Archive projects & commissions
Eat The Stars,
Spectra
MotherShip produced the regional tour for this beautiful multi-sensory show in Autumn 2019. Touring to Newhampton Arts Centre, Sense TouchBase Pears, and The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery.
Play Out Till Tea,
Impact Hub/Urban Splash
A fun, free day of family friendly activity on Sunday 21st July 2019 – marking the opening of the new park at Port Loop in Birmingham. MotherShip were commissioned to deliver a cross-artform music and making workshop for all ages.
Bearwood Street
Festival
A community festival in June 2019, MotherShip were commissioned to programme Inclusive Explorers, a space for families of children with additional needs. Cross-artform music, movement and making workshops were delivered by MotherShip artists in carousel with inclusive workshops by Spinsonic Circus. MotherShip also delivered children’s craft workshops in the family area, making festival headdresses and wands.
Build, Make and Mend,
We Are Bearwood/Impact Hub
A day in May 2019, for residents, children and families to explore the potential of a new community space built by and for the people of Bearwood. MotherShip were commissioned to deliver a child-led drop-in movement and visual arts workshop for all ages to gently guide and provoke participants in a playful and creative manner to explore space and how we use space.
In residence on Ikon’s Slowboat, Looping the Loop
MotherShip were in residence on Ikon's Slow Boat as part of the Looping the Loop programme in 2018 for two projects, Ming de Nasty's Lady Wood and Lucy Orta's Procession Banners. Connecting Ikon's programme with newly arrived community groups and managing a programme of participatory activity.
www.ikon-gallery.org/event/ikon-slow-boat/
DADMAN,
Not Now Collective
MotherShip project managed the national tour by Not Now Collective. Mixing quiz, fantasy, live music and original songs, DadMan: the Bathtime Warrior is an entirely baby-friendly, baby-welcoming and baby-proof show, geared at adults.
FORGE,
Spectra
MotherShip produced this event in May 2018 at mac Birmingham by multi-sensory theatre company Spectra, for arts companies, venues and artists to come together to interrogate accessibility for touring neurodiverse performing arts companies.
Foot in the Door,
DanceXchange
Foot in the Door provided an introduction to working in the arts for a group of 10 young people (16-25) to help enable them to access entry level jobs within the sector, with a focus on producing.
The five week programme, took place in Autumn 2017 and supported participants in understanding what is required to produce work across a range of contexts from theatre-based performances to outdoor and unusual spaces.