Successful Arts Council Grant + New promo vid for Theatre Jukebox

By Barney | Published: February 15, 2012

We have been successful with our Arts Council England, Grants For The Arts application to develop Theatre Jukebox. This film shows the existing curation, but we are currently working with the Mass Observation Archive to build and develop two brand new Jukeboxes. They will premier at Future Everything in Manchester before moving down to Bristol’s Mayfest. The work explores how universal truths and our national identity are sometimes best revealed through the mundane and the particular.

Throughout May the existing Jukebox will be at SITE Festival in Stroud. This curation is an autobiographical story based on a box of family records belonging to Lucy and Barney’s family (The Heywoods).

- Future Everything, Manchester. 16th – 19th May.
- Mayfest, Bristol. 21st – 22nd May.
- SITE Festival, Stroud. 1st – 30th May.

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Guild of Cheesemakers – 27th + 28th Jan, Chelt SOLD OUT

By Barney | Published: January 24, 2012

Over the last few months Stand + Stare have been re-developing The Guild of Cheesemakers in preparation for a tour later in the year. The first showing of the newly developed piece will be on 27th and 28th January at a secret location in Cheltenham. For those of you who haven’t got a ticket, it has unfortunately already sold out. It will however  be coming to a town near you in the coming months. Check back for updates.

The piece was originally presented as part of Mayfest and SITE 2011 and has since been awarded an Arts Council Development Grant. It has also been supported by Parabola Learning Curve, Theatre Gloucestershire, Woefuldane’s Dairy, Hobbs House Bakery and Avery’s Wine Merchants.

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Ali’s Blog # 7 – strong cheese and mild weather

By Barney | Published: November 18, 2011

In the Parlour a year on it feels really lived in with people coming and going and lots of work going on, some new faces and more than twenty people using the building. Looking out on college green is always changing and fascinating, this morning The Red Maid’s School paraded passed in their red coats and bonnets the older girls in neat black coats with red roses in their lapels then around Occupy Bristol. So much pageantry around the protest camp making the scene very thought provoking.

Stand and Stare is busy having received a Research and Development grant from the Arts Council to develop the Guild of Cheesemakers with a view to a tour in 2012.

If you missed this sumptuous and and beguiling show there will be the chance to see and taste it on 27th (confirmed) and 28th (tbc) January 2012 in Cheltenham following a scratch event on the 29th November at the Parabola Arts Centre, see their listings for details. Parabola Arts Centre

Theatre Jukebox is an arcade style cabinet which delivers stories to a max of 2 people at a time and uses RFID technology (oyster card technology) to create audio and visual surprises. Lucy and Barney continue to work on this at the Pervasive Media Studio which has moved into a new space at the Watershed.

If you are interested in finding out more and would like to see the Jukebox in action then do get in touch. We have used material from our family archive to develop the first curation for Theatre Jukebox and presented it at Bristol Old Vic ‘Ferment’ , Battersea Arts Centre ‘Freshly Scratched’, PAC Cheltenham and The Roses Tewkesbury. The Jukebox is a canvas in which an endless source of stories and information can be painted. There are exciting plans to use it with the Mass Observation Archive as part of ‘Future Everything’ in Manchester and Mayfest next year, as well as a number of other projects.

If you are in New York before the end of December 2011 our film ‘The End‘ is showing as part of an international touring exhibition called ‘Home and Away’, at the ISE Cultural Foundation in Lower Manhattan. This is a short film we made in 2009 about an old man with foreign accent syndrome - ISE Cultural Foundation

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3D audio trail for The Roses Theatre

By Barney | Published: October 25, 2011

Stand + Stare have created a 3D audio trail for the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury. Peel back the layers of time and discover the stories and memories lurking below the Theatre’s surface.

Participants are given an MP3 player containing 5 audio tracks. Each track is recorded using a 3D sound technique and designed to be listened to whilst in a particular location within the theatre. Dotted around the building are numbers (see photos below) that correspond to the MP3 track numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Participants should listen to Track 1 first in the foyer. They are then free to explore the theatre looking for the other numbers. It does not matter in which order tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5 are listened to.

