Experimentica

28/06/2022

Fat Blokes is coming to Chapter!

Made by five fat friends who have never done this sort of thing before, in collaboration with Lea Anderson, Fat Blokes subjects you to our pent up aggression, love for riot grrrl and our ability to burp on command.

More info and tickets below 👇

Fat Blokes is the cult, award winning, sell out, sort of dance show about trying to fit into a world that says you’re too fat. 

27/05/2022

We’re so sad to hear of the passing of theatre maker Mike Pearson.

This Sunday 29 May at 12 noon, Good News From the Future will present A WALK IN THE PARK, conceived and directed by Mike. The short performance is dedicated to his memory, in grief but with love and gratitude for all he did for the group.

Good News from the Future is a physical theatre company for the over sixties. Created by Mike in the summer of 2014. Previous performances have included What Comes Next? and Museum Pieces. Since lockdown, Good News have continued to meet in Cardiff on Sunday mornings, with the intention of creating this new pop up work.

It’s free to attend and everyone’s welcome. We hope you can join us in remembrance and celebration of the incredible creative force that was Mike Pearson.

15/11/2021

4 - 7 November 2021

EXPERIMENTICA is a live art festival that champions risk, collaboration, and exchange. It presents bold, experimental work from Wales, the UK, and internationally. We celebrate difference, the in-between, the overlooked, and the often invisible, mixing forms, enabling artistic collaborations and increasing access for audiences.

13/11/2021

12/11/2021

📸 All Kirsten McTernan

06/11/2021

EXPERIMENTICA21 Saturday 6 November

Tim Bromage is SOLD OUT this evening. If you have a ticket and can't attend please call our Information Desk on 029 2031 1050 so we can pass your ticket on to someone on our waiting list.

Thank you ☺️

04/11/2021

🙌 HERE WE GO👏
EXPERIMENTICA21 starts today!

Check out the schedule with this handy 'what's on' guide. For further details and to book your tickets, head to our website www.chapter.org

03/11/2021

We believe that our festival should be as accessible as possible for audiences.

Click the link below for an at-a-glance guide to the events that include BSL Interpretation, Captions and subtitles, and those where a hearing loop is available.

We've also included some handy information about pricing and what to expect when visiting our venue if you have specific access needs.

https://www.chapter.org/experimentica-2021/access-at-experimentica-2021/

28/10/2021

Tickets are on sale for EXPERIMENTICA21. Performances are 'Pay what you decide' and start from £3!

All proceeds from ticket sales go directly back to supporting artists.

Please pay what you can afford to help us to continue to support projects like

See the programme and get your tickets >> https://www.chapter.org/experimentica-2021/

21/10/2021

⏰TWO WEEKS TO GO! ⏳

Here is the 2021 EXPERIMENTICA festival line-up

ELAINE MITCHENER, ANUSHIYE YARNELL, TIM BROMAGE, RACHEL MARS, TIM MARTIN-JONES, DANI DINGER, RUFUS MUFASA, OWAIN MCGILVARY, LUIS AMALIA, SADIA PINEDA HAMEED & BEAU W BEAKHOUSE, GOLD MARIA AKANBI, BENJAMIN OWEN, KAREN CHRISTOPHER & TARA FATEHI IRANI.

Tickets on sale VERY SOON so keep your eyes on our website.
www.chapter.org

05/10/2021

I know we say it a lot but, this really is HUGE NEWS! 🔥💥

The first performance of is Elaine Mitchener: The Rolling Calf

The Rolling Calf is a black power trio featuring vocalist Elaine Mitchener, saxophonist Jason Yarde and bassist Neil Charles. The Rolling Calf performances combine texts by revolutionary African-Diasporic thinkers with collective electroacoustic improvisation to strike a new bridgehead for the black British Avant Garde.

📆Thursday 4 November 2021, 8pm
🎟Tickets are on sale now!

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28/09/2021

We've only got a few tickets left for Luis Amalia's Triple—Double online performances!

19:30 - Wednesday 29 September (with captions)
19:30 - Thursday 30 September 2021

Get your tickets here >>> https://www.chapter.org/whats-on/all-shows/experimentica-presents-luis-amalia-tripledouble/8268/

12/08/2021

Delighted to welcome Harun Morrison to the EXPERIMENTICA selection panel🔥

Harun is an artist and writer based on the inland waterways. He is the 20/21 recipient of the Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship, hosted by Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist, will be published by Book Works in 2022. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. Harun is currently resident at Delfina Foundation & Horniman Museum and Gardens. He is also a trustee of the Black Cultural Archives est. 1981)

Looking forward to working with you Harun!

03/08/2021

Delighted to announce that Finn Love is joining our Experimentica selection Panel💥

Finn Love is a producer, model, promoter and international go-go-dancer. Most recently they worked as Programmes Manager at the Live Art Development Agency - LADA

Looking forward to working with you on the selection Finn!

Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales

01/07/2021

🔥EXPERIMENTICA DEADLINE!

