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Creekshow
14 - 17th April
12-5pm, Thur to Sun
Events:
Private View :
Thursday 14 April 6-8pm (Performance at 7pm)
Guided Low Tide Walk on Deptford Creek
18th April from 10am-12pm
Led by the Creekside Discovery Centre
To book your place click the link below
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/low-tide-walk-in-deptford-creek-w-the-creekside-discovery-centre-tickets-289497644247
There will be a 15 mins performance at 1pm, 3pm and 4pm Thur - Sunday within the Gallery. No booking required.
Creekshow
Remnants of the city
Imprints of webbed feet
Moments of solace –
Sinking down into the bed of the creek
Becoming artefact
A collaboration between a team of local artists, Creekshow is part exhibition, part performance: bringing to life a multimedia archive of found objects and oral testimonies of Deptford Creek.
Supported by Lewisham Council in partnership with Creekside Education Trust, as a part of We Are Lewisham, Lewisham’s programme for its year as London’s Borough of Culture.
[Rita’s Kitchen is] a young creative team worthy of the avant-garde's attention. - Melissa Chambers, The Signal House
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Artist Bios
Rita’s Kitchen is an emerging multi-arts collective exploring the intersections between theatre, visual and performance art.
Rita’s Kitchen is a collaboration between Mary Malone and Jenny Witzel.
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Rosie Whiting (she/her) - Designer
Rosie Whiting is a designer working primarily in contemporary dance, exploring costume as a tool to heighten sensual experiences. In 2019 her designs were selected to be shown as part of Staging Places: UK Design for Performance 2015-2019 at The V&A Museum in London. rosiewhiting.com
Sammy Metcalfe (he/him) - Additional Dramaturgy
Sammy Metcalfe is a writer, director, sound designer and performer based between the UK and Spain. As artistic director of Sleepwalk Collective, the award-winning UK/ Spanish experimental theatre company he co-founded in 2006, he has written and directed shows that have toured to theatres and festivals across Europe, Australia and the Americas. sleepwalkcollective.com
Jenny Witzel (she/her) - Creative Producer, Deviser-Performer
Jenny Witzel is a producer, theatre maker, performer and 2020 graduate of East 15 Acting School’s Contemporary Theatre course. She is co-artistic director of Rita’s Kitchen and has produced all of their work to date.
Calum Perrin (they/them) - Sound Designer
Calum Perrin is a sound designer working across visual art, theatre, music and radio, exploring themes of disability, sensory experience and domesticity, as well as the relationship between archival processes and artistic practice. Calum was a 2021 Multitrack Fellow, and Live Lab resident at The Yard. They are currently composing for BBC Sounds Queertopia.
calumperrin.com
Luke Lewin Davies (he/him) - Additional Direction
Luke Lewin Davies is an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Theatre, Birkbeck University. His plays have been performed in Adelaide, Berlin, Avignon, Barcelona, Dublin and across the UK.
lukelewindavies.com