sport Jonathan Bonfiglio and Le Navet Bete will be visiting Gibraltar this September. Together they will be bringing us a different and innovative form of art possibly never seen in Gibraltar before.
La Navet Bete
Jonathan Bonfiglio
art in all its forms by Sonia Golt
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But for those of you who do not know who Jonathan is, let me enlighten you by saying he is a Gibraltarian from Catalan Bay who left at a very young age and has made a name for himself as a writer and producer currently based in Mexico. His most recent play, Tatchell, played at Oxfringe in April 2010. In May 2009, Midnight When Trumpets Cry opened at the Brighton Fringe and was later presented at the Latchmere (Theatre503) in October. He is now completing La Linea, in Spanish, and two novels, Acapulco Falls and Ghost Dog, a children’s book. As a producer, he works in northern Spain at various events, plus musical tours for artists in various countries, as well as being Creative Consultant to the Mexican artist and musicians association. In May 2010 he was described in Mexico’s La Jornada as being “one of the most groundbreaking producers of his generation” and in The News as “a Renaissance Man, tirelessly working to forge cultural bonds.” La Jornada de Mexico described him as “one of the most important British promoters of contemporary Mexican art”. In November 2010 — in association with Naim Rahal “El Libanes” Manzanilla — he will take over a hotel in the centre of Mexico City for a project focusing on memory, and in March next year he is leading a three-week scientific and artistic expedition to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific — the Clipperton Project. But despite his busy schedule he will still have time to visit his home town Gibraltar with another project, Le Navet Bete. Le Navet Bete is a company which thrives on high energy performances incorporating the imagination of all art forms. The actors on stage are trained in imagination, mime and animal movement studies. At their shows they use this training alongside clowning, acrobatic move-
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