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Sometime Soon Arts

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Graham Shackell of Sometime Soon Arts:Graham began his professional career in 1993, aged 19, when he became a core member of the Upstairs Theatre Company. He worked as a writer, director, performer and workshop leader with the UTC for six years creating both naturalistic and experimental theatre. In 1997 Graham attended a year-long contemporary dance course with Shelly Love. In 1998 Graham attended a residential circus course with Scarabeus, leading Graham to form his own company, Sometime Soon… Performance Arts Co. With Sometime Soon… Graham began his career in the worlds of Circus, Circus Theatre and Street Theatre. The first Performance of Sometime Soon… was “The secret lives of Flibble and Gibble”, the characters of this show, created in 1998, have proved so popular that the sequel show “The uncanny adventures of Flibble and Gibble” is still running to this day.Graham has been writing plays, poems and stories for as long as he can remember, but it wasn’t until he created Sometime Soon…’s second show, in 1999, that he realised a career in oral storytelling was possible. “St George and The Dragon, told by Adrianne the storyteller” proved to be the breakthrough into the storytelling world, “St George…” is a highly interactive Storytelling show conducted from metre high stilts utilising sword and fire twirling. It has been highly successful, performing alongside stalwContent-Disposition: form-data; name="about_womad"Graham Shackell of Sometime Soon Arts:Graham began his professional career in 1993, aged 19, when he became a core member of the Upstairs Theatre Company. He worked as a writer, director, performer and workshop leader with the UTC for six years creating both naturalistic and experimental theatre. In 1997 Graham attended a year-long contemporary dance course with Shelly Love. In 1998 Graham attended a residential circus course with Scarabeus, leading Graham to form his own company, Sometime Soon… Performance Arts Co. With Sometime Soon… Graham began his career in the worlds of Circus, Circus Theatre and Street Theatre. The first Performance of Sometime Soon… was “The secret lives of Flibble and Gibble”, the characters of this show, created in 1998, have proved so popular that the sequel show “The uncanny adventures of Flibble and Gibble” is still running to this day.Graham has been writing plays, poems and stories for as long as he can remember, but it wasn’t until he created Sometime Soon…’s second show, in 1999, that he realised a career in oral storytelling was possible. “St George and The Dragon, told by Adrianne the storyteller” proved to be the breakthrough into the storytelling world, “St George…” is a highly interactive Storytelling show conducted from metre high stilts utilising sword and fire twirling. It has been highly successful, performing alongside stalwarts of the storytelling world; at Mythstories, the Museum of Myth and Fable, a number of times, and at the Festival at the Edge (storytelling festival) for three consecutive years. “St George…” has also toured England; playing at numerous events in Brighton, Glastonbury Festival, This is Art Festival (Shrewsbury), Rhythms of the World Festival (Hitchin, Herts) and the Big Green Gathering (Dorset), and in America; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon) and Austin (Texas), and in Spain; Tarrega Street Theatre Festival, Barcelona, Madrid, Grenada, Blanes, Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Ibiza and Santiago. In 2003 Graham began to tell some of the stories he has been writing over his years of travel in a professional context, stories from Colombia, Spain, Peru, America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Prague, Italy, and Ireland, he has also gained some renown for his adaptation of little known stories such as the Arabic tale “7mar & Jemel” inspired by living with a Palestinian family for a year, and “The sad story of Veronica who played the violin” sometimes accompanied by a violinist.Graham has been regularly teaching adults and children since his early days with the UTC. He teaches Theatre, Street/Circus Theatre, Physical Theatre, Circus skills, Percussion Theatre and Storytelling. Graham began his collaboration with Brighton and Hove City Council in 2002, teaching for “The Children’s University”; he has taught at numerous schContent-Disposition: form-data; name="about_womad"Graham Shackell of Sometime Soon Arts:Graham began his professional career in 1993, aged 19, when he became a core member of the Upstairs Theatre Company. He worked as a writer, director, performer and workshop leader with the UTC for six years creating both naturalistic and experimental theatre. In 1997 Graham attended a year-long contemporary dance course with Shelly Love. In 1998 Graham attended a residential circus course with Scarabeus, leading Graham to form his own company, Sometime Soon… Performance Arts Co. With Sometime Soon… Graham began his career in the worlds of Circus, Circus Theatre and Street Theatre. The first Performance of Sometime Soon… was “The secret lives of Flibble and Gibble”, the characters of this show, created in 1998, have proved so popular