Just 5 days left to submit your Experimentica proposals!

This year's festival seeks to explore new narratives and alternatives to the status quo. If this sounds like a bit of you then head to our website for more info and to apply!

FEE: £1000
DEADLINE: Monday 5 July

https://www.chapter.org/news/details/experimentica-announces-more-commissions-for-uk-based-artists

22/06/2021

Got a question about our call out? Want to know a little more about the festival or how to pitch your proposal?

Then get in touch - drop us an email to [email protected] to book a 15min slot with our Programme Manager, Catherine on Wednesday 23 or Wednesday 30 June

If you have any access requirements, would like captions or BSL interpretation for your chat, please let us know so that we can arrange this.

If you're a little zoom shy or would prefer to have a phone call - we can do that too.

16/06/2021

🔥WE'VE JUST ANNOUNCED MORE COMMISSIONS!!

EXPERIMENTICA are looking for artists based in the UK who are engaged in the creation of experimental performance, writing, sound, film and video, dance, theatre or any other live medium. We welcome proposals from individuals and groups who are excited by the possibility of experimentation and by those who take risks!!

Sound like something you're in to? Just click the link for more!

💷FEE: £1000
⏳DEADLINE: 5pm (GMT) 5 July 2021

https://www.chapter.org/news/details/experimentica-announces-more-commissions-for-uk-based-artists

07/05/2021

Announcement time // Experimentica Presents...
Non-binary q***r actress, maker and performance artist, LUIS AMÁLIA, collaborative multidisciplinary artists, BEAU W BEAKHOUSE & SADIA PINEDA HAMEED and poet, hip hop educator and literary activist RUFUS MUFASA

Thank you to Harold Offeh and Jonny Cotsen for joining us on the selection panel and to Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales for funding this year’s festival

15/03/2021

EXPERIMENTICA Panel Announcement

We are mega excited to announce that Harold Offeh will be joining the EXPERIMENTICA selection panel along with Jonny Cotsen!

Here's a little more about Harold and his work ✨

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito, Japan.

He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at The University of Brighton, MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art and recently completed a PhD by practice exploring the activation of Black Album covers through durational performance. He lives in Cambridge and works in London and Leeds, UK where he is currently a Reader in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University and a tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London.

Upcoming projects include a new video commission exploring the redemptive power of joy through social dance for the Wellcome Collection's (London) season Joy and Tranquillity. Offeh, will be exhibiting as part of 'Untitled, Art on the Conditions of Our Time' a major group exhibition of British artists of African descent at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, UK. Hail the New Prophets, will see Offeh realise his first major public sculpture as part of the Bold Tendencies exhibition in Peckham, London.

📷: Alex O'Brien

15/02/2021

💥Time to get those super awesome applications in folks⚠

EXPERIMENTICA Presents submissions close TONITE at 23:59!

https://www.chapter.org/news/details/experimentica-presents-call-out-for-artists

Due to COVID-19, our building is temporarily closed until further notice. We’ll be monitoring updates from Welsh Government and will keep you posted on our plans via our newsletters, website and social media. We look forward to the time when we can welcome you back. Until then, we’re offering ou...

10/02/2021

This looks great 👇

"To coincide with the publication of their first anthology of essays on contemporary performance, Andy Field and Maddy Costa bring together a collection of the artists they write about in the book to talk about performances they themselves have seen and loved in the past decade.

Featuring Alexandrina Hemsley, Augusto Corrieri, Ellice Stevens (Breach Theatre), Jemima Yong, Rachel Mars, Rachel Porter (Figs in Wigs), Sheila Ghelani and Tim Crouch."

Get your tickets to the launch on the 18th February by clicking the link below!

Andy Field and Maddy Costa bring together a collection of the artists they write about in the book to talk about performances they themselves have seen and loved in the past decade

29/01/2021

Amazing opportunity to work with the incredible team at Fierce Festival. This job is designed for someone early in their career and has been supported by the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursary Programme.

https://wearefierce.org/fierce-would-like-to-meet-an-assistant-curator-performing-arts/

*UPDATE: we have corrected errors in the job pack that incorrectly stated eligibility criteria. This role is for someone who has been working for 2-5 years* Fierce are excited to offer this rare opportunity for a paid traineeship in Performing Arts for an aspiring programmer/curator. This job is des...

27/01/2021

⚠ DEADLINE EXTENDED ⚠ DEADLINE EXTENDED ⚠

You now have until Monday 15 February to get your EXPERIMENTICA applications in to us!

Open to UK artists who, prior to COVID, made live art and experimental performance.

We especially welcome applications from those who identify as having currently under-represented characteristics. This includes black and non-black people of colour, disabled people, individuals identifying as LGBTQIA+, those with parental responsibilities and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

MORE DETAILS HERE >> https://bit.ly/3gZQASf

[video is a fast paced slideshow of previous performances at EXPERIMENTICA festivals]