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After the performance

So, Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth at mac was truly successful! We managed to accompany a fabulous team of creatives with Hannah Silva taking the director’s chair and Georgie Lee being the most wonderful stage manager! More than that, we had babies in three out of four shows, and one of the shows had over 75% carers with babies in the audience! Big thumbs up for Tim Hodgson and mac Birmingham for being really passionate about investigating artistic practices: believing that parents in the arts should still have access to work, and to be able to see high quality work whilst being with their babies!

Keep tuned in, we’re planning a Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth tour for early 2017!

DadMan: The Bath-Time Warrior Tour announcement

Notnow Collective is proud to announce that our newest project DadMan: The Bathtime Warrior we has been successful in securing the funding from Arts Council and Sir Barry Jackson Trust Fund, alongside the partnership from MAC Birmingham, Derby Theatre, Attenborough Arts Centre and Wolverhampton Aren.

In a nutshell this means a considerable growth for our small organisation: we are creating a brand new show, our 13 venues touring circuit widens beyond our Midlands borders and we go nationwide, and we will be further exploring what baby-friendly theatre is and delivering a focused audience development activity throughout the next 9 months!

Check all the information and tour dates here. 

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International Womens Day with Wonderwoman

Our friends at The Old Rep Theatre invited us to test some more new material from Wonderwoman:The Naked Truth! As part of the celebrations of the International Women’s Day notnow Collective are joining an all female line-up at an evening event, starting at 7pm.

However, as a special bonus, The Old Rep have organised a 2pm matinee for all who cannot make it to theatre in the evening, including parent/carer-baby audience. So, come and give as some feedback on our progress!

Tickets are bookable through www.oldreptheatre.co.uk

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Funding from Arts Council for Wonderwoman

We are delighted to announce that we were awarded funding from Arts Council England for the development of our first project Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth.

The project will be developed in partnership with mac, Birmingham and The Old Rep, and will open at the mac in May.

So far we know there will be four performances on different days, including two relaxed parent-baby performances for carers who wish to see theatre but have to bring their babies along.

Watch this space for more info.

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notnow using #RadicalChildcare at Impact Hub Birmingham

This autumn Impact Hub Birmingham and Famalam teamed up in delivering the pilot project Co-Work/Play as a part of #RadicalChildcare response.

notnow Collective took advantage of 3 out of four pilot sessions. This meant super-focused 3 hours of work for us, and super-creative play for our children. We are also proud to affiliate the birth of our company and launch of our website to this amazing subsidised initiative.

Read more about our experience  on our guest blog post here

notnow at PIPA conference

On October 16th 2015 at Young Vic Theatre in London we participated at the launch of Parents In Performing Arts (PIPA) initiative. In practice, this meant having a full theatre with over 400 people and over 70 children discussing the reality and the future of being a parent in the industry. This positive experience proved that having kids present at the conference resulted in a very unique, but well managed, responsible and humane atmosphere, which is a practice we look forward to seeing develop.
PIPA’s work is currently focusing greatly on improving the services for London artists, and we are going to be this initiative in the Midlands.

You can find out more about PIPA campaign here