German Lieder, French song, Improvisation and some experimenting with the recital atmos…
Pietro Iacopini on piano
7:30pm doors for 8pm music
Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards on Sea
Donizetti's super camp and fun opera in two acts.
I shall be playing the role of Gianetta.
Directed by Eleanor Strutt
Musical Direction by Marcio da Silva
The White Rock Theatre, Hastings
April 27th 2024, 7:30pm
Donizetti's super camp and fun opera in two acts.
I shall be playing the role of Gianetta.
Directed by Eleanor Strutt
Musical Direction by Marcio da Silva
The White Rock Theatre, Hastings
April 26th 2024, 7:30pm
At the Laban Theatre,
Feb 16th 2024,
7pm
An Opera in 3 Acts by Libby Larsen
I shall be playing the MONSTER ✌🏻
Director: John Ramster
Conductor: Jonathan Tilbrook
Designer: Louis Carver
Lighting Designer: Anthony Arblaster
Intellectual ambition, technological arrogance and the deep human need for companionship combine in this opera adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Young medical student Victor Frankenstein ignores the warnings of his friends and family and uses electricity, alchemy and medical knowledge to create a new life which he immediately repels as a monstrous, evil creation. However, his creation learns the capacity to feel and love and returns for a final reckoning with devastating consequences.
An Opera in 3 Acts by Libby Larsen
I shall be playing the MONSTER ✌🏻
Director: John Ramster
Conductor: Jonathan Tilbrook
Designer: Louis Carver
Lighting Designer: Anthony Arblaster
Intellectual ambition, technological arrogance and the deep human need for companionship combine in this opera adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Young medical student Victor Frankenstein ignores the warnings of his friends and family and uses electricity, alchemy and medical knowledge to create a new life which he immediately repels as a monstrous, evil creation. However, his creation learns the capacity to feel and love and returns for a final reckoning with devastating consequences.
An Opera in 3 Acts by Libby Larsen
I shall be playing the MONSTER ✌🏻
Director: John Ramster
Conductor: Jonathan Tilbrook
Designer: Louis Carver
Lighting Designer: Anthony Arblaster
Intellectual ambition, technological arrogance and the deep human need for companionship combine in this opera adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Young medical student Victor Frankenstein ignores the warnings of his friends and family and uses electricity, alchemy and medical knowledge to create a new life which he immediately repels as a monstrous, evil creation. However, his creation learns the capacity to feel and love and returns for a final reckoning with devastating consequences.
An Opera in 3 Acts by Libby Larsen
I shall be playing the MONSTER ✌🏻
Director: John Ramster
Conductor: Jonathan Tilbrook
Designer: Louis Carver
Lighting Designer: Anthony Arblaster
Intellectual ambition, technological arrogance and the deep human need for companionship combine in this opera adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Young medical student Victor Frankenstein ignores the warnings of his friends and family and uses electricity, alchemy and medical knowledge to create a new life which he immediately repels as a monstrous, evil creation. However, his creation learns the capacity to feel and love and returns for a final reckoning with devastating consequences.
Mon 19 – Wed 21 June
This innovative piano festival, directed by Douglas Finch and founded by Peter Tuite is hosted by Trinity Laban's Keyboard Department, and allows for a wide scope of contemporary performance events including film, multi-media, dance and improvisation.
I will be perticipating in the improvisation event!
I’ll be singing some Schumann, Viardot-Garcia and Strauss, with piano from the wonderful Pietro Iocapini
✌🏻
My solo recital.
Pietro Iacoponi on piano.
A programme of music exploring characters and performance states that play with the idea of our shadow selves.
Contradictory or contrasting emotions or beliefs alive inside us at the same time, and what happens if the opposites meet.
Or if they don’t.
Rossini, Handel, Schumann, Marsh + some Westbrook/Iacoponi improv bits too.
It will be playful, operatic, a little shadowy and dark and (hopefully) beautiful too.
FREE ENTRY!
13:45 START TIME (its an exam so it’ll be very efficient!)
I’ll be co-creating and performing and clowning and opera-ing in a new piece of performance art music.
her bed // dream wake piece
Calla Esperanza (composer) Hannah Calascione (director)
A girl lies in bed, adrift between waking and sleeping. This piece explores self actualisation through voice within the transfem experience.
