Studio Moffat

26/06/2024

Any carnival creatives want to work with our mates at Dumfries Carnival? They're a great team and really help build a community around creativity and culture in the region.

We are on the lookout for Carnival Artists to build the floats for the 2025 Carnival.

You will join our community here in Dumfries in January as part of our Carnival team working with one of our amazing community partners.

We have an information webinar on 16th July at 1pm.

Deadline is 31t July.

https://bigburnssupper.com/carnival-artists-required/

26/06/2024

🎭 DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTORS 🎭

🎭 DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTORS 🎭

🌟 We are delighted to announce a new programme of semi-regular opportunities and workshops for actors based in Scotland!

🗣️🤸‍♀️ The first workshop will be 'Text and Movement' led by actor, writer and mover, Nat McCleary on Sat 27th July

The workshop will consist of series of exercises which will allow participants to experiment in listening to the body’s impulses. These exercises will allow participants the chance to play around with text to identify the natural “voice” of their own physicality and learn how to allow it to consciously contribute to performance with text

These opportunities are free but limited, spaces will be offered via our casting mailing list. Info about the first workshop with Nat McCleary will be shared for sign up, tomorrow at 1pm

Sign up to find out more
https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/mailing-list

📷 Tiu Makkonen

26/06/2024

25/06/2024

25/06/2024

We love welcoming the Glow Bambinos to Studio Moffat! See you later!

QR code to book on class for kids and to find our page
Looking forward to seeing you all soon
Aztec Soft Play Studio Moffat Sparklers Private Nursery Annan Three Brown Bears Sensory Room

21/06/2024

1.5 Max: Real-world climate education for children and young people 🌎

In this blog post, Story Weaver Joana Avi-Lorie talks about her experience being part of the panel for the 1.5 Max Global Schools Climate Summit.

The 1.5 Max Global Schools Climate Summit has a focus on real-world climate education. It provides a valuable opportunity for young people around the world to meet each other and learn about faraway countries. Some of the countries that have participated include Scotland, Malawi, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Read here 👉: https://sccan.scot/blog/1-5-max-real-world-climate-education-for-children-and-young-people/

17/06/2024

Join us next Monday (17th June) for our first outing of the Moffat Seed Library seed cleaner - constructed by the wonderful Moffat Men's Shed and kindly funded by DG Climate Hub. Thank you so much to both organisations for making our seed cleaner happen.

Join us from 7pm to 9pm as we play around with our new toy - and tuck in to some delicious coffee and home baking too!

This is going to make sorting seeds so much easier - cannae wait to get clean caraway seeds without the bits!

12/06/2024

Business-as-usual in our economy isn’t working. The cost of living is forcing many people to choose between heating or eating, we’re working harder than ever but for low pay, inequality is rampant and social security is failing too many people. At the heart of this is a broken economic system - ...

11/06/2024

Join Artist Bea Last, (Bea Last) for a nine-day portfolio development course: Visual Art Studio - an intensive short course for young people that will cover various elements of the creative visual art process.

This course is for young people aged 16 to 25 from Dumfries & Galloway. It will take place on Saturdays throughout Term 1 at Gracefield Arts Centre, 24th August to 19th October, 10am to 4pm.

VAS with Bea Last is a FREE course, but spaces are limited, so you will need to book. Deadline for applications is 1st August.

For more information, visit:
www.weareupland.com/opportunities/visual-arts-studio-with-bea-last-2024

28/05/2024

25/05/2024

🎟SATURDAY 25TH MAY @ THE FESTIVAL

What's on today?

Today is the first of two days of outdoor activities! Cirqulation makes its way to Castle Douglas today for a circus inspired extravaganza, including performances and workshops. This is a free, non ticketed event, so just turn up! We look forward to seeing you.

