Umbilical Chords / Circle Time

GIFT Festival Returns Bringing International Theatre to GatesheadDates: Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th May 2025Gateshead, UKGIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, North East England's premiere platform for contemporary theatre, returns this May with a vibrant programme of live performances, immersive installations, creative workshops and thought-provoking discussions. This year's festival promises a unique and unforgettable experience across Gateshead town centre and beyond. Experience international artists alongside local talents, forging a truly diverse and enriching experience.As Festival Founder and Director, Kate Craddock shares:"This year marks GIFT’s 15th edition as it returns from Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May, with a vibrant programme of creative workshops, exhibitions, immersive installations, new performance, and thought-provoking conversations.Celebrating exploration and exchange between artist and audience, GIFT brings together UK based and International artists to present world-class work to audiences in Gateshead."

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Join us for the closing event of GIFT 2022, hosted by International GIFT Artists duo, Walli Höfinger and Teresa Brayshaw.

Cafe Under the Spire

GIFT 2022 | Fri 29 Apr - Sun 1 May 2022

Join us for the return of GIFT - a 3 day festival of in-person and online performances, workshops and events.

International GIFT Artists duo, Walli Höfinger and Teresa Brayshaw host a live closing event to GIFT 2022 Festival, which begins with a musical medley of their spoken word and song extracts from their forthcoming Album Umbilical Chords and concludes with a shared closing circle to mark and celebrate the official end of the festival. It’s a metaphorical call and response.Invoking two of the Festival’s resonant themes of care and coupling, Walli and Teresa will facilitate a special moment for everyone to find and use their own voices and rekindle the collective encounter and shared joy of both giving and receiving the GIFT.About Artists​Walli HöfingerBorn 1966 in Austria.Walli Höfinger is a performance artist, voice performer and accredited Roy Hart voice teacher (Malérargues, France 2009) who lives and works at Gutshof Reichenow near Berlin. Her artistic work currently focuses on experimental work on the voice, writing her own texts as well as voice and piano compositions. She works equally solo and collaborates with Christiane Hommelsheim, Jonathan Hart-Makwaia, Biliana Voutchkova, Ingo Reulecke, Teresa Brayshaw, and others. She regularly teaches voice workshops in Germany and throughout Europe. She speaks German, English and French.Teresa BrayshawBorn 1966 in England. Teresa Brayshaw is a theatre maker, teacher and Feldenkrais Practitioner (2013), who lives in Manchester and works at Leeds Beckett University and Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. She works as a director, researcher and collaborator across a number of international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational projects including Cinage Live, Player Piano, ACT Festival artist conversations, ATIPIA training &amp; In their Own Words. She co-edited both the Twentieth &amp; Twenty First Century Performance Readers (2013 &amp; 2020 Routledge). She speaks English and Spanish.

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