5pm till late Saturday 6th June 2009 @ Easton Community Centre, Bristol

You And Your Work is a free performance festival bringing together the best in theatre, performance, installations and live art alongside live music and world food. This is the festival’s sixth outing and this time it’s international! Expect artists and companies from as far afield as Australia, Singapore and Spain performing alongside several Bristol and UK favourites in the creation of a memorable night at the Easton Community Centre.

Heading up the line-up is Sydney based performance artist Malcolm Whittaker who is currently on a cultural exchange research trip funded by the Australian government to strengthen his practice through experiencing the thriving British cultural scene and sharing his work with us. It is a rare privilege to see Malcolm’s new show which focuses on the performer’s fear and desire for the spotlight; ‘The Red Room’ is a space where the performance is longing to and resistant to take place. Will you help Malcolm make it through the fear?

Also, fresh from their wonderful outing at Mayfest 2009, Bristol favourites Tinned Fingers will be on hand to take over the Bristol to Bath Railway Path in a commissioned interactive performance ‘The Carrier Pigeon Project.’ As an audience member Tinned Fingers invites you to entrust them with your messages; they are ready to send, deliver and receive.

“You and Your Work is not only aimed at committed art audiences,” says festival co-curator Sylvia Rimat, “but it seeks to give an opportunity to a wider community to see selected, good quality, risk-taking work by emerging artists and meet and talk with them.”

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