that the sequel show “The uncanny adventures of Flibble and Gibble” is still running to this day.Graham has been writing plays, poems and stories for as long as he can remember, but it wasn’t until he created Sometime Soon…’s second show, in 1999, that he realised a career in oral storytelling was possible. “St George and The Dragon, told by Adrianne the storyteller” proved to be the breakthrough into the storytelling world, “St George…” is a highly interactive Storytelling show conducted from metre high stilts utilising sword and fire twirling. It has been highly successful, performing alongside stalwarts of the storytelling world; at Mythstories, the Museum of Myth and Fable, a number of times, and at the Festival at the Edge (storytelling festival) for three consecutive years. “St George…” has also toured England; playing at numerous events in Brighton, Glastonbury Festival, This is Art Festival (Shrewsbury), Rhythms of the World Festival (Hitchin, Herts) and the Big Green Gathering (Dorset), and in America; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon) and Austin (Texas), and in Spain; Tarrega Street Theatre Festival, Barcelona, Madrid, Grenada, Blanes, Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Ibiza and Santiago. In 2003 Graham began to tell some of the stories he has been writing over his years of travel in a professional context, stories from Colombia, Spain, Peru, America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Prague, Italy, and Ireland, he has also gained some renown for his adaptation of little known stories such as the Arabic tale “7mar & Jemel” inspired by living with a Palestinian family for a year, and “The sad story of Veronica who played the violin” sometimes accompanied by a violinist.Graham has been regularly teaching adults and children since his early days with the UTC. He teaches Theatre, Street/Circus Theatre, Physical Theatre, Circus skills, Percussion Theatre and Storytelling. Graham began his collaboration with Brighton and Hove City Council in 2002, teaching for “The Children’s University”; he has taught at numerous schools and colleges locally and nationally; in 2004 he was a co-founder of “The Academy of Fusion Arts”, created to teach a weekly master class in Performing Arts for talented youth. In 2005 Graham joined “The Circus Project” to teach Performance Circus, and, again in 2005, Graham received funding from “Awards for All” to create “Circomania” a Circus Theatre/Creative Dance project, working with Dance tutor Lucia Cordani, for disadvantaged children in the Brighton area. The second year of this project called Circo Sundance also received funding from awards for all. In 2006 Graham became the Youth Theatre Leader for Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in this role he is responsible for delivering and administrating the Youth Theatre programme for Trinity Theatre youth aged 11-19. He will be teaching a widely varied programme of performance arts and disciplines leading to 3 end of year performances in 2007. Graham has a special interest in teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds and children with Special needs (his goddaughter has Downs Syndrome), organisations he has taught for in this field include; Mencap, Cherish, Downsview School (Brighton), Uplands School (Brighton), The Markfield Project (London), Wandle Valley School (Surrey), Sundance Playscheme (Brighton), The Children’s Musical Playhouse (Brighton), the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (London) and The Youth Diversity Challenge (London). In 2004 Graham began woContent-Disposition: form-data; name="about_womad"Graham Shackell of Sometime Soon Arts:Graham began his professional career in 1993, aged 19, when he became a core member of the Upstairs Theatre Company. He worked as a writer, director, performer and workshop leader with the UTC for six years creating both naturalistic and experimental theatre. In 1997 Graham attended a year-long contemporary dance course with Shelly Love. In 1998 Graham attended a residential circus course with Scarabeus, leading Graham to form his own company, Sometime Soon… Performance Arts Co. With Sometime Soon… Graham began his career in the worlds of Circus, Circus Theatre and Street Theatre. The first Performance of Sometime Soon… was “The secret lives of Flibble and Gibble”, the characters of this show, created in 1998, have proved so popular that the sequel show “The uncanny adventures of Flibble and Gibble” is still running to this day.Graham has been writing plays, poems and stories for as long as he can remember, but it wasn’t until he created Sometime Soon…’s second show, in 1999, that he realised a career in oral storytelling was possible. “St George and The Dragon, told by Adrianne the storyteller” proved to be the breakthrough into the storytelling world, “St George…” is a highly interactive Storytelling show conducted from metre high stilts utilising sword and fire twirling. It has been highly successful, performing alongside stalwarts of the storytelling world; at Mythstories, the Museum of Myth and Fable, a number of times, and at the Festival at the Edge (storytelling festival) for three consecutive years. “St George…” has also toured England; playing at numerous