Calla Esperanza is a musician and cross-arts collaborator currently studying for a masters in composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD). She primarily works with text scores due to their accessibility to performers with different experiences and skillsets; she is excited by the way this openness often expands the work beyond the limitations of her own ideas and breaks down boundaries between composers, performers and audiences. Calla recently collaborated with with choreographer Sophia Morton, working closely with the dancers and, with the help of a dancer-vocalist, developed a piece melding movement and vocalisation. The piece was performed at The Place (December 1st/2nd 2022). In 2018/19, she worked with Hannah Calascione on a play called All the Little Lights. First she created a score that was realised live, using MaxMSP, allowing her to respond to the actors in real time; this version was performed at GSMD. Then she created a fixed media version for a run of the play at Tristan Bates Theatre. For her undergraduate degree, she studied electronic music at GSMD. During that time she founded the Guildhall Experimental Music Society to foster a low stakes environment in which musicians could try out new ideas.
Hannah Calascione is an award-winning director and dramaturg. Her work interrogates the world’s systems, and is usually interdisciplinary, sensory and curious. She holds an MFA in theatre directing from Birkbeck, a BA in anthropology & politics from Cambridge, and a diploma in horticulture. She is currently working on a new show about land ownership, worship, and ecological justice called Green Satanic Thrills, at Camden People’s Theatre. She is also developing a verbatim play, Next of Kin, exploring alternative kinship models in collaboration with the Institute of Womens Health (UCL). Much of her work is music driven. In 2018 she collaborated with Calla Esperanza in her production of All the Little Lights by Jane Upton, winning an OffWestEnd Award in 2020. She was commissioned by HOME, ¡Viva! Festival 2019 to create Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Manchester Camerata Orchestra. In 2021 she collaborated with composer Sarah Angliss and Fabula Collective to create a new adaptation of a Japanese play, Camellia. She recently appeared in the chorus of Waste Paper Opera’s Dead Cat Bounce at Somerset House, and is often found in informal choirs and music-making groups. She produces and delivers cross-arts learning programmes, currently at the Barbican Centre and the Roundhouse.
I’ll be co-creating and performing and clowning and opera-ing in a new piece of performance art music.
her bed // dream wake piece
Calla Esperanza (composer) Hannah Calascione (director)
A girl lies in bed, adrift between waking and sleeping. This piece explores self actualisation through voice within the transfem experience.
Calla Esperanza is a musician and cross-arts collaborator currently studying for a masters in composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD). She primarily works with text scores due to their accessibility to performers with different experiences and skillsets; she is excited by the way this openness often expands the work beyond the limitations of her own ideas and breaks down boundaries between composers, performers and audiences. Calla recently collaborated with with choreographer Sophia Morton, working closely with the dancers and, with the help of a dancer-vocalist, developed a piece melding movement and vocalisation. The piece was performed at The Place (December 1st/2nd 2022). In 2018/19, she worked with Hannah Calascione on a play called All the Little Lights. First she created a score that was realised live, using MaxMSP, allowing her to respond to the actors in real time; this version was performed at GSMD. Then she created a fixed media version for a run of the play at Tristan Bates Theatre. For her undergraduate degree, she studied electronic music at GSMD. During that time she founded the Guildhall Experimental Music Society to foster a low stakes environment in which musicians could try out new ideas.
Hannah Calascione is an award-winning director and dramaturg. Her work interrogates the world’s systems, and is usually interdisciplinary, sensory and curious. She holds an MFA in theatre directing from Birkbeck, a BA in anthropology & politics from Cambridge, and a diploma in horticulture. She is currently working on a new show about land ownership, worship, and ecological justice called Green Satanic Thrills, at Camden People’s Theatre. She is also developing a verbatim play, Next of Kin, exploring alternative kinship models in collaboration with the Institute of Womens Health (UCL). Much of her work is music driven. In 2018 she collaborated with Calla Esperanza in her production of All the Little Lights by Jane Upton, winning an OffWestEnd Award in 2020. She was commissioned by HOME, ¡Viva! Festival 2019 to create Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Manchester Camerata Orchestra. In 2021 she collaborated with composer Sarah Angliss and Fabula Collective to create a new adaptation of a Japanese play, Camellia. She recently appeared in the chorus of Waste Paper Opera’s Dead Cat Bounce at Somerset House, and is often found in informal choirs and music-making groups. She produces and delivers cross-arts learning programmes, currently at the Barbican Centre and the Roundhouse.
I will be sharing the THIRD INSTALMENT of my “MotherHood Series” at this event.
My work will then feature in the exhibition which will run for two months.
Babes In Arms is a collective of artist mothers living in Hastings, St Leonards and Bexhill, who have come together through a shared experience of the inspiration and the difficulties that are attached to being an artist or creative whilst also trying to raise a child.
The collective was initiated by artists Annie Mackin and Elizabeth Power, who often met with their children and decided to call to arms other local creative mothers to join a collective with the objective of having group exhibitions and running artist-led workshops.
Their work encourages mothers to bond with their children over the creative process, and is an outlet that provides some autonomy and independence alongside motherhood. This approach promotes and reignites confidence in creating and recognises the undulating experience and relationship of motherhood and creativity.
