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Vamos Theatre Emerging Artist Programme 2024 Mask Taster Session
Vamos Theatre Emerging Artist Programme 2024 Mask Taster Session

Vamos Theatre Emerging Artist Programme 2024 Mask Taster Session

Sat 15 Jun

Vamos Theatre is excited to be partnering with Landmark Theatres on its Vamos Emerging Artists programme 2024.

Vamos Theatre, the UK’s leading full mask theatre company, wants to train and inspire the next generation of 18-24-year-old mask performers from diverse communities across the UK, so are inviting you to take part in a mask taster session. Come and learn Vamos Theatre’s approach to mask work, creating physical character and devising non-verbal theatre that connects and moves audiences.

From the taster days, the company will bring together a group of emerging and early career artists for a FREE residency in summer 2024, held at 101 Outdoor Arts (near Newbury) 10 – 13 July 2024. The residency offers participants four days of intensive training, exploring how mask can work in outdoor performance, as well as on stage. We welcome everyone, and particularly deaf and disabled artists and artists from low socio-economic backgrounds and diverse ethnic backgrounds, to apply.

Vamos Theatre is an inclusive company; please let us know how we can make accessing this programme easier for you.

Partner venues for Vamos Emerging Artists 2024 are still in development and will be confirmed ASAP. Confirmed partners include:

• 101 Outdoor Arts, Newbury
• Key Theatre, Peterborough
• Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe
• University of Worcester
• University of York

About Vamos Theatre: Vamos Theatre is the UK’s leading full mask theatre company, supported using public funding by Arts Council England. We make wordless, humorous, human, and fearless work based on real life stories – our shows are created in consultation with members of the public who generously share their knowledge and experience with us. For more, visit www.vamostheatre.co.uk

  • The Landmark, Ilfracombe
  • Time: 12.00am

  • RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours (2pm – 5pm).

    CAPACITY: 10 spaces.

“It was incredible. I know it’s going to be a massive stepping stone for my future.”
Carden, Participant on Emerging Artist Programme 2023
"Magical, inspiring, quite frankly life changing."
Aadil, Participant on Emerging Artist Programme 2023
“An engaging, fun and confidence boosting crash course in mask and devising”
Charlotte - Emerging Artist Taster Workshop
'From the experience, mask theatre has opened a special place in my heart, and I think the theatre industry needs more of it!' 
Dan, Emerging Artist Class of 2022
Beauty and the Beast – North Devon’s Pantomime 2024

Beauty and the Beast – North Devon’s Pantomime 2024

Barnstaple’s biggest and brightest pantomime is back Thu 12 – Tue 31 Dec 2024.

Find out more