hegemonies with a series of stupid audiovisual gags, songs that aren’t real, facts that aren’t funny, and jokes that don’t rhyme, in his new show Popaganda. A jetlagged litter-picker of the world’s cultural landfill, watch DeDomenici throw caution to the wind and western civilisation at the wall to see what sticks.
Thurs 11th October 7:30pm (doors) £7 £5 Under 25’s/concs
Like the Large Hadron Collider, Popaganda seeks to find new meaning through frenetic bombardment. Like a can of tomato soup Popaganda is condensed, easily digestible, and likely to stain. Richard DeDomenici’s work disturbs perceptions through humour and confrontation outside of normal cultural spaces, mixing conceptual art tactics with an irreverent pop sensibility. In 2011 he performed in Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam and Berlin. He was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Fellowship, nominated for the Jerwood Trust Moving Image Prize, and was an Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award finalist. Embarrassingly he lost all three. ‘Clever, tremendously funny, powerfully political, and unafraid to be accessible.’ The Herald www.dedomenici.com Director: Richard DeDomenici Sound: Richard DeDomenici Richard DeDomenici is an Artsadmin Associate artist. Popaganda is presented in association with House
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MUSIC/FILM/performance The Basement and Black History Month Present:
JUKEBOX FURY: CELEBRATE! Produced in partnership with African Night Fever and the Legacy Film Festival, CELEBRATE! is an exuberant, eclectic evening of music, film and performance, a packed evening reflecting the vibrant heritage of black culture and identity. Headlining the night will be the awesome Zimbaremabwe, led by Linos Wengara Magaya.
Fri 19th October 8:30pm (doors) £7 £5 Under 25’s/concs
Sitting somewhere between a guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig is the audiovisual medley of The Basement’s newest regular night - Jukebox Fury. Look out for cameo appearances, quirky music videos, eye-popping performances and more, with dancing until the curtain falls. To take part in the event, see Stacy Makishi’s workshop below.
Killing Time Workshop with Stacy Makishi If you want to take part in the celebration, show off a bit and have your mind expanded by a truly inspiring performer, join Stacy Makishi for a three-day workshop. Drawing inspiration from the 1970’s film genre Blaxploitation, here’s a workshop that gets down and feels the funk. Killing Time will explore identity in its full frontal glory. It’s open to anyone willing to try out new ideas and step into the unknown. The results of this workshop will be presented within JUKEBOX FURY: CELEBRATE!
Sat 13th, Sun 14th & FrI 19th october 1.00pm - 6.00pm FREE
‘Stacy Makishi is a master of mischief. She can draw out the creative juice from any situation in the most inspiring ways. She rocks!’ Shlomo To apply to take part in the workshop email: info@thebasement.uk.com www.stacymakishi.com
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performance/DANCE South East Dance and The Basement present:
SCHRÖDINGER Reckless Sleepers (UK / Belgium) Presented at The Old Market Theatre www.theoldmarket.com In 1933 Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantum Mechanics. He theorized a box in which a cat exists as living and dead at the same time. In 1998 Reckless Sleepers built that box – and now over a decade later, they are climbing back inside. In one of the company’s most celebrated performance pieces the impossible is probable, and truth and illusion are inseparable. Laws are made, bent and then broken. Schrödinger is a visually mesmerizing performance that sways between question and answer, chaos and order, what we can measure and what we cannot. Founded in 1989, Anglo-Belgian company Reckless Sleepers is a creative organisation dedicated to the production, presentation and development of innovative and experimental visual art and performance. Reckless Sleepers have produced many highly original performance pieces and created educational programmes for many groups including The National Museum of Scotland. They have a committed audience both in the UK and in Europe. ‘An alluring blend of philosophical richness and hypnotic visuals are used to explore giant concepts with a stylish lightness.****’ The Guardian www.southeastdance.org.uk
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Thurs 25th October 7.30pm (doors) £10 £8 Under 25’s/concs at The Old Market
Performed by: Mole Wetherell Leen Dewilde Alex Covell Leentje Van De Cruys Kevin Egan Production: Lisa Mattocks Jack Dale Neill Warhurst Artistic Director: Mole Wetherell Company Producer: Steve Slater Schrödinger is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Schrödinger is part of a development project called Entropy that supports the development of new work by new artists.
