Space Stations
Hello NASAstronauts!
Hello NASAstronauts!
Space Stations are short creation weeks for outdoor artists, makers and shakers. First piloted last Autumn at Whirligig Woods in Cheshire, they give time, space, and people to bounce ideas off with and tackle your creative knots!
Applications are now open!
If you are allergic to forms or find them difficult, send us an email at missioncontrol@nasauk.org and we’ll figure out an alternative way!
Co-devising time · Road testing an idea · Revisiting that something from your “someday maybe” list · Fixing a scene that never quite works · Try out that party trick and costume combo
WHEN & WHERE
Space Stations kick off this November in Great Yarmouth & Hull
(with other locations already in the pipeline for next year).
Great Yarmouth
hosted by Out There Arts at their creation space the Drill House, with bursary support from Outdoor Arts UK.
Monday 10th (pm) to
Friday 14th of November (am)
Facilitated by Space Captains Garth Williams a.k.a Safety Catch Lts and Kate Evans of Hocus Pocus Theatre.
Kate Evans has worked in Outdoor Arts for 25+ years working in mask, comedy, clowning, physical theatre and stilt walking.
She believes in accessible and joyful performing arts.
After Co-founding Creature Feature, an outdoor arts company who toured UK, Europe & worldwide, she taught at The National Centre for Circus Arts and became an associate artist with The Bicycle Ballet Company whilst working with many outdoor arts company’s including Bureau of Silly ideas. Avanti Display and Circo Rumbaba.
Based in Norwich, and with one foot in event production/management, she is now an associate artist and co-director of Hocus Pocus Theatre CIC.
Garth Williams has been working as a performer and maker in street theatre and outdoor arts on and off for 20 + years. Touring extensively with companies including Avanti Display, Artizani, The Whalley Range All Stars, Ramshacklicious and Travelling Light Circus, he is the founding director of Safety Catch Ltd which creates outdoor shows alongside indoor and immersive theatre, filmmaking, workshops and video game development.
He has been on the NASA UK steering group since 2012, co-leading the annual gathering For the Love Of It for 5 of those, and co-chair for the last couple.
Garth has toured his vintage paper moon photo booth Watch the Birdie! for nearly 15 years, and drives an Umbalance with a stage on the roof called BESSIE.
Hull
hosted by Apus Productions at their creation space at the Scrapstore Studios with support from the lovely team at Freedom Festival Hull, including bursaries.
Monday 17th (pm) to
Friday 21st of November (am)
Facilitated by Space Captains Liz Dees & Ian Mitchell of Apus Productions and Gareth Price-Baghurst of the Fabularium
Liz Dees is a successful, established, professional, and innovative costumier, costume designer and street theatre artist who enjoys collaborating on performance projects.
Trained at the Chelsea College of Art, gaining a BA Hons at London College of Fashion, and completing her MA at Hull College she has worked on shows ranging from West End musicals to community operas and is a director of Apus Productions Limited / Hull Carnival Arts.
Alongside NASA UK’s Mission Control (steering group) she is a trustee of Walk the Plank, was the local youth club treasurer for 10 years, and is on the steering group for We Are Creative, a grassroots networking organisation for creatives living or working in Hull and East Yorkshire. She also likes marmite.
Gareth Price-Baghurst has worked in the outdoor arts sector for 15 years and has co-run The Fabularium since 2010, involved in performing, directing, devising, composing, and business management. A 2011 Coventry University graduate, he is a professional freelance performer and musician, touring nationally and internationally with companies including Stuff and Nonsense, Thingumajig, Walk The Plank, and Magic Teapot.
In 2022, he co-created and directed a fully devised Murder Mystery with Heartbreak Productions. Gareth also performs and busks with an acoustic duo ‘Midnight Fyre’ and sits on the Steering Group for NASA UK, supporting the outdoor arts community.
The Schedule
Monday:
Arrivals from 5:30pm. Welcome dinner at 7pm
Tuesday & Wednesday:
10 to 6pm Creation time
Thursday:
10 to 3pm Creation time
+ 4 to 6pm – Sharing with a small, gentle audience + feedback session
Friday:
Wrap-up breakfast
WHAT?
Space Stations offer 3 and 1/2 days of lightly structured creative research, development, problem solving and idea sparking with other street / outdoor artists. In other words, it’s supported Research & Development time to delve into whatever creative wormhole you have in your backlog. Oh, and you also get food!
Facilitated by 2 artists – one from our Space Station team, and a NASA-UK member artist who is local to each Space Station area.
We’ll provide some frameworks and tools to guide or kick-start the creative research. The structures we’ll offer are adapted from the Critical Response Process, the Disney Principle, Open Space Technology, and other practices and exercises.
WHO?
There are 12 places per Space Station. Artists local to each area will be prioritised. Space Stations are open to street and outdoor artists at ANY STAGE of their career, or in any phase of a project. We designed these with solo artists in mind but collaborative duo/trios are welcome.
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
Application deadline is October 24th at midnight.
And we’ll get back to you with an answer the following week.
Top tip: NASA-UK members get discounted tickets and access to bursaries. It’s £20 to become a member and is instantly activated. Why not join now?
the space to create
it is…
Process oriented
About trial and error
Sparking connections
Developing critical friendships
Gathering, sharing, feedback + eating together
who is it for?
NASA UK members and non-members
- Artists at any stage of their careers
The unfunded
The weird and wonderful
Those seeking a less solitary process
thanks to our supporters
