Events

Our film Deep Time and Future Pasts at Gully Cave is available to view online as part of the Scottish Society of Artists 130th Annual exhibition: https://ssa.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/18-cutlog-re-imagining-wonderland/

A short film of our performance fieldwork at Ebbor Gorge in Somerset will be screened by Cutlog as part of an installation at the Scottish Society of Artists’ 130th Annual Exhibition.

The film is by Laura Bissell, Helen Billinghurst, Jamie Lorimer, David Overend and Phil Smith, with film makers Catherine Dunn and Jack Reed. It was funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Arts and Humanities Workshop Scheme. Thanks to Danielle Schreve for showing us how to travel through deep time.

Exactly 10 years after Making Routes launched in Glasgow, we are gathering together again as we embark on a new phase of our journey. 

Held in partnership between the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, the event starts at 7.00pm at RCS for a programme of performances and presentations on creative mobilities. At 8.30pm, we will then walk the length of Hope Street and raise a glass to another decade of journeys in performance.

The event will also celebrate the publication of our new book with Triarchy Press: Making Routes: Journeys in Performance 2010-2020. Copies of this will be available for sale on the evening.

We have invited some of the Making Routes contributors and collaborators to join the authors Laura Bissell and David Overend. These include Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst (Crab & Bee), Sarah Hopfinger and Beverley Hood. These artists and researchers will help us think into the future of this project at a time w

A creative walking workshop in Central London, exploring the sites of astonishing fossil discoveries: from extinct elephants and hippos in Trafalgar Square, to reindeer and bison in South Kensington. We will playfully uncover the vestiges of former Thames terrace deposits, laid down during successive cycles of warm and cold climate, which can still be detected beneath two millennia of urbanization, together with the stone tools of London’s Palaeolithic occupants, the last people to see these vanished species. Supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Embracing disparate disciplinary perspectives and methods, this workshop sets out to explore how scientists, geographers and artists might work together. Part of an ongoing research project by Dr. David Overend (Drama, Theatre & Dance) and Prof. Danielle Schreve (Geography), Performing Wild Geographies imagines repopulating the British countryside with past inhabitants; animals that have not lived here for several thousand years.

The workshop, focussed on collaborative performance-making strategies is a cross-disciplinary experiment in engaging the public with the 'rewilding' movement.

Image by Anna May annamay.de

David Overend will be presenting a paper on 'Deep Mapping Route 77' at the Living Maps seminar at Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1 N 1PF

David Overend will be presenting a paper at the Theatre and Performance Research Association annual conference at the University of Bristol: 'Radicant Documentation: Re-presenting mobile performance practice'

CauseWay returns to the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum after a hugely successful run in 2014. Part play and part guided tour, Causeway tells the story of two suffragettes who cycled from Glasgow to Alloway in 1914 intent on blowing up Burns cottage. Weaving the words of Robert Burns with performance, storytelling and live music, the performance questions the links between the work of Burns and the suffragettes' cause.

This is a piece of walked theatre; performances will take place in and outdoors and will move between the museum and the cottage.

Written by Victoria Bianchi and directed by David Overend

RESEARCH ON display
The Whittaker Library is embarking on a new project aiming to showcase how its learning resources contribute to Conservatoire research, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary learning.

The Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland warmly invites you to the first event in our new series of free lunchtime talks and displays.

On THURSDAY 22nd MAY at 1pm
Dr Laura Bissell (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) &
Dr David Overend (University of the West of Scotland)
will share their research into
COMMUTING AS A PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE.

A short talk, in an informal setting, with coffee and cake. FREE. All welcome.
Documentation and library materials relating to the talk will soon be on display in the Whittaker Library.

ABSTRACT: Rhythmic Routes: Developing a nomadic performance practice for the daily commute

How can the contemporary theatre practitioner maintain a deterritorialised, nomadic existence within the regulated systems of twenty-first century mobile li

The date of the walking performance in Paris has changed to 22 June 2013. I am still looking for participants. Please get  in touch for more information of the route and day. Thanks

I have been doing a series of walking performances through urban areas and am planning to do the third one in Paris on 8 June 2013. I am currently looking for collaborator/participants in Paris to join me and respond to the walk in some manner. If you are interested please contact me for more information. For details of my walking project please check my page:

http://dominiquebaronb.wordpress.com/projects/

Rob Drummond's Bullet Catch, directed by David Overend

On tour in 2013/14

National Theatre, London

also visiting

Spoleto Festival, South Carolina

2pm - 4pm or 4pm - 6pm

‘There should be no destination, only a starting point and a time. A journey to change space, not march through it’

The first of a series of artist-led journeys. Phil Smith (Wrights & Sites) will lead a mis-guided tour of an unfamiliar town. 

The walk will depart from a secret location in Ayr. Details will be provided on booking.

Free but booking required. Email journeys@makingroutes.org