Residence, the artist-led organisation I’m part of, has been upping it’s game recently.  That game, incidentally, is to provide social, rehearsal and office space for us as artists making theatre, live art and performance.  At the moment, we share a cruddy office space in central Bristol.  We’re in the CID unit of the old Bridewell Police Station in Broadmead.  It’s dark, damp and cold, and we’ve realised that if we don’t up sticks soon the whole organisation could fold. So we’re on the lookout for a new space.  We’ve looked at a couple of spaces, and the prospects are exciting.

And as part of this new lease of life, we’re also holding our first public event at the Tobacco Factory this autumn. From Friday 11th to Saturday 12th September, Residence will be moving in to the Tobacco Factory and calling it home. We’ll be hosting drinks, dinner and then a breakfast to recover the morning after the night before. Between the food and the friendly chat there will be discussion and debate about theatre, work-in-progress showings, open rehearsals and the opportunity to meet other theatre-makers and audiences.  So this is just an advance warning that that’s coming up.  There’s loads of other stuff happening that weekend, including Lone Twin’s Speeches project in Bath, commissioned by ICIA, and Take Art’s Made in Somerset.