by Mat Burtcher | May 8, 2009 | News
Hello, The lovely face of our own Tim Wilson found a place in The Guardian today (Festival Special supplement, p. 18) speaking highly of Salena Godden’s Book Club Boutique at this year’s Standon Calling. We’re going to be at the festival with a Heritage Arts-ified installation on Galileo, which promises to be a lot of fun. Hope to see you...
by Mat Burtcher | Apr 28, 2009 | News
The HAC have installed a 1970’s strikers office in the Battersea Arts Centre as part of the Kneehigh Asylum Residencies. You can come and have a look at the installation for the next two weeks. For more information about The Asylum, please visit www.kneehigh.co.uk/asylum. We’ll have some photos up soon if you don’t manage to make it...
by Mat Burtcher | Apr 8, 2009 | News
UPDATE: Read the full portfolio entry on Standon Calling 2009 here. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The Heritage Arts Company will return to Standon Calling for another weekend of creating experiential environments for festival goers to explore. Focusing on space race mystery and the story of Galileo Galilei’s rebellious defiance of the Catholic Church, confirming heliocentricity, the Heritage Arts Company will place the heliocentre into Standon. It will be a place of wonder where worlds from the outer reaches and the past come to life for festival goers’ delights. For more information on the festival or getting the HAC to perform at your festival, get in touch here. Last year, we took the The Gem to Standon Calling 2008. See what we were up to here. Standon is reviewed as Innovation Award Winner, 2008 Festival Awards, and won the following accolades last year: “This year’s best boutique festival, probably” TIME OUT “Small but perfectly formed, the epitome of the intimate festival…” CLASH ONLINE “Small, unspoilt, wholesome and sponsor-free…” VICE “Standon Calling is a perfect example of a small festival getting it absolutely right..” VIRTUAL FESTIVALS “A well-kept hidden gem of the festival season…one of the most enviable line-ups of all the independent festivals this year” DAILY MUSIC GUIDE Check out the Standon Calling website...
by Mat Burtcher | Mar 31, 2009 | News
Hello, We’re filming a documentary with camera equipment on loan from Tiger Aspect, and we’re looking to interview people about what they do or don’t know about the 7 Noses of Soho. The project started as a kernel of an idea about a month ago but has gathered extraordinary momentum and now the vision of the documentary, the people involved and the resources we’ve hunted down confirm to us that we’re onto something with the potential to exceed our most ambitious expectations. The Myth of the 7 Noses of Soho is a peculiar one. Rumour has it that there are 7 sculpted noses on buildings in the square mile that is Soho. It’s said that if an individual finds all 7 they also attain infinite wealth. We’re filming a 15 minute documentary in Soho over only three days this week. In these 15 minutes we endeavour to find all of the noses. We also want to discover as much information and misinformation as we can about the myth. To hunt down the 7 noses we’re demanding your help. We need to know what you, as someone who spends some time in Soho, know about the 7 noses. Perhaps you know where one is? Or none? Are you acquainted with someone who knows where all 7 are? Are they infinitely wealthy? Or maybe you think it’s a load of bunkham and that we’re wasting our time? Our shoot dates are today, tomorrow and Thursday – the 31st March, 1st and 2nd April. Just five minutes of your time would do it, and you’d help us on our journey to hopefully...
by Mat Burtcher | Mar 25, 2009 | News
The Heritage Arts Company is a collection of creatively-minded people who banded together with the goal of celebrating local culture in new and exciting ways. Through theatre, art projects and workshops, we aim to make important cultural heritage a national, and community, priority. Our little island is crammed with stories of all kinds, from the grim and horrible, to the hilarious, to the poignant, but the number of people who know – and, importantly, want to pass on – these tall tales and local legends is shrinking under the weight of national and global chatter in the information age. We’re not anti-information, but we are pro-local. These stories are as much a part of our history as the adventures of chop-happy kings and monocled-statesmen, and make up a key part of the jigsaw that is our identity. Using a combination of local, national, and international talent for each project, the Heritage Arts Company aims to plunder the land for great stories and beautiful locations, and match the two together with the help of like-minded people of all walks from the neighbouring area. Simple, really. Stones and Stories: A Recipe Like the sound of what we have to offer? You can practice at home before you come to see us. To make a Heritage Arts Company production, please assemble the following ingredients: A few pounds of oral tradition, a cup of folklore, a handful of songs, three to four buckets of textual research, a smattering of memories (though not too much, or the taste of nostalgia becomes overpowering). Take these and mix them up into a delicious, heritage-y stew. Spread...
by Mat Burtcher | Mar 19, 2009 | News
Please wipe your feet before entering. Have a good nose around and let us know what you think. The HAC x