Authentic Artists Collective presents When Mountains Meet tonight at Castle Douglas Town Hall. This tender, surprising and heart-opening show offers an immersive audience experience, summoning majestic mountains, mesmerising sounds and mouth-watering tastes. More like being invited to a party or a wedding than a show, When Mountains Meet offers an experience that stimulates all the senses. There are still tickets left for tonight's show, so grab yours online, or on the door.

You don't have any Saturday plans? Well, you do now! BOOK TODAY https://dgartsfestival.org.uk/

24/05/2024

We were privileged to show I Hope Your Flowers Bloom as part of the Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival yesterday evening. What a play! Mighty and powerful and vulnerable and tender, all at the same time. Thank you to everyone who came to see it - you all made it a very special evening. :)

If you are free and haven't seen it yet, try and catch it at CatStrand tonight! https://www.facebook.com/events/1890794381367017/

And check out and follow playwright and performer, Raymond Wilson on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RaymondWilson/posts You can buy the script from there - and yes, we bought it, of course! Cannae wait to revisit that beautiful text :)

Performer, Writer, Environmental-Educator

23/05/2024

Tonight at the Studio! Get your tickets here: https://dgartsfestival.org.uk/events/arts-festival/raymond-wilson-presents-i-hope-your-flowers-bloom/

22/05/2024

📣ARE YOU READY?

The 45th edition of the Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival begins TOMORROW! Have you got your tickets?

For our 11 Day Festival this year running from 23rd May – 2nd June 2024, we have a packed programme of world class theatre, music, dance, comedy and spoken word for audiences to enjoy across our beautiful region. There truly is something for everyone.

Check out our entire programme of events and join us for an amazing 11 days of performing arts, by visiting our website. https://dgartsfestival.org.uk/

20/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who came along to the screening of Why Not Scotland? on Saturday - and to our panel members, Richard Smith, Dominic Ashmole - Scottish Greens, Abi Mordin, Andy Wilson of Borders Forest Trust and Huw Connick of Connicks. Their responses to audience questions were thoughtful, considered, balanced and heartfelt. It was a great event and we're looking forward to the next outing of the What If? Film Club.

Message us if you'd like to be added to our mailing list to stay in touch with our programme!

If you're in the Moffat/Upper Annandale area, Make/Change Collective are screening Why Not Scotland? - a feature-length documentary which forms a central part of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s Rewilding Nation campaign.

The film accompanies Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. She discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, breathing life back into the landscape and revitalising human communities. Encouraged by these stories of hope and renewal, she is prompted to wonder: Why Not Scotland?

We're having two screenings - 5.30pm and 7.30pm. The 7.30pm screening of the film will be followed by a discussion involving rewilding practitioners and policy makers from Southern Scotland. Free to attend (donations always welcome).

Book online here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/makechange-collective-cic or by using the QR code on the image.

16/05/2024

We're excited to annouce our panel members for the discussion forum that follows Why Not Scotland? this Saturday at 7.30pm. We'll be joined by:

- Abi Mordin, Co-director of Propagate, Coordinator of the DG Community Food Network and organiser of the regional Regenerative Farming Network;
- Andy Wilson, Wild Heart Site Officer at Borders Forest Trust;
- Dominic Ashmole - Scottish Greens of the Scottish Green Party;
- Huw Connick, CEO of Connicks, expert in landscape restoration, holistic land management and leading business from the heart;
- Richard Smith, who is training to be a rewilding practitioner and consultant at Embercombe

Such a great panel of people - we can't wait to hear the range of views and perspectives they bring.

We're really looking forward to the film and discussion and hope to see you there. Book your place here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/makechange-collective-cic/why-not-scotland/e-plzjzz or via the QR code on the poster!

15/05/2024

It's so lovely to see very young children and their mums and dads in the theatre! Delighted that Glow Bambino Dumfries & Galloway are going to be coming here regularly :)

http://glow-bambino-carlisle-d-g.classforkids.io/
June & July bookings open -apologises I hadn't open payg for June but it is active now
July and August are block only as are two weeks due to holidays
Please note - exciting news Woo woo will be making Moffat a regular session The Studio Theatre
Still spaces for May bookings too

14/05/2024

Look who came to The Studio Theatre today! So much fun on the farm 😀

14/05/2024

If you're in the Moffat/Upper Annandale area, Make/Change Collective are screening Why Not Scotland? - a feature-length documentary which forms a central part of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s Rewilding Nation campaign.

