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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We’re enjoying improvising seaside stories with Bamfield Lodge residents at the moment! Just back from another session today where we created a story about fizzy-wine flavoured sticks of rock! One more session to go with the current funding, but we hope to return to this work before too long.

A photograph taken in the lounge of a care home with a low white ceiling and pink chair surrounding the edge of the room. Older people are sitting on the chairs. In the foreground on the left a tall white man in his 30s wearing a dark green T-shirt and turquoise shorts holds a small fishing rod from which is dangling a silver fabric fish. On the right a smaller white woman in her 40s with dark hair tied up in a bun wearing black framed spectacles and a long black T-shirt is holding a printed artwork of a rock pool on a beach.

A colour photograph taken in the living room of a care home with low white ceilings and walls pink chair around the edge of the room and older people are sitting on the chairs. In the foreground on the left a white woman in her 40s with dark hair tied into a bun wearing black framed spectacles and a long black T-shirt Plays a large ukulele. On the right a tall white man in his 30s wearing a dark green T-shirt and turquoise shorts is in the act of singing whilst mining playing a trombone with his hands.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Do You Follow? @agentskahlodali.bsky.social Read about shark attacks and more in our August newsletter via this link (And please click and follow @agentskahlodali.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/ee01ddce2b7e...

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FRIDA KAHLO? Part 3 Bite-sized bio introduced by Agent Kahlo, art detective & Frida Kahlo's biggest fan! #fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FRIDA KAHLO? Part 2 Bite-sized bio introduced by Agent Kahlo, art detective & Frida Kahlo's biggest fan! #fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FRIDA KAHLO? Part 1 Bite-sized bio introduced by Agent Kahlo, art detective & Frida Kahlo’s biggest fan! #fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOUR ARTISTS? New series of artist bios starts today, presented by Agents Kahlo & Dali. #fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Thanks Exmouth Festival for hosting our seaside family improv show The Keepers today! There was metal-detecting, a shark attack and two people abseiled off a cliff, all inspired from seaside postcards written by the audience. With thanks to these lovely audience members who joined us for a photo.

Two photographs stacked one on top of the other. Both show a vertical striped red and white lighthouse structure in a very yellow dry festival field with a band stand and a banner saying Exmouth festival beyond. In front of the lighthouse in the top photo a group of five people. Left to right: a white woman in her 40s wearing a black cap, cream dungarees and a pale blue T-shirt stands in a warrior pose holding a green children’s fishing net aloft. Next to her a black woman in her 40s wearing a black tunic and dark shorts stands smiling. Next to her a white man in his 30s in a black cap pale Ollie blue T-shirt and cream dungarees crouches down smiling. Next to him a white woman in her 30s wearing a pale bucket hat and a navy sundress crouches smiling next to a small white child in a navy bucket hat, navy dress with floral print and pink leggings in the act of looking through a plastic telescope.

The photograph below is almost exactly the same except the white woman in her 40s with the black cap pale blue T-shirt and cream dungarees is now holding a navy sailor scarf with a white stripe around the edge and is speaking to a white child who is aged around 10. They have long blonde hair in a plat and are wearing a pale blue cap, a dark navy T-shirt, pale blue shorts and have a pair of black binoculars around their neck.

White text top right of the top photograph says the keepers today at Exmouth festival.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We are all set for Exmouth Festival! Catch our improvised storytelling show THE KEEPERS there this Sunday. Pop along, write us a postcard and you never know, your ideas might be pulled out the lobster pot to be turned into a brand new story! bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/the-...

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Here’s us testing our newest sound walk in Chard! It goes live on 21 July. It’s called Redstart Radio. It features the creative writing & voices of Yr 5 students from Redstart Primary who created radio dramas inspired by 10 different artworks. More here companyofinternationalartists.com/events

A colour photo of a white man and woman both wearing headphones standing in the Sun outside a pale stone building with a blue sign saying in yellow letters chard museum.
On the left the man is tall with short ginger hair and a neat moustache wearing sunglasses blue over ear headphones and a dark green T-shirt. On the right a small woman with dark curly shoulder length hair and sunglasses wears a black vest top and has white in ear headphones with cables hanging down. Both are smiling.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

June 2025: new ventures - read our latest newsletter here! mailchi.mp/2b1d59d1a0a8...

