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Arrival from 2.40pm.

Head to the Pace Building Mezz for programme info and sign- up sheets.

There will be a drinks reception on the Pace Mezzanine floor from 5:30-6 PM.

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Address:

PACE Building,Richmond Street, Leicester, LE2 7BQ

There is NO PARKING at the venue

Parking:

A list of public car parks can be found on the attached DMU Campus map

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A Festival of contemporary arts showcasing students' work created throughout the year. This multi-disciplined festival spans four courses offered here at De Montfort University: Performing Arts, Drama, Acting and Creative Writing.

GC X ES contains a wide range of performances such as intimate one on one experiences, installations and physical theatre performances.

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Most performances range from 10mins-30mins long except for durational pieces.

For specific performance times, please see the individual performance columns further through this padlet.

Further info

kerryn.wise@dmu.ac.uk

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*Open Audience*- means a set length work that you may be seated, standing or roaming. Please stay for the whole performance

*Limited Audience*- means this will involve booking on a sign-up sheet. Please note the time and place to attend your performance slot

*Durational Installation*- means throughout the duration of these works please revisit as many times as you like to observe the development

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Performers:

Ethan Rhys Daniels

Description:

Their fates are sealed, their souls are bound, all stories revealed, barely making a sound. Listen to their songs of beauty and pain, these wandering souls caught on this plane.

Whispering in truths; holding memories in curls, come those who hear the call, read their unearthly scrawl, and remember…the tales of the duppy

Location:

Rehearsal Room One (Bigger Breakout Room PACE 2)

Time:

3PM-8.30PM (Durational Installation)

Content Warnings:

Strong smells of hair product and food.

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Performers:

Vic

Description:

Hello, and welcome to my little home. This is the place where I feel the safest, the place where I run towards smiling, crying, laughing, screaming…

Location:

Campus Centre, Studio 2.17

Time:

4:30PM-4:45 PM, 6PM-6:15 PM and 7:20PM-7:35PM (15 min)

Audience:

One to one slots via sign up sheet across festival

Content Warnings:

Themes of mental health, substance abuse, grief.

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An Extract from Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (no water)

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An Extract from Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (no water)

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Performers:

Level 4 Acting Students

Description:

Pool (no water) is an ensemble piece that utilises physical theatre and text to explore an extract from Mark Ravenhill’s haunting play. It tells the tale of a group of artists who exploit their friend’s unfortunate accident for their own artistic gain, revealing themes of envy and betrayal.

Directed by Jo Gleave

Location:

PACE 1

Time:

3PM-3:40 PM (40 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Moments of flashing lights

Strong language

Discussions of violence

Mentions of cancer, HIV/AIDS

Scenes involving substance misuse

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Description:

A selection of spoken word pieces, written by BA Creative Writing students

Location:

PACE 2

Time:

4:30PM-4:50 PM

(20 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

None

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Performers:

Bexx Hill

Description:

“I wanted to live lightly on the earth, in harmony with all its rhythms, all my senses keen, my mind alive and my spirit awake”

Mother Earth will always prevail. She was here long before human life and will be here long after we're gone. Feel her presence, feel her love

Location:

Smaller Breakout Room PACE 2

Time:

4:30PM-8:00PM (Durational Installation)

Act 1: 4.30PM-5.30PM

Act 2: 6PM-6.45PM

Act 3: 7PM-8PM

Content Warnings:

Nude Mannequins

Fake drowning

Minor body horror (plants growing out of fake dead bodies)

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Performers:

Leah Naylor, Jack Colston and Raimi Amos Howell

Description:

A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by Tony Kushner based around the AIDS crisis in America in the 80s. In this piece we meet Joe and Louis, two lawyers from a New York court, and we see how their relationship develops.

Location:

PACE 1

Time:

4:55PM-5:05PM

(10 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Usage of food on stage

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Performers:

Jed Lester

Description:

Greetings! F.U.T.U.R.E Corp looks forward to welcoming you on a journey like no other...

