Develop your creative idea at Mayfest – sign up for Demostage

Do you have a new creative idea that you need help with?

Demostage is an informal, temporary space for those working on creative projects to share their ideas and receive helpful feedback. The spring, MAYK and GIFT join forces for a special north-south online edition as part of Mayfest 2022.

Demostage is open to people who make all kinds of creative projects (theatre, music, games, sound and so on) and we want to encourage discussion, collaboration, and critical discourse.

Presenters get 5 minutes to discuss/share what they’ve been working on and then audience members ask questions and give feedback. Inspired by software developers who meet up, drink and demo the programs they’re working on, it’s not a scratch night – it’s an informal online event to share ideas, concepts and plans.

To submit an idea for sharing at Demostage, please fill in our submission form here. Submissions open until Sunday 8 May.

Everyone welcome.

Demostage takes place on Wednesday 25 May at 7.30pm on Zoom. 

Demostage is a concept created by Dustin Harvey's Secret Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dustin very kindly open-sourced the idea for us and we debuted Demostage Bristol at Mayfest 2016.  You can find out more about Secret Theatre at http://www.xosecret.org/.