Artist Forum Workshops
The Forum is our programme of support for all artists offering workshops, meet ups and bespoke offers that enable artistic community to connect with each other, the wider sector and Bristol Old Vic’s work.
A selection of free meet-ups and panel discussions, programmed on Saturdays across the year; offering the chance to connect with fellow artists and a variety of organisations and expertise from the wider sector.
Parents or carers with childcare responsibilities are welcome to bring their children to any event.
Forum Community Conversation: Creativity and Joy
How do you keep creative joy as a freelancer?What does keeping the joy in creative work mean, what is its power and how do people find and maintain it?
Join a trio of brilliant South West artists for a hosted panel conversation followed by a short creative prompt and the chance to connect with each other over tea/coffee.
Panel: Dom Coyote (Artistic Director of Bristol performance company OTIC), Rachael Clerke (Multi-disciplinary artist) and Ruth Ramsay (Multi-disciplinary artist).
Hosted by Tan Follett (BOV Literary Producer).
- 2:00pm
Forum Meet Up: Writers and Directors
Are you a director or writer (or both) working in Bristol or the South West? Do you sometimes wish that you knew where to find collaborators, people to take your work from page to stage or a writer to inspire your creativity with their words or all of the above?
This session will be a chance for writers and directors to meet and discuss their process, passions, ideas and to discuss the current landscape, tackle the challenges and connect with each other. It will be a practical and discussion session with quiet moments to reflect on your practice as well as group discussions to dream up collaborations for the future.
Hosted by Steph Kempson (Director, writer and dramaturg).
- 12:00pm
Forum Community Conversation: Ages, Visibility and Sustainability
What does it mean to age in a society (and industry) that fetishizes youth and newness? How do you remain positive and motivated? Do you practise the art of not giving a f**k, if so how do you do that?
Join a panel of three South West based artists to discuss experience, aging and creativity. As a collective we will reflect on the wealth of knowledge and skills we have in our cannon, whilst also looking to the future.
Panel: Alison Comley (Co Artistic Director of Theatre West), Saikat Ahamed (Actor, Writer and Maker) and Edwina Bridgeman (Theatre Designer and Artist).
Hosted by Lisa Gregan (BOV Literary & Director’s Associate).
- 12:00pm
Artist Forum Christmas Social
Join us for a nibble, a drink and maybe even a Christmas craft… This is our chance to have an end of year catch up to say goodbye to 2024 and look forwards to 2025!
Hosted by BOV Literary Department (and maybe some friends!).
- 2:00pm
Access
General access information can be found on the Bristol Old Vic website here.
Do let lisa.gregan@bristololdvic.org.uk know any access requirements for the session itself and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Bursaries
There is a small reserve to help towards travel/childcare/specific support for those who would otherwise be prevented from attending.
To express interest in a bursary, please email lisa.gregan@bristololdvic.org.uk. Simply state your name and whether the bursary would be required for travel, childcare or ‘other need’ (e.g. specific disability support).