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Tag Archives: Ovalhouse
Thanks, Latitude!
Well, that was amazing. Huge thanks to Latitude Festival for giving us, along with our project partners Rua Arts and The Black Smock Band, the chance to bring Gerrard Winstanley’s True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit (aka #MobileIncitement) to the festival. Thanks also to … Continue reading
Posted in Major Projects, Participation, Partners and Collaborators
Tagged English history, folk music, Gerrard Winstanley's True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit, gig theatre, Latitude, Latitude Festival, mobileincitement, Ovalhouse, protest, Queen Mary, Queen Mary university of London, radical history, The Black Smock Band
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#MobileIncitement
A raucous folk gig, a community-centred political gathering and a bold reclamation of England’s radical history… It’s… GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS MOBILE INCITEMENT UNIT Made with Rua Arts and The Black Smock Band, Mobile Incitement (as we call it … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Major Projects, Participation
Tagged Brixton City Festival, english folk music, English history, folk music, Gerrard Winstanley's True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit, gig theatre, mobileincitement, Ovalhouse, Poplar Union, protest, Queen Mary, Queen Mary university of London, radical history, The Black Smock Band
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Mobile Incitement is going to Latitude!
You can find us at the Community Centre in the Faraway Forest… We’re delighted to announce that we’re part of the Latitude Festival line up with our gig-theatre piece Gerrard Winstanley’s Mobile Incitement Unit, made with The Black Smock Band, … Continue reading
So, what did you think?
Thanks to all of you who came to see the Mobile Incitement Unit! If you didn’t get a chance to give us any feedback after the show, please get in touch to let us know your thoughts. You can use … Continue reading
Mobile Incitement – into the final week…
As you must already know by now, we’ve brought together South London’s premier gay socialist folk band (probably) The Black Smock Band and C17th rebel Mr Gerrard Winstanley to save England’s radical history from oblivion. And now we’re into the … Continue reading
Mobile Incitement: A Call for Crowdfunding
Help us tell the real story of our country’s history… With politicians across the world trying to twist history to serve their own ends, we, the people, need to tell our own stories. That’s why Daedalus Theatre Company and The … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Major Projects, Partners and Collaborators, Research and Development
Tagged crowdfunding, English history, fundraising, Gerrard Winstanley's True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit, mobileincitement, Ovalhouse, Queen Mary university of London, radical history, The Black Smock Band
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R&D
We had such a great week of R&D (radicalism & dissent), working on Gerrard Winstanley’s True and Righteous Mobile Incitement Unit with The Black Smock Band and Gerrard himself, who kindly joined us from the C17th. A massive thank you … Continue reading
The Project Formerly Known as Radical History
GERRARD WINSTANLEY’S TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS MOBILE INCITEMENT UNIT is the name for the collaborations with The Black Smock Band that we were developing under the working title of The Radical History Project. There’s a project page here, plus there’s loads more … Continue reading
Radical History: project definitely underway
Thanks to Ovalhouse, the Arts Council and private funders, we had our first proper development period on our collaboration with The Black Smock Band: an undertaking which emerged from our East storytelling project but which seems to be taking on … Continue reading
Radical History at Ovalhouse
Protest and rebellion are as English as rainy bank holidays, cream teas and plundering foreign countries. But plenty of people would have us ignore the great radical moments of our history. As part of our commitment to exploring the potent mix … Continue reading