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Around 5,000 people and a legion of local artists descended onto the Rows over the weekend as Chester city centre was turned into a giant stage for a two-day programme of music, performance, dance and art.

Roam the Rows has the right ingredients for success. The festival, devised by Chester Performs, is set to celebrate Chester”s famous Rows with a variety of art and performance, including the aptly titled 300 Cream Buns on a Pink Carpet.

Chester Performs and 2 Engage Drama are looking for members of the public to become human statues as part of a large scale performance taking place during Roam the Rows, a spectacular and intimate festival on Chester”s Rows.

Ten short films created by North West filmmakers were screened at a film and digital media festival in the city centre produced by Chester Performs. The shorts, which ranged from four minute clay animations to a documentary about prisoners attending a patchwork and quilt making course, were followed by a panel discussion at the Screen Deva event.

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Cool and Crazy Launch for Screen Deva

Screen Deva, the new film and digital media festival for Chester has been launched. The event, organised by Chester Performs, featured video, photographic and interactive work from local artists at the Screen Deva Studio on Watergate Row, Chester.

A short interval after Cannes, tickets are now on sale (FROM FRIDAY MAY 23) for Screen Deva, the new international film and digital media festival for Chester organised by Chester Performs.

Chester Performs has released more details for Screen Deva, a fascinating new film festival for the City to take place for one week between 9th and 15th June. The festival highlights include mass late night drive in movies at the Zoo on 13th and 14th June, on a huge inflatable screen.

Chester Performs announced today an exciting and challenging programme of festivals, projects and performances for the year ahead. With something for everyone, the programme includes a film and digital media festival, an innovative event on Chester’s Rows, a writing project for young people, the return of the massively successful Up the Wall event in October and a spectacular finale to Cheshire’s Year of Gardens.

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Chester Writing Project

Twelve young writers from Cheshire have set off on an exciting nine month writing journey this week. The project, run by Chester Performs and led by award winning Action Transport Theatre’s Associate writer Kevin Dyer, offers budding young writers the chance to develop their creative writing skills and see their ideas grow into a piece of live theatre.

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FREE new writing taster session

Are you aged 13 to 20yrs and have a passion for writing? Chester Performs is looking for 15 budding young writers to take part in a writing project. If you think you’ve got what it takes come along to a FREE taster session on Wednesday 19th December from 6.30pm to 9.30pm at Stanley Palace, Chester.

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Calling all budding young writers

Chester Performs, the organisers of last week’s hugely successful event Up the Wall on Chester City Walls, is looking for 15 young writers aged 13 to 20 years to take part in a six month writing project.

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Performers light up the City Walls

Organisers of “Up The Wall”, a performance art event based on the City Walls, estimate that 3,500 people attended to see a range of performance artists and installations.

Chester Performs, the organisation leading the development of the City’s new performing arts centre on behalf of Chester City Council, have released more details of the exciting designs for the new centre.

Artists have been announced for the new annual promenade event on the City Walls, at twilight 9th and 10th November, when the city walls will be dramatically lit and populated with artists including fire jugglers, clowns, performance artists and visual arts installations.

Chester Performs is offering FREE places to those wishing to take part in drama, performance and junkyard orchestra projects this half term. The first session takes place on Monday October 22. All places are FREE and are aimed at young people aged 13 to 25.

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New event calls for Cheshire artists

Chester Performs is looking for artists to take part in a new, visually exciting event in Chester called Up The Wall on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th November.

Chester Performs has launched an unusual event due to take place on the City Walls at twilight on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th November. Billed by the organisation as a “happening”, the event, called Up The Wall, is a short trail which celebrates the City’s famous feature in light, sound and theatre.

Chester Performs, the new organisation leading the development of performing arts in Chester, has launched an exciting programme of projects aimed at young people and is looking for new members to take part. Chester Performs will be working with the acclaimed Action Transport Theatre, one of the country’s leading young peoples’ theatre organisations to deliver these projects.

Chester Performs’ first ever production was put to the test last Friday when the weather forced the Youth Theatre’s open-air production of “The Third Hand” to move from St John’s Ruins into St John the Baptist Church due to heavy rain.

Chester Live Youth Theatre are in the final stages of putting together their production of The Third Hand, a devised piece inspired by Chester’s myths and legends, which marks the first performance from Chester Performs. Directed by Alexandra Wardell, the show will be performed by a group of 30 talented young people aged 11 to 17 years in the ruins next to St John’s Church on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th July.

Chester Performs has unveiled its first production, a spooky open-air performance of The Third Hand, a show by Chester Live Youth Theatre, directed by Alexandra Wardell.

Chester Performs, the new organisation leading the development of the new performing arts centre in Chester, has announced its first staff appointments.

The curtain has opened on a new initiative being launched in Chester, aimed at putting the city’s performing arts programme on the international map. Chester Performs is the new organisation responsible for the development of the performing arts in Chester.

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About Chester Performs

The seating capacity of the new performance centre addresses a gap in the market in the northwest, which has very few spaces available for music and dance at this size. It will be ideal for small orchestral and chamber concerts, contemporary music and jazz, contemporary dance as well as providing the ideal size for challenging, quality drama. The centre will show regular art house films in the second space. The new centre will have three spaces, the main space holding just over 550 seats; the second 160 and the third a more casual space for rehearsals and hospitality. The main space will have acoustics designed for classical music as well as drama and the seating layout is designed to be intimate yet with no poor sightlines.

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