A composite image. Two different images both slightly transparent are overlaid. Background image the torso of a white man wearing a dark suit holding a small wooden gavel is in the act of auctioning art. Overlaid is an oil painting by artist Vermeer featuring a young white woman sitting writing a letter wearing a large 16th century yellow dress. White text overlaid said June 2025

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

1/3 “Really inspiring! Never seen anything like this before. This has been so interesting. The best workshop I’ve been to!” We had a great time presenting the @agentskahlodali.bsky.social at the University of Bristol International Child and Family conference today.

A colour photo of two people standing in front of a long vertical banner. On the left a tall white man in his 30s wearing an orange Fedora hat a large fake bushy black handlebar moustache a short sleeved navy shirt with red lobster print and orange shorts. He is smiling and pointing excitedly at the banner. The banner is white and says in blue international child and family conference. In front of the banner leaning slightly on a table is a small white woman in her 40s. She is wearing an orange head scarf tied in a bow on top of her head, white plastic framed sunglasses and a short sleeved purple tunic with white embroidery on the front over a leopard print jumpsuit.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We’re proud to be presenting at this conference! Delegates can find us on Wed 18 June, 4-6pm as we lead a workshop exploring how our project @agentskahlodali.bsky.social is breaking cultural barriers and giving agency to children through theatre and beyond. More here: bristol.ac.uk/sps/news/202...

A screenshot of a website. At the top of the words, university of Bristol beneath that School for policy studies. Beneath that Bristol hosts First International child and family conference. Beneath that a photograph of a brown child’s hands spread out on top of a large coloured pencil drawing of the globe with coloured pencils scattered all around.

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Gill Simmons @gillmsimmons.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

“Art in school EVERY DAY!” Agent Kahlo of the @agentskahlodali.bsky.social found this quotation in a children’s manifesto in the Filwood Times and just HAD to turn it into a badge!

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Gill Simmons @gillmsimmons.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

“It’s been brilliant!” I recently finished a series of weekly storytelling workshops I’ve been running on behalf of Bristol Improv Theatre at Filwood Community Centre for the last 2 months. We explored many improv techniques and how these can be deployed in lots of different creative contexts.

A colour photograph of two people in a community space doing a theatre improv exercise. On the left of south Asian man in his 30s wears loose black cotton trousers over a black knee length tunic. He has dark short hair and a dark beard and stands hunched over leaning on an imaginary walking stick. On the right a young white woman in her 20s with long black hair wearing a black longsleeved top and a black skirt with red floral print. She is mimicking the pose of the man.

A colour photograph of two people in a community space doing a theatre improv exercise. In the foreground a tall white man in his 40s with a dark green T-shirt and short dark hair and glasses stands with his hands on his hips, leaning backwards with a proud expression. Beyond a white woman in her 20s with long black hair, wearing a long sleeved black top and a black skirt with red floral print mimics the man’s pose.

A colour photograph of two people standing at a low coffee table in a community space. On the table a green tombola decorated with yellow diagonal stripes. On the left a young white woman in her 20s with long black hair wearing a sleeveless black and white floral dress leans over the tombola about to reach inside it. On the right a tall white man in his 40s wearing a dark green T-shirt and spectacles holds a small piece of paper. He has just drawn out of the tombola.

A colour photograph of two people in a community space in the act of a theatre improv exercise. They are both sitting. On the left a young white woman in her 20s with long black hair wearing a sleeveless black and white floral dress smiles at the man sitting next to her. On the right a tall white man in his 40s wearing jeans, a dark green T-shirt and spectacles mines holding an ice cream cone and looks at the woman with a smile. In front of them another chair covered with small slips of paper. Some other slips of paper are scattered on the floor at their feet.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

1/2: Under the Hammer, our newest interactive art mystery with @agentskahlodali.bsky.social for adults & teens IS GO! Agents Kahlo & Dali broke cover yesterday evening to work with a dinner party as they tried to crack a case, set at a charity art auction.

A colour photograph of a table set for dinner. A white tablecloth wine glasses and in the foreground a small wooden gravel. In focus beyond the table on a wooden easel a canvas print of an oil painting by Vermeer featuring a young white woman wearing a yellow dress in the act of writing at a table.

