London Town Hall

With the participation of Actors Touring Company, Battersea Arts Centre, Gate Theatre, LIFT, New Diorama Theatre, Royal Court, and Young Vic.

Migrants in Theatre (MIT), a UK-wide movement campaigning for more and better representation of first generation migrant theatre artists based in the UK, would like to invite artists identifying as migrant/foreign born/international to register and take part in the first London Town Hall with the artistic directors of the following venues: ATC, BAC, Gate, LIFT, NDT, RC, and YV.

This is the first of a series of town hall meetings MIT is organising all over the country, with a Midlands Town Hall and a Scotland-North of England Town Hall in the works. Different regions have different ecologies and we hope to create support structures that are specific to each locality.

The town hall meetings are envisaged as an introduction to the MiT movement, linking people with their local venues, and as a way to start important conversations about the issues we face as migrant/foreign born/international artists working in UK theatre. Through these meetings we will primarily aim to raise awareness of MiT’s work, the survey we conducted, our proposals on what we can offer and aspects we would like to see changing. There will be time for venues to ask questions and to engage in a facilitated, open floor discussion with registered participants.

Event facilitated and chaired by Anthony Simpson-Pike and Lora Krasteva.

Schedule:
13:00-13:30 – MiT presentation.
13:30-14:00 – questions from venue representatives in relation to MiT presentation.

5 min – break

14:05-15:00 – open floor and chance for participants to ask questions.

Notes on access requirements:
If you are signing up less than a week in advance we will try to get BSL or a live captioner if you request it, but we cannot guarantee it (irrespective, we will be in contact with the person asking for it to let you know).