Gear Shift is our new artist development programme, supported by Arts Council England. There are four places on the programme, and we’ll be working with the successful applicants from April to October to help develop environmental ideas, and help participants build their production, fundraising and marketing skills and network with other creatives in the sector
...There's a lot to keep up with and government advice and rules are changing on a daily basis. However as things currently stand on the date we publish this post, we still have the ability and liberty to help those in need...
The 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe has begun, and our all-female HandleBards troupe are days away from joining the rest of the global theatre community in the Scottish capital. However, the Fringe can be a tough place. There's a lot of stress, a lot of excitement, and little time to yourself. For the last few months, our Girls have
Four years ago I saw The Handlebards perform Romeo and Juliet in Edinburgh. It was a total joy. I thought: these women have to be either extremely adventurous or incredibly mad to be cycling the length of the UK and performing Shakespeare non-stop. Four years later - and halfway through my own HandleBards experience - I can tell
Hello! These words come from the mind of Ross Ford, second term GreenBard boyo. Having finished our 2018 Twelfth Night tour, I was itching to go again for this season, despite having faced some of the most intense physical pain while tackling some of the toughest hills in the country last year (here's looking at you, Dales and Peaks). Now,
Whilst The Girls are busy rehearsing, we thought it was high time that we introduced The Boys for this years all-male production of Much Ado About Nothing! You will recognise most of this motley crew from last summer - as three of them have decided to come back for another dose of hills, Shakespeare and of course
God ye good-morrow! Sian the blue bard here! I’m part of this year’s female troupe and we’re currently out on tour with Romeo and Juliet (or Ромео и Јулија in Serbian, as we recently discovered. But more on that later). Right now I’m sitting in a café and flicking through my diary trying to establish exactly how far
Hi! Mark the Blue HandleBard here! As we reach the 800 mile point of our Twelfth Night cycle tour of the UK I thought it would be a good moment to reflect on our journey so far
The Sun's back out, and this time it means business. And so do we: our Boys are rehearsing, the bikes are almost ready, and the open road awaits
Unless you’ve been living underneath a rock for the last two years, you’ll have noticed that global politics is, well, how to put this lightly? Global politics is in a bit of a pickle. In some ways we’re in an unprecedented (or is that unpresidented?) era of political unrest. In other ways - t’was ever thus. Shakespeare constantly wrote about