Take Art Brochure - Sept to Dec 2019

What's On
A new season of
sensational theatre,
dance, early years
and music
Take Art
Local
Working in
Somerset
communities
Take Art
International
Kick-starting
European Rural
Touring
Photo credit: Altered Skin, by Martin Dewar
2019 AUTUMN SEASON September - December
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Contents
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Welcome to Take Art's Autumn 2019 brochure.
Discover What's On and What's New in your corner of Somerset.
BarnFest
WHAT'S ON
4 Diversity Forum: Arts as Activism
5 Word/Play: Rainbow Fish Speak Easy
6 Jonny Fluffypunk: How I Came to be
Where I Never Was
7 Little Bulb/Farnham Maltings:
Mountain Music
8 DT2 Productions Film: Kinetics
8 Louise Jordan/Azania Ltd: The Hard Way
9 Tor Theatre: The Fire Catcher
9 La Baracca: UPSIDE DOWN
10 Scratchworks: WOMANS
(Like Romans, but with a ‘W’)
11 Tentacle Tribe: Origami Mami & Nobody
Likes a Pixelated Squid
12 Andrew James Brown: The Moon
Under Water
13 Pip Utton: At Home with
Will Shakespeare
14 Altered Skin: Confessions of a
Cockney Temple Dancer
15 Harbottle & Jonas: An Evening With...
16 Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman:
In Concert
18 BARNfest
30 Listings
Take Art in the UK
17 InspirED
20 Dance to Health
21 Little Big Dance
22 The SoundWaves Network
23 CREC
Take Art international
24 Take Art International
26 RIOTE
27 SPARSE
28 Locomotor
28 Ruritage
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September - December 2019 | Take Art

climate emergency, although integral to
the success of Europe wide projects and
partnerships. Despite this, and because
of this, we are determined to offset our
carbon footprint and Take Art is now
making a financial contribution annually
to climatecare and their global portfolio of
projects that reduce carbon emissions.
A message from Chief
Executive, Ralph Lister
Hello and welcome to Take Art’s Autumn
programme, showcasing the BARNfest
Theatre festival, our current projects and a
new season of Rural Touring.
Take Art has been providing Somerset
communities with shared creative
opportunities for over 30 years. With so
much experience developing a robust and
innovative rural touring model in the UK, we
have been able to transfer that knowledge
to a number of European projects. Read
the International feature (p24), to find out
more about this development in the Take
Art evolution.
At the same time as expanding our work
internationally, we are conscious that these
new projects have led to more plane travel
for the team, not ideal in these times of
Take Art is also part of an Arts Council
programme that aims to limit and reduce
our carbon footprint. Much of our work
in Europe and the UK, is part of a more
sustainable ‘localism’ agenda. Putting on
shows within local settings typically has a
much smaller carbon footprint than shows
in big energy heavy venues, which require
the audience to travel further.
As well as consciously working towards our
own carbon neutrality, we know the arts play
a vital role within the climate emergency, in
shaping that narrative, raising awareness
and holding space for all the emotions that
are coming up. On 26 Sept we are hosting a
Diversity Forum on Arts as Activism in Yeovil
(p4), inviting Arts organisations and artists
from across the county to come together
to discuss our role in the most vital and
pressing issue of our times. Turn the page
to find out more.
Ralph Lister,
Executive Director
Welcome
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WHAT'S ON
Photo credit: Led By Donkeys projection on the white cliffs of Dover
Arts as Activism
Diversity Forum for the
Performing Arts in Somerset
How can we use the arts to influence the
political agenda? Think XR, think Banksy,
think Led by Donkeys.
Take Art will host the event, asking the
question how we as a region can make an
impact on the issues that matter?
Spoken word poet, XR activist and author
Pete ‘the Temp’ Bearder will look at how the
arts can be used to create a conversation
between cultures and influence politics
specifically in relation to the climate crisis
and Brexit.
We ask the Somerset performing arts
community to bring their ideas for action on
to tell us how they are going to shape the
narrative in Somerset towards real positive
change.
The Diversity Forum will be followed by the
Rainbow Fish Speak Easy (see next page), a
social prescribing and spoken word poetry
project, which has helped improve the
mental health of countless Yeovil residents.
Attendees are invited to stay on and will be
able to purchase food and refreshments from
The Hub cafe.
DATES & DETAILS
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Thurs 26 Sept | 4pm | Followed by the
Rainbow Fish Speak Easy | The Hub,
Yeovil | Free
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September - December 2019 | Take Art

Rainbow Fish Speak Easy
Word/Play
For the broken and the brilliant
(and all their friends)
Rainbow Fish Speak Easy is a bi-monthly
spoken word poetry night in Yeovil, with open
mic slots available for anyone with an original
poem to share. The event, hosted by Liv Torc,
is fun, funny, tender and tremendous; with
tips for successfully navigating the human
condition in all its luminous, ludicrous and
lunatic dimensions.
The show comes out of the Take Art's
'performance poetry on prescription' Word/
Play project, which helps adults with mental
health challenges find new ways to talk
about their lives. Along with an open mic
and a short performance from the Somerset
Word/Play group, each Rainbow Fish Speak
Easy features an exciting poetry headliner.
