Incubation, in association with Nicholas Barton -Wines, Amy Conway and Harry Josephine Giles, produced by Stephanie Katie Hunter.

Incubation was a research and development project that will interrogate the role (and needs) of both artist and producer alike. Led by Stephanie Katie Hunter featuring the work of Harry Josephine Giles, Amy Conway, and Nicholas Barton-Wines, Incubation was a direct response to the coronavirus pandemic, and our need to be supported to engage and maintain our creative practice(s).

The work completed as part of Incubation formed the foundation on which Scissor Kick - Stephanie’s production company - was founded.

Daily Questions

As part of the creative work led by Nicholas Barton-Wines, he asked daily questions throughout November to encourage a moment of reflection on personal hopes. These questions were asked daily via email as well as on Twitter and Instagram.

A document will be made to collate all of Nicholas's questions. Should you be interested in being kept up to date, and informed when this document has been created, please do let us know by completing the 'contact' page form.

Deep Chats

In addition to Daily Questions, Nicholas looked for individuals interested in having creative discussions about hope and our relationship to it. These conversations took place on Zoom for one hour on November 27th 2020. Through reflection, storytelling and sculpting their own hope-object with supplied materials offered participants a moment for them to check in with themselves.

Call - Out for Trans Actors and Live Role-Playing Gamers (Paid)

The deadline for applying to this call-out has passed.

Harry Josephine is looking for a small group of trans people to take part in two workshops as part of research for an interactive digital performance project. They are making a performance about and set in online trans community, and will be running creative improvisation and devising workshops to explore some very early ideas.

This work would suit trans people who:
- Are actors with experience in devised theatre and/or who have good experience of live role-playing games (such as TTRPGs and LARPs)
- Have participated in online trans communities, or who identify as Being Very Online
- Are comfortable working primarily in text and voice, rather than video or in person
- Live or have lived in the UK

By "trans" we mean anyone who identifies as trans, non-binary, genderqueer, from a minoritised gender, or who otherwise finds the word useful.

The two workshops will take place entirely online. They will each last one working day and will be in November 2020 and January 2021, with the date determined by team availability. The fee is £120 per day on a freelance basis.

We will be using the results of these workshops to make a funding application for further development, but further work is not guaranteed.

If you would like to apply, please email hj@harryjosephine.com with roughly 250 words about you and why you are interested in this project. Helpful things to mention are details of what art/games/creative things you make yourself, your experience with both games and theatre, what about online community matters to you, and any links to your wider work. Headshots are not required. You can include a CV if you think it's relevant. Please also email if you have any questions.