THE Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre (BMEC) provides access to high quality performing arts activities and events for the community as audiences and as active participants in the arts.
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BMEC’s programs are designed to challenge thinking, stimulate creativity, develop skills and encourage engagement with the performing arts as well as encourage a sense of community identity.
One of the ways we engage our audiences is to provide workshop opportunities with visiting companies. These workshops provide skills development opportunities and are often loads of fun. In most cases they are free for those who purchase a ticket to the associated performance.
Planning for workshops in 2017 is underway and includes the Sing Like A Bloke workshop (blokes of all genders welcome) with The Spooky Men’s Chorale.
Stephen Taberner and his trusted henchmen from the Spooky Men’s Chorale share secrets from the Spooky lexicon, including getting in touch with your inner 22 stone tribal chieftain, how to sob like a man, and how to look good in profile.
Oh yes, you’ll also learn some magnificently grandiose songs from the Spooky repertoire, including a useful song to accompany pyramid building.
And they are always happy to field questions on beard manicuring, safe polishing of tools, and how to dispose of mastodon carcasses thoughtfully.
This workshop on February 5 is for absolutely everyone, especially people who haven’t sung for a long, long time.
With the help of Musica Viva Australia, we will be bringing the Spooky Men’s Chorale back to Bathurst in November for the Inland Sea of Sound.
Make a choral connection with the Spooky Men in February and then rekindle and extend the connection in November.
In March we will host a Gothic theatre workshop for students seeing Shake & Stir’s Dracula. Working with the creators of the production, participants will be given an inside look at how Shake & Stir uses classic texts to create new work by drawing on specific examples from the company’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Andrey Gugnin will be performing on August 8 at BMEC. He will also be holding masterclasses while he is here, as will the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
The Sydney Symphony will also engage with local schools while they are in Bathurst.
Patch Theatre Co continues to run workshops and engage with young people from throughout the region.
Our Creative Learning program in partnership with Patch has seen over 80 primary aged students participate in workshops in 2016 and we are looking forward to seeing this develop in 2017.
We are working towards a visit from Roslyn Oades, the creator of Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday, to run workshops in Headphone Verbatim, which will be particularly relevant for drama students of all levels as well as interested members of the general public.
The program for this year’s Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ Festival includes writing workshops for students as well as a great variety of panels for the general public.
Workshops and opportunities will continue to be added to the calendar at BMEC. Check in with the box office to find out more.
Phone 6333 6161 or email bmec@bathurst.nsw.gov.au