In September we will be running the Rainbow
Fish Speak Easy on the back of our Diversity
forum on Arts as Activism, with special guest
poet, writer and environmentalist Pete the
Temp, whose work has been featured on BBC
Radio 4, the World Service and Newsnight. A
former National Poetry Slam Champion, Pete
is author of the ground-breaking new book
Stage Invasion, charting the unwritten history
and revival of the spoken word art form.
The November show will be headlined
by Rebecca Tantony, a writer driven to
understand the messy and wild human
experience. She has been commissioned by
Radio 4, and her writing has been described
as ‘mesmerising’ by the Guardian.
DATES & DETAILS
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Thurs 26 Sept & Thurs 21 Nov | 7.30pm
The Hub, Yeovil | Donations on the door
Email livtorc@yahoo.com for an open mic slot
Book online at www.takeart.org What's On 5

How I Came to be
Where I Never Was
Jonny Fluffypunk
"A comedy colossus" The Source, Bristol
How do you find yourself when you find
yourself where you don't belong?
Jonny Fluffypunk grew up in the far-flung,
forgotten reaches of outer suburbia. In 1984,
he was fifteen. This is a story about being
the first punk in the village and the only
trainspotter in eyeliner. About unrequited
love and youth clubs and John Peel and the
forgotten gods of small record shops end of
nowhere. This is lo-fi stand-up spoken word
theatre for anyone who has listened to latenight
radio under the bed covers, or fallen in
love, or just been alive.
"One of the funniest things I’ve heard for a
long time. Fantastic act!" Urban75
"Sublime…well-crafted, tender and
life-affirming. Highly Recommended"
FringeReview
www.jonnyfluffypunk.co.uk
DATES & DETAILS
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Sun 15 Sept | 6pm | The Bridge Cafe,
Langport @LangFest | £5 | bar and nibbles
07811 740364
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September - December 2019 | Take Art

Mountain Music
Little Bulb/Farnham Maltings
A theatrical musical adventure about
songs that leave and come back again
When pioneers from the British Isles came
to settle in the Appalachian Mountains they
brought with them the invisible baggage of
songs and reels from ‘the old country’.
In this unique theatre spectacle/concert the
fabulous Little Bulb create an unforgettable
tapestry of culture, migration and history
exploring the roots of what we now call
country music and its impact on popular
music today. Told in exquisite three part
harmony and featuring fiddle, bass, guitar,
banjo and mandolin, join us for a theatrical
feast, of tales and songs.
Produced in collaboration with Farnham
Maltings this will be a great evening’s
entertainment. Farnham have never let us
down in ten years of working together: they
reliably turn out really wonderful theatrical
events that are perfect for village halls.
“Boundlessly enthusiastic, insanely
optimistic and inexpressibly charming.”
Lyn Gardner
www.farnhammaltings.com
DATES & DETAILS
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Wed 16 Oct | 7pm | Holford Village Hall
£10/£5 concs/£15 family 2+ 2 | 01278 741249
Thurs 17 Oct | 7.30pm | Kingsdon Village Hall
£10/£6 child | 01935 841402
Wed 23 Oct | 7.30pm | North Cadbury
Village Hall | £10/£5 child | 01963 440705
Sun 27 Oct | 7.30pm | Chilthorne Domer
Village Hall | £10/£3 child | 01935 840200
(Hot meal available to order)
Book online at www.takeart.org What's On 7

Kinetics
DT2 Productions Film
A brave, ground-breaking 50 mins film
The Hard Way
Louise Jordan/Azania Ltd
‘Life to me has been a great adventure’
What can a teenage boy who is into
Parkour and a middle-aged woman with
Parkinson’s possibly have in common? The
desire to move… Kinetics is a film based
on the remarkable true story of two people
seemingly at polar opposites. As Rose tries
to come to terms with her diagnosis, an
unlikely friendship springs up when young
Lukas comes tumbling into her life. But will
the bond between them be strong enough
when things go wrong?
Kinetics was written by Dorchester-based
actor and writer Sue Wylie in reaction to her
diagnosis with early-onset Parkinson’s. As
a stage play it toured the South West and
London, receiving phenomenal feedback
from audiences and medical professionals
alike, for its bravery, honesty, humour and
passion. The film version has been equally
well received and has recently been selected
for the 2018 Cambridge Film Festival.
www.kineticsfilm.com
DATES & DETAILS
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Sat 5 Oct | 7.30pm | Ashbrittle Village Hall
£7/£5 child/student | nibbles | 01823 672131
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The Hard Way is a one-woman show that tells
the story of Hannah Mitchell; self-taught, selfmade
woman, campaigner, speaker, writer,
suffragette, councillor and magistrate. At just
14, Hannah escapes domestic drudgery in
a remote hilltop farm in the Derbyshire Peak
District, exchanging one exploitative situation
for another, until ending up in Manchester
city magistrate. In 1906 she finds herself
face to face with Winston Churchill and then
spends time in Strangeways, before forging
on to achieve her true destiny.
Combining storytelling and song, acclaimed
musician and composer Louise Jordan brings
to life this fascinating tale that celebrates one
woman’s determination to take power in the
face of insurmountable barriers.
