NEW THEATRE INSTITUTE OF LATVIA

contemporary performing arts in Latvia and abroad

On February 23 at 19.00 an open talk “In Between Time and the role of international arts producer in precarious times” by Helen Cole and Joon Lynn Goh will be held at Zirgu pasts, Dzirnavu str. 46, as part of the training programme “Theatre expanded”. The talk is in English, free admission.

In Between Time (IBT) is an influential international arts producing organisation, rooted in the city of Bristol, UK and respected for its unusual warmth, uncompromising programme and strong commitment to audiences. Helen Cole, IBT’s Founding CEO and Artistic Director, and Joon Lynn Goh, its Senior Producer, will introduce In Between Time and the tactics that have emerged in the UK to produce and programme the most urgent artistic voices across an ordinary city, its art centres, its forests, grand houses, docksides and churchyards.

Helen Cole is the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of In Between Time in Bristol. She began her career as a producer in Manchester in the mid-90s, developing interdisciplinary projects in unusual locations: urban car parks, disused warehouses, building sites and deserted shopping centres.
It was in Manchester that she honed her interest in contemporary practices beyond the mainstream and her belief that the experiences of live ideas and emerging artistic forms can benefit a wide range of the public.
She was appointed Senior Producer at Tramway, Glasgow in 1996, and in 1998 took up the post of Producer, Live Art and Dance at Arnolfini in Bristol. Cole established the Arnolfini live programme as one of the most influential live art and contemporary performance programmes in the UK. She created the In Between Time Festival in 2001, as an international biennial of live art and future performance practices. In 2009, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation awarded Cole a prestigious Breakthrough Award recognising her as an exceptional cultural entrepreneur. Cole mentors artists and emerging producers, works as a writer and curator and sits on symposia, commissioning and selection panels nationally and internationally.

The talk is part of the training programme “Theatre Expanded” organised by New Theatre Institute of Latvia in collaboration with VabaLava in Tallinn and with the support of The Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020, a funding programme financing cross-border cooperation projects in the central Baltic Sea region.

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