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Walk
& Squawk
...makes
physical and visual performance integrating movement, image,
text and sound. Our work is about imagination and collaboration,
play and transformation - of people, objects and ideas.
It's about the belief that live performance creates community.
Working with people near and far, we explore new ways
for artists and audiences to create, experience and define theatre.
We like to imagine, play, surprise, connect,
talk, participate, collide and converge - across
cultures and disciplines, economics and geographies.
Each
new piece is distinctive, shaped by the ideas, skills and
voices of the artists who make it. The result is fresh, engaging
and textured events which often defy categorization but are
always anchored in humor.
We've completed the final phase of the Walking Project, a performance, mapping and international
exchange project that has redefining how we work. While a community-centered, collaborative theatre-making
process continues to be at the core of what we do, we've realized that we're no longer just a theatre company.
The Walking Project expanded to include new ways to facilitate community storytelling through mapping
and neighborhood development workshops that start with local walks. As a result, Walk & Squawk's
artistic directors, Erika Block and Hilary Ramsden, are treading new paths.
Since working with locative technologies for the Walking Project,
Erika has been inspired to explore the emerging field of
social media.
She's established a social media
consulting practice and is also working on a new project about local and sustainable food and water, blending the best practices
of Walk & Squawk's community-centered, collaborative process with internet technologies that connect people, resources and good ideas.
To find out more about her work
check out blockwork.org or Erika's
Technology in Translation blog.
Hilary was awarded a 3-year fellowship from Britain's Arts and Humanties Board to work on an interdisciplinary PhD
focusing on walking and civic dialogue, combining her artistic practice with academic research. She's back in the U.K. and
has also been working on a 3-year performance project about the Severn River with
Bristol's acclaimed street theatre company, Desperate Men.
Her web site will soon be up and running!
As a result of all these new opportunities, we're taking a sabbatical from producing new performance work
- but we're still Walking & Squawking!
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