Josh and Felix have assembled a team of passionate individuals, excited to build a creative space for Redruth and Cornwall. This will include space for creatives to work including studios and co-working but also for community events and activities including dance classes, children and young people activities, fitness and music. Every two years all our residents will come together as part of a festival.
In 2021, Josh and Felix were taking part in a residency at Bill's Attic at Krowji in Redruth. Having worked together for 12 years in London building venues and theatre productions, something felt right about being in Redruth and the creative electricity around the town. Looking around the library which had recently been vacated, there seemed to be a lot of potential in what was possible for the space and town. Two years later and with funding from Historic England, The Department for Levelling Up and Cornwall Council's support they have saved the space for the people of Redruth for the next 127 years in the spirit of its founder Passmore Edwards.
Led by RIFT’s co-founders’ personal history of forced migration, we will work with international artists to build five collaborative residencies to connect with communities across Cornwall and celebrate the stories with a biennial festival. St. Piran is the patron saint of Cornwall. He arrived here from Ireland. Thrown out on a millstone. Cornwall’s heritage is rich with stories of migration and sanctuary.
Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2019, together we devise brave, unconventional theatre and music-theatre performances.
We are committed to artist development as a means of creation.
We perform internationally, working with space to create sites of encounter between artists, audiences and communities.
Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group with international renown. The group is made of young creators who explore the space between theatre and performance, writing their own texts from a strong basic concept and adapting familiar formats from various media. From sensorial experiences with blindfolded, individual audience members, over anarchistic teenage performances up to shows that profoundly explore what it means to be a theatre-goer, the group continues to create work that is equally challenging and treacherously shallow.
Following the death of Pearl Bamford in 2019 aged 19, her parents Rose & Johnny felt compelled to assist the younger generation of North Cornwall and Devon and help them build more positive futures. Having helped Pearl through her struggles Johnny and Rose have experienced first-hand the lack of support, direction and hope for her generation and her death highlighted a need for positive, creative activities and community involvement so we can come together and support each other. We believe that this is the time to invest in and grow our creative community – to work to make sure that young people are not left behind or excluded from the opportunities that the South West has to offer. We use the arts, wellness and culture as our medium to engage and educate, attracting people to join our creative, holistic programme and then supporting them to progress to the next stages of their chosen path in life.
Directors: Joshua Nawras and Felix Mortimer
Producer: Victoria Hole
Production Manager: Sasha Dobrota
Marketing Strategy: Lauren Webb
Festival Marketing and Social Media: Minnie Bunce
Illustration: Hiba Shahtoot
Website: Kate Campbell and Shayna Dumont
