World's Stage

‘Everything to Everybody’ aims to revive Birmingham’s almost-forgotten Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library and reconnect the collection with the diverse and youthful modern city of Birmingham. The collection was founded by reformer and activist George Dawson, whose pioneering ‘everything to everybody’ ethos helped make 19th-century Birmingham the world’s most progressive modern city. It is the third largest Shakespeare collection in the world, and the only one freely available in a public library.

Everything to Everybody

World premiere of World’s Stage, a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare, in five acts.

The ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project invites you to ‘a great feast of languages’ and the world premiere of World’s Stage, a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare, in five acts.Created by 27:31 and Creative Multilingualism as part of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project and featuring a company of 140 multilingual Brummies, World’s Stage premieres at a special online event on Wednesday 3 February at 7pm.World’s Stage is a series of seven short films made with community performers using almost all of the 93 languages that are reflected in the Shakespeare Collection at the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library. Daniel Tyler-McTighe, a freelance theatre-maker, educator and director of 27:31, collaborated with BAFTA-winning film-makers John Roddy (Audio Basement) and Ollie Walton (Fix8Films Ltd) and co-manager Laura Killeen (General Manager, The Playhouse) to create the films.The ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project is an ambitious celebration of one of the UK’s most important cultural assets: the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library – the first great Shakespeare library in the world, and the only great Shakespeare collection which belongs to all the people of a city. A collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council, with funding contributed by National Lottery Heritage Fund and History West Midlands, ‘Everything to Everybody’ will give this uniquely democratic Shakespeare heritage back to people and communities across Birmingham.World’s Stage is co-funded by the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project and Creative Multilingualism/Multilingual Performance Project (AHRC, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Reading University, Birmingham City University, Pittsburgh University and School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London).Approximate running order 7-7.15pmWelcome and overview of 'Everything to Everybody' by Professor Ewan FernieOverview of the World’s Stage project and introductions to the team by Daniel Tyler-McTighe7.15-7.50pmIntroduction to the filmsFilm 1 - Act I: Speaking, Scene 1: A great feast of languages Film 2 - Act I: Speaking, Scene 2: What is the city but the people? Film 3 - Act II: Learning Film 4 - Act III: Owning, Scene 1: Glorify the banks that bound them Film 5 - Act III: Owning, Scene 2: This island’s mine Film 6 - Act IV: Loving, Scene 1: Yellow stockings, Scene 2: Purple Flower Film 7 - Act V: Living7.50-8.15pm Q&A 8.15pm Event ends

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