To hear the tracks please follow this link http://soundcloud.com/theatretracks/sets/theatre-tracks-the-roses-1/

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Theatre Jukebox at BAC 13th Oct, 7pm

By Barney | Published: October 6, 2011

Our latest project, Theatre Jukebox, will be part of Freshly Scratched at Battersea Arts Centre next thursday evening (13th Oct) from 7pm.

It’s pay what you can and there should be loads of other interesting work going on too.

Theatre Jukebox

Here’s a link to some info about Freshly Scratched at BAC http://www.bac.org.uk/whats-on/freshly-scratched/

and heres’s one to some info about the Jukebox http://www.standandstare.com/projects/theatre-jukebox/

“Imagine a Jukebox that plays stories instead of records, and allows you to choose the chapters you want. Stand + Stare have already imagined such a machine.”
D-Shed, Bristol

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Red Dog Theatre’s production of ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’

By Barney | Published: September 11, 2011

Red Dog are currently in rehearsals for their new production of Lorca’s ‘House of Bernarda Alba’. Barney from Stand + Stare is working with them to create some film and animation elements to compliment the design of the show. It will be touring from 27th September until the begging of November (see details below). Check it out if you get a chance.

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Theatre Jukebox at Bristol Old Vic 20th – 23rd July

By Barney | Published: July 19, 2011

For the last six weeks Stand + Stare has been at The Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol developing a new project called Theatre Jukebox. It reinterprets the original arcade machine and combines it with interactive theatre, to create a unique new canvas that delivers mini stories and experiences. It is still in it’s prototype stage, but we would love to invite you to come and have a go and let us know what you think.

It will be part of Ferment at The Bristol Old Vic from Wednesday 20th to Saturday 23rd July (this week), from 6 – 10pm. You can find us in the Foyer.

There is no need to book and it takes between 5 and 20 mins (depending on how long you want to spend with it). It seats up to two people at any one time.

TJB - Watershed - Grace TJB - Watershed - Ali

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PM Studio Residency – 3rd post

By Barney | Published: June 30, 2011

Since our last post, we have made a prototype of the jukebox, erecting a downwards facing projector over a table and testing out a selection of different ideas, all prompted by post cards or photos.

earth from the moonBarney has been getting to grips with after effects and we have been trying out the basics of how it will work in terms of how to instruct people as well as writing and devising individual stories.

We have refined the idea down even further and although we are interested in the mobile phone technology (and may very well use it in future), for this first jukebox we are now limiting ourselves to top down projection, audio through headphones and RFID to trigger initial picture selections and further triggers (such as turning the card over to start a piece of audio or film) if required.
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PM Studio Residency – 2nd Post

By Barney | Published: June 23, 2011

PostcardsAfter a really interesting and constructive work-in-progress meeting last Friday, we went away and reassessed our ideas. In response to questions about how people would know what the jukebox is and how to use it, we thought a lot more about the aesthetics and how to effectively embellish it to make it more attractive and easier to understand. We started to think about an end-of-the-pier style with signage around the place where it’s set up, an awning a bit like a deck chair and possibly a flashing sign like an old penny arcade machine. One style reference we have been looking at is The Museum of Everything in London.

In terms of the story, we had been working on one story; The Shelf Beneath your Eyes. After the meeting we revisited one of our previous projects, The Car Show. Our approach with that show was to come up with numerous short stories/ideas/experiences. The only constraints were that they had to take place in a car and they had to be short (less that 15mins max). We suddenly realised that the Jukebox was a similar beast. What we needed though were the constraints, the things about the Jukebox that make it what it is, like the windscreen, radio etc in a car.

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New promo video for Guild of Cheesemakers – watch here

By Barney | Published: June 19, 2011

“…beguiling, thought-provoking and, of course, tasty experience.”
Exaunt Magazine – Tom Phillips

Stand + Stare bring you The Guild of Cheesemakers, the world’s first theatrical cheese tasting.

Become a member of the Guild and learn from experts about successful combinations of cheese, wine and bread and, over the course of an evening, uncover the mystery behind the inscrutable 198.

This promo was filmed in Bristol at St Thomas the Martyr during the first stage of development.

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