“An evening of engaging storytelling and
beautiful songs and music.” Audience member
www.louisejordan.co.uk
DATES & DETAILS
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Sat 26 Oct | 7.30pm | Caryford Hall
Castle Cary | £10/£6 child | Call Bailey
Bookshop 01963 350917
September - December 2019 | Take Art

The Fire Catcher
Tor Theatre
Good old-fashioned family theatre
UPSIDE DOWN
La Baracca
A topsy-turvy early years adventure
Meet Coyote… She’s fast and fearless,
cunning and kind! But there are two things
she doesn’t like… One is being cold: so she
decides to steal fire and give it to the world!
And the other is Narrators because they’re a
bit, y’know, boring. So imagine her surprise
when she finds a Narrator telling her story…
The story of The Fire Catcher!
Physical theatre and storytelling collide in this
fast and fun-packed performance that boasts
bags of opportunities to howl along! Suitable
for children 3+ and their adults. Tor Theatre
were set up in 2006 by Angela Laverick and
David Reakes. Angela tours nationally with
companies such as Vamos Theatre and you
will quite possibly have heard David’s voice
on Radio 4 in the afternoon play.
www.tortheatre.co.uk
DATES & DETAILS
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Sat 19 Oct | 2pm | The Henhayes Centre,
Crewkerene | £6/£4 child/£16 family of 4
07967 301747
Sun 1 Dec | 3pm | High Ham Village Hall
£6/£4 child | 07853 063124
An enchanting nonverbal Early Years theatre
show for 2-5 year olds from Italian company
La Baracca.
In the show two characters live on different
levels, they move along opposite sides
and look at things from different points of
view. Each of them lives life with their own
certainties and fears, both scared but curious
to meet the other. The only common element
between them is a small red cat that lives
on both floors. It takes the escape of their
four-legged friend for both to finally meet,
sending them off on a chase that will become
a journey full of discoveries and wonders.
A very special, funny show for under fives
and their families, from one of the world's
leading children's theatre companies. The
show runs between 35 - 40 minutes.
www.testoniragazzi.it
DATES & DETAILS
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Tues 29 Oct | 11am & 1.30pm | The David Hall,
South Petherton | £5 child/£0 adults
£8 family 2+2 | 01460 240340
Book online at www.takeart.org
What's On
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WOMANS (Like Romans, but
with a ‘W’)
Scratchworks Theatre Co.
“Highly entertaining... riotous fun!”
After the huge success of the award-winning
The Great Train Robbery, Scratchworks
return to Take Art with the next instalment of
their historical comedy trilogy, WOMANS.
Packed full of physical comedy, clowning and
original music, WOMANS is a family-friendly
adventure of the first female resistance.
It’s 44BC, Ancient Rome. Our hero, Leta has
been declared a traitor by the Roman Senate.
She is given a punishment worse than death
“Damnatio Memoriae” – to be erased from
history. Whilst noble Gladiators and infamous
Emperors around her are becoming legends,
Leta’s name will be scratched out and
forgotten forever. So, with the help from
some unexpected muses, she decides
to rebel against the Republic. Join Leta’s
determined journey to reclaim her place
in the history books, from crashing the
Colosseum to freeing the enslaved, she will
go to the ends of the empire to make her
mark. Suitable for ages 8+.
“A frenzied feminist fiction told through
a whirlwind of tightly choreographed
theatrical invention” The Stage
“Highly imaginative... a genuinely funny &
clever show” **** A Younger Theatre
www.scratchworkstheatre.com
DATES & DETAILS
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Sat 26 Oct | 7.30pm | St Mary the Virgin
Church, Isle Abbots | £10 or £20 with meal
(6pm in Jubilee Room) | 01460 259132
10 What's On September - December 2017 2019 | Take Art

Origami Mami & Nobody
Likes a Pixelated Squid
Tentacle Tribe
Hip Hop dance double bill
Tentacle Tribe are a contemporary / hip
hop dance group from Montreal in Canada,
offering a double bill of award-winning
performance pieces to Somerset village halls.
Origami Mami - A trio of exceptional
dancers perform a routine that unfolds from
simple to complex geometry, looking like the
interlocking parts of a complex machine with
bending, folding steps as intricate as origami.
Nobody Likes a Pixelated Squid - A
piece consisting of stunning urban hip hop
dance, inspired by the fluid movements of
diverse land and sea creatures. Relentlessly
athletic and hugely impressive, these dancers
have the internal resources and the external
strength to pull off a superbly entertaining
show.
Emmanuelle and Elon, the choreographers,
have worked together since 2005 forming
Tentacle Tribe in 2012 after their first
performance for Cirque Du Soleil in Quebec
City. Meet them both in a post show discussion
to learn more about their work as professional
street dance artists from Canada.
www.tentacletribe.com
DATES & DETAILS
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Thurs 7 Nov | 7.30pm | Bruton Club
£10/£8 child/student | 07473 864413
Fri 8 Nov | 7.30pm | All Saints Hall, Langport
£8.50/£6 child | 01458 251836
Book online at www.takeart.org
What's On
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The Moon Under Water
Andrew James Brown
George Orwell liked pubs. Andrew
James Brown LOVES pubs. All pubs!
Taking Orwell’s 1946 essay The Moon
Under Water as a starting point, Andrew
James Brown looks at the joy of pubs,
their essence and their greatness, and,
most importantly the people in them.