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Image Credit: Philpott design
PERFORMANCE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION a mini festival of new work Under Construction is a day-long platform featuring nine work-in-progress performances developed through the east.by.south.east project. This is a fantastic opportunity to see innovative contemporary performance in the making. The event is free and all are welcome to come and give their own opinions through the chaired discussions.
Sat 27th October Session 1: 2.00pm- 5:30pm Session 2: 7.00pm- 10:30pm FREE
The platform will feature works-in-progress by a host of the UK’s most exciting emergent artists. For a full list and details of artist’s presenting work, please see our website. east.by.south.east is a two-year Arts Council funded project that will develop and enrich the infrastructure for the creation, presentation and touring of live art and contemporary performance practices in the East and South-East regions. The project is a partnership between The Basement, Brighton; Colchester Arts Centre, The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury; The Junction, Cambridge; The Point, Eastleigh and The Showroom, Chichester. Both sessions are free to attend. Please note the events have a restricted capacity, so be sure to arrive promptly to avoid disappointment. This event will also be held at The Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury on Saturday 10th November 2012.
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PERFORMANCE
ALL THAT IS WRONG Ontroerend Goed Koba Ryckewaert is eighteen and she knows all sorts of things are wrong in the world. She just needs to get a grip on them. She’s better at writing than at talking, so she draws. On the floor. Starting with herself. No lover, so: Lonely. Loneliness brings boredom. Being bored can be solved with money, e.g. for a better computer. But the money’s not there: mother unemployed, due to: economic crisis. And what could she do to resolve it? Koba faces things alone, questioning herself, making choices, sticking to her guns in the midst of an internal storm. Belgian performance company Ontroerend Goed have become internationally renowned for their uncompromising and provocative works, drawing audiences into intense engagements, then ripping the rug from beneath their feet. Their works have received numerous awards and toured widely throughout the world. Winner of: 2012 Scotsman Fringe First Award ‘One of the most gripping, original and politically relevant pieces of theatre I have ever witnessed’ Three Weeks “Powerfully mesmeric” The Herald “A powerful body of work, capturing the changes through the teenage years with extraordinary precision and insight” Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre “Ontroerend Goed succeed in producing something that gets beneath your skin and eats away at your untapped despair towards the world. Chilling, if controlled, theatre.” Jake Orr, A Younger Theatre www.ontroerendgoed.be
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Thurs 1st November 7.30pm (doors) £9 £6 Under 25’s/ concs Written by: Koba Ryckewaert, Joeri Smet Rob Van Ertvelde, Sophie De Somere, Zach Hatch, Alexander Devriendt Text: Koba Ryckewaert Director: Alexander Devriendt Performers: Koba Ryckewaert, Zach Hatch Dramaturg: Joeri Smet Production & Lighting Design: Rob Van Ertvelde Design & Costumes: Sophie De Somere Sound Design: Jasper Taelemans Dramaturgical Advisor: Mieke Versyp Photograph: Naomi Ryckewaert Presented by: Ontroerend Goed, Laika, in co-production with Drum Theatre Plymouth & Richard Jordan Productions ltd. With the support of the Flemish community, the Province of EastFlanders & The City of Ghent
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PERFORMANCE/MUSIC/installation
SUPPER CLUB Various Artists Operating in the strange space between provincial beauty queen and performance artist, Victoria Melody IS Mrs. Brighton. Tonight she hosts an evening dedicated to and performed by women. Intelligent, feisty, at times a little demented, we raise our glasses to Pussy Riot and Dorothy Parker, Patti Smith and Emily Pankhurst.
