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New: Jan 5 2008

The City Wakes website, part of our tribute to Syd Barrett, whose songs launched one of the most influential bands of all time, Pink Floyd, is now live. Join The City Wakes mailing list and you'll receive priority booking for tickets to The City Wakes performances, exhibition and 'the happening', which are all taking place as part of Cambridge University's Festival of Ideas - Oct 22 to Nov 2 2008.

STOP PRESS: The City Wakes project is formally launched. Read the press release on the new City Wakes website

Explore Syd’s wonderfully unorthodox songs under the expert guidance of The City Wakes’/Escape Artists’ Musical Director, Simon Gunton. Electronic and conventional instruments and participants’ own bodies and voices will be used, allowing each workshop group to create its own interpretation of one of Syd’s classic tracks.

Simon Gunton (photograph by Christine Cellier)

No previous musical experience is necessary and all instruments are provided.

Workshops will run on 24th, 25th and 31st October 2008 at The Centre at St. Paul’s. Twenty places are available in each workshop.

Event	Place	Date	Time	Tickets
More info at The City Wakes	The Centre at St Paul's, Cambridge	Friday October 24th	11am-1pm	Book Online
More info at The City Wakes	The Centre at St Paul's, Cambridge	Saturday October 25th	11am-1pm	Book Online
More info at The City Wakes	The Centre at St Paul's, Cambridge	Friday October 31st	10am-12pm	Book Online
More info at The City Wakes	The Centre at St Paul's, Cambridge	Friday October 31st	1pm-3pm	Book Online

Please use this form if you experience any problems with your online booking.

New: Cool Stuff

From the company's roots in prison
to serving a role in the world outside

The music that accompanies this video was composed by Simon Gunton, the company's Artistic Director, and is from our production of the Cambridge Cantata in King's College Chapel in 2005

Simon Gunton in the Escape Artists van

We can come to you. We are able to provide all the musical kit, Apple Macs and recording equipment needed to run a wide variety of accredited music courses, including: 'Music Technology', 'Music and Maths', Music and Literacy', 'Sequencing for Composition' and many more. Contact us for more details.

Developing Arts@the Edge. Festivals and conferences promoting socially inclusive arts

Running accredited pre-employment training and mentoring courses

European research project on theatre in prison

A wide range of accredited and non-accredited drama courses

Working with the Royal Shakespeare Company on a community drama production

'An absolute triumph... It is the first time I have seen a standing ovation at King's! Uplifting, and overwhelming.'

Putting on professional productions in the UK and abroad

Developing new ways of tackling gun and knife crime amongst young people

Addressing the participation and involvement strategy in the Every Child Matters agenda

Music workshops for prisons, schools and community groups

Escape Artists, incorporating Insight Arts, is an arts and education charity that was established in 1996. The company works in prisons, young offender institutions, schools, hospices and mental health care centres. We are a Web 2.0 enabled adhocracy driven by the desire to effect sustainable social change. More...

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Help us to develop our pioneering arts programmes in prisons, mental health institutions, with the homeless and in hospices by joining our Friends Scheme.

In:Fusion

Theatre workshops promoting dialogue between young people and Youth Offending Teams

Music and Maths

a wide range of OCN accredited courses designed for the CJS

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