projects

In its eight year conFAB has expanded its organisational structure and will focus on larger scale projects. Much of our work this year will also involve planning projects for 2013 and beyond:

Inter School Poetry Slam 2012
This highly successful project has been commissioned by the Mitchell Library with six schools from across Glasgow competing for the title of Inter School Poetry Slam Master 2012.
Supported by: Glasgow Life Mitchell Library

The Women's Creative Company
Following on from the successful premier of 80.1 in December 2011 we will tour the production to community venues in support of International Women's Day 2012.
Partners: a moments peace theatre company
Funded by: Awards for All, Make a Splash

Hidden City @ Barlinnie
Working in partnership with Lorna Callery, Reader in Residence at Barlinnie Prison, we would like to extend the Hidden City model to work with eight prisoners/participants in Barlinnie. Rachel Jury will again select a hidden site in the heart of Glasgow City centre. The participants will then be shown video and photographic footage, of the site as well as historical or other relevant information. Lorna will then work with them to create a poetic response to the site whilst a digital animator will work with them to create their own personal animated avatar. The audience will again be asked to meet at a specified location and will be taken to the site where the digital avatars will perform the poems in situ. The performance will be viewed by the participants and filmed for the participants in the prison. The poems will also be published in an anthology.
Funded by: Hugh Fraser Foundation, Scottish Community Foundation

Spoetry
Three short films made specifically for distribution to mobile phones, and social networking media that explore, through poetry, the relationship Glasgow has with sport. l.
Funded by: Glasgow Life, Glasgow City Council

The Houses Aren't Big Enough
Following on from the successful premier of 80.1 in December 2011 we will tour the production to community venues in support of International Women's Day 2012.
Partners: West of Scotland Regional Equality Council, Oxfam Scotland
Funded by: Glasgow Life, Glasgow City Council

Club Gateways
conFAB is supporting the further development of the new musical Club Gateways. Working with a community chorus and processional singers and musicians to develop the project to full production where the audience are transported back to 1950's London and the Gateways Club.
Supported by: Private sponsorship
Subject to funding

Miss Smith
Following on from the fantastically successful premier of Miss Smith in Nov 2011 we plan to tour the show to community venues across Scotland in the summer of 2012.
Subject to funding

Rules of the Dance Floor
A program of drama and devising workshops leading to the development of an interactive play using dance halls of the past and present as a way of exploring the similarities and differences between generations.
Subject to funding

Where Have I Come From? Where Are We Going?
We are currently developing plans to tour Rachel Amey’s one woman show to Women’s and LGBT arts festivals in the UK in 2012.
Subject to funding

Going Back Home
Going Back Home is an exploration of the civil rights movement in the USA during the 1960's as experienced by Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry and explored through their intimate and complex relationship. Woven into this relationship and their dialogue are the songs of Nina Simone, songs that inspired and maintained her spirit and others' during her participation in the civil rights movement.
Subject to funding

Broken Pencils
conFAB is continuing to support the disabled writers group based in Dumfries and Galloway to meet, share and develop their writing.
Subject to funding

PLANNING 2013

Club Gateways Tour
We are developing plans to tour the full production to Manchester, Brighton and London. Working with a local community chorus in each city.
Subject to funding

National Inter-city Poetry Slam
We are currently developing plans with Glasgow Libraries for a large scale schools slam project that will progress over three years leading up to a national poetry slam competition linking in with the common wealth games.
Subject to funding

Young Persons Musical Project
We are in the very early stages of developing a musical for young people set in the Victorian theatre world of Glasgow.
Subject to funding

Please see the events page for specific details of events.