The film accompanies Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. She discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, breathing life back into the landscape and revitalising human communities. Encouraged by these stories of hope and renewal, she is prompted to wonder: Why Not Scotland?

We're having two screenings - 5.30pm and 7.30pm. The 7.30pm screening of the film will be followed by a discussion involving rewilding practitioners and policy makers from Southern Scotland. Free to attend (donations always welcome).

Book online here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/makechange-collective-cic or by using the QR code on the image.

12/05/2024

Starting at 2:30 today!

10/05/2024

We're excited to host Glow Bambino Dumfries & Galloway at the Studio Theatre on Tuesday 14th May - we can't wait to have the space filled with the laughter of young children again. :)

If you're the parent of an infant 8 week to 22 months old, you should try it out!

08/05/2024

Quick message to let you know that there won't be a Soundwave jam session this Saturday (11th May). We'll be back in the theatre on 18th May from 10am to 3pm!

08/05/2024

We host Make/Change Collective events and activities at the Studio Theatre. Last month, Dumfries and Galloway Sustainable Food Partnership interviewed the directors of Make/Change for their website - here's the post! If you'd like to find out more about Make/Change, get in touch through the page.

04/05/2024

**Creative Opportunity - Deadline for applications is Wednesday 22 May at 5pm.**

Applications are now open for the next round of New Producers, Film Hub Scotland's training programme for people who’d like to better understand how to produce film events for audiences in Scotland.

The New Producers programme aims to increase the number of marginalised people working for cinemas and festivals within Scotland. This includes those marginalised due to race, gender, sexuality, age, class, and disability. This comes from a recognition that these identities are not adequately represented within the Scottish screen industry.

The programme offers a placement of four months, based at a host organisation (Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Scottish Q***r International Film Festival (SQIFF), Scottish Mental Health Arts Film Festival or Take One Action). The placement is offered part-time at the real living wage of £12 per hour. Each role is offered for four months, 3 days per week, 8 hour days.

Applications are now open for New Producers, our training programme for people who’d like to better understand how to produce film events for audiences.

01/05/2024

We've been quiet lately, and there were reasons for it: we will tell you a bit more about it next week. But for now, we decided there is no better day than Mayday to open up for submissions for Lumpen #13! So, without further delay, we are delighted to inform you that our renowned Lumpen: A Journal....

01/05/2024

Join Make/Change Collective at the Studio Theatre for Why Not Scotland? - a feature-length documentary which forms a central part of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s Rewilding Nation campaign.

The film accompanies Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, on an intensely personal journey, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. However, during her travels, she discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, breathing life back into the landscape and revitalising human communities. Encouraged by these stories of hope and renewal, she is prompted to wonder: Why Not Scotland?

Starring Flo Blackbourn. Produced and directed by Mat Larkin. Executive producer Peter Cairns. Assistant producer Tierney Lloyd.

The 7.30pm screening of the film will be followed by a discussion involving rewilding practitioners and policy makers from Southern Scotland.

A What If? Film Club Screening - the event is free to attend but we welcome donations to help us cover our costs.

29/04/2024

Join us on Monday 6th May and help us package up seeds for Moffat Seed Library! It's a great chance for a good blether while doing something good for our communities.

Bring your own saved seed if you have them to spare, bring home baking to share if you like (we'll be bringing our famous rhubarb and custard cake!), but mostly, just bring yourself!

7pm to 9pm at the Studio Theatre.

26/04/2024

We're so excited by what The Studio Theatre and Make/Change Collective have lined up in May - whether it's seeds or blooming flowers, film clubs or fills - there's something for everyone.

Message us if you'd like to find out more! More info to follow over the next week...