Why not join him on his colourful
journey through pubs great and small,
from chain pub to gastro, travelling
through city gin-palaces and country
inns across parquet flooring and sticky
carpet alike.
This humorous look at pubs and people
takes in history, philosophy, musings,
poems and tales of booze, horse
brasses and Morris dancing, all washed
down with a warm lager or two.
Do you like pubs? If so, you'll like this.
Hopefully.
DATES & DETAILS
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Wed 13 Nov | 8pm | Eli's Pub, Huish
Episcopi | £5 | 01458 251757
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At Home with
Will Shakespeare
Pip Utton Theatre
Pip brings to life the ultimate bard
Shakespeare almost certainly wrote some of
the greatest works in the English language
but we know very little about the man except
where he was probably born and is probably
buried. Even the famous portrait, statue and
engraving might be of someone else entirely.
In At Home with Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton
gives us all the chance to spend time with the
great man; a man who loves, laughs, drinks,
sings, dances and cries, and in between
is forced to write some plays and poetry to
make a living. Living a double life, as a family
man and landowner in Stratford on Avon, and
as the great playwright in London, Pip allows
us to meet his wife, his loves and his children.
This is a fun show, both moving and engaging,
bringing the audience right into the centre of
the character exploration.
Pip is internationally respected as one of the
world’s finest solo performers. His style is to
adopt the persona of the famous people he
plays. You may have seen him as Adolf, Bacon,
Churchill, Chaplin, Dickens or even Maggie
Thatcher! Now It's Will Shakespeare and he's
not to be missed!
“Shakespeare comes to life masterfully.
Poetic, fun and beautiful”
theaterpardijs.nl
www.pip-utton.co.uk
DATES & DETAILS
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Thurs 14 Nov | 7.30pm | Lamyatt Village Hall
£15/£7.50 child (inc. supper) | 01749 812031
Sat 16 Nov | 7.30pm | Dulverton Town Hall
£10/£8 student 01398 323818
Book online at www.takeart.org
What's On
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Confessions of a
Cockney Temple Dancer
Altered Skin
Indian dance meets stand-up comedy
Award-winning artist Shane Shambhu
combines Indian dance and laugh-out-loud
comedy to lead audiences on a revealing
journey of his life growing up in London;
from unlikely dance student to 'rude boy' to
international performer.
Combining his inimitable charm and wit with
dynamic Bharatanatyam dance sequences,
Shane reveals his past through a vivid display
of characters, lived experiences and comical
stories, reflecting on how race, language,
identity and cultures have defined him and
his career. His story is familiar to all those
who have moved cities, migrated from other
countries and struggled to create the cultural
world of their dreams and lived experience.
Suitable 8+
After the show, enter the Cockney Curry
House, meet Shane and sample food inspired
by Kerala!
“Brilliant…hilarious…heart-warming…
inspirational. A must see.” The British Theatre
“an effective comedian…his understanding of
pathos and timing are spot on” **** Voice Mag
www.alteredskin.org
DATES & DETAILS
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Fri 15 Nov | 7.30pm | Roadwater Village Hall
£10/£6 child | 01984 640976
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An Evening With...
Harbottle & Jonas
Disarmingly honest with added tingles
Regulars on the BBC2 Folk Show and BBC6
Music, Harbottle & Jonas are now coming to
Somerset to provide an evening of stunning
musical entertainment. Together the husband
and wife duo combine the rich traditions of
folk music with original and contemporary
interpretations, through a blend of closely
intertwined vocal harmonies.
Each song has been carefully crafted and
researched, and is always accompanied with
a great story and a good degree of humour,
however macabre the content may be! Songs
cover a range of social, political and historical
issues; encompassing family, villages swept
into the sea, polar expeditions, historical
characters and peculiar narratives. Their
music is original and unique, performed on an
array of instruments, including the concertina,
harmonium, banjo, stompbox, acoustic guitar
and dobra.
So warm up your vocal chords, pack your
hankies, put on your finest tweed and prepare
yourselves for an unforgettable evening of
beautiful folk music.
www.harbottleandjonas.com
DATES & DETAILS
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Fri 15 Nov | 8pm | Curry Mallet &
Beercrocombe Village Hall | £10
(inc. nibbles) | 01823 481441
Book online at www.takeart.org What's On 15

In Concert
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Contemporary folk & enduring passion
Duos come and duos go and some nurture
and fine tune their art and watch it grow
into something totally original, captivating
and award-winning. Bonded by an unseen
alchemy, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
have entwined their professional and personal
relationship into an enviable class act of
imaginative songwriting and musicianship.
The Dartmoor-based husband and wife have
twice won the coveted Best Duo title at the
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2013 & 2016),
consistently delivering assured, distinctive
performances whether live or recorded. Over
two decades they have never been trapped in
a groove – always bold and innovative, mixing
traditional song arrangements with their selfpenned
material. The couple’s intimacy and
passion on stage have won them many fans
and an enviable reputation as "Songwriters
par excellence" Froots.
With a story that includes over 20 years
of music making with the likes of Seth
Lakeman, Cara Dillon, Levellers and Show of
Hands, Kathryn and Sean have consolidated
themselves as pillars of modern British folk.
