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Creative to Commercial: Student Enterprise Workshop with Emma Wainer
Central alumni Emma Wainer came back to the Swiss Cottage in May to run a workshop for students on commercialising creativity. We spoke to her about her time at Central and what it has meant to her career.
Lauren Sammé, a current student on the Applied Theatre, MA course, spoke to us about her placement with over 60's theatre company, Encore Theatre Company.
Iva Šimić (MA Creative Producing) and Laura Kaliger (MA Acting for Screen), spoke with us us about their collaboration on short film 'Finchley Lane' which is set to make its premiere this summer at the Sarajevo Youth Film Festival.
Central faculty member Tom Six is working with Emma Jude Harris and Aneesha Srinivasan of Global Origins to develop ways of challenging racialized representations in the theatre and they're looking for input from people of global majority heritage who work in the theatre. We talked to Tom about this research.
Performance artist and Central lecturer Nando Messias talks about their project Transmission: Sissy TV, recently performed in London. It aims to reimagine archival practice and address the gap in the representation of trans and non-binary voices.
Rianna Simons, is a playwright whose work White Girls Gang was recently shortlisted for the Yale Drama Series Prize, resulting in her attending the Substratum writer's residency in Italy. She talks with us about her inspiration for the play, her experience studying at Central, and her advice for aspiring playwrights.
David Shearing describes his project The People's Kitchen which was hosted in Rainham, a small town in the east of London. It brought together local people, community groups and organisations to cook, eat and converse together.
We spoke with Patrick Bayele and Esther Foga who co-founded The Avieli Arthouse, which was named as one of the winners of Central's Enterprise Award 2022, and is a charity dedicated to promoting creative expression through innovative productions, workshops, and community outreach projects.