2023 events
“The brain is a storytelling machine and it’s really good at fooling us.” Nick Payne’s Incognito follows three interwoven stories that explore the conflict between science and self, work and relationships, and the legacy we leave behind.
“Love. Everyone thinks love is the greatest force in the cosmos and it isn’t you know.” It’s 2008 and Mankind’s most ambitious attempt to understand how the universe began is about to go online for the first time.
“Love. Everyone thinks love is the greatest force in the cosmos and it isn’t you know.” It’s 2008 and Mankind’s most ambitious attempt to understand how the universe began is about to go online for the first time.
Noche de Cine Latino’ presents a celebration of Latin American culture and history through the medium of film.
“The brain is a storytelling machine and it’s really good at fooling us.” Nick Payne’s Incognito follows three interwoven stories that explore the conflict between science and self, work and relationships, and the legacy we leave behind.
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Michelle Meinhart from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
Join us for a talk with Amy Leach, Deputy Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse
Through this student-run event, we aim to highlight the connection of their storytelling with particular environments and how these traditions have shaped their identities today!
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Sue Miller (Leeds Beckett University)
Platform is a branch within the school which aims to use the resources and spaces to develop students' creativity.
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Liam Maloney.
How do we create space for mess? Space for mucking it up instead making it? For unexpected encounters? For community building? For wild artistic leaps into the unknown with soft landings when we inevitably fall?
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Susan Cook.
Join us for a discussion on accessible filmmaking within the context of the Enhanced Audio Description (EAD) methods.
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Raphael Nowak.
Come along to this panel discussion to hear about theatre design and pose your questions to a line-up of professional practitioners.
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Philip Burnett.
In PIECE OF WORK James explores how the landscapes we exist within effect the way we think and feel; how searching for something is an end in itself, regardless of whether the search is successful.
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Roger Dannenberg.
Join us for a live Q&A session with James Rowland, writer and performer of Piece of Work, a brand new show straight from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival about fathers, sons, and the hope that makes life liveable.
The voices of women need to be at the centre, but the responsibility and accountability lies elsewhere.She Was Walking Home is a new piece of testimonial theatre created from the real life experiences of 33 women living, working and studying in York.
Please join us for a School of ACT research seminar.
Matt will bring the lessons he has learned over the past ten years, to support students in planning their next steps and career development, both as they study and after graduation.
Please join us for a School of Arts and Creative Technologies research seminar. This weeks speaker is Richard Carter.
Join us for a work in progress sharing of a new project from Theatre Re, Moments. This is a work in development and the sharing will be followed by a Q&A with the company.
Please join us for the first School of ACT research seminar of the semester with Dr Nick Jones.
Join us for a talk and Q+A with York Theatre Royal, Artist in Resident, Mingyu Lin.
In his inaugural lecture, Professor Ben Poore discusses the development of his research on dramas of the past – from neo-Victorian plays, to dramas of empire, to the contemporary history play – in the context of British politics since Thatcherism.
Theatre production directed by Izzy Masiliunas
Theatre performance directed by Amid Abtahi
Wilde in Love is a stage play about the downfall of Oscar Wilde.
Keep Meg company as she experiences a sleepless night filled with memories, forgotten objects and, of course, Taylor Swift.
Celebrating the Launch of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies
A collection of the top screenings of the festival & the awards hosted by industry professionals and returning alumni.
The Interactive Media (IM) Showcase celebrates the works of Interactive Media students. The showcase aims to bring everyone together to engage with students and their projects, build connections with academic professionals and the IM cohort.
ACT Research Seminar
We are delighted to welcome playwrights Simon Stephens and Nick Payne, who will be in conversation together about all aspects of the playwriting craft.
A ninety minute writing workshop with leading British playwright Simon Stephens. (TWDP students only)
Platform presents Scratch: a work-in-progress event which celebrates creative projects being undertaken in the department and provides a platform for you to receive feedback during the development of your practical work.
ACT Research Seminar
Tom Basden's play Holes is set on a desert island in the aftermath of a plane crash.
Through a surrealist lens, Weldon Rising explores themes of guilt, loss and conscience within the community.
Ben Edwards has spent the year procrastinating completing his first tax return as a self-employed online tutor. Finally mustering the courage to call HMRC for guidance, he takes a patchwork walk down memory lane...
Loveplay takes us through time, starting at the Roman era ending here, now in 2023, telling distinct stories of love, tragedy an sex.
‘Are you one of those people who saw Princess Bride and decided you wanted to fence?’
On the Horizon Festival: Thomas Eccleshare, a talk with the writer of I'm Not Here Right Now
Thomas Eccleshare’s vivid storytelling conjures up a lone woman chasing footprints through blizzards as she grapples with the insidious spectre of her father’s legacy.
James Fritz’s Ross & Rachel is a one-woman show about love, life after death, and finding yourself in an all-consuming relationship.
This beautifully powerful tale of love and loss speaks about the everlasting effects of a tragic day and how it can leave your life crumbling to pieces.
On the Horizon Festival: Comedy Soc presents a double bill of The Shambles and Dead Ducks
Ben Edwards has spent the year procrastinating completing his first tax return as a self-employed online tutor. Finally mustering the courage to call HMRC for guidance, he takes a patchwork walk down memory lane...
