Deaffest

Charlie Swinbourne will be co-leading a scriptwriting workshop for adults age 18+ at Deaffest on Saturday 18th May!

Charlie is an award-winning screenwriter and director who won an RTS Yorkshire Writer award for his sketch show Deaf Funny. Charlie’s credits also include the Four Deaf Yorkshiremen series, The Kiss and Found documentaries. As a screenwriter, he wrote half hour dramas My Song and Departure Lounge, as well as Hands Solo. Charlie is also a journalist and edits The Limping Chicken blog.

Need inspiration to turn your film idea into a script? Then visit here for more information about the workshop. There are limited places for this workshop so book your place by emailing jackie@zebra-access.com.

Handprint Theatre have been working with the popular children’s book Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray. They will be leading a family friendly theatre and storytelling workshop to explore and create your own adventure. Will the Moonbird take you to the stars, under the sea, through a forest, they look forward to seeing where your imagination takes you!

Suitable for ages 4-7. Deaf and hearing siblings welcome.   

The workshop will take place on Saturday 18th May at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from 10.00am to 12.45pm. For more information about this workshop visit here.

Vamos Theatre will be returning to Deaffest on Saturday 18th May with an exciting workshop Vamos Mask Performance Children’s Workshop.

Vamos Theatre is the UK’s leading full mask theatre company, taking its funny and fearless brand of wordless theatre across the length and breadth of the country and beyond since 2006.

Vamos Theatre’s trademark style marries full mask with strong visual design and an original soundtrack. They make accessible, humorous, human, and fearless work which is based on real life stories, and our productions are rooted strongly in social research.

They tour a full-scale mask theatre production throughout the UK annually, as well as performing at national and international festivals and events. They have a national network of over 100 venues that expands with each new production, including leading contemporary arts venues and festivals such as London International Mime Festival; Jacksons Lane, London; Jyväskylä Festival, Finland; Perigueux International Mime Festival, France; mac birmingham; Glastonbury Festival; and a wide range of regional production theatres.

The workshop is suitable for ages 8-12. For more information about this workshop please visit here.