events in Brighton, Glastonbury Festival, This is Art Festival (Shrewsbury), Rhythms of the World Festival (Hitchin, Herts) and the Big Green Gathering (Dorset), and in America; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon) and Austin (Texas), and in Spain; Tarrega Street Theatre Festival, Barcelona, Madrid, Grenada, Blanes, Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Ibiza and Santiago. In 2003 Graham began to tell some of the stories he has been writing over his years of travel in a professional context, stories from Colombia, Spain, Peru, America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Prague, Italy, and Ireland, he has also gained some renown for his adaptation of little known stories such as the Arabic tale “7mar & Jemel” inspired by living with a Palestinian family for a year, and “The sad story of Veronica who played the violin” sometimes accompanied by a violinist.Graham has been regularly teaching adults and children since his early days with the UTC. He teaches Theatre, Street/Circus Theatre, Physical Theatre, Circus skills, Percussion Theatre and Storytelling. Graham began his collaboration with Brighton and Hove City Council in 2002, teaching for “The Children’s University”; he has taught at numerous schools and colleges locally and nationally; in 2004 he was a co-founder of “The Academy of Fusion Arts”, created to teach a weekly master class in Performing Arts for talented youth. In 2005 Graham joined “The Circus Project” to teach Performance Circus, and, again in 2005, Graham received funding from “Awards for All” to create “Circomania” a Circus Theatre/Creative Dance project, working with Dance tutor Lucia Cordani, for disadvantaged children in the Brighton area. The second year of this project called Circo Sundance also received funding from awards for all. In 2006 Graham became the Youth Theatre Leader for Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in this role he is responsible for delivering and administrating the Youth Theatre programme for Trinity Theatre youth aged 11-19. He will be teaching a widely varied programme of performance arts and disciplines leading to 3 end of year performances in 2007. Graham has a special interest in teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds and children with Special needs (his goddaughter has Downs Syndrome), organisations he has taught for in this field include; Mencap, Cherish, Downsview School (Brighton), Uplands School (Brighton), The Markfield Project (London), Wandle Valley School (Surrey), Sundance Playscheme (Brighton), The Children’s Musical Playhouse (Brighton), the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (London) and The Youth Diversity Challenge (London). In 2004 Graham began working in South America, that year he taught disadvantaged children in Merida (Venezuela) and San Agustin (Colombia) In 2004/5, when Graham returned to teach in San Agustin (Colombia), working alongside the charity Viracocha, the class had grown to over one hundred children, which he taught solo daily for three weeks. He then continued to Peru where, working alongside the charity Kiya Survivors, he taught in two centres, Mancora and Urubamba. The children from these centres not only have severe special needs but have suffered abuse and neglect. All the teaching in South America has been conducted in Spanish. Graham is planning not only to return to Colombia and Peru, but also to extend the project to Bolivia and Chile. In 2006 Graham was instrumental (and is currently the project co-ordinator) in forming The Artreach Project, a charitable organisation committed to delivering high quality performance arts projects to where it is needed most, principally to children/youth/adults in deprived areas with or without special needs, working locally, nationally and internationally. One of The Artreach Project’s projects will be the continuation of the South American project mentioned above.In addition to his own company, Graham has worked, in many roles, with a number of other large scale companies practicing all the aforementioned performance arts including; Re:action Theatre (The Tempest), Pearshaped Performance (Furry CoContent-Disposition: form-data; name="about_womad"Graham Shackell of Sometime Soon Arts:Graham began his professional career in 1993, aged 19, when he became a core member of the Upstairs Theatre Company. He worked as a writer, director, performer and workshop leader with the UTC for six years creating both naturalistic and experimental theatre. In 1997 Graham attended a year-long contemporary dance course with Shelly Love. In 1998 Graham attended a residential circus course with Scarabeus, leading Graham to form his own company, Sometime Soon… Performance Arts Co. With Sometime Soon… Graham began his career in the worlds of Circus, Circus Theatre and Street Theatre. The first Performance of Sometime Soon… was “The secret lives of Flibble and Gibble”, the characters of this show, created in 1998, have proved so popular that the sequel show “The uncanny adventures of Flibble and Gibble” is still running to this day.Graham has been writing plays, poems and stories for as long as he can remember, but it wasn’t until he created Sometime Soon…’s second show, in 1999, that he realised