On the Horizon Festival: Harri Marshall, advocating deaf and disabled creatives whilst working as a technician and director
Through a surrealist lens, Weldon Rising explores themes of guilt, loss and conscience within the community.
Sam Steiner’s You Stupid Darkness is a dark comedy that tells the story of four volunteers answering the phones at a helpline in the early hours of the morning - when our thoughts are at their darkest and most overwhelming.
Have you ever wanted to go to the Fringe Festival with one of your productions, but have never known how to do so?
Have you ever felt unsafe on the bus, walking to work or on a night out? The Dancefloor Project brings people together to explore ways we can make everyone feel safe and reduce sexual harm in public spaces.
ACT Research Seminar
‘Are you one of those people who saw Princess Bride and decided you wanted to fence?’
Join Bill Kinder and Bobbie O'Steen to discuss their book 'Making the cut at Pixar'. (Available to TFTI Staff and Students only)
Tom Basden's play Holes is set on a desert island in the aftermath of a plane crash.
This beautifully powerful tale of love and loss speaks about the everlasting effects of a tragic day and how it can leave your life crumbling to pieces.
Thomas Eccleshare’s vivid storytelling conjures up a lone woman chasing footprints through blizzards as she grapples with the insidious spectre of her father’s legacy.
Join us on Tuesday 30th May for an exciting talk with Juliet Forster who is the current Creative Director at York Theatre Royal.
James Fritz’s Ross & Rachel is a one-woman show about love, life after death, and finding yourself in an all-consuming relationship.
Loveplay takes us through time, starting at the Roman era ending here, now in 2023, telling distinct stories of love, tragedy an sex.
An introduction to Silent Faces' physical, political, playful style, this workshop will tool you up to make seriously silly theatre.
Sam Steiner’s You Stupid Darkness is a dark comedy that tells the story of four volunteers answering the phones at a helpline in the early hours of the morning - when our thoughts are at their darkest and most overwhelming.
ACT Research Seminar
The second year Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance cohort present an evening of performances exploring the theme of ‘Strikes’. From Ancient Rome to France in 1968 to a modern day classroom.
The second year Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance cohort present an evening of performances exploring the theme of ‘Strikes’. From Ancient Rome to France in 1968 to a modern day classroom.
ACT Research Seminar
ACT Research Seminar
Soulpaint: Visualising Embodied Experience in an Immersive Environment
ACT Research Seminar
Announcing our new community exhibition taking place between 18 March - 20 April at StreetLife, 29-31 Coney Street, York - a celebration of live-music venues, heritage and ephemera!
ACT Research Seminar
Have you ever stargazed? Have you ever looked up into space and wondered how you could possibly wrap your mind around the incomprehensible bigness of our universe?
Have you ever stargazed? Have you ever looked up into space and wondered how you could possibly wrap your mind around the incomprehensible bigness of our universe?
Discover the rehearsal process and techniques used to create Run, Rebel - Pilot's new stage adaptation of the acclaimed Young Adult novel by Manjeet Mann.
Discover the rehearsal process and techniques used to create Run, Rebel - Pilot's new stage adaptation of the acclaimed Young Adult novel by Manjeet Mann.
Platform presents Scratch: a work-in-progress event which celebrates creative projects being undertaken in the department and provides a platform for you to receive feedback during the development of your practical work.
ACT Research Seminar
This talk reports on an ambitious project by Mark Gotham - CANCELLED
Postgraduate social event which is open to all PG ACT students
Are you interested in a career in the Gaming industry? Join us for a panel event in TFTI with current industry professionals
ACT Research Seminar
Please join us for an online Masterclass with Martez Mott. Martez is currently a Senior Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research.
Performance art gallery 'In Praise of Woman, Life, Freedom'. This hybrid event is part of York's International Women's Week 2023 and aims to celebrate and amplify Iranian women's voices in their fight for justice and equality.
Ricochet Theatre presents a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones. Two intimate contrasting monologues that balance dark humour and touching pathos.
In this session, Logan will run a workshop exploring the fundamental elements of drama, including character, action and structure.
In this 90 minute workshop, Ella McKeown shares her experience working as a theatre director. Ella is a TFTI Writing Directing Performance graduate and now Artistic Director of Ricochet Theatre, a company interested in new writing.
In this 90 minute workshop, Jay Seldon shares their experience working as a technician.
Are you interested in a career in film or television production? Do you want to find out what roles are available once you graduate, and how to get there? Join us on Wed 8th February where we will be hosting a ‘Women in Production’ panel event.
This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in performance practice, no matter your experience level. We are offering this workshop both to disabled + neurodivergent communities, and to nondisabled people who wish to improve their understanding.
For this weeks Research Seminar, please join Erin Johnson-Williams to discuss the paper 'Sounding Colonial Incarceration: Pedagogy, Hymns, Resistance'.
On Wednesday 18th January we are extremely excited to welcome Colin Salmon to the School of Arts and Creative Technologies for a Talk and Q+A session.
Simon Van Der Borgh provides insight into scene writing for film and TV.
An overview of the current state of the UK film and television industry, top tips that students can applyimmediately to further connect to the industry and shape their careers