Sat 3rd November 8.00pm (doors) £8 £6 Under 25’s/ concs
Supper Club is Brighton’s most vibrant night of contemporary performance, poking its mischievous fingers into every atmospheric nook and cranny of The Basement. Tonight’s rich concoction of experimental, eccentric and intoxicating performance includes Sabrina Mahfouz, Ultimate Dancer, Bunty and poetry from Lucy Ayrton. The evening will include our new Quickfire round - 15 smash‘n’grab nuggets of fearless performance. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then let the night unfold.
QUICKFIRE WORKSHOP VICTORIA MELODY In the second of our free, day-long workshop for students/ artists, Victoria Melody will challenge and cajole participants to produce a 3-minute solo performance to be presented at Supper Club the following night. It’s a great opportunity to work with a ballsy and humorous artist and perform at one of the most exciting contemporary performance nights in the country.
Fri 2nd November 1.00pm - 7.00pm Free
www.victoriamelody.co.uk To apply to take part in the workshop or to perform at Supper Club email: info@thebasement.uk.com
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DANCE/performance South East Dance and The Basement present:
A GESTURE THAT IS NOTHING BUT A THREAT Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz (Portugal) Infused with a mischievous spirit, A Gesture that is Nothing but a Threat is a hypnotic work of rapid verbal and physical repetitions, exploring how words, voices and sounds relate to the body. Created and performed by Portuguese artists Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, this playful and energetic piece was awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe in 2011. Since 2006, Sofia & Vítor have performed in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, England and The Netherlands. They are associate artists at Materiais Diversos and Espaço do Tempo. Sofia Dias studied dance in Lisbon and in New York. She has worked with Sofia Neuparth, Ronit Ziv/Companhia Instável, Javier de Frutos/C.I., Alias Compagnie/Guilherme Botelho, Lilia Mestre/Random Scream, Corinne Rochet/Co. Utilité Publique, Maria Ramos, Luís Guerra de Laocoi, Tânia Carvalho, Clara Andermatt and Marco Martins. She also develops the soundscapes for her performances. Vítor Roriz studied Sports in Porto and dance in Porto and Lisbon. He has worked with Paola Moreno, Bruno Dizien, Wim Vandekeybus/Última vez, Guilherme Botelho/Alias Compagnie, Lilia Mestre, Davis Freeman/Random Scream, Aldara Bizarro, Abraham Hurtado, Clara Andermatt and Marco Martins. www.southeastdance.org.uk
Thurs 8th November 7.30pm (doors) £8 £6 Under 25’s/concs Direction, performance and text: Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz Sound: Sofia Dias Artistic collaboration: Catarina Dias Costumes: Lara Torres Technical direction and lighting design: Nuno Borda d’Água Co-production: Box Nova CCB, O Espaço do Tempo, CDCE Partners: Alkantara, ACCCA, O Rumo do Fumo, Negócio/ZDB, Bains Connective Touring: Materiais Diversos Acknowledgements: Pietro Romani, Maria Ramos, Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, André Pires Calvário, Cláudia Mateus Funded by Governo de Portugal/Secretário de Estado da Cultura – DG Artes
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Photo: Lucian Renitsa
CINECITY WEEKENDER
MUSIC/FILM
CINECITY returns for its 10th edition (15th November 2nd December) presenting the best in international cinema and a mix of premieres, previews, installations, archive treasures, retrospectives, free education screenings and events. The full programme is announced towards the end of October.
The Basement and CINECITY Present:
JUKEBOX FURY: ZOOM LENS CINECITY and The Basement present an evening of sound and vision dedicated to JG Ballard. Renowned for his dystopian depictions of the near future, JG Ballard presented a vision of an urban landscape that warps the human psyche.