a career in oral storytelling was possible. “St George and The Dragon, told by Adrianne the storyteller” proved to be the breakthrough into the storytelling world, “St George…” is a highly interactive Storytelling show conducted from metre high stilts utilising sword and fire twirling. It has been highly successful, performing alongside stalwarts of the storytelling world; at Mythstories, the Museum of Myth and Fable, a number of times, and at the Festival at the Edge (storytelling festival) for three consecutive years. “St George…” has also toured England; playing at numerous events in Brighton, Glastonbury Festival, This is Art Festival (Shrewsbury), Rhythms of the World Festival (Hitchin, Herts) and the Big Green Gathering (Dorset), and in America; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon) and Austin (Texas), and in Spain; Tarrega Street Theatre Festival, Barcelona, Madrid, Grenada, Blanes, Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Ibiza and Santiago. In 2003 Graham began to tell some of the stories he has been writing over his years of travel in a professional context, stories from Colombia, Spain, Peru, America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Prague, Italy, and Ireland, he has also gained some renown for his adaptation of little known stories such as the Arabic tale “7mar & Jemel” inspired by living with a Palestinian family for a year, and “The sad story of Veronica who played the violin” sometimes accompanied by a violinist.Graham has been regularly teaching adults and children since his early days with the UTC. He teaches Theatre, Street/Circus Theatre, Physical Theatre, Circus skills, Percussion Theatre and Storytelling. Graham began his collaboration with Brighton and Hove City Council in 2002, teaching for “The Children’s University”; he has taught at numerous schools and colleges locally and nationally; in 2004 he was a co-founder of “The Academy of Fusion Arts”, created to teach a weekly master class in Performing Arts for talented youth. In 2005 Graham joined “The Circus Project” to teach Performance Circus, and, again in 2005, Graham received funding from “Awards for All” to create “Circomania” a Circus Theatre/Creative Dance project, working with Dance tutor Lucia Cordani, for disadvantaged children in the Brighton area. The second year of this project called Circo Sundance also received funding from awards for all. In 2006 Graham became the Youth Theatre Leader for Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in this role he is responsible for delivering and administrating the Youth Theatre programme for Trinity Theatre youth aged 11-19. He will be teaching a widely varied programme of performance arts and disciplines leading to 3 end of year performances in 2007. Graham has a special interest in teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds and children with Special needs (his goddaughter has Downs Syndrome), organisations he has taught for in this field include; Mencap, Cherish, Downsview School (Brighton), Uplands School (Brighton), The Markfield Project (London), Wandle Valley School (Surrey), Sundance Playscheme (Brighton), The Children’s Musical Playhouse (Brighton), the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (London) and The Youth Diversity Challenge (London). In 2004 Graham began working in South America, that year he taught disadvantaged children in Merida (Venezuela) and San Agustin (Colombia) In 2004/5, when Graham returned to teach in San Agustin (Colombia), working alongside the charity Viracocha, the class had grown to over one hundred children, which he taught solo daily for three weeks. He then continued to Peru where, working alongside the charity Kiya Survivors, he taught in two centres, Mancora and Urubamba. The children from these centres not only have severe special needs but have suffered abuse and neglect. All the teaching in South America has been conducted in Spanish. Graham is planning not only to return to Colombia and Peru, but also to extend the project to Bolivia and Chile. In 2006 Graham was instrumental (and is currently the project co-ordinator) in forming The Artreach Project, a charitable organisation committed to delivering high quality performance arts projects to where it is needed most, principally to children/youth/adults in deprived areas with or without special needs, working locally, nationally and internationally. One of The Artreach Project’s projects will be the continuation of the South American project mentioned above.In addition to his own company, Graham has worked, in many roles, with a number of other large scale companies practicing all the aforementioned performance arts including; Re:action Theatre (The Tempest), Pearshaped Performance (Furry Cossacks, The Big Beatles), Jo Bithume (Hello Mr Jo), Periplum Theatre (Arquiem), Travellers Tales (El cuento del Diablo y la Princesa de Sacramonte), Del Narco (Precioso), Pyromania (Pyromaniacs Ball), and Scarabeus (Living in Trees).Graham also works regularly with the following organisations; Glastonbury Festival, Festival at the Edge, Mythstories Museum of Myth and Fable, Zap Art (Street Arts agency), Brighton and Hove Council, WOMAD Festival, The Streets of Brighton Festival and Brunswick Festival.