Tuesday, October 30, 2012

SHOW PROPOSALS!!!!!

Hey everyone!

This is the official opening of show proposals! If you want to put on a show for BedFest, fill out the form embedded below. The deadline is Friday, 9 November, so please get those teams together! However, be assured that a full production team is not required to propose a show. Thanks!

If you need more information, here's a handy document outlining everything you need to do: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EzrCLnauySJHZ2Z1hA0fNuPfz6IPmo3ak4C_IOe8pUQ/edit

Monday, October 29, 2012

Introduction- Cafe

So after spending the summer in Bedlam behind the box office and most of the last year and a half hidden up in the tech box, I have now decided to experiment with Cafe. And by experiment with Cafe, I mean Clara and I had a really long rant over the summer about how Bedlam needs to serve things like smoothies. So there you go.
For an actual introduction, hi, I'm Kirstyn. I'm from TownInTheMiddleOfACornField#57, USA, and am a second year International Relations student. The plan for cafe for Bedfest is to make it, well, more cafe like. So we're working on serving food beyond nachos and toasties. Also, we have not had nearly enough tequila over the past festivals for my liking, so if all goes as planned and we get the alcohol license  lets just say there will be a lot of margaritas. I'm working more as an administrator  putting the menu together and taking care of the ordering and whatnot, and will have other cafe managers to take over the actual shifts during the week.
Now I get to experiment with all the recipes  Like cake pops. This is totally not an excuse to just bake all of winter break. It's definitely a very complicated process that requires tons of trial and error sessions.

Peace love and mini pizzas,
Kirstyn

Introductions - The other techie

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Hello all.

Continuing the theme of introductions, I'm the other semi-tame techie of the Crayden team. Craig has already introduced our role on the team, and be assured that there will be much geekery going on behind the scenes to ensure everything runs as smoothly as possible. As well as the new website, we are hoping to have ready a new "Digital Signage" system (nicknamed project moderate sleet) to show details about shows during BedFest.

While not at Bedlam (which hasn't been very often over the last few weeks), I can be found trying to fix the TARDIS, punching holes into card with the EURC or causing problems in the FreshAir studio (it's boring when it just works). Oh, and I'm meant to be doing CompSci with Electronics as well.

Anyway, feel free to drop me an e-mail, message me on Facebook (or even pm me at ball-hayden on irc.imaginarynet.org.uk for extra geek points) if you have any tech problems during your preparations for BedFest and I'll do what I can to help.

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Introductions - Theatre Manager


Hey I’m Clara Jane Mills, and along with the lovely Eleri, Theatre Manager for BedFest. It will be my job to make sure that all of the shows get-ins and get-outs run smoothly, things don’t break and everything that needs doing gets done. As well as making the theatre look pretty with the Box Office and CafĂ© teams.

When I’m not doing student theatre sometimes I am a Neuroscience and Physiology student. Right now though I am taking a year out of my degree and will go into third year next year. I come from Caithness, far far beyond the wall, in the frozen waste lands of the northern most highlands (like go any further and you will fall in the sea).  I’ve been horse riding since I was very little, and I have a lovely horse that I ride just outside the city, called Terry.

During the week leading up to and the week of BedFest you can expect to find me camped out in Bedlam with my duvet and coffee maker almost 24/7… Maybe it’s a good thing I don’t have classes :P

Paint covered stage management love

Clara Jane xx

Introduction: Co-Tech Manager


Evening everyone!

I'm Craig Snowden, half of the Tech Management team for this year's BedFest. Alongside Hayden, we'll be coordinating the technical aspects of the festival ensuring that all shows go without a hitch - technically that is!

Once Rachel and Seb work out who'll be entertaining us in January we'll be wanting to prepare a lighting rig for everyone to use. Obviously this means getting the technical aspects of your production sorted as soon as possible, and we'll be glad to help you out with that if necessary - just get in touch with either of us.

On a more personal level, I'm a first year (OMG A FRESHER) Computer Science student at the University. Unusually enough I'm actually Scottish, hailing from across the Forth in Fife. Currently my co-TM and I are working on a brand shiny new website for Bedlam, to be launched into the scary world before BedFest. When not at Bedlam, I'm either sleeping through 11am lectures or tucking into the "hot roll of the day" at BBL on the Pleasance.

On that delicious note, I bid you farewell and look forward to helping make BedFest a great success.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Introduction: Co-Administrator

Hello everyone!

Over the next couple of days, each member of the BedFest team will be posting a little introduction to who he or she is and what his or her role is on the team. I thought I'd get the ball rolling!

I'm Rachel 'Deep Thought' Bussom and I'm one of the administrators of this beautiful thing. My co-administrator (Seb King) and I will be organizing this festival and making sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. We're your go-to people for show and workshop proposals (as soon as the forms go live), as well as your general contacts for the festival as a whole for non-specific ideas and questions, as well as those concerning the general workings of the festival.

And now that that's out of the way, how about we get to the real introduction! I sincerely hope my fellow production team members will follow this general format. <3 (I love you guys)

As I've already said, my name is Rachel. I'm a second-year Cognitive Science student at the University of Edinburgh, though I'm actually American by nationality. When not at Bedlam I can usually be found online, attempting to transpose Legend of Zelda music into bass clef, generally being very silly, and occasionally doing my coursework. My semi-real super power is organizing thoughts and ideas into something communicable. For pictorial representation, this:


Becomes this:

That's all for now! Keep an eye out for more introductions and updates; we'll be posting again in the near future. :)



Thursday, October 25, 2012

The process begins...

Hello everyone,

Today BedFest was passed by the company of the EUTC, making this whole shindig official. We're going to get going from the get-go (i.e.: right now) and are already in the planning stage for show proposals and audition timeslots. Indeed, Rachel and I will be meeting with James Beagon, the EUTC's Productions Manager (fancy title) to talk details very soon. Coincidentally, Mr Beagon has informed me that he intends to propose Candlewasters and the 24 Hour Play with his writing bud Andrew Edwards. They are looking for people interested in managing stage and tech to help with the shows. If you are so inclined, why not email bedfest2013@gmail.com.

What's that? An email address for BedFest 2013? Yes, yes it is. Organisation = fun.

Show proposals for members of Bedlam Theatre will open in the next few days. We'll be sending a 'Guide to proposing a BedFest 2013 show' (N.B. NOT ACTUAL TITLE) in the next Company Email, so look out for that.

Also coming soon will be introductions from the team. Their friendly faces and thoughts will be the life and soul of this blog, and we'll all update as much as we can. Hooray for the internet!

Vale.*


--- *I've been reading a lot of Pliny the Younger for my degree recently, and he always finishes his letters like this. Blog posts are the modern letters, aren't they?