COMMUNITY

Open Sky is grateful to be funded thanks to taxpayers as an Arts Council England, National Portfolio Organisation.

One of our favourite responsibilities as an NPO is engaging with our community via teaching, projects, shows and mentorship.

Community engagement ensures our own artistic work stays rooted and relevant. If you want to get involved please get in touch!

TEACHING

  • LECOQ-BASED PHYSICAL ACTOR TRAINING

    LECOQ-BASED PHYSICAL ACTOR TRAINING

    Claire is a guest lecturer at Hereford College of Arts where she specialises in teaching multiple aspects of the Lecoq pedagogy to performing arts students at both diploma and degree level. She began teaching at the college at 2017 and offers regular professional opportunities and work placements on Open Sky projects to HCA students.

  • WRITING ROOM EXTRA

    Lisle teaches a writing class for Feral Productions at Courtyard Hereford on Monday afternoons. The Writing Room Extra is for established writers writing long-form work. Please visit the Courtyard website for further details or to sign up for the class.

  • FILM OR DIGITAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS

    Lisle Turner has nearly 20 years experience of writing, directing, producing and distributing film. He teaches screenwriting, directing and acting for camera for the BBC, BFI and others. Workshops can be tailored for participants of any background, ability or age. Please get in touch if you’d like to book as a group or individual.

  • PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS

    Claire is a full graduate of Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris where she studied mime and physical theatre. Claire also attended École Lecoq’s Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement intensive training in scenography and their Pedagogical intensive teacher training. She teaches all aspects of physical theatre to individuals and groups.

  • CREATIVE PLAY WORKSHOPS

    Whether you are working on something light and breezy or unearthing the darkness, creating from a place of playfulness brings another dimension to your practice. Using clown training, mindfulness techniques, gentle movement, laughter, and a dollop of silliness we’ll shake off doubt, adulting and analytical thought to embrace a state of play.

  • WRITING FOR DEVISED THEATRE

    Lisle has been writing for devised theatre for nearly twenty years. This workshop covers how to generate source material for devising, how to structure improvised material, how to edit improvised material and how to capture then enhance improvised dialogue. Suits individual writers or companies.

PROJECTS

  • DIGITAL STORYTELLING

    In person skills workshops for young people introducing writing for digital theatre, devising performance and shooting action READ MORE Funded by the UK Government, Powered by Levelling Up and Herefordshire Council #UKSPF
    Herefordshire, Spring 2024.

  • turtle opera

    TURTLE OPERA

    Turtle Opera is a music and drama project for young people aged 11-14 on the autism spectrum. Created and produced by Turtle Key Arts and directed by Claire Coaché in Bristol in 2022 and 2023.

  • OPEN ARMS

    OPEN ARMS

    Individual clowning interactions with isolated older people (also socially distanced in gardens during Covid), Creative Age, Bethesda Church Cheltenham 2020 & 2021.

  • TURTLE SONG

    TURTLE SONG

    Creation of a movement and song writing cycle with people living with dementia and their carers alongside composer Richard Barnard. Turtle Key Arts. Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester 2019.

  • RIVER TALES

    RIVER TALES

    Facilitating workshops about imaginary river towns across three Herefordshire homes culminating in a live sharing at Courtyard Hereford, 2017.

  • Creative Ageing

    CREATIVE AGEING

    Creating and facilitating drama workshops with older people in multiple Herefordshire residential care homes. Courtyard Hereford. 2015-2018.

  • WRITING ROOM SHOWCASES

    Biannual showcase of new writing from Lisle’s Writing Room courses at Courtyard Hereford. Directed by Claire, performed by professional and young trainee actors in 2022/23

SHOWS

  • MY ROMANTIC HISTORY

    MY ROMANTIC HISTORY

    D.C. Jackson’s My Romantic History. Physical Direction of BA Hons Performing Arts student final year performances, Hereford College of Arts, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Theatre Royal Tenbury Wells June 2023.

  • DEAD PLANET

    DEAD PLANET

    Hereford College of Arts BA Hons Performing Arts Degree final year show. Directed and co-devised ‘Dead Planet’, a post-apocalyptic comedy, with the class of 2021.

  • THE DAY WAR CAME

    THE DAY WAR CAME

    The Day War Came by Nicola Davies – directed devised children’s theatre performance by HCA students at Hay Festival 2017.

  • A BOTTLE OF HAPPINESS

    A children’s theatre adaptation of the book by Pippa Goodhart. Co-directed (with Gillian Hipp), for performances by HCA students at Hay Festival 2019