A colour photograph of a long dinner table. Guests seated. White tablecloth. Guests are smiling and laughing and several are holding auction paddles.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

1/3: We made a show that’s GUARANTEED to END BADLY! Sticky Ends! has been going strong since 2017, improvising absurdist cautionary tales drawn from audience confessions posted into our Tombola of Truth.

A composite image. Two actors on the left a white woman in her 40s with dark curly hair was yellow dungarees with a purple! On them. She is singing and playing a ukulele. On the right a white man in his 30s with short ginger hair and a neat beard was purple dungarees with a yellow! On them.Text above says sticky ends a participatory improv show for 5+. Text above also reads stories songs surprises silliness. At the bottom in a yellow strip text says "Deliciously humorous verse kept the young audience enthralled but not scared.
Witty and dark-humoured, a highly original show.
Edinburgh Fringe Review, Sticky Ends

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

1/2: We’ve been working on this private commission for a while now. Under the Hammer is an interactive art mystery set at a charity auction and within the world of the Company of International Artists, designed for teenagers and/or adults to actively solve together.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

1/3 🥳 TOOT TOOT! 🎉 We’re proud to have been recently named as a Trinity Champion Centre 2025/26 for our successful delivery of Arts Award qualifications! This is the FIFTH time now that we’ve been recognised in this way.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Our co-Artistic Director Paul Lawless successfully completed the Bristol 10K this morning! If you would like to help us keep on running as a company that gives live arts to some of the most vulnerable people in our society, you can donate via our Kofi account. ko-fi.com/bravebolddrama

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We were at The Script’s The Thing 2 today, a festival of new writing, showcasing our latest show The Mexico Mission! in the main space at @dorchesterarts.bsky.social There was only time to present a tiny bit of the show, but here’s a sense of how it carries on. bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/mexi...

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Our co-Artistic Director @gillmsimmons.bsky.social is delighted to be leading FREE evening storytelling workshops for adults with Bristol Improv Theatre & Filwood Community Centre. People said: “I felt inspired and connected!” All welcome. Book here: www.filwoodcentre.org.uk/event-detail...

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“Fabulous acting. Loved it! Big plot twist and excellent storyline. Pitched brilliantly for my 8 year old. I enjoyed it a lot. I was inspired. The best I have been to. Wonderfully to see children enthusiastically taking part.” Feedback for The Mexico Mission! show yesterday at Wimborne Library.

Colour photo of two actors standing on a pavement outside a red brick building with large white letters over the door saying Wimborne Library. On the left a tall white man in his 30s with short ginger hair and a neat beard wearing a teal tee shirt with Brave Bold Drama printed on it in cream and turquoise shorts. He’s shielding his eyes from the sun and smiling. On the right a small white woman in her 40s with dark curly bobbed hair, sunglasses, a purple teeshirt and grey joggers stands smiling with hands in pockets.

Colour photo of a theatre poster in an A frame in the foyer of a library. Poster advertises a show called The Mexico Mission!

Poster has a border of bright coloured red, orange, yellow and pink flowers: roses, carnations and primroses. Rich royal blue background. On the left a group of actors of varying sizes grouped together like on a film poster. At the top a large Hispanic woman in her 40s with dark eyes looks serious, wearing a close-fitting dark hat and holds a 1930s style camera. Underneath her, slightly smaller, a white woman in her 40s wearing an orange headscarf tied in a bow on top of her head and an orange embroidered tunic looked concernedly over the top of some white plastic framed sunglasses. To the right of her, a white man in his 30s wearing an orange fedora, a large fake black bushy handlebar moustache and a short sleeved navy shirt with red lobster print holds a magnifying glass up to one eye and looks shocked. Next to him, slightly smaller, a while woman in her 40s with long straight blonde hair wears a white furry bucket hat and a white hoodie, points directly out to camera and looks annoyed. Beneath her, the smallest of all the figures, a while man in his 30s wears a black leather fedora, a long black leather coat over a black shirt, black leather gloves, and looks suspiciously to the left while reaching with his right hand for a framed portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo.

Text in red over a yellow paint streak top right says The Mexico Mission can you crack a million-dollar case? under that in yellow against the blue background it says adventure theatre for families. Bottom right the number 7+ in yellow within a red triangle.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

1/2: Amazing! I really loved it! So funny I want to watch another! So engaging, really wonderful acting. Keep doing what you do! Would love to see more. This is the second time we’ve seen one of your shows. Absolutely fabulous! We really enjoyed the storytelling.”

