Sep-Dec
Sep '16
Northern Powerhouse 2065
FACT & Re-Dock presented a touring exhibition of their interactive text adventure game, created with young people across the Northwest. This touring exhibition featured user-generated objects or 'artefakes' produced in the game, and brought into the physical world.
Artist/Company: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) & Re-Dock
Location(s): Eccleston Library, St Helens Central Library
Dates: 28th September - 30th November
Other Information: Exhibition. Digital art.
Oct '16
World Mental Health Day 2016
Audiences joined various artists at St Helens Central Library for a range of performances, visual arts and music, to celebrate the ways in which creativity helps those with mental health challenges, and to de-stigmatise some misconceptions around mental health.
Artist/Company: Creative Space, Alef Trust, Sharon Mutch, Olly Ford, Grand National Chorus, Open Mic
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 10th October
Other Information: Mental Health. Theatre Performance, Visual Arts, Music
Headz
20 Stories High Theatre Company returned to St Helens Central Library with a fantastic trio of monologues that offered gritty, challenging, and humorous insights into the lives of a diverse cast of young people.
Artist/Company: 20 Stories High Theatre Company
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 14th October
Other Information: Theatre Performance. Stop Hate Crime initiative.
The Secret Life of Mia
Combining promenade, site-specific, movement and audio, this immersive and intimate piece of performance took audiences on a journey through the streets, and deep into a story of the women starving themselves for beauty.
Artist/Company: La Banshee, Amandine Vincent
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 18th - 26th October
Other Information: Theatre Performance.
Romeo and Juliet
Commemorating 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, The Pantaloons re-imagined Romeo and Juliet with a fresh new twist! A delightfully inventive performance featuring live music, audience interaction, and the bit with the balcony.
Artist/Company: The Pantaloons
Location(s): Newton-le-Willows Library
Dates: 27th October
Other Information: Theatre Performance. Family Friendly Event.
Nov '16
Scandinavia Has Been Good to Me
The world is a mess; the nation is in a state and a good friend has disappeared. Audiences joined transgender detective extraordinaire Mandy Romero, as she tried to make sense of it all. Is there a better place? Is it somewhere you can get to by walking? What's rave got to do with it? Or Japanese poetry for that matter?
Artist/Company: Mandy Romero
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 17th November
Other Information: Theatre Performance. Presented as part of Homotopia 2016.
Dec '16
Disability for Dunces
Award-winning comedian Lost Voice Guy gets asked lots of bizarre questions as a disabled person. Now the BBC New Comedy Award Winner answers them all for audiences in this brand-new show. Audiences were invited to consider this show as a disabled FAQ for stupid people.
Artist/Company: Lost Voice Guy
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 2nd December
Other Information: Theatre Performance. Programmed as part of DaDaFest 2016.
Cracked
Visually striking, with a unique physical language and steampunk aesthetic, Cracked explored the causalities of austerity in modern Britain. A harrowing performance that asks - when things are at their worst, where do you go from here?
Artist/Company: Collective Encounters
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 4th December
Other Information: Theatre Performance.
Tight Modern
Tight Modern was a touring miniature replica of London's iconic Tate Modern Gallery. The miniature gallery showcased over 60 artworks from across the UK, created by marginalised and disabled artists.
Artist/Company: Creative Future
Location(s): St Helens Central Library, Haydock Library, Eccleston Library
Dates: 15th December 2016 - 26th January 2017
Other Information: Visual Art, Installation
Echoes Through The Years
Who are they? Why are they? What are they? What happened to...? What if...? Students on the FdA Theatre & Performance course at University Centre St Helens asked these questions and more, as a starting point in the development of this performance exploring the lives of the people captured in photographs from the George Street Photography Collection, breathing new life into these long-forgotten images.
Artist/Company: University Centre St Helens
Location(s): St Helens Central Library
Dates: 14th December
Other Information: Theatre Performance. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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