This exhibition follows a series of workshops led by Babes in Arms artists at the De La Warr Pavilion throughout summer 2022.
I’ll be making music and performing in this new devised work:
Sometimes, what we remember is happier than what is true. Family secrets, birthday celebrations and pavlova come together in this new story inspired by the strawberries of Bower Hinton Farm.
BIRTHDAY DAY has been commissioned by Take Art through their Cultivate project.
Am singing in the chorus with my wonderful friends Waste Paper Opera
WASTE PAPER OPERA’s PROJECT:
Dead Cat Bounce is an exploration of financial alchemy and the unmaking of reality in the time of catastrophe. Staged within a sculptural installation, the performance takes the form of an oratorio, a mode of Baroque performance using instruments and voice to tell a sacred narrative. The work unfolds over five interwoven vignettes of pre-emptive catastrophe. In China (2016), five hitmen arrive in court to discover they’ve subcontracted each other to kill the same real estate developer. At the palace of Louis XVI (1788), thirty Swiss virgins are having their teeth checked to secure the national debt. In Miami (2027), an insurance broker redrafts a contract for a house that is already underwater. In Jerusalem (589 BC), the prophet Jeremiah weeps for the impending wrath of God. In aftershocked Japan (1855), a brothel-owner pays tribute to a catfish deity as she surveys the sunlit ruins of the city.
Amazing mother-artist-power-human exhibition launch next weekend, BABES IN ARMS at @bigyingallery St Leonards-on-Sea
curated by @elizabethpowerart and @anniemackinart
Featuring work from:
@elizabethpowerart
@anniemackinart
@laurenestellejones
@bellamyjean
@kellyjessiman
@bylilygutierrez
@chloedewemathews
@theseaweedshophastings
@jazmine_miles_long
@ciao__chiara
7pm performance by @storytime.site and @elliefpwestbrook
Expect mother-body musings, singings and foolishness from moi!
A ONE TIME ONLY event
An evening of performative curiosites
Featuring:
Frankie Thompson
James Oldham
Ellie (and Belly) Westbrook
My first live performance in PERSON sinve covid got SERIOUS!
My OPERA AND PREGGO BELLY Duet premiere….
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fools-moon-tickets-160730847291
FOOL'S MOON is a monthly cabaret night featuring an array of comedians, musicians, poets, dancers and other theatrical beings.
Opening night is on the 11th of June at The Others in Stoke Newington. Doors open at 7:30pm.
Hosted by Paulina Lenoir & Ella Evans
Featuring:
Fred Strangebone
Mystic Maryam
Sarah Johns Music Party
Lady of the Manar
Ellie Westbrooke
Lachlan Werner
Laurie Luxe
Looper: Looped is a live-streamed adventure through the mind of a woman, in a barn, on the Somerset Levels, on the earth, floating in space, drifting in the universe (wherever that might be...) Join clown-singer Ellie Westbrook as she tangles herself in the twists of consciousness, and who knows where you might end up?! This performance will be best experienced with headphones.
This performance is an attempt to feed the live performance gap in life since Covid-19 and will be streamed on my Youtube Live.
This performance has been made possible by The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Taunton, as a part of the HomeBrew season.
Looper: Looped is a live-streamed adventure through the mind of a woman, in a barn, on the Somerset Levels, on the earth, floating in space, drifting in the universe (wherever that might be...) Join clown-singer Ellie Westbrook as she tangles herself in the twists of consciousness, and who knows where you might end up?! This performance will be best experienced with headphones.
This performance is an attempt to feed the live performance gap in life since Covid-19 and will be streamed on my Youtube Live.
This performance has been made possible by The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Taunton, as a part of the HomeBrew season.
“Looper” is a new live streamed performance piece my moi!
Looper is dimension-squiffing live-stream adventure into the (un)known(?!), where familiar old questions reappear dressed in glam, new clothes; where ragged old thoughts reappear disguised as newborn babies. The world is bending, so it's time to look inside ourselves and see if there is actually another dimension where we can fly. Join musician-clown Ellie Westbrook as she squirms, twists and sloshes around in a live-streamed screen, inspired by the sci-fi writings of Ted Chaing. This performance will hosted on Youtube Live and will be best experienced with headphones.
It will be the final 10min performance of Dollybox Theatre’s “ Inspired by Change” Online Theatre Festival.
A totally new work of opera/clown/theatre/music - Syrup Tracing: or, on the significance of rising and/or falling, inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac’s Voyage to the Moon (1657), one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written.
Expect synths and slime moulds and humanity’s importance melding into the background as the rhizomatic communication of a future utopia/distopia (it doesnt really matter) overtakes.
Mad and fun and weird and like nothing you’ve ever seen. I promise.
