National Festival of Youth Theatre 2010 Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife. July 1st – 4th 2010 Promote YT (Scotland) is the national umbrella organisation for Youth Theatre in Scotland. This summer Promote YT are proud to present our biggest, boldest National Festival of Youth Theatre EVER, sponsored by Shell U.K. Limited. From July 1st- 4th, the National Festival of Youth Theatre is coming to Rothes Halls, Fife, ‘bringing you culture whether you like it or not’
About NFYT: Now in its 6th year, the NFYT exists to celebrate of the positive value of Youth Theatre and Performance in the lives of Young People from all backgrounds. Featuring Youth Theatre performances from all over Scotland - including new work by Scottish Youth Theatre, Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree Youth Theatre and Edinburgh’s Strange Town as well as visiting groups from England, Ireland and Norway - the huger-than-ever festival programme includes 16 shows, performance workshops and skills development and training sessions for over 300 young people.
Featuring performances by: Strange Town (Edinburgh) Kinetic Youth Theatre (Fife) Carnegie College Youth Theatre (Dunfermline) Lemon Tree Youth Theatre (Aberdeen) Scottish Youth Theatre (National) LYNET (Norway) Cornhill Youth Theatre (Aberdeen) 129 Drama (Glasgow) Kildare Youth Theatre (Ireland) Electric Youth Theatre (Edinburgh) Perth Youth Theatre (Perth) The Dramatics (Bo’ness) Explosive Arts (Edinburgh) Croydon Youth Theatre (England) The New School (Dunkeld, Perthshire) Promote YT GENERATE Project facilitated by CONFLUX
GENERATE project: Every year at NFYT we invite a special guest theatre company to run our GENERATE* project, working with young people from the local area to GENERATE a theatre performance from scratch during the festival. This year’s GENERATE is run by Scottish physical theatre and street arts specialists Conflux, and we know they are planning a massive, end-of-festival spectacular in a local park to close the whole event with a bang!
Getting Digital: At this year’s NFYT we will be celebrating the value of Youth Theatre and Performance locally, nationally, internationally…and digitally! With live performance webcasts, photos, real-time reviews, uploads and updates throughout the festival, this year’s audience will be truly international – for the first time ever, anyone can come/see/share the festival anywhere in the world at www.promoteyt.co.uk Camping: Forget going to a music festival this year… All accompanied Youth Theatre group bookings are encouraged to come along and pitch a tent, and enjoy the whole ‘Summer Gathering’ experience before and after the shows. Performing Youth Theatre groups will be camping out over the weekend - ensuring some singalongs and BBQs as well as the performances at Rothes Halls.
Booking: All NFYT 2010 performances are open to the public. Tickets are available on the door (cash sales only), but you can reserve tickets by contacting Rothes Halls box office on 01592 611101 or through www.attfife.org Alternatively, accompanied Youth Theatre groups (includes school groups) who wish to attend the whole event can make a group booking, with the option of accommodation (camping) and catering. For group bookings, please see www.promoteyt.co.uk or email info@promoteyt.co.uk ENDS
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Notes to Editors 1) For further information or images, please contact Iain Campbell on iain@promoteyt.co.uk or 0131 538 0591 2) A full programme of NFYT 2010 events are available on the Promote YT website www.promoteyt.co.uk 3) Promote YT (Scotland) is a national agency dedicated to providing an advocacy, networking and development service for Youth Theatres in Scotland through information services, training and the hosting of the annual National Festival of Youth Theatre. 4) Promote YT (Scotland) would like to thank its funders, Scottish Arts Council, this year’s NFYT funding partner, Arts and Theatre Trust Fife, NFYT 2010 funders The Gannochy Trust and The Robertson Trust and event sponsor Shell. 5) Promote YT (Scotland) would like to thank Conflux. Conflux is a project developing a voice for Scottish artists working in the field of Physical Performance (incorporating street arts, physical theatre and circus). Promote YT (Scotland) 22 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AL T: 0131 538 0591 E: info@promoteyt.co.uk W: www.promoteyt.co.uk Patron: Ken Stott Promote YT (Scotland) is a registered Scottish charity, No SC 035765