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Rude Health
Award-winning playwright Alex Oates and renowned dance artist Esther Huss present Rude Health; an innovative new arts project unlike any other in the North East of England. Rude Health is a four-week-long festival of art, dedicated to different aspects of health, with each week carefully curated to reflect a certain need of the community, including mental health, aging and isolation, women’s health, and environmental issues. This exciting performing arts festival will give the local community access to high quality arts, underlining that art is for everyone, not just those in capital cities.
After transforming an old miners’ welfare institute into a dynamic arts space called ‘The Tute’ in 2020, Oates and Huss have held regular creative workshops for the community and offered free residencies to artists. This year with Rude Health, they present a varied season of work that champions some of the country’s most talented artists and connects communities with leading creatives in this de-industrialised, deprived corner of Northumberland.
Rude Health is a rare opportunity to see new and unusual work in a historic space, while investing in, and giving back to, the often-isolated Northumberland community of Cambois.
Esther Huss comments, We’re really thrilled that after years of unpaid work embedding ourselves in the community, we’re finally able to present a season of professional work that represents what we’re all about. Targeted community engagement creating tangible value alongside the kind of daring and uncompromisingly brilliant artistic performances that would prove too risky for larger organizations to program nowadays.
Alex Oates comments, We’ve already seen through our work with young people at risk of dropping out of education or training the massive benefit that art can inspire, and this has been incredibly humbling. If one young person chose a healthier path as a result of this project then it will all be worthwhile.
After transforming an old miners’ welfare institute into a dynamic arts space called ‘The Tute’ in 2020, Oates and Huss have held regular creative workshops for the community and offered free residencies to artists. This year with Rude Health, they present a varied season of work that champions some of the country’s most talented artists and connects communities with leading creatives in this de-industrialised, deprived corner of Northumberland.
Rude Health is a rare opportunity to see new and unusual work in a historic space, while investing in, and giving back to, the often-isolated Northumberland community of Cambois.
Esther Huss comments, We’re really thrilled that after years of unpaid work embedding ourselves in the community, we’re finally able to present a season of professional work that represents what we’re all about. Targeted community engagement creating tangible value alongside the kind of daring and uncompromisingly brilliant artistic performances that would prove too risky for larger organizations to program nowadays.
Alex Oates comments, We’ve already seen through our work with young people at risk of dropping out of education or training the massive benefit that art can inspire, and this has been incredibly humbling. If one young person chose a healthier path as a result of this project then it will all be worthwhile.
Times vary (see website link)
Entry: Free
Entry: Free
1st floor
Cambois Miners Welfare
Ridley Terrace
Cambois Northumberland NE24 1QS
Thu 3 Oct to Thu 31 October