Fri 23rd November 8:30pm (doors) £7 £5 Under 25’s/conCs (inc. Duke of York’s members)
Featuring live bands, soundtracks and film the night will include a screening of CRASH! made in 1971 by Ballard, Harley Cokliss and Gabrielle Drake. Also featured will be Vanishing Point, by Chris Dobrowolski & Leslie Hill - a video trail of vast landscapes and catastrophic incidents, screened in a series of miniature makeshift cinemas fashioned from toys and found objects. Jukebox Fury sits somewhere between a guerrilla cinema and pop-up gig. Throughout this audiovisual medley look out for cameo appearances, quirky music videos, eye-popping performances and more, with dancing until the curtain falls. www.cine-city.co.uk
Vanishing Point is a Live Art Collective East commission www.liveartcollectiveeast.com
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CINECITY WEEKENdER POP UP CINEMA
FILM
To mark their 10th birthday CINECITY returns to The Basement with another pop-up cinema, for one weekend only! Highlights include: Hit Me With Music (Miguel Galofre) An infectious documentary, exploring the Jamaican dancehall explosion. As well as the music and an interview with the pioneering Yellowman, there is lots of dancing from the acrobatic and the surreal to the downright filthy.
Sat 24th – Sun 25th November TIME TBC check www.cine-city.co.uk for details £6 £4 concs (inc. Duke of York’s members)
Grandma Lo-Fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigridur Nielsdottir (Kristin Bjork Kristjansdottir) A charming portrait of a Danish woman who discovered music at the age of 70, producing a stream of albums recorded on a hi-fi in her kitchen. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard) The final three installments in this series of 14 films. A compelling collage of famous and unknown individuals talking about what the music of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds means to them.
+MIX NYC
Experimental queer film from New York’s longest-running LGBTQ film festival. MIX NYC promotes experimental media rooted in the lives, politics and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. Two programmes of queer short films bring MIX’s daring and transformative vision to CINECITY.
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Sat 24th November TIME TBC See www.cine-city.co.uk £6 £4 concS (inc. Duke of York’s members)
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Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard)
performance
The Shit/La Merda Silvia Gallerano/Cristian Ceresoli A “young” and “ugly” and naked woman reveals her bulimic, revolting and public secrets as she struggles with obstinacy, resistance and apathy for her own celebrity breakthrough in the society of thighs and liberty.
WED 28th –thu 29th November 7:30pm (doors) £8 £6 Under 25’s/conCs
An actress of untamed talent, Silvia Gallerano, creates a physical and vocal mask challenging a provocative, scandalous and beastly literary score written by Cristian Ceresoli where words might be sung, howled and shrieked but a chant never emerges. In her naked physicality she tells a personal story in an unbroken flow of thoughts/words rendered as sounds and movement. The deafening screams being choked. Appeased. Imploded. This female onstage offers herself up in a feast, ready to be torn apart by anyone. A poetic piece born of the flesh that returns to the flesh, captured in a tightly-sealed aesthetic. Applause required. Fringe First Award 2012 Arches Brick Award 2012 Total Theatre Awards 2012 - Nomination Fringe Sell Out Show 2012 “The Sh*t at Summerhall - a piece so literally and metaphorically naked, raw and angry that you leave the theatre feeling as if you’ve had all your skin scraped off.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian “You’ll leave feeling Italy’s anger in your bones.” Laureen Paxman - MUST SEE!, The Stage “Truly shocking and brilliant.” Graeme Strachan ★★★★★ British Theatre Guide
www.cristianceresoli.it
Lighting Design: Alessio Rongione Technical direction: Inti Nilan Exectutive Director: Marta Ceresoli Acting Director: Silvia Galleranoe A Production by: Cristian Ceresoli and Marta Ceresoli Dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification With the Support of The Basement, Brighton and The Italian Cultural Institute of Libya
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PERFORMANCE/MUSIC/installation
SUPPER CLUB Various Artists Boxer, bull-fighter and ballet-dancer Ivan Fabrega hosts a night of unpredictable pre-Christmas shenanigans. Brighton’s most vibrant night of contemporary performance serves up another feast of the experimental, the eccentric and the intoxicating.
