So, about atom boi...
Project Atom Boi is a performance about apocalyptic fear, nostalgia and forlorn hope.
Can we find hope while believing the world is doomed?
A researched based devising piece created by a company of diverse cast of mostly migrant artists, we want to face our fear of the future, to look for hope in a journey starting from darkness.
I am raising £2250 to develop and produce this show as part of my final MFA directing project at East 15. This project is also going to be featured as part of the SHIFT+SPACE program at theatre Deli.
This is us!
Hello, my name is He Zhang! I am a theatre maker who mainly works as a director and writer/dramaturg who also sometimes performs and stage manages. I’m currently finishing my directing MFA degree at East 15 acting school and I have an academic background of Comparative Literature from University of Southern California. I was born in Beijing and had been a migrant artist almost all my creative life. I had worked creatively in the US, China and am only recently starting my career in the U.K. My work focuses on the boundary between things, languages, media and creative forms.
l'm working closely with my associate director Kiki Ye on this project, a East Asian queer theatre artist with a focus on interdisciplinary theatre practice.
Kiki is a London-based bilingual theatre maker from China, completed her latest MA at RCSSD.
Before studying in the UK, she spent five years exploring theatre as a playwright at Central Academy of Drama in Bejing. She questioned the difference between text and performance.
Recently she has been working on many international collaborative theatre productions. She presented Wild Lab for Form(at) Festival 2021 in Camden People Theatre with artists from different culture backgrounds last. It was about both seriousness and lightness in Lesbian group.
Kiki focuses on the joy of making things happen in the theatre, and she is also interested in composing various elements in performances like images/ camera/ materials.
Beyond Atom Boi, we're also starting a new creative collective Ensemble Not Found to explore new forms of theatre as well as new way of creating performances. Atom Boi will be our first project but we have other exciting stuff coming along the way. We are a collectively run company that welcomes anyone to share and exchange ideas with us as we believe in ensemble led, collectively run devising theatre.
Our ensemble consist a creative team consisting entirely of migrant artists. You can meet some of us in the promotional video we've linked :)
Where will the money go?
I’m raising the money so that we’ll be able to support our hard working team in making the show the best form it could be!
Venue Hire : £400
Rehearsal space hire: £800
Props and Sets: £200
Fees for technicians: £300
Fees for performers: £400
Transportation: £150
Total Cost: £2250
If we reached the dream target of £2400, we’ll spend it on marketing materials and hiring professional photographer for documentations for taking the show further.
Photographer fee: £100
Printing Materials: £50
Anything beyond our targeted goals will be spent on taking our show further to festivals and developing it to the next stage as this is the beginning of a longer devising process. Our piece has already been featured as part of the Shift+Space program for December at Theatre Deli and will be having more shows then!
Rewards
1 GBP Select this if you just wanna donate without getting a reward. We will remember your kindness regardless :))
5 GBP Personalized thank you email
10 GBP Shout out on our social media as a supporter
25 GBP Shout out on our performance program
50 GBP A personalized shoutout on our social media platform as well as our program so that we can help you market whatever cool things you’re working on!
50 GBP A special invitation to shadow one of our rehearsal and join in on an discussion afterwards for a creative chat
100 GBP Personalized shoutout plus invite to one of our rehearsals or future workshop with Ensemble Not Found
Images and video
Here are some sneak peaks into the R&D workshops we've done over this year :)
Follow us here for this project and other stuff we're working on :))
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You don't need to donate to help us succeed!
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Talk to people about us! When you're having a theatre chat, over coffee, over dinner, over text message, let others know this is happening and we're looking for help as emerging artists.
We know we said you don't need to give money to help us, but we'd love it if you did! Please sponsor us and help make this happen. If you're working on something cool, drop us a comment so we could get to know you more as well :)))