Colour photo of 2 actors outside a glass fronted building with red bricks. A blue sign on the building says Swanage Library. On the left a small white woman in her 40s with dark hair tied up in a high ponytail, sunglasses, a pale pink cropped teeshirt over a grey vest top and grey joggers stands hands in pockets, smiling. On the right a tall man in his 30s with short ginger hair and a neat beard, sunglasses, a black sweatshirt and turquoise shorts stands smiling. Red flowers in a concrete circular planter in front of them.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

“The whole show was fabulous! Funny and engaging, felt included, the kids & I were both totally entertained. And we learned a lot about some artists too!” Audience feedback from today’s performance of The Mexico Mission! at Gillingham Library (plus a sneaky peek from the stage during set-up)

Colour photo of a man and woman standing outside a dark wood clad building with glass doors. Building has a sign saying Gillingham Library and Museum above the door. On the left a tall white man in his 30s with short ginger hair and a neat beard stands smiling wearing a teal teeshirt printed with the words Brave Bold Drama in cream. On the right a small white woman in her 40s with dark bobbed curly hair and sunglasses wears an orange teeshirt printed with hola hola hola in white, and jeans. She has one hand on hip and is smiling.

Colour photo of a fake red lobster sitting on the handset of a black fax machine, which rests on a teal filing cabinet. Blurry in the background rows of pale grey seats.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

10K for 10 Years! Here's a quick film about what we do and why we need your support. Donate to sponsor our co-artistic director @paullawlessact as he runs the Great Bristol Run for us on 11th May 2025. Hit the link to donate. ko-fi.com/bravebolddrama Thank you!

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

1/3: 10K for 10 years! Our co-artistic director Paul Lawless is running the Great Bristol Run to raise funding so we can continue to exist as a company, providing award-winning arts in people’s lives, even if they can’t pay.

Composite image. Red background. White lettering at top says Our co-artistic director Paul Lawless is running the AJ Bell Great Bristol Run Sat 11th May 2025. Underneath a white man in his 30s with short ginger hair and. neat moustache points at the lettering. He's wearing a blue sweatshirt with XMen on it in yellow letters, and a black anorak.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Accidentally missed this shot out of The Mexico Mission! reel, but we really like it. Can you spot Isa Vargas as Agent Modotti? 📸 by Bobby Joynes 💡lit by Jen Roxburgh @gillmsimmons.bsky.social as Agent Kahlo More about our latest @agentskahlodali.bsky.social show

Colour photo of an actor during a show. White woman in her 40s wears a green headscarf tied in a bow on top of her head and an orange embroidered dress over a leopardprint catsuit. She sits on the ground next to a dark grey stage block, and looks anxiously to her left. Her hands are behind her back. Behind her a cream, red and green striped rug hangs off a large stage flat. The rug has a central panel with the word MEXICO and an embroidered eagle trapping a snake, the emblem of Mexico. To the right of the rug is projected on a screen a black and white photo of the same woman, but smiling and wearing white flowers in her hair. Also in the photo another white woman in her 40s with dark short hair and wearing a dark suit with a white flower buttonhole. Both women in the photo are smiling and the woman in the suit has her hand across the other woman’s shoulders.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Production shots of The Mexico Mission! just landed! This is our third playable art mystery show, set in the world of @agentskahlodali.bsky.social 📸 by Bobby Joynes Design 💡 lit by Jen Roxburgh Touring Dorset Libraries next week! Details here: bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/mexi...

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Last day of The Mexico Mission! rehearsals today. Here’s a few sneak-peek details of the set, featuring the awesome lighting designer Jen Roxburgh working with our placement student Ruth. World premiere tomorrow is for service users of Dorset Council Artz+ bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/mexi...

Colour photo of a white props table sectioned off with blue tape. One section is labelled LASERS and has red lines drawn on clear sheets of acetate. Another section has LAB PASSWORDS and has black letters backwards printed on acetate.

Colour photo of two white women in their 20s and 30s with their backs to the camera rigging a theatre light on a tripod. The light is lit purple. The woman on the left has long dark loose hair and wears a cream cardigan. The woman on the right has dark hair in a ponytail and wears a pale grey hoodie.