Sat 1st December 8.00pm (doors) £8 £6 Under 25’s/concs
Artists from across the UK present bite-sized chunks of performance, video art, interventions, installation and interactions. This month’s programme features Jo Bannon, Foxy, and ICHIFACE - essentially a game of facial bingo. We’ll also be featuring short films in our camper van cinema. The evening will include our new Quickfire round - 15 smash ‘n grab nuggets of fearless performance. Supper Club is The Basement’s signature dish, a sociable night of intriguing events and odd encounters.
QUICKFIRE WORKSHOP IVAN FABREGA Our final free day-long workshop this season will be hosted by Ivan Fabrega. Ivan will challenge and cajole participants to produce a 3-minute solo performance to be presented at Supper Club the following night. It’s a great opportunity to work with a daring and inventive artist and perform at one of the most exciting contemporary performance nights in the country.
Fri 30th November 1.00pm - 7.00pm Free
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Image: Ray Gibson
Image: Anna van Kooij
PERFORMANCE
STILL STANDING YOU Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido / CAMPO (Belgium / Portugal) Still Standing You offers a supremely direct and strangely subversive glimpse into the relationship between two performers. With a dance idiom entirely their own they shamelessly seek out what they mean to each other. Are they friends, partners, lovers, rivals or even enemies? Their only instruments are their bodies, the intensity of their boyish friendship and the ability to combine anger and love in one all-encompassing embrace.
wed 5th December 7:30pm (doors) £8 £6 Under 25’s/concs
Still Standing You, the second duet of Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido, premiered in 2010 in Leuven (BE) and has toured widely around the world. Pieter Ampe studied at SEAD (Salzburg) and P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels). He has collaborated with choreographers and performers including Jan Decorte, Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn, Roland Seidel and Anne Juren. A Coming Community, made with Guilherme Garrido, Nuno Lucas and Hermann Heisig, premiered in the 2012 edition of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. Guilherme Garrido has worked as a dancer with Maria Clara Villa-Lobos, Ibrahim Quraishi and Tommy Noonan. He premiered his first solo work, Go John, in 2011 at Fresh Festival, BUDA (Kortrijk, BE) and in 2012 he premiered Best Beast, his first group piece as choreographer in HAU (Berlin, DE). See page 36 for details of the participatory workshop, to be presented by Guilherme Garrido.
Choreography & Dance: Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido Dramaturgy: Rita Natálio Produced by: CAMPO Co-produced by: STUK, Leuven (B) & Buda, Kortrijk (B) Artistic Residency: Espaço Alkantara Outside eye: Louise Van den Eede Presented in partnership with In Between Time, Bristol Pieter Ampe is artist in residence at CAMPO
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JUBILEE SQUARE
exhibition
This Autumn, in Jubilee Square, Brighton Photo Biennial, in partnership with The Basement, presents a stunning installation of photographic works, exploring the social histories of Brighton’s streets.
‘whosE streetS? photos from the argus archive.’ Photoworks / The Argus For Brighton Photo Biennial, Photoworks is working with photojournalists at Brighton’s local newspaper, The Argus, gathering images from their archives, revealing Brighton’s rich history as a contested political space.
8th October - 4th November free
Images feature events from the 1970s to the present, including anti-government, Poll Tax and TUC protests, CND marches and more recent protests against education funding cuts and even an anti-Nudist Beach campaign. Responding to recent efforts to politically re-imagine urban space through social and civic uses, BPB12 presents photography and imagery generated by professional photographers and the public at large; grassroots activism and media spectacle; established names and recent finds; contemporary work and older photographic practices At the core of BPB12 is a concern with the possibilities of photography as both a tool and a process: a means of understanding the world, and an active force in shaping it.
www.bpb.org.uk www.theargus.co.uk www.photoworks.org.uk
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JUBILEE SQUARE
exhibition
Also this Autumn, in Jubilee Square, in partnership with CineCity, The Basement presents a stunning installation of photographic stills, capturing Brightonians and hidden details of the city from the 1947 film Brighton Rock.
brighton rock unseen CineCity CineCity presents a series of stills from a key scene in Brighton’s cinematic history: Fred Hale’s run to the Palace Pier in the 1947 film Brighton Rock. Shot by Harry Waxman using hidden cameras, the real and fictional collide as Brightonians are captured going about their business as Fred runs for his life through the city.
