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Acting Out Festival

8 Apr 2015 – 14 Apr 2015

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Various.

Cost of entry

Free, book online.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/into-this-recovery-center-tickets-16204777927
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecran-somnambule-tickets-16204863182
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-the-institution-tickets-16204969500

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Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham, United Kingdom

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  • Any bus to Nottingham City Centre
  • Lace Market Tram Stop
  • Nottingham Station
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Across venues in Nottingham. Performance, moving image, exhibitions, music and discussions bringing together the arts and mental health. A collaboration with The University of the Arts, London.

About

Into This Recovery Center

Performance and film screening by Jenna Bliss, Wed 8 April, 7pm

New York based artist Jenna Bliss explores the history of activism around Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, a support centre set up by community organisations including The Black Panther

Party. Commissioned with the South London Gallery.

 

Écran Somnambule

(Sleepwalking Screen)

Latifa Laâbissi, Fri 10 April, 6.30pm

A reinterpretation of a fragment of Witch Dance, performed by the pioneering expressionist choreographer Mary Wigman. Laâbissi has slowed down the movements to create a half hour

somnambulist ritual. Costume design and concept by Nadia Lauro.

 

Screening: The Institution

Dir. Ian Breakwell, 1978, Tue 14 April, 6.30pm

Experimental documentary made during Breakwell’s placements in Rampton and Broadmoor high security hospitals.

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