Le Navet Bete are a group of multi-faceted performers (also known as clowns) who have produced original work for audiences in the UK and abroad. In 2010/11 they are touring internationally with their new show, Napoleon: A Defence.

www.lenavetbete.com

“Like a knife to our collective throats. If this doesn’t make you think, nothing will.” BBC Radio

“Jon Bonfiglio is rapidly becoming the thinking man’s playwright.” Richmond and Twickenham Times.

Midnight, When Trumpets Cry opened at the Brighton Fringe Festival in May 2009 before touring, culminating in a run at London’s Theatre 503 in October of the same year.

Directed by Tarek Iskander.

Nancy Elizabeth is a highly regarded folk vocalist who has played in Europe’s highest profile venues. In 2008 and 2010 she toured to Mexico with Jon Bonfiglio and is currently working on her third album. Nancy wll also be collaborating on The Clipperton Project as an Associate Artist.

www.nancyelizabeth.co.uk

Signed to Elbow’s Skinny Dog label, Dave Rybka and the Victorian Dad Band’s sounds have been wowing Manchester audiences for a long while now, but now they’re further afield, gigging in Europe and the Americas.

www.myspace.com/victoriandaad

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May We Meet Done

The Hotel of Memory is a touring event/exhibition in which a hotel is taken over by artists and performers in order to reveal memories of the space to an audience. It was first presented at the Patio Hotel in Mexico City (www.elpatio77.com) in January 2010 and is now appearing in different hotels in a variety of countries.

Fernando Aceves Humana (www.fernandoaceveshumana.com) is a painter from Oaxaca who often studies stuffed animals in an artificial setting (museums collections) before relocating them into a real, contemporary context in his work, often one which is violent and riven with danger.

Set in Oxford on the eve of the 2010 general election, Tatchell is the story of the re-encounter between two lovers who find themselves in the city of their youth once again. Using Peter Tatchell’s narrative as a prospective MP in the city, it weaves in his own story as a civil rights campaigner into a tale of love, politics and life in contemporary Oxford.

Tatchell opened at the Old Fire Station in Oxford in May 2009 before transferring to the Waterloo East Theatre in London in early 2010.

Ad astra per aspera
(A rough road leads to the stars)
Inscription at Launch Complex 34 at Kennedy Space centre where all three crew members of the first Apollo spacecraft died in 1967.

Our heroes and our Gods, under scrutiny, have become dwarves.
As if that was something they could ever be.
That we could ever allow.
That’s why we rail against the day’s passing, struggle to get in another word or action, because tomorrow…
Tomorrow we may not know where we stand.
Not recognise ourselves when we stop to look.

Pluto opened in London in May 2008 before transferring to Spain for the Kuiperfest festival, where it was also recorded live for radio broadcast.

Nocturn was Jon Bonfiglio’s first produced play. Focusing on the relationship between three people who meet in the night on London’s streets in the long hot summer of 2003, it played for two weeks in London in 2006, featuring Julian Lamoral-Roberts and Ross Devlin.

Naim Rahal “El Libanes” Manzanilla is a photographer and filmmaker living in Mexico City. He has collaborated with Bonfiglio on various projects, most notably Betrayal in London, Edinburgh and Mexico City. In 2010 he is the lead artist in the Hotel of Memory, taking place in a historic hotel in Mexico City’s old colonial centre.