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Modern clowning is having its moment.
Join LUKA WELLMAN — a member of the last cohort personally taught by the late, great Philippe Gaulier — for a taste of modern clowning.
This two-hour workshop invites you to dip a toe into the playful, surprising world of contemporary clown: to embrace the ridiculous, explore presence, and find humour in the everyday.
Ideal for curious beginners and anyone who wants to loosen up and play.
The taster class will take place at Makers’ House Hastings on Sunday 1st November, 7pm-9pm.
Stop careering wildly. Start creating with purpose and make 2027 your launchpad year!
The unstoppable Rikki Beadle‑Blair MBE returns for the second year with his dynamic, thought‑provoking two‑day workshop, combining inspiration with real‑world strategy to help you reconnect with your creative visions and map the year ahead. Whether you're looking to refocus your energies, reignite your creativity, or make bold new moves, you'll leave with renewed confidence, a clear direction, and a plan you can put into action.
Don't drift into another year. Design one.
The workshop takes place at Makers’ House Hastings on Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th December, 10am - 6pm.
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We now offer a Pay What You Choose pricing model. This acts as a form of honesty box, allowing you to choose the fee that feels right for your circumstances when you book.
We want our courses to be as accessible as possible, but at the same time, we are committed to paying our artists fairly. If you're able to choose a higher price point, please do — your support will make a world of difference.
If you need help finding reasonably priced accommodation, or you would like to attend the course but the cost is prohibitive, then please email us here so we can discuss local accommodation offers or if our bursary scheme might be able to help.
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." — Carl Jung
Your subconscious mind is a source of great wisdom. Connecting with it can reveal powerful insights and hidden strengths.
This three-day course will use a mixture of hypnotherapeutic and theatrical techniques to illustrate how the unconscious mind makes itself present in our everyday lives, and to teach how we might calm the mind in order to make the unconscious a more active participant in our choices.
‘The workshop was a thrilling experience, both emotional and stimulating. Charlie and Chris worked seamlessly together. The gentle querying was just the right challenge to connect to the inner life already there.’ Deidre, Workshop Participant
The workshop is led by Co-director of the house, Chris New, and therapeutic coach and hypnotherapist Charley Surridge, and will combine a carefully balanced mixture of group work and one-to-one time for reflection and integration. You’ll engage in hypnotic guided meditations and theatrical games, including work with masks, as you explore the character of your own Subconscious and begin to develop your connection with your true self.
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." — Eckhart Tolle
The workshop will take place at Makers’ House Hastings on Friday 16th - Sunday 18th October, 10am - 5pm.
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We now offer a Pay What You Choose pricing model. This acts as a form of honesty box, allowing you to choose the fee that feels right for your circumstances when you book.
We want our courses to be as accessible as possible, but at the same time, we are committed to paying our artists fairly. If you're able to choose a higher price point, please do — your support will make a world of difference.
If you need help finding reasonably priced accommodation, or you would like to attend the course but the cost is prohibitive, then please email us here so we can discuss local accommodation offers or if our bursary scheme might be able to help.
Frantic Assembly is one of the UK’s most celebrated companies known for its highly physical and collaborative storytelling and we are thrilled to welcome them to Makers’ House.
Over 3 days you will explore the Frantic Method and develop your physical confidence and awareness, enabling you to be bold and playful in the way that you create your own work.
This course is suitable for those that have little to no experience in the Frantic Method, or wider movement disciplines. For those that do have some experience in movement or physical theatre, this course will still be a worthwhile learning opportunity – consolidating knowledge and building on any prior experience.
The course is highly physical in nature, so all we ask is for you to come ready to lift yourself and others up, physically and mentally. And prepare to get a tad sweaty . . .
The workshop will take place at Makers’ House Hastings on Friday 29th - Sunday 31st January, 10am - 5pm.
We now offer a Pay What You Choose pricing model. This acts as a form of honesty box, allowing you to choose the fee that feels right for your circumstances when you book.
We want our courses to be as accessible as possible, but at the same time, we are committed to paying our artists fairly. To ensure we cover the costs for this workshop, the lower price points are limited. If you're able to choose a higher price point, please do — your support will make a world of difference.
If you need help finding reasonably priced accommodation, or you would like to attend the course but the cost is prohibitive, then please email us here so we can discuss local accommodation offers, or to enquire if our bursary scheme might be able to help.
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About Frantic Assemby
From a reckless leap into the unknown 30 years ago, Frantic Assembly has developed into one of the UK's most successful and best loved theatre companies.
Our ambition is that we continue to learn and remain committed to making brave and bold theatre. At times it is physically dynamic and brutal. At others it's proudly tender and fragile.
But Frantic Assembly has always been about more than just the work on stage.
It is about the ethos of collaboration, of empowerment, of that constant desire to improve. It is about telling stories in a voice we don't always hear and about finding talent in places we don't always look.
Screens — whether big or small — have increasingly become the dominant medium for actors.This two-day workshop will introduce you to exactly what’s required to craft a performance for the screen, and it’s led by Makers’ House co-director — and star of the film Weekend — Chris New.
Whether it’s hitting your marks, getting the right eye-line, or negotiating continuity across shots, this course will introduce you to all the tools you’ll need on any film set, big or small.
All participants will be asked to prepare a scene in advance, guided by Chris, so you can get the most out of your two days before the camera, and you’ll receive a digital downloaded of your developed scene for you to take away with you.
The workshop will take place at Makers’ House Hastings on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October, 10am - 5pm.
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We now offer a Pay What You Choose pricing model. This acts as a form of honesty box, allowing you to choose the fee that feels right for your circumstances when you book.
We want our courses to be as accessible as possible, but at the same time, we are committed to paying our artists fairly. If you're able to choose a higher price point, please do — your support will make a world of difference.
If you need help finding reasonably priced accommodation, or you would like to attend the course but the cost is prohibitive, then please email us here so we can discuss local accommodation offers or if our bursary scheme might be able to help.
Following two sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre, visiting High Priestess of Clowning, Lucy Hopkins, is joined by Lexi Strauss for this very special performance.
Auntie Show and Nana Subversion Share Their Biscuits
Two liberated elders share the wisdom from their lives so far in the form of nourishing baked goods.
Expect nothing.
Biscuits included.
The performance takes place at Makers’ House Hastings on Sunday 8th November at 2pm.
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