The Nuffield Theatre delivers a range of innovative participatory projects (also see PROJECTS ARCHIVE). Projects respond creatively to the fact that many people are unlikely to choose to see experimental performance on a campus-based theatre. Rather than delivering traditional outreach work, we provide opportunities for local residents of all ages and backgrounds to get involved in the creative process of innovative artists.

We would like to hear your ideas too, so if you have a proposal for an exciting participatory project, please contact Alice Booth, Projects and Artist Support Officer. Email: alice@nuffieldtheatre.com or call: 01524 592994.

Three fun and creative workshops taking place with a variety of local artists aimed at slightly differing age ranges.

All workshops are £5 per child per workshop and this includes a juice and biscuit break. The Great Hall cafe-bar will be open, serving hot drinks and snacks for parents wanting to stay on site for the duration of the workshop and perhaps catch up on the newspapers. The Land Art for Kids workshop is for children and adults with free attendance for adults accompanied by a responsible child! Conversations in the gallery. Saturday May 15th 2010 | 2-4pm | 15 places available for 8-10 yr olds A chance to explore the current exhibition in the Peter Scott Gallery with exhibiting artist Pete Flowers of Green Close Studios. Working with watercolours and postcards, create your own work of art for display in the gallery.

A Secret Garden. Saturday May 22nd 2010 | 10.30am-12.30pm | 10 places available for 5-7 yr olds Come on a winding adventure through the Making Time Garden, digging and planting, exploring flowers and seeds and perhaps meet a worm or two! The garden is created by resident artists Jonathan Raisin & Elizabeth Willow who will be leading the journey.

Land Art for Kids. Saturday June 5th 2010 | 10am-12pm | 20 places available for 5-10 yr olds Come and join land artists Julia Brooklyn and Richard Shilling to learn how to create fascinating art using only natural materials. All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult – maximum three children per adult

BOOKING DEADLINE – 20th May. To request a booking form please call 01524 594151 or email Jo Towers on j.towers@lancaster.ac.uk.

Watch the Making Time Garden - LIVE!

Making Time is a new performance project devised by Nuffield Theatre to explore ideas of time. For full details download the attached pdf.

How might a performance last an entire year? How do we mark time and how does it mark us? How do we document time? How can we make the time to make art?

Artists Jonathan Raisin & Elizabeth Willow have been commissioned to spend a year creating a garden in the grounds of Lancaster University; a place in which to respond to change; to follow the seasons; to mark and be marked by the passing of time.

Elizabeth and Jonathan welcome ideas, suggestions and gifts of seeds, cuttings and gardening tips. A regular monthly newsletter will be posted online and also available as a paper edition. To join our mailing list and receive more information about times and events, contact makingtime@nuffieldtheatre.com

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The Nuffield Theatre and the Dukes in Lancaster are continuing to promote ‘A NIGHT LESS ORDINARY’, a new national scheme that’s allowing Lancaster’s two most exciting theatre venues to team up and offer thousands of free tickets to local young people over the next two years.

To sign up for the scheme, get free tickets and great further discounts at our venues, just call the Nuffield box office on 01524 594151 or the Dukes on 01524 598500. Almost all shows in the Nuffield Autumn 2010 programme have free tickets set aside for the scheme - see WHAT'S ON Section for details - where you see the ANLO logo there are free tickets (subject to availability).

The darlings of Londons neo-cabaret scene explain the FREE theatre tickets for under 26s scheme through the medium of song...

A Night Less Ordinary is an Arts Council England scheme in association with Metro, which will provide 618,000 free theatre tickets to anyone under 26 in more than 200 venues across England. For more information about the scheme visit www.anightlessordinary.org.uk

The Nuffield won our category at the recent Arts Council art08 awards held in Liverpool in November 08. The Nuffield took the Inside-Outside-Online prize for our year-long programming project, alongside wins from Manchester International Festival's 'Monkey - Journey to the West', Bluecoat Arts Centre's Shine project and overall winner, inspiring Lancashire-based young people's leader Paul Hartley. Comedian Dave Spikey compered the event, and ACE interim director Aileen McEvoy said 'All our art08 award winners have demonstrated their dedication to delivering the kind of fantastic work that inspires us and brings us together, making the North West a better place to be'

Nuffield New Works is a commissioning programme supporting the research, development and dissemination of new theatre and dance practice. Working with established companies with a national and international reputation, and a range of UK and international co-producers, the scheme enables artists to explore new collaborations or to experiment with new areas of practice. Most shows have toured extensively nationally and internationally, and several have been selected for British Council showcases.

Nuffield New Works supported shows include The World in Pictures (Forced Entertainment); Broken Chords (Vincent Dance Theatre); Alice Bell and Daniel Hit By a Train (Lone Twin); OAP (Ursula Martinez); Dinner with America (Rajni Shah); Silence of the Soul and 5-2-10 (Walker Dance Park Music); Incarnate (Marie-Gabrielle Rotie); Hotel Methuselah (imitating the dog); A Pastoral (Uninvited Guests); Making the Difference (Small Change); Relative (Niki McCretton and Kathy Hinde); Years, years (Deer Park); The Lastmaker (Goat Island); Song of Songs (Sonia Hughes). For more information, contact Matt Fenton on 01524 593431, matt@nuffieldtheatre.com