6th November - 7th December free
These still images from the classic 1947 film noir, place the bystanders centre stage, revealing hidden details behind one of the country’s best loved crime thrillers, the film that put Brighton on the movie map. CINECITY is a partnership between the Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Screen Archive South East and the University of Brighton. They deliver a year-round programme of film and moving image events, screenings and exhibitions and annually present CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival, the region’s major celebration of film. Festival patrons include Nick Cave, Paddy Considine, Steve Coogan, John Hillcoat and Henry Normal. CINECITY celebrates the 10th edition of the festival in November 2012 with the very best in international cinema and a global mix of premieres and previews, artists’ cinema and installations, treasures from the archive, retrospectives, free education screenings and events, talks and debates. www.cine-city.co.uk Courtesy of Studiocanal Films Ltd.
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WORKSHOPS Stacy Makishi The Big Kahuna - A MasterClass in learning to love your fears sat 20th - sun 21st October
£35
1.00pm - 6.00pm
Stacy Makishi, mischief maker, agent provocateur and workshop leader of international renown is coming to Brighton to help you surf ‘The Big Kahuna’. What is your dream performance? How does anxiety block your aliveness? This masterclass will help you back on the surf board and back into your ‘flow’. The workshop combines practical skills and methods to help artists breakthrough creative blocks. This carefully crafted workshop will guide participants through their anxiety and reconnect them to their ‘aliveness’. www.stacymakishi.com
Guilherme Garrido collective effervescence wed 5th december
£15
1.00pm - 5.00pm
The Basement invites dancers, performers and artists from across artistic disciplines to create new one-off performance work with European dance iconoclast Guilherme Garrido. Stealing ideas and approaches from dance, architecture, theatre and engineering, participants will explore how a group structure comes together. Create an ensemble, a choreography, a shared body language. You will celebrate heroic deeds, big adventures and common goals to portray the epic in each of you. “One for all and all for one”. To apply for the workshops email: info@thebasement.uk.com
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Other events… drifter Presents Sam Baker Support - Josh Harty Thu 18th Oct
7.30pm
MUSIC
£12 in Adv + booking fee
Imagine Steve Earle, Shane MacGowan and Johnny Cash jamming in a back street Texas bar when in come Nick Cave and the spirit of Townes Van Zandt.
www.wegottickets.com/event/165116
The SPACE Presents
DAVID ABRAHAM & DAVID WARNER Hosted by Lisa Holloway Thu 25th Oct 7.00pm Earlybird £8.50, £10 from 4th Oct Reminiscences and conversation from high profile media personalities www.thespace.uk.com
Police Dog Hogan Fri 2nd Nov
7.30pm
MUSIC £8/£6 concessions
High-energy seven-piece Police Dog Hogan return to The Basement with tracks from their new album, From the Land of Miracles, as well as YouTube hits such as Shitty White Wine and Tuned In.
www.policedoghogan.com
@policedoghogan
The SPACE Presents
JON PLOWMAN & DEBORAH NADOOLMAN LANDIS Hosted by Briggy Smale Tue 6th Nov 7.00pm Earlybird £8.50, £10 from 16th Oct More reminiscences and conversation from high profile media personalities. Sponsored by Brighton Film School www.thespace.uk.com
melting vinyl Presents
MUSIC
Micah P Hinson Sat 10th Nov
7.30pm
£12 adv / £14 door
Drenched in strings and desolation and inspired by the political changes in his native America, Hinson’s performances combine instrumental beauty and words of brutal wisdom. www.meltingvinyl.co.uk - www.ticketweb.co.uk
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Image Credit: Delia Spataraenu
THE BASEMENT COMMISSIONS Supported by The Roddick Foundation The Basement is delighted to announce its first commissions of new works by outstanding and innovative artists working in contemporary performance. The commissions are supported by The Roddick Foundation. As well as a financial contribution to their development, these works will be supported with dramaturgical guidance, space and technical resources.