DATES & DETAILS
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Fri 15 Nov | 7.30pm | Charlton Horethorne
Village Hall | £10 | 01935 814199
Sat 16 Nov | 7.30pm | Litton Village Hall
£10 | 01761 241522
Fri 22 Nov | 7.30pm | Combe St Nicholas
Village Hall £11/£9 child | 01460 62138
Sat 23 Nov | 7.30pm | Neroche Hall
£12/£8 child | 01823 480758
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FOR TEACHERS
is Changing!
WE HAVE A LOT
TO CELEBRATE
InspirED is a consortium
of three award-winning
arts producers and
promoters in Somerset:
Take Art, Somerset Film and
Somerset Art Works.
Over the past five years…
InspirED has delivered over 23,000
creative experiences for children and
young people in 125 educational
settings and provided CPD sessions to
over 1,000 teachers, teaching assistants
and early years practitioners.
Now our focus is changing
With alterations to schools funding and
continued pressure on budgets, we have
listened to the priorities of schools and
in 2019/2020 InspirED will be providing:
o A NEW, more focused, high quality
membership offer for primary schools
o Bespoke projects and consultancy for
FE, PRU, Secondary schools and SEN
To find out about the new membership offer for primary schools and
our work visit www.inspiredsomerset.org.uk
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WE ARE GOING
TO HAVE A BALL!
BARNfest 2019
Weds 23 & Thurs 24 October
HOME GROWN THEATRE
FROM SOMERSET
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Photo credit: O No! @ Ovalhouse: Alex Bremner

BARNfest
BARNfest is a small-scale festival open to the
public and theatre community, showcasing
theatre made in Somerset. It is taking place
in Taunton at The Brewhouse and Cosy Club.
Join us for two days of fabulous shows, from
some of our best loved and most celebrated
theatre makers, including Pip Utton, Wassail
Theatre, Sarah Mooney, Pirates of the
Carabina, Viv Gordon and Jamie Wood. We
will also be showcasing emerging artists and
companies such as Atomic Rhubarb and
Jordan Cottle.
Along with polished performances, BARNfest
will include open rehearsals, work-inprogress
and pitches. There will be an
evening of performance and spoken word
at the Cosy Club, featuring stand-up poet
Elvis McGonagall, complete with supper
and squashy sofas. For those who want to
connect, there will be plenty of opportunities
to network, meet the theatre-makers and
discuss the performances.
BARNfest is produced by Take Art and The
Brewhouse, with support from the Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation. Full information and a
timetable for both days is available at
www.takeart.org
DATES & DETAILS
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DAY 1: Wed 23 Oct | 9.30am - 6pm
The Brewhouse | £11/£8 concs
Wed 23 Oct | 7.15pm | The Cosy Club
£10 includes supper
DAY 2: Thurs 24 Oct | 9.30am - 6pm
The Brewhouse | £11/£8 concs
Two Day Festival Ticket: £17/£11 concs
Tickets online at www.thebrewhouse.net or
call 01823 283244
Pirates of the Carabina
Jordan Cottle
Viv Gordon
Photo credit: Carl Simpson
Elvis mcgonagall
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Dance to Health
Where it happens
Dunkirk House, Bishops Lydeard
Time frame
Sept 2018 - ongoing
What is DANCE TO HEALTH
Take Art continues to work with Aesop,
to deliver a fantastic project at Dunkirk
House in Bishops Lydeard, which is part
of the national project Dance To Health;
a pioneering ‘falls prevention’ dance
programme for older people.
Groups are led by trained dance artists who
embed evidence-based falls prevention
exercise in creative, fun, sociable dance
sessions for older people who have been
suffering falls or at risk of falling.
At the moment the project is in its 30 week
'Maintenance Programme' phase, where
the existing group of 12 participants
continue to receive regular session with a
dance and falls prevention specialist.
Who does it impact?
The project is making a difference to the
lives of all the dementia patients taking
part, helping to reduce the frequency of
serious falls. Dance to Health also allows
us to recruit Somerset based dance
artists and help them achieve ‘Later Life
Training’.
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September - December 2017 2019 | Take Art

Little Big Dance
Take Art is joining forces with lead partner
South East Dance, alongside Dance East and
Yorkshire Dance for a major new national early
years dance project.
What is Little Big Dance?
Little Big Dance is a major three-year national
initiative created by South East Dance in
partnership with Take Art, DanceEast and
Yorkshire Dance, with more than £371,000
investment from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and
Arts Council England.
The programme supports choreographers
and dancers to make captivating and diverse
work for, and with, under fives and their
families, particularly those from marginalised
backgrounds with little or no access to the arts.
We want to revolutionise the way early years
dance is recognised and to support more high
quality dance work for the under fives.
Who does it impact?
The voice of the child is at the heart of the
creative process. Throughout the two 18
month cycles delivered over 3 years, eight
commissioned works will be developed, with
four scaled for production in regional venues.
Little Big Dance will support eight dance artists
to gain valuable skills by working in a variety of
pre-school settings.
Little Big Dance is also supported by Dance
Umbrella, Birmingham Hippodrome, Strike
a Light Festival and English National Ballet
School.
Find us online
To find out more about Little Big Dance
and the next steps for the project please visit
www.southeastdance.org.uk
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The SoundWaves Network
Where it happens
South West wide, predominantly in Bristol,
Somerset and Plymouth amongst Early Years
Music Learning Communities.
