Join the project team for an ideas and ideation session.
The team behind Octopuses and Other Sea Creatures are seeking to connect with potential partners, collaborators and project enablers. We are currently in a consultancy phase of the project and aim to submit a funding application to ACE. Right now, we want to hear your ideas for how we can design the project to engage with everyone in the city of Portsmouth, how we can reach communities in the city and how we can encourage people who wouldn’t normally get involved with arts and culture, to be part of this amazingly ambitious project.
We are particularly keen to engage with environmental groups, community groups, music, film, art and theatre groups. We aim to facilitate making and craft workshops, poster design and other messaging making workshops, running sound and theatre workshops, all aimed at creating an immersive audio-visual extravaganza in Portsmouth Cathedral in November 2022.
Octopuses and other Sea Creatures is a large-scale immersive audio-visual installation and theatre performance inspired by the ‘Octopus Medicine’ poems by Becci Louise. Taking the Octopus as our medicine animal will encourage audiences to develop a connection with the ocean, both as an otherworld and an ecosystem upon which our own, terrestrial lives, thoroughly rely. Sited in Portsmouth Cathedral over three nights the event will be co-created by local creatives and community members guided by experts in the field of immersive audio-visual, scenographic and theatrical production.
Download an outline of the full project HERE!
Partnership Ideation Meetings
Monday 17th May 2021
- 10am-11am
- 7pm-8pm
Sign up via our Eventbrite and we will send you a Zoom link prior to meeting (just so we can keep the meeting links secure). You can join either or both meetings as the content will be the same. We are running two meetings to ensure as many people as possible can get involved.
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