Rachel Mars
The Way You Tell Them The Way You Tell Them will explore what it means to be funny, why performers and ‘real’ people often hide behind laughter, and what confronts us when humour is suddenly stripped away. In preparation for this ‘stand-up theatre’ Rachel Mars has been interviewing comedians, reading academic tomes of ‘humour theory’ and recalling the way humour and tragedy were often closely linked in her own family background. Rachel Mars is a performance maker with a background in theatre, live art and comedy. She creates performances that are funny, intimate, rude and sometimes heart-breaking. ‘Brought up in a Jewish family with a disregard for personal space or tactful enquiry, Rachel’s work explores the idiosyncratic constructs that surround our social interactions, forcing a deeper examination of cultural habits. She does this with humor and intelligence, looking at the bizarre and surprising nature of human connection and identity.’ The Unobserved Online Radio Magazine www.rachelmars.org
Touch and Meet A volcano perpetually erases its own history Taking events of seismic and global scale as metaphors for personal disruption A volcano perpetually erases its own history tells the story of a pilot grounded in Iceland during the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. Touch and Meet is a collaboration between Rachael Clerke and Josephine Joy. They use lo-fi props to recreate gigantic events, and gigantic events to illuminate small lives with pathos and a deep sense of life’s absurdity. The company met in 2009 whilst studying theatre at Dartington College of Arts. They aim to make challenging yet accessible devised theatre and performance that responds to the world around us. They are interested in the space between laughing and crying; awkward pauses and absurdity. www.touchandmeet.com
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RESIDENCIES The Basement is committed to supporting the development of new work by artists from across the UK. Residencies allow artists to spend time in our rehearsal spaces, providing them with a focused and critical context where they can develop their works and enrich their practice. Our residency programme is part of east.by.south.east, a 2-year Arts Council funded project designed to develop the infrastructure for the creation, presentation and touring of live art and contemporary performance practices in the East and South-East regions.
Residences June - December 2012 Jenna Watt
www.jennawatt.co.uk
@thejennawatt
Verity Standen www.veritystanden.co.uk Francesca Millican- Slater http://francescamillicanslater.wordpress.com/ Emma Bennett http://unwieldyword.blogspot.co.uk/ Berlin Nevada www.silviamercuriali.com Patternfight Performance
www.patternfightperformance.com @Patternfight
Greg Wohead
http://gregwohead.com
Sean Gittins
www.seangittins.co.uk
@gregwohead @sean_gittins
Cristian Ceresoli & Silvia Gallerano www.cristianceresoli.it
@crisceresoli
Jo Bannon
www.jobannon.co.uk
@miss jobannon
Sh!t Theatre
http://shittheatre.blogspot.co.uk @shittheatre
There There Theatre www.theretherecompany.com Bunty
www.buntyvoid.com @buntylooping
Sylvia Rimat
www.sylviarimat.com @sylviarimat
Christopher Brett Bailey
www.christopherbrettbailey.com
@ct_bailey
Martha Brown
For more information on The Basement’s residency programme, contact abby@thebasement.uk.com
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VENUE AND Hire The Basement is available for private and corporate hire 7 days a week. A unique venue in Brighton’s central North Laine district, close to Brighton Station, our adaptable and atmospheric space can be used for all kinds of events ranging from business conferences and meetings to corporate entertainment, parties and music gigs. We also offer full event support including sound and lighting, friendly and professional front of house, catering and bar staff, and bespoke event management. The Space • 200 capacity • 25m x 8m • A wide range of seating options and space configurations • Theatrical lighting, sound and projection facilities • Ideal for events, promotions, parties and seminars
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