Time frame
July 2018 - ongoing.
What is The SoundWaves Network?
A Youth Music funded early childhood music
education programme incorporating a strong
element of training for the current and future
early childhood workforce in the South West.
The project is centred in Plymouth, Bristol
and Somerset, working with early childhood
settings, universities, advisory teams and Music
Education Hubs who have all invested and
committed to supporting and developing EY
music and provision.
Who does it impact?
The programme supports and engages the
South West's Early Years workforce and
everyone involved in the education of young
children through music.
Jane Parker, The SoundWaves Network Project
Leader, said, "We support the Early Years Music
educators and their conviction and belief in the
value of musical play; their knowledge of how
young children play musically and their early
childhood music pedagogical expertise.”
Sharing our partnership work is at the heart
of our ongoing reflective practice. We have
presented at an array of conferences, written
various articles and made a variety of films.
Find us online
www.takeart.org/soundwaves-network
@SWavesNetwork
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Who does it impact?
CREC: Trinity College
Certificate Music Educators:
Early Childhood
The aim of this national qualification is
to raise the skill levels of the Early Years
music workforce across the UK and is
ideal for freelance and/or peripatetic
musicians working, or wishing to work, in
Early Years.
Both Liv and Georgia are amongst several
students across the South West who have
benefitted from bursaries and mentoring
support from Take Art.
Where it happens
Four Core Learning Days at CREC (Centre of
Research for Early Childhood, Birmingham)
and ongoing in practice mentoring by Jane
Parker, Take Art (for students based in the
South West).
Time frame
September 2017 - ongoing.
Liv McLennan, former student is now
studying for a PhD: “I highly recommend
this course to anyone working in, or
considering working in, Early Childhood
Music Education. It really will enhance
how and why you work the way you do."
What is The CREC?
The Certificate for Music Educators (CME):
Early Childhood, run by MERYC-England and
Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC).
The course is a nationally recognised
qualification validated by Trinity
College London. It takes 1-2 years to
complete, offers a flexible, part-time,
distance-learning qualification in early
childhood music and benefits from direct
contributions from Dr Susan Young, Nicola
Burke, Zoe Greenhalgh, Alison Harmer,
Sally-Anne Brown, Barbara Cavanagh
and Jane Parker, all well-known and
highly successful early childhood music
educators and researchers.
Georgia Bourne, former student and current
SoundWaves Network music leader: “I am
so excited about the work opportunities that
have now opened up and this is all thanks to
doing this fantastic course.”
Find us online
www.meryc.co.uk/cmeec.html
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Photo credit: Gábor Rumann (Control)
Take Art International
Take Art is a unique, life-changing organisation
that doesn’t live in a venue, or studio or a
whacking great theatre but in the villages,
towns and rural communities of Somerset, the
wider UK and now the world.
Take Art established one of the very first rural
touring agencies in the UK back in 1987 and
has seen it develop, grow, contract and survive
over the last 32 years.
Now after three decades of taking art to where
people need it in Somerset, Take Art finds itself
in an extraordinary position, arms out across
the water to our European cousins, with a tried
and tested rural touring model to offer a world
increasingly hungry for new ways of presenting
authentic arts experiences.
There is also no denying the intrinsic social
value of rural arts on local communities, a factor
that has energised us to work with a number of
European partners on the RIOTE2 and SPARSE
projects, initiating new rural touring networks
across Europe.
Photo credit: Richard Tomlinson
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Locomotor
Basically until the Brexit question is settled, our
approach is to assume the best outcome and
work on that basis.
Photo credit: Gábor Rumann (Control)
Impact of Brexit
Take Art’s belief that the rural touring model
is transferable to Europe might seem a little
counter-intuitive in the midst of all the glum,
introspective navel-gazing associated with
Brexit. We remain optimistic however and
were relieved to hear about the UK Guarantee
Scheme in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
OUR INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
Our RIOTE2 and SPARSE projects focus on the
creation of new rural touring networks in other
countries. Locomotor, which is a Carn to Cove
project, helps us to bring International artists to
the UK to perform on the South West touring
schemes.
All of these projects have put Take Art on the
global map and given us the opportunity to get
involved in RURITAGE, a four-year EU-funded
culture and heritage project with a focus on
rural regeneration.
This feature explores those projects in more
detail on the following pages.
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Where it happens
Slovenia, Italy, Romania, Hungary & the UK.
Time frame
Nov 2017 - August 2019
About RIOTE2
RIOTE2 (Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre
Education), funded by Erasmus+, gave
Take Art the opportunity to work alongside
a collection of European theatre companies
and film makers passionate about rural and
outdoor performance. The seven companies
involved in the project were from Hungary,
Italy, Romania, Slovenia and UK.
As part of RIOTE2, we researched diverse
styles of theatre which surprise, challenge
and relate intimately to people’s lives. We
were particularly interested in outdoor
theatre’s potential to reach new audiences
who are not necessarily theatre goers.
The UK is one of a few countries to have an
established rural touring network and our
RIOTE2 partners were keen to utilise our
knowledge.
