16 Sep Announcing… Common Threads
In just a week's time, our festival Common Threads will be underway on the Moorfoot. And so before we’re swept up in that, we thought we’d share a few reflections on the festival with you....
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29 Dec Our Year in 13 Funding Bids
As we near the end of the year, we are taking stock of where we are—without lingering too long and without reflecting too deeply, lest we fall into the abyss....
10 Apr Goodbye, from Linda Bloomfield
The Bare Project has been running now for ten years, and I am delighted to have been part of it for the latest quarter of that. When I moved to Sheffield and very quickly went freelance I was terrified. Just moved to a new city,...
14 Sep Time For Change, And My Internship At The Bare Project
by Jessica Mistry This was my first time being immersed in the world of theatre. It always seemed exciting and different, but I never had much understanding of what was involved creatively or how open it could be. Throughout this experience I have been exposed to...
09 Jul COVID-19 and The People’s Palace of Possibility
Like many of us across the world, this spring all our plans fell apart. The first national tour of The People’s Palace of Possibility was all booked in and we were preparing to hit the go button. We had a dream team of artists and...
13 Dec A conversation about The People’s Palace of Possibility
In November, The Bare Project hosted The People’s Palace of Possibility at the Gregson Centre in Lancaster as part of the Festival of Social Sciences with Lancaster University. The Palace focused specifically on the notion of ritual, stepping outside of everyday realities and creating visions...
24 Jun The Urgent Need for a Fantastic Future
Schoolchildren have taken to the streets and Extinction Rebellion shut down four major thoroughfares of London for over a week in April. An urgent sense of the need for change has rippled through the political spectrum, and whilst the battle is certainly nowhere near won,...
12 Jul Death Cafes and ‘Bardo’
At a Death Café, people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. There is no agenda, objective or theme – other than death. It is not a grief support group or counselling session, it’s just an opportunity to discuss death, with cake....
28 Nov ‘Time Passes. Listen.’ Review
This is my fourth trip to the old Woolworths building on the Moor in a few weeks – I went to Horror Souk three times – and upon leaving I realise I’ll be doing the same again over the next week. They’re going to get...
12 Aug Edfestmag: ‘Bear With Snow’ Review
Blowing bubbles masquerading as snow, listening to the soft melody of a guitar flowing through the background, and listening to the poetry blooming out of the characters mouths. This is Goodbye Sun and Bear, a beautifully whimsical piece put on by The Bare Project that...