It is with sadness that we report that the Arts Council of Wales has withdrawn the funding for North Wales Stage, which has now closed as a result. North Wales Stage took the risk of commissioning Cynefin to create the Caerdroia and the three performances in the Labyrinth. It seems that this in another nail in the coffin of innovative and challenging theatre and the pill is more bitter for knowing that the withdrawn funding is going to feed the insatiable corporate monster that is the London Olympics.
The government claim that the cut of a third in all arts funding which is being used for the Olympics will go towards a 'Cultural Olympiad.' We all know what centralized cultural initiatives look like...remember the Millennium Dome?
You can sign a petition here to stop this tide of cultural sportification...
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lotteryolympics/
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Return to Caerdroia...Perhaps
Latest news is that after thinking that we had said goodbye forever to our Labyrinth instillation in the Gwydyr Forest, the kind people of the forest...no not fairies but the group formed to represent the people who live in the forest, Golygfa Gwydyr, have asked us back. In a recent consultation exercise they did with the forest folk one of the common requests was for a return of the performances. So we are currently working together to raise funds for a...wait for it...a Halloween Labyrinth. This time the production is done on the cheap because of the bloody London Olympics which is already syphoning off arts funding into the corporate coffers, the actors will all be local volunteers. So if you are local to the Conwy Valley and are reading this and fancy getting involved...not necessarily acting but helping out in some way with your time, please get in touch.
Of course whether it happens hinges on funding applications succeeding but Cynefin are looking forward to the challenge of making a Labyrinth on the night of ghosts (Ysbrydnos, in Welsh) which pricks at the psychology of fear and the otherworld, without scaring the pants of people.
Of course whether it happens hinges on funding applications succeeding but Cynefin are looking forward to the challenge of making a Labyrinth on the night of ghosts (Ysbrydnos, in Welsh) which pricks at the psychology of fear and the otherworld, without scaring the pants of people.
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