Our specific role in the project has been to
develop a handbook, containing a practical
guide on how to support rural promoters
to put on shows; advice for touring theatre
companies on what to expect when
performing in a rural venue and support to
cultural managers who might wish to create
a rural touring network in their area. You can
download the handbook at www.takeart.org
RIOTE2 was a vital project for Take Art,
catapulting us into the arena of international
touring development.
www.riote.org
The partners
Broken Spectacles/Dartington Arts (UK), Control
Studio Association (HU), Kud Ljud (SI), Shoshin
Theatre (RO), Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (IT),
Take Art (UK) and Utca-Szak (HU).
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Where it Happens
Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Romania,
Sweden & the UK.
Time Frame
June 2018 - 2021
About SPARSE
In 2018 Take Art successfully led a Creative
Europe funded project application entitled
SPARSE, (Supporting & Promoting Arts in
Rural Settlements of Europe).
Working with partners in Estonia, Italy,
Lithuania, Romania and associates in
Norway, Sweden and Cornwall (Carn to
Cove), SPARSE will foster rural touring in the
partner countries, where currently a structure
does not exist.
How does SPARSE work?
Across the UK we are very lucky to have
some amazing rural touring schemes which
bring top quality theatre, dance and music to
local communities, giving people a chance
to see shows in their village halls that they
would normally have to travel into larger
towns to see.
SPARSE is bringing knowledge from these
schemes along with knowledge from similar
schemes in Norway and Sweden to support
arts organisation in the partner countries
to create their own rural touring schemes,
working with local promoters from the
villages.
This project is funded by Creative Europe
and is one of just three currently receiving
arts project funding from the EU.
The partners
SA Eesti Tantsuagentuur (National dance Agency,
Estonia), Associazione Marchigiana Attività
Teatrali (Le Marche, Italy), Fish Eye ‘Artists Group’
(Lithuania) and Shoshin Theatre Association (Cluj-
Napoca, Romania). The associate partners are:
Sogn og Fjordance Fylkeskommune (Norway),
Region Varmland Kulturcentrum (Sweden) and
Creative Kernow (Cornwall, England, UK)
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Locomotor
Where it happens
South West England - bringing work
over from Europe.
Time frame
Autumn 2017 - Present
About Lomomotor
Locomotor funded by the Arts Council’s
Strategic Touring fund, is a three-strand
project run by Carn to Cove in Cornwall.
The second strand, of which we are
partners, involves all the touring schemes
in the South West and supports them to
present more diverse international work of
different cultures within local community
settings. To date Locomotor has worked
with companies from Sweden, Spain
and Norway to perform and undertake
workshops across all the SW rural touring
schemes.
Thanks to the support and subsidies
offered by Locomotor, Take Art has been
able to host shows from Spanish circus
theatre company D’Click, and Swedish
theatre companies Sarajevo Big Bang
and Teater DOS with Sitaraha The Stars.
Where it Happens
38 partners in over 25 countries, mostly
within Europe but also in Japan and
Columbia.
Time Frame
June 2018 - 2022 (We joined in 2019)
About RURITAGE
RURITAGE is a four-year EU-funded
research project, initiated in June 2018,
that aims to strengthen the role that culture
and heritage plays in rural regeneration.
To find out about all phases of this project
please visit Carn to Cove’s website.
www.carntocove.co.uk
Co-ordinated by the University of Bologna,
this pan-European project will share
examples of good practice in six areas:
Arts & Festivals; Migration; Resilience;
Pilgrimage; Local Food and Landscape.
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local food and arts sectors to improve social
cohesion in our area. We’re in the early
stages of co-creating the hub with several
other sector partners and will be launching it
in November 2019.
With a €10m budget funded through the
Horizon 2020 programme, RURITAGE
intends to make a significant impact on
rural regeneration initiatives and includes
UNESCO among its 38 partners.
Where does Take Art fit in?
In January 2019 we were invited to become
one of 38 partners in the project, profiling the
impact and success of our touring scheme.
The project offers us all sorts of intriguing
possibilities for the future, including the
opportunity to learn from, and share our
experiences with, many other European
projects and partners.
Through RURITAGE, we will pilot a new
initiative, learning from an innovative agrofood
project in Puglia, Italy, to develop a
Rural Heritage Hub that brings together
In the meantime, RURITAGE will have a
presence at this year’s Flaxdrayton Open
Day. For one day only, Flaxdrayton Farm,
where our office is based (see back cover),
is opening its doors to the public for an
exclusive peek into the 18 thriving arts and
social enterprise businesses based on the
complex.
Come along on Saturday 21 September,
11am to 4pm to taste and buy fresh produce
from local food producers; see wood-carving
and other local artisan practices in action;
enjoy live music and explore the story of this
160 year old model Victorian farm.