Performances also from:
ION SHORTS: KATHRYN COOPER - THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS STILL TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT (PERFORMANCE)
as a part of the Ideas of Noise Festival 2020.
A totally new work of opera/clown/theatre/music - Syrup Tracing: or, on the significance of rising and/or falling, inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac’s Voyage to the Moon (1657), one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written.
Expect synths and slime moulds and humanity’s importance melding into the background as the rhizomatic communication of a future utopia/distopia (it doesnt really matter) overtakes.
Mad and fun and weird and like nothing you’ve ever seen. I promise.
Sharing the afternoon with
PERCY PURSGLOVE/PAUL DUNMALL/OLIE BRICE/JEFF WILLIAMS
WORDS FOR ION
Featuring:
KERRY HADLEY PRICE
EDWIN LLOWECH
MARTHA DARCY
LEE ARMSTRONG
BRENDAN HIGGINS & NEW MERCURY THEATRE: GIVING UP
as a part of the Ideas of Noise Festival 2020.
A totally new work of opera/clown/theatre/music - Syrup Tracing: or, on the significance of rising and/or falling, inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac’s Voyage to the Moon (1657), one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written.
Expect synths and slime moulds and humanity’s importance melding into the background as the rhizomatic communication of a future utopia/distopia (it doesnt really matter) overtakes.
Mad and fun and weird and like nothing you’ve ever seen. I promise.
Sharing the evening with
SOUND OBJECT SEEING
(SAM UNDERWOOD/GRAHAM DUNNING)
SAD MAN VS ARTIST RETIRED (RA)
as a part of the Ideas of Noise Festival 2020.
"Big Berg" is finally making a London appearance after a cool sabbatical.
Please come and see my silly/profound/physical theatre/musical mush at the Rosemary Branch on JAN 8th twothousandandtwenty!!!
Join me on an adventure to the South Pole, as I follow famous, old colonialist men into the abyss, and get lost on glaciers that have long since melted. Why do people want to be important, or remembered? What is that to me? To you? There's original music, song, character shifting, physically embodied icebergs and casual questions about the meaning of life.
The show will be followed by delicious live gig from musician magician Eli Carvajal.
ALL THIS for only £11 !!
Kick off at 7:30pm
"...the Queen of silliness..." 5* review - broadwaybaby.com
A variety night of upcoming and visionary talent... an entertaining evening where you can WIN PRIZES! Entry includes a FREE raffle ticket with presents including the "Stranger Danger Shot round" £5 before 9pm, £7 after, closes about midnight - tickets at door!
A night of comedy, poetry, music, clowning, puppeteering and more brought to you by your hosts for the night -- special guest Ella Evans & Paulina Lenoir
Featuring brand new, shiny and explosive material from Hugo Hamlet -- Lily Ashley -- Julia Masli -- Hazel Townsend -- Sam Bailey -- Helen Ainsworth and more!!!!
HUGO HAMLET
https://www.facebook.com/hugohamlethugohamlet/
Instagram: @hugohamlet
Soundcloud: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sh4kcFQN5pZcNxX4eBGmO?fbclid=IwAR3dQuqG1g4t63yC03FKJ2wPBKlUz0G7cmAg-qDPHdh2vNvpk0Evza6yjgw
LILY ASHLEY
https://www.lilyashley.co.uk/
Instagram: lilyashleylilyashley
JULIA MASLI
https://www.facebook.com/thepushkinettes/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/492740791498079/
Instagram: @juliamasli
HAZEL TOWNSEND
Instagram: @hazel_townsend
SAM BAILEY
Instagram: @sambaileystadiumtour
HELEN AINSWORTH
https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/janet/744310?fbclid=IwAR05cbbax69Jw2mL0DQyVeffbc531DKeNzJYh183fh9YrwsygNM7hkFJR2A
SIMON STANLEY
https://www.simonstanleyward.com/about
ELLIE WESTBROOK
www.eleanorwestbrook.com
...and many more surprises await!!!
Come see me Sing and Sax it up with amazing 9-piece avant-jazz punk PARTY A Sweet Niche.
Will be fun and silly and jazzzyyy and cooool.
Come see me do some silly stuff at Piñata!
Your fave art-comedy-cabaret in Nunhead! The best acts on the circuit interrupted by one-off experiments and silliness from your Piñata Players, followed by the smashing of a nice object until sweets come out.
It's doors at 730pm, show at 8pm.
Tickets are available on DICE for 8 quid or from behind the bar at The Old Nun’s Head for a fiver.
Lineup soon, keep an eye on Insta (@pinataplay) it's a belter.
Take to the Streets and challenge those in power!
Come to the Treasury and witness our special government and oil company panto.
Come and be heard on your streets.
Don’t take the big people making money over the health of your environment as the standard!
