May 1 - 28 2024
Connecting Communities Through Art and Culture
Join us for the merry month of May as we launch The New Avenue Online Arts Festival where over 160 creative people from across Nottingham & 12 professional creative artists from around the world have come together to make innovative theatrical work together.
Supported by Arts Council England and created by Chloé Charody Creations LTD.
Anyone can take part in this festival, so scroll, watch, interact and create!
WATCH A SHOW
ATtend A SKILLS BUILDINg webinar
The creative corner
BTS of the new shows by the new avenue artists
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WATCH one of our community shows…
Chloe Charody Creations & Oakfield School Nottingham
Since 2021, we have been teaming up with the young people from Oakfield School in Nottingham to create exciting new theatrical work. Here are a few of the shows we made together…
Chloe Charody Creations & The New Avenue Artists
The New Avenue Artists are a powerful team of young people across Nottinghamshire who are living in secure housing or battling homelessness who collaborate with world class creative artists & local Nottingham makers to develop innovative theatrical work. Devised specifically for this festival, below are 2 of the exciting shows created by The New Avenue Artists.
ATTEND A SKILLS BUILDING WEBINAR
THE CREATIVE CORNER
Izzy demonstrates how to make an eco-friendly butterfly using all recycled materials
Chloe demonstrates how to write a song (it's easier than you think!)
Izzy & Bryony discuss the practice of creating puppets & sets using recycled materials
bts of the new projects by the new avenue artists
‘WILCO THE WHALE’
This exciting new circus opera ‘Wilco The Whale’ was created for The New Avenue Online Arts Festival by our team comprising of local N’ham makers, The New Avenue Artists and our team of international creative professionals. This fun new show has been made as a an indoor and outdoor touring show for children. It features 3 musicians who are also singers, actors, instrumentalists and puppeteers!
‘BRIAN the butterfly’
This very fun (and quite silly) new one-puppet show, Brian The Butterfly was created by The New Avenue Artists in collaboration with composer Chloé Charody and puppet maker Izzy Hollis for the New Avenue Online Arts Festival. It features a giant Butterly made out of rubbish who sings and flies around showing off Its beard. It is designed to be an online puppet show. This online performance is performed entirely by The New Avenue Artists.
The stage production for this will be shown at a later date (we have run out of time!) but please enjoy reading the script written in collaboration between The New Avenue Artists, Chloé Charody & Duncan Townsend…
WILCO THE WHALE
The Script
‘Will I ever see my love again?’
‘Will I Ever See My Love Again?’ was created for The New Avenue Online Arts Festival by our team comprising of local N’ham makers, The New Avenue Artists & our team of international professionals. This fun new show has been made specifically as an online show combining opera, classical music & shadow puppetry.
Check out some brilliant community projects taking place in Nottingham!
StreetWise Opera
Streetwise Opera is an opera company that enables people who’ve experienced homelessness to find inspiration and empowerment while they rebuild their lives and identities.
Nottingham Puppet Festival
Nottingham Puppet Festival is a partnership between the Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall and City Arts Nottingham. First launched in 2018, the 2024 festival is their third event.
This city-wide, community-focused Festival is a celebration of puppets and people. Throughout each festival, we find a way to fill every corner of the city with puppetry performances from local, national and international artists. They commission new work, bring small and large-scale puppetry to the streets, and present workshops, talks and screenings from key figures in the puppetry world.
Daryl Beeton Productions