Colour photo of two pieces of theatre set. A yellow sign with black writing saying NO ENTRAR EDIFICIO PELIGROSO NO ENTRY DANGEROUS BUILDING and slightly behind it a sawn-off section of a white door with a handle.

A grey theatre set panel featuring a gold circular vault handle above a small pile of large brown leather hardback art books.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Announcing new merch to support our new show THE MEXICO MISSION! These badges are available in our online shop for just £2 (plus p&p), and 2 of them feature details painted by our creative producer Aoife Beer! bravebolddrama.co.uk/shop.html #merch #fridakahlo #badge #theatre #supportartists

Three round pin badges photographed on a white table. The top one shows a black and white photo of Frida Kahlo’s face, with bright blue pink and orange painted flowers in her hair. On the left a blue badge with pink painted flowers at the edge, white writing says “I paint flowers so they will not die” Frida Kahlo. On the right, a painted grey parrot against a dark blue background. White lettering says “I paint my own reality.” Frida Kahlo.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

1/2 Can you crack a million dollar case? Join the on their newest art adventure show THE MEXICO MISSION! Here’s some of the characters you’ll meet. Public performances in Dorset Libraries 15-17 April, book here: bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/mexi...

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

1/2 There may only be 2 actors on stage in The Mexico Mission! but there are many other voices playing characters within the show’s sound design, and we recorded all of them this week! Isa Vargas plays Agent Modotti… #theatre #sounddesign #mexico #fridakahlo #devisedtheatre

Black and white photo of 2 white women in their 40s both with dark hair and eyes. On the right one is seated, wearing dark trousers, a pale long sleeved top and large black headphones. She is playing a small ukulele and smiling. Kneeling in the left the other woman holds out a microphone to record the ukulele. She has curly dark hair tied up on top of her head, dark plastic spactacles, a dark teeshirt that says “free spirit” in white and dark trousers with white flecks. They are in a carpeted room with white cupboard doors in the background.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Mexico Mission! is our new interactive art mystery show. Tickets for the April 2025 tour now available here: bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/mexi... Grab a sneak peek of what was in the room on day 9 of rehearsals. #theatre #rehearsal #fridakahlo #livestream #behindthescenes #sneakpeek #vintage

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Gill Simmons @gillmsimmons.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Really cracking into the sound design for @bravebolddrama.bsky.social The Mexico Mission! now as the first performances are not that far away. #sounddesign #theatre #mexico #fridakahlo

Black and white head and shoulders photo of a white woman in her 40s with dark eyes and tied back dark hair wearing black plastic-framed spectacles, a black and white horizontally striped jumper and headphones. A window behind her has a small raffia rainbow decoration hanging from the window handle.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

March 2025: down Mexico way Find out how show rehearsals are going, and get a heads up on the coolest party to be happening in 2025... mailchi.mp/8e825a0b4637...

Composite image. Border of bright coloured red, orange, yellow and pink flowers: roses, carnations and primroses. Rich royal blue background. On the left a group of actors of varying sizes grouped together like on a film poster. At the top a large Hispanic woman in her 40s with dark eyes looks serious, wearing a close-fitting dark hat and holds a 1930s style camera. Underneath her, slightly smaller, a white woman in her 40s wearing an orange headscarf tied in a bow on top of her head and an orange embroidered tunic looked concernedly over the top of some white plastic framed sunglasses. To the right of her, a white man in his 30s wearing an orange fedora, a large fake black bushy handlebar moustache and a short sleeved navy shirt with red lobster print holds a magnifying glass up to one eye and looks shocked. Next to him, slightly smaller, a while woman in her 40s with long straight blonde hair wears a white furry bucket hat and a white hoodie, points directly out to camera and looks annoyed. Beneath her, the smallest of all the figures, a while man in his 30s wears a black leather fedora, a long black leather coat over a black shirt, black leather gloves, and looks suspiciously to the left while reaching with his right hand for a framed portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo.