Location:

PACE 1

Time:

6PM-6:10PM

(10 min)

Audience: Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Flashing Lights

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Performers:

Jamie Price and Lewis Bradbury

Description:

You’ve taken this route hundreds of times, but when was the last time you stopped to look up? When did you last stop to look at the world around you?

An exploration of what it means to be present.

Location:

PACE 2

Time:

6:15PM-6:35PM

(20 min)

Audience: Open Audience

Content Warnings:

None

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Performers:

Angel Dara, M Jamera, Ethan Rhys Daniels, Krissy Francis, Pamamady Njie, Shalom Kitamirike

Description:

The platform is biting and cold. Standing isolated, apart from the crowd, you hear the rumbling begin. The train approaches, lurching down it’s track, slowing to a halt. You board, segregated…until…

‘Is this seat taken?’

Location:

Queens Building

Time:

6.25PM-6:55PM

(30 Mins)

Audience:

Invited Audience Only

Content Warnings:

Themes of mental health issues

Depictions of depression

Depictions of assault and abuse

Graphic Imagery

Abuse

Hyper sexuality

Fetishisation

Abandonment

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Performers:

Festé Wilson, Jack Colston and Yuvraj Brahmbhatt

Description:

Originally written by Angela Carter, THE WEREWOLF is a short horror tale based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. This piece is designed to be an audio experience and is performed entirely through microphone, allowing you to fully immerse yourself within the horrors of your own twisted imagination

Location:

PACE 1

Time:

6:40PM-6:55PM

(15 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Loud Noises

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Performers:

Krissy Francis

Description:

Pregnancy and birth are beautiful things, as humans have the gift of creating new life.. But is it always beautiful? This performance explores the beauty of procreation and the female reproductive system; but also shares the struggles and pain it can bring. The thoughts and stories presented in this piece are from real women who shall remain anonymous.

This is a live art exhibition, audience members are free to move around the space and view the art and sculptures.

Location:

PACE 1

Time:

7:25PM-7:55PM

(30 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Depictions of female reproductive organs

Depictions of miscarriage

Loud, disturbing themes

Dirt and mud will be used on a dust sheet

This is a free-roam exhibition, but some chairs will be provided for those unable to stand

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Performers:

Olivia Keates, Lucy Powell, Jamie Price, Lewis Bradbury, Tilly Overton, Nat Dawson and Holli Pocklington

Description: I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. I shall willingly comply. All you have to do is comply.

Location:

PACE 2

Time:

8:00PM-8:30PM

(30 Mins)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Suicide, true crime, death, possible contact with audience, loud music, flashing lights

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Performers:

Aleeza: Host

Maddison Scully: Lip Sync

Leia Kelly: Dance

Ola Ahmed: Burlesque

Maddie: Host

Rose Obiri: Spoken Word

Aleeza Ditta: Dance

Leia Kelly: Song

Description:

No Refunds Cabaret presents a selection of spectacular entertainment. Showcasing dazzling drag, burlesque, stand-up and spoken word, these performances question who we are and what we believe.

Location:

PACE 2

Time:

3:45PM-4:00 PM and 5.15PM- 5.30PM

(15 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

Some mature content

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Performers:

Jerrell Tan Jien Wen, Callum Joel New and Lewis Sharrod

Description:

Ever waited so long, you completely forget what you were waiting for? Scratch that. Ever waited so long, you start to lose all sense of who you are? Forget that. Ever waited so long, the laws of the world stop functioning? ...Wait, what was I talking about again?

Location:

PACE 1

Time:

4:10PM-4:25 PM

(15 min)

Audience:

Open Audience

Content Warnings:

None

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Performers:

Sam Wright-Amis

Description:

This Performance is looking into different elements of religion. It will mainly look at Christian beliefs and religious rituals.

Location:

Smaller Breakout Room PACE 2

Time:

FOR ASSESSMENT ONLY

Audience:

Invite only

Content Warnings:

Breakdown of religious beliefs

Themes of mental health issues and disability

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3PM-8.30PM