current projects

In its sixth year conFAB has expanded it's activities extensively and will focus on the following projects in 2010:

Club Gateways:
conFAB is supporting two showcase cabaret events for the new musical The Gates. Working with a community chorus and processional singers and musicians to create a cabaret night where the audience are transported back to 1950's London and the Gateways Club.
Supported by: Private sponsorship

Inter School Poetry Slam:
Now in its sixth year this highly successful project has been commissioned by the Mitchell Library to take part in the Aye Write Festival. This year sees seven schools from across Glasgow competing for the title of Inter School Poetry Slam Master 2010.
Supported by: Mitchell Library

x5 conFAB:
We will work With five groups of young people, one from each CP area across Glasgow, to explore creative writing in a medium of their choice: poetry, writing for film/TV, journalism, comedy, playwriting etc. Each group will then take part in creative writing workshops with a professional writer in their chosen medium. The fifth workshop will also involve an additional writer who will visit the group to share their writing, discuss with the young people their creative process, career opportunities in the medium etc. All the young people and professional writers will then come together for a celebratory and sharing event at the Mitchell Library as part of the Aye Write Festival 2010.
Funded by: Glasgow City Council

Spring to Poetry:
An eclectic evening of music a French poetry in and out of translation.
Commissioned by: Alliance Française de Glasgow

West of Scotland Regional Equality Council Ltd: Good Neighbors
West of Scotland Regional Equality Council Ltd in partnership with conFAB, have developed a short drama based around issues concerning Secondary Reporting to be performed in Polish and English.
Commissioned by: West of Scotland Regional Equality Council Ltd

My Fabulous Tartan Frock Extracts:
We have been asked to perform extracts from My Fabulous Tartan Frock, last years highly successful theater production that explored issues surrounding domestic violence, as part of a consultation with women on concerns around violence against women in the West of Glasgow.
Commissioned by: Violence Against Women Network

Storytelling Skills Exchange:
Storyteller Allison Galbraith will work with people of all ages to develop a programme of intergenerational skills exchange workshops that uses storytelling as the primary tool in the exchange and skills-sharing process. Galbraith will identify ‘facilitators’ of the exchanges, from Glasgow, working with them to ascertain skills, stories, a programme, and the format of the exchanges. With Galbraith, these facilitators will develop their presentation and information sharing abilities so they can most effectively deliver the exchanges. Exchanges will be based on the skills that the facilitators have and stories will be based on local and personal histories.
Dependent on funding:

Gaelic Voices:
Is a collaboration between Chromatic Voices, Gaelic speaking poets and contemporary and traditional musicians from across Scotland who will create a stunning production inspired by Gaelic myths and legends, that celebrates the history, culture and Gaelic language, exploring the links and making connections to contemporary life in Scotland. The production will tour Scotland in August 2010.
Funded by: Scottish Arts Council

Where Have I Come From? Where Are We Going?:
In 2009 Nic Green's Trilogy took the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by storm. Mixing contemporary performance, live art and dance the production posed many difficult questions about what it means to be a woman in contemporary Britain. Using Trilogy as a seed Rachel Amey's Where Have I Come From? Where Are We Going? will investigate the role of women today and how women learn to be women. It will engage with media attitudes and expectations of femaleness in a humorous, cross-artform production mixing comedy, poetry/spoken word and performance. An earlier work-in-progress showing convinced conFAB that this is a project deserving of further development, to ensure a full, professional production accessible to a wider audience.
Dependent on funding:

End Of The Line:
Leading economists have called the financial crisis of 2007-2010 the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This crisis has contributed to the failure of key businesses, decline in consumer wealth, substantial financial commitments incurred by governments, and a significant decline in economic activity. Both market-based and regulatory solutions have been implemented or are under consideration, while significant risks remain for the world economy beyond 2010-2011. What or who is to blame? How do we stop it happening again? And how does a global economic crisis impact on the individual? Callery's End of the Line is a site-specific, cross-artform, surreal exploration of the impact of the global economic crisis
Dependent on funding:

Broken Pencils:
conFAB are supporting a the disabled writers group based in Dumfries and Galloway to meet, share and develop their writing.
Funded by: Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership

Please see the events page for specific details of events.