Text in white top right says March 2025

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The Mexico Mission! is our new interactive art mystery show. Day 5of rehearsals at Puppet Place. Grab a sneak peek of what was in the room…(and at home afterwards with the cat…) #theatre #rehearsal #fridakahlo #behindthescenes #sneakpeek #vintage

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The Mexico Mission! is our new interactive art mystery show. Day 3 of rehearsals at Puppet Place. Grab a sneak peek of what was in the room…(and at home before with the cat…) #theatre #rehearsal #fridakahlo #behindthescenes #sneakpeek

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Mexico Mission! is our new interactive art mystery show. Day 1 of rehearsals at Puppet Place today. Grab a sneak peek of what was in the room… #theatre #rehearsal #fridakahlo #behindthescenes #sneakpeek

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Hear our co-AD Gill Simmons on Malmesbury Community Radio, talking about a song she wrote about Hannah Twynnoy, about other sound walks, and about what she thinks is the point of being an artist. www.mixcloud.com/FlyingMonkCo... #podcast #localhistory #malmesbury #wiltshire #soundwalk #sounddesign

Cream background. Old fashioned swirly font in black says “The Ballad of Hannah Twynnoy, or Wild Curiosity”. Bottom left, a black and white illustration of a tiger’s face.

Next to the tiger in red it says hear us talking about this and more on a podcast!

Black and white photo of a gravestone in a grassy graveyard. Grave reads in memory of HANNAH TWYNNOY
Who died October 23rd 1703
Aged 33 Years.
In bloom of Life
She's snatched from hence,
She had not room To make defence; for Tyger fierce Took Life away.
And here she lies
In a bed of Clay,
Until the Resurrection Day.

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

❤️ Revealing Agent Dali’s ART Valentine! ❤️ What’s your ART Valentine, agents? Drop us a message, we’d love to know! #valentines #arthistoryforkids #loveart

Composite image. Pale red small hearts in a row as a background. At the top a painting of a bat at night with its wings outstretched. Underneath, same man from previous picture is on the right, smiling widely and pointing to a cartoon speech bubble which has the man saying I love “Flying Fox" by Vincent Van Gogh, painted 1886, because the shadows are spooky and the wings seem to glow!

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

❤️ Revealing Agent Kahlo’s ART Valentine! ❤️ What’s your ART Valentine, agents? Drop us a message, we’d love to know! #valentines #arthistoryforkids #loveart

Composite image. Pale red small hearts in a row as a background. At the top a portrait of white woman wearing a fitted white hat and red lipstick driving a green car. Underneath, same woman from previous picture is on the right, smiling widely and pointing to a cartoon speech bubble has the woman saying I love
"Autoportrait" by
Tamara de
Lempicka, painted 1929 because the woman looks very determined & confident in her sports car.

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Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

❤️ Revealing Agent Kinney’s ART Valentine! ❤️ What’s your ART Valentine, agents? Drop us a message, we’d love to know! #valentines #arthistoryforkids #loveart

Composite image. Pale red small hearts in a row as a background. At the top a watercolour painting of a blue curved bridge over a green lily pond. Underneath, same woman from previous picture is on the left, smiling widely. A cartoon speech bubble has the woman saying I love
"The Water Lily
Pond" by Claude Monet, painted 1889, because it's peaceful. You can imagine the sun peering through the trees from above!

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Why not play detectives with our alter ego the @agentskahlodali.bsky.social tomorrow and tell us your ART Valentine? (Remember, engaging with artists’ social accounts is a love language…)

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Another photoshoot for The Mexico Mission! this morning, recreating moments from 20 years ago in two characters’ pasts. With thanks to Sophie Howard for the kind use of her studio.

Black and white photo of 3 people in a art studio. On the left a tall white man in his 30s with a neat dark beard & short hair wears a patchwork anorak and holds a mobile phone. In the middle a small white woman in her 40s wears a white floral headdress, a scarf with stars over her shoulders and holds a paintbrush and stands at an artist’s easel with a canvas on it. On the right a tall white woman in her 40s with dark hair and a white tunic and dark woollen scarf, looks at the canvas.

Colour photo of a white woman in her 40s with her back to the camera is on the act of painting a full length portrait of artist Frida Kahlo. The woman has dark hair tried up and wears a white floral headdress. A bright orange scarf with white stars is draped over her shoulders. She’s holding a paint palette. The portrait she’s painting is unfinished. It shows a Mexican woman standing with a long full pale green skirt, a red bodice and an orange scarf draped over her shoulders. She wears a white floral headdress and her hands are clasped in front of her. There is a dark blue background, as yet incomplete. Shelves with paint in the background.

