A group of 20 artists have been brought together to embark on this year’s Emerging Artists Programme in Liverpool.
Creatives were invited to apply for the six-month development programme—and organisers say the quality of this year’s intake is “extremely high” with applications coming from as far afield as Turkey and Zambia.
The Emerging Artists Programme (EAP) is an experiential training performance programme. This year’s successful intake of creatives came together for the first time this week to start work on a number of EAP2016 projects.
The group range from aged 19 to 56 years old and hail mainly from Liverpool with some from other areas of Merseyside. Reinforcing their international reputation, EAP2016 also includes Liverpool-based artists who originate from Italy, Mexico and Spain.
Collectively, the trainee company offers a wealth of talent and experience and consists of a director, movement director, musical director/composer, two designers/makers, 12 performers, producer, stage manager and a production manager.
Their first project is Tent!—a challenge in itself as this will be their first performance in front of an audience as a group, after just two weeks together and with only three days to develop their own production.
Tent! will be a durational performance with audiences arriving at any time between 5:30 to 9:30PM on Thursday June 23 at Hope Street Ltd premises, part of Festival 31, a month-long festival celebrating arts and culture from refugee communities which runs between June 20 and July 20.