This evening, the participants of friend will be sharing the piece they have worked on over the past 7 weeks with Gillie Kleiman, to a group of invited friends and family in their living room 💛#gift2024

TONIGHT 8pm In Floods Greg Wohead Gateshead Libraries. Drawing from the act of crying & his experience returning to rural America for his grandparents’ back-to-back funerals, he leans into TV tropes, plays fast & loose with the truth & deals recklessly with memories🎟🔗

Thank you GIFT Festival for being part of this amazing project, where I performed a dance in my house in front of a small group of invited friends. Thank you to those friends for coming to support me. Thank you to Gilllie and my fellow FRIEND performers. (1/2)

Festival Director, Kate Craddock interviewed in @theQTonline about the origins and progression of @giftfest. Subscribe to read in full #gift2024

Don’t forget it’s #gift2024 this weekend in #Gateshead. An array of live art, performances, workshops and more. Check it out 👇

TONIGHT at 5pm #gift2024 Navis is an extract from a work-in-progress, durational piece by Ziza and will be performed in the beautiful main space at St Mary's Heritage Centre. Tickets via link in bio🎟🔗

We wanted to say a BIG thank you to all of our wonderful artists, volunteers, participants, funders and staff for making this years GIFT a very special one 💛 📷 Von Fox Promotions

Do you work in or care for the forests in Gateshead? E.g a forester, ecologist, conservationist, tree planter, parks employee, administrator, volunteer or activist? Canadian artists Eric and Mia are making a film and would love to hear from you. 🔗 - giftfestival.co.uk/in-a-strange-p…

Calling all artists based in England, making world-class live performance! Applications for Here and Now 2025 are now open.Deadline: Mon 30 Sept 2024. Link in bio. BatterseaArtsCentre FABRIC @hn_showcase #HN2025 #PerformanceArtists #CallOut #Dance #Theatre #LiveArt

📢FREE EVENT. Thur 27 Jun at 6pm. Part book launch, part conversation, with performance of A Citizens' Assembly by Andy Smith and Lynsey O'Sullivan. Read more and reserve your space 👉bit.ly/4b8pvH2

Tickets are on sale now for Here & Now Showcase 2024! Here & Now 2024 features extraordinary artists making live performance in the UK today, spanning dance, drag, installation, multimedia, performance and sound. Tickets available at link in bio. #HN2024 #DANCE #THEATRE #LIVEART

📢 Calling all artists and lovers of dance. This Friday, Yewande 103 presents Many Lifetimes: A community of transforming solos, accompanied by live music from Bianca Wilson and Femi Oriogun-Williams. Fri 28 Jun, 7.30pm at Dance City 👉 bit.ly/4eCnOEx

21 - 25 Aug, 12.30 Pleasance Courtyard (Grand) Dickson Mbi summons multiple identities in this mesmerising solo performance inspired by a life-changing journey to his ancestral home in Cameroon. Book tickets 🎟- bit.ly/3W2BMZh

'First Trimester' is a one-of-a-kind durational experience exploring human connection and parenthood, challenging expectations and redefining what it means to create a family as a transgender person. Presenters and curators interested in this work👉bit.ly/3xJV5gC

You Heard Me is for anyone who's been told to shut up. It's a celebration of refusing to be silenced, of taking up space and of one woman's power to re-make, re-mould and disrupt. Book 🎟👉 bit.ly/3RRozzR Luca Rutherford ZOO BatterseaArtsCentre @Fabricdance GIFT Festival

'Distorted Constellations' is an immersive multi-sensory environment inspired by Nwando Ebizie’s mythic interpretation of the neurological syndrome, Visual Snow. This Afrofabulist alternate reality draws on immersive technologies and embodied ritual practice. 👉 bit.ly/3XO96Ey

Dandyism is a celebration of individuality and drive for visibility, embodying the raw and unrefined energy and expressive dynamism of diverse cultures from the African continent, presented through dance and theatre. Part of Fringe Fragments Dance Base Scotland 👉 bit.ly/4bx5VV2

Are you free on Thur 18 Jul? Come on down to Live Theatre for Luca Rutherford's Political Party at 7:30pm. Expect free drinks, snacks and the opportunity to egg a liberal hypocrite! Book tix 👉 bit.ly/4cWaXvj

Opening today, Olivier Award winning Dickson Mbi brings his incredible piece Enowate to Pleasance Courtyard. Not to be missed. 12.30pm. 21 - 25 Aug. Book tickets here 👉🏼 bit.ly/4fOSlzD