Black and white photo of 3 people in an artists’ studio. Just seen a tall man in a patchwork anorak takes a photo of a white woman in her 40s who is painting a canvas on an easel. She wears a white floral headdress, a dark denim apron and a pale scarf draped over her shoulders. She holds a paint palette. A sculpture of a female figure in the act of drawing a bow and arrow is beyond. On the right a tall white woman in her 40s with dark hair, a white tunic and a dark woollen scarf stands looking at the other woman.

Colour photo in an artists’ studio. On the right a white woman in her 40s with dark hair looks though an old-fashioned silver camera. She is taking a photo of another woman who is just seen with her back to the camera, with dark hair tied up and an orange scarf with white stars around her shoulders. A sculpture of a female archer in the act of shooting an arrow with a bow is to the right. Shelves of art books in the background.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Jan / Feb 2025: Frida or Fake? - lots of insider intel about our latest playable show THE MEXICO MISSION! in this bumper two-month newletter! mailchi.mp/44b66f65e6bd...

Black and white photo of two white women in their 40s lying on a picnic blanket and photographed from above. On the left, the woman has dark hair and has one hand fanned out over her forehead. The other hand rests on the other woman. She has a broad smile and is wearing a dark jacket with a while rose The the button hole over a white tunic. The other woman is lying with her head reading on the stomach of the first woman. She is wearing a row of white flowers in her hair, white plastic framed sunglasses and a dark short-sleeved dress with white polka dots. Both her hands are up to her face and she also has a broad smile. Superimposed in white it says Jan/Feb 2025

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

1/3 On Monday we spent the morning with Mark Dawson Photography shooting images for the poster of our new playable family show The Mexico Mission! #TheMexicoMission #photoshoot #posterdesign #theatre #behindthescenes

Colour photo of two white women in their 40s in an room with a pale carpet and a large grey photographers’ backdrop behind. On the left a small woman wears a bright orange knee-length dress over a leopardprint catsuit, and a purple and orange headscarf tied in a bow on head. She is standing nose to nose, fist clenched, with a taller woman who is bending her knees to be eye to eye. The taller woman wears a dark close-fitting hat, a black short-sleeved blouse and light checked trousers. Both women look very aggressive. A white man wearing jeans and and grey teeshirt holding a large camera is just seen.

Colour photo of a white woman in her 40s in an room with a pale carpet and a large grey photographers’ backdrop behind. The woman wears a bright orange knee-length dress over a leopardprint catsuit, and a purple and orange headscarf tied in a bow on head. She is standing with one hand to her chest and looks nervously over her shoulder. Black tripod stands supporting photographers’ lights are behind her.

Colour photo of a white mam in his 30s in an room with a pale carpet and a large grey photographers’ backdrop behind. The man wears an orange fedora hat, a large fake black bushy handlebar moustache, a navy shirt with a repeating red lobster print, dark orange shorts and navy socks held up with navy sock suspenders. He’s holding a silver magnifying glass to one eye and looks surprised. A man in jeans and a grey teeshirt holding a large camera is just seen.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

1/3 Our co-AD Gill spent today at REME Museum in Lyneham. It was the last stage of a consultancy and training project she’s been working on since September.

Colour photo of a white woman in her 40s standing in front of a dark sign saying REME Museum in white. The woman has dark curly hair tied up on top of her head, dark eyes and a pale grey fur coat. She’s smiling to the camera.

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Proud to announce our co-AD Gill Simmons has been given a place on the One City Bristol Culture Board. She’s there to represent and speak up for freelance working class artists. Find out more about the Culture Board here: www.bristolonecity.com/the-culture-...

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Gill is on this board to represent her perspective as a working class Bristolian freelance theatre maker
At the meeting today she:
explained that artists, especially those in ephemeral forms like theatre, need long term genuine associations with bricks & mortar cultural institutions
called for more transparency about how much money that is assigned to or generated by cultural organisations actually goes to freelance artists (on whose labour the organisation actually depends)
called for the city to first acknowledge and then actually address the class barriers that means working class artists, especially in storytelling artforms of theatre, TV & film are becoming problematically rare

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Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Psssst! This is us tipping you the wink to follow our alter ego, the Company of International Artists, a TOP SECRET Art Detective Agency. Expect 🎭 playable theatre 🎨 art history subscription 🕵️‍♀️ an invitation to role play as a Creative Agent 🎉 free artist birthday-themed creative prompts & more!

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