the Nightingale

the Nightingale presents

Carp Blanche

a work in process by Colossal Crumbs

Colossal Crumbs has been developing a new work at the Nightingale and now invite you to a visual feast for the eyes, and three tales of the unexpected - merging puppetry and film all encompassed within the setting of a 1920s silent movie. This wordless performance is narrated with beautiful text, music and an alluring French(ish) man.

Welcome to the dingy, depressing life of Cuthbert, a lonely fish living in the dankest corner of a completely dissatisfactory room in pond suburbia. One day Cuthbert is unceremoniously removed from his home. Does this signal hope for this lonely chap? Or is his life on a continuing downward spiral? Meet Ludwig - an award-winning artist, fellow resident (and prawn) of Mount Pond. Ludwig is currently making his next masterpiece when the dramatic departure occurs and leaves his work ruined. He turns to the only thing that will save his creations – THE INTERWEB.

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The Adventures of Woundman and Shirley

Chris Goode and Company

Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Nothing makes much sense to him, and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists.

Wound Man is an unconventional superhero, sprung from the pages of a medieval medical textbook, with an alarming assortment of weapons sticking out from every part of his body
Wound Man has just moved into a house on Shirley’s street — and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick...
The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley is a funny and touching story by Chris Goode about two unlikely friends and the adventures they share.

“A simple, unaffected piece of storytelling… There is something so unguarded about this show that you can't help but fall in love with it.”

The Guardian

“For storytelling at its finest, you have to marvel at the unassuming craftsmanship of Chris Goode... Goode’s heartbreakingly romantic vision sends you home with a warm and rosy glow and the pleasure of a tender tale perfectly told”

Scotland on Sunday

See Documentary Film Festival

See: Brighton Documentary Film Festival

The Nightingale is proud to host a day of screenings as part of the week-long See Festival 2012; a celebration of international documentaries.

With six years of previous successful events, attracting celebrated filmmakers such as Louis Theroux, Nick Broomfield and Luke Holland, See Festival has deservedly marked its place in the annual film festival calendar. 2012 marks a bigger and better event than ever before as See Festival launches its first nine-day film festival, continuing to expand on its diverse selection of film Screenings, Seminars, Q&As and Master Classes.

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Open Cinema

In partnership with Shooting People and a multitude of accomplished filmmakers, Open Cinema teaches members the skills required to make short films based on their own ideas and experiences. Open Cinema is a nationwide network of film clubs programmed by and for homeless and socially excluded people. Each week participants watch the best in classic and contemporary cinema and work with professional filmmakers to create films of their own.

Open Cinema is unique in providing participants the chance to programme films they would like to see, meet the professional filmmakers that inspire them, and make films based on their own ideas and experiences.

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University Showcase

Brighton and Sussex Universities are pleased to present a showcase of provocative, entertaining and engaging documentary work by students. Both first time and more experienced documentary makers will exhibit their work.

These students are studying on a range of courses and the screenings show the diversity of styles and subject matter that undergraduate and postgraduate students are working in. After the screenings, there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers and feedback from guest filmmakers.

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Brighton Film School Showcase

See Festival are happy to announce their new partnership with Brighton Film School who will be presenting a series of short documentaries in association with City College Brighton and Hove.

Now under new ownership, Brighton Film School is running both full time and part time courses in filmmaking and Acting for Camera shooting on both Digital and Super-8, 16mm and 35mm. These documentaries were influenced by the Direct Cinema of the Maysles Brothers' Gimme Shelter and Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies, all shot on Canon DSLR's.

www.brightonfilmschool.co.uk

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Shorts Showcase

Includes the films:
Caring for Calum + Q&A
Bonnington Square + Q&A
Invisible Airs + Q&A

Caring For Calum

Bonnington Square

Invisible Airs

The Nightingale presents

The Growing Room

Stillpoint

The Growing Room tells the tale of three unlikely people coming together in love: Andrea who’s scared to love, her daughter Carla, who's in love with danger and a charismatic man who comes crashing into their lives and changes their world for ever.

The Growing Room is a richly drawn, poetic and provocative solo piece about how love never comes in quite the shape you ordered. Loosely inspired by Brian Eno’s Reasons for Optimism Symposium at Brighton Festival 2010, The Growing Room is a love letter to humanity’s ability to keep hoping even when the odds aren’t great.

The Growing Room forms one part of Stillpoint's Triptych: Three Attempts at Love. A collection of non-sequential solo works on the theme of the struggle to love. Written, conceived and performed by Rachel Blackman, directed by Emma Kilbey, additional direction and mentorship by Wendy Houstoun.

Lighting Design: Geoff Hense
Character Development: Lucinka Eisler
Sound Design and Research: Rachel Blackman and Ella Thompson

“Intelligence and intuition used to dazzling effect.”

The Argus

“...an abiding image of life in all its messy, multi-layered wonder. Beautiful.”

The Argus

“Blackman is one to watch”

Lyn Gardner

www.stillpointtheatre.co.uk

Presented with Pink Fringe

Jesus Queen of Heaven

Jo Clifford

Jesus is a transsexual woman. And it is now she walks the earth.’

This is a play with music that presents her sayings, her miracles, and her testimony. And she does not condemn the gays or the queers or the transwomen or the transmen, and no, not the straight women nor the straight men either.

Because she is the Daughter of God, most certainly, and almost as certainly the son also. And God’s child condemns nobody. This is a play driven by the idea that we are not just material beings, we are spiritual also. As well as sexual.

Originally commissioned by Glasgay Festival in 2009.

“A beautiful, sensitive, honest and mind opening piece of theatre.”

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“We loved it. We thought it had real spiritual quality and that it was a genuine religious experience with deep Christian content, and we enjoyed it very much.”

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Unhappy Birthday

Amy Lamé

Amy Lamé invites you share her birthday. Morrissey- icon for the bookish, bespectacled weirdos of the world- is invited too. A seat is reserved for him... will he arrive clutching a bunch of flowers and a gift? Will he turn up at all?

Cake, quiffs and craziness collide in a flurry of balloons and beer, against a soundtrack of nostalgic teenage obsession.

Unhappy Birthday cracks open the cult of celebrity and fandom; flays fat, faith and sexual identity; probes the pains of growing up; and cross examines a curious nostalgia for a time that may never have existed except in the bedroom of our imagination.

Co-founder and hostess of the infamous club/collective Duckie, Amy creates a culture clash of party, performance and poncing about in her new show.

Created and performed by Amy Lamé
Devised with and Directed by Scottee
Supported by Contact and BAC

“Surreal and delightful”

The Guardian

“Deliciously off the wall…heart rending yet affirming, infectiously dippy.”

The Stage

www.amylame.com

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A Pink Fringe Event

Mauve New World

Pink Fringe

Conceptions of a queer and not so distant future…performances with help from Oval House. Inspired by great futuristic works like Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and Children of Men, Pink Fringe invites performance makers to dream up own their own queer visions of the future.

Join us in July for an evening of surprising imaginings, and see what it might be like to live in this Mauve New World.

A seed funding programme supported by the Nightingale, Pink Fringe and the Oval House, London.

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