After three wonderful years above St Nicholas Market with Stand+Stare, Interval, Bristol Circus City and Bristol Pound, we've moved across to the Bristol Festivals Hub on Unity Street.

As the Can You Hear Me Now process picks up speed, we thought it'd be interesting to share some of the exchanges between Bristol, Kigali and Kampala. Here's an email from Caroline Williams to Brian Geza (in Kigali) and Sarafina Muhawenimana (Kampala) following our session on Tuesday where we tried for ages to establish a three-way Skype.

I’m sitting in the rehearsal room for Can You Hear Me Now, our East Africa Arts project where young people in Bristol, Kampala and Kigali are collaborating to make a performance in each city that is linked through digital technology (developed by the brilliant Tim Kindberg).

MAYK receives four-year funding from Arts Council England through its National Portfolio programme.

Are you a young person (aged 15 to 21) who would be excited to be in a new live performance  performed in three cities simultaneously? Check out our call for participants.

On 26th January we hosted Demostage at the Tobacco Factory Theatres Bar. We were joined by five artists who presented ideas at various stages of development in front of an audience who lent critical and responsive ears.

Firebird Theatre are a company of sixteen disabled actors, ranging in age from 22 to 70. Their new show A Spark and a Beating Heart tells their stories, intertwined with the myth of the firebird.

Just after Christmas, we spent a day with Firebird and photographers Paul Blakemore and Jack Offord taking a series of portraits of this unique company. 

Immersive theatre, choreographed construction cranes, and streetlights that interact with passersby. A new kind of creative experience has emerged from Bristol's PMStudio fusing performance, sculpture and installation with technology. Innovative projects like these require a new kind of creative producer. Watershed and UWE have designed a new Creative Producing MA which is 50/50 practical and analytical. We've teamed up with producers across Bristol who will host MA students during the course. And we're a placement partner on it!