Please visit the RURITAGE website for full
information on all aspects of the project and
partners. www.ruritage.eu
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Listings
To book, call or email the local box office. To book online and for full information
about all shows and the accessibility of venues please visit www.takeart.org
Date Time Company Event Venue, Sat Nav Postcode and Tel Page
Thur 26 Sept 4pm Take Art
Thur 26 Sept 7.30pm Word/Play
Sun 15 Sept 6pm Jonny Fluffypunk
Sat 5 Oct
Wed 16 Oct
Thur 17 Oct
7.30pm
7pm
7.30pm
DT2 Productions
Film
Diversity Forum:
Arts as Activism
Rainbow Fish
Speak Easy
How I Came
To Be Where I
Never Was
Kinetics
The Hub, Yeovil | BA21 5EA 4
The Hub, Yeovil | BA21 5EA 5
The Bridge Bakery & Canteen,
Langport | TA10 9RB
07811 740364
Ashbrittle Village Hall
TA21 0LF | 01823 672131
Little Bulb/
Farnham Maltings Mountain Music Holford Village Hall
TA5 1SD | 01278 741249
Little Bulb/
Farnham Maltings Mountain Music Kingsdon Village Hall
TA11 7DX | 01935 841402
Sat 19 Oct 2pm Tor Theatre The Fire Catcher
Wed 23 Oct
Wed 23 Oct
Wed 23 Oct
Thurs 24 Oct
Sat 26 Oct
Sat 26 Oct
Sun 27 Oct
7.30pm
9.30am -
6pm
7.15pm
9.30am -
6pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
The Henhayes Centre,
Crewkerene | TA18 8DA
07967 301747
Little Bulb/
Farnham Maltings Mountain Music North Cadbury Village Hall
BA22 7DP | 01963 440705
Somerset
Companies
Somerset
Companies
Somerset
Companies
Louise Jordan/
Azania Ltd
Scratchworks
Theatre Co.
BARNfest
BARNfest
BARNfest
The Hard Way
WOMANS
(Like Romans,
but with a 'W')
The Brewhouse, Taunton
TA1 1JL | 01823 283244
The Cosy Club, Taunton
TA1 4AJ | 01823 283244
The Brewhouse, Taunton
TA1 1JL | 01823 283244
Caryford Hall Castle Cary
BA7 7JJ | 01963 350917
St Mary the Virgin Church,
Isle Abbots | TA3 6RH
01460 259132
Little Bulb/
Farnham Maltings Mountain Music Chilthorne Domer Village Hall
BA22 8RD | 01935 840200
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8
7
7
9
7
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18
18
8
10
7
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Date Time Company Event Venue, Sat Nav Postcode and Tel Page
Tues 29 Oct
11am &
1.30pm
La Baracca
Thur 7 Nov 7.30pm Tentacle Tribe
Fri 8 Nov 7.30pm Tentacle Tribe
Wed 13 Nov
8pm
Andrew James
Brown
Thur 14 Nov 7.30pm Pip Utton
Fri 15 Nov
7.30pm
Kathryn Roberts
and Sean
Lakeman
Fri 15 Nov 7.30pm Altered Skin
Fri 15 Nov
Sat 16 Nov
8pm
7.30pm
Harbottle &
Jonas
Kathryn Roberts
and Sean
Lakeman
Sat 16 Nov 7.30pm Pip Utton
Thur 21 Nov 7.30pm Word/Play
Fri 22 Nov
Sat 23 Nov
7.30pm
7.30pm
Kathryn Roberts
and Sean
Lakeman
Kathryn Roberts
and Sean
Lakeman
UPSIDE DOWN
Origami Mami &
Nobody Likes a
Pixelated Squid
Origami Mami &
Nobody Likes a
Pixelated Squid
The Moon Under
Water
At Home with Will
Shakespeare
In Concert
Confessions of a
Cockney Temple
Dancer
An Evening
with…
In Concert
At Home with
Will Shakespeare
Rainbow Fish
Speak Easy
In Concert
In Concert
Sun 1 Dec 3pm Tor Theatre The Fire Catcher
The David Hall, South
Petherton | TA13 5AA
01460 240340
Bruton Club | BA10 0HQ
07473 864413
All Saints Hall, Langport
TA10 9QF | 01458 251836
Eli's Pub, Huish Episcopi
TA10 9QT | 01458 251757
Lamyatt Village Hall
BA4 6NH | 01749 812031
Charlton Horethorne
Village Hall | DT9 4PB
01935 814199
Roadwater Village Hall
TA23 0RE | 01984 640976
Curry Mallet and
Beercrocombe Village Hall
TA3 6SY | 01823 481441
Litton Village Hall
BA3 4PW | 01761 241522
Dulverton Town Hall
TA22 9EX | 01398 323818
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11
11
12
13
16
14
15
16
13
The Hub, Yeovil | BA21 5EA 5
Combe St Nicholas Village Hall
TA20 3NY | 01460 62138
Neroche Hall
TA3 6TY | 01823 480758
High Ham Village Hall
TA10 9DA | 07853 063124
16
16
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Some tickets may include supper and refreshments. Enquire with the box office for more information.
All details correct at time of going to press.
Book online at www.takeart.org
Listings
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Take Art Events this Season are in:
1 Ashbrittle
2 Bruton
3 Castle Cary
4 Charlton Horethorne
5 Chilthorne Domer
6 Combe St Nicholas
7 Crewkerne
8 Curry Mallet
9 Dulverton
10 High Ham
11 Holford
12 Huish Episcopi
13 Isle Abbots
14 Kingsdon
15 Lamyatt
16 Langport
17 Litton
18 Neroche
19 North Cadbury
20 Roadwater
21 South Petherton
22 Taunton
23 Yeovil
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20
11
2
15
2
10
3
9
22
16 12
14
19
4
1
6
18
8
13
21
5
7
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