Northern Electric Arts Collective

04/03/2020

Busy at Young Thugs Studios, turning Rust into an installation piece for .
We'll be venue 97 on the map, located on the Arts Barge, 18/19 and 25/26 April 10am - 5pm
Excited to be involved and bringing something a little different to this years event.
We'll keep you posted.

28/10/2019

Hello all. We've taken a break the past few months since a busy summer with Rust and Stargazers but will soon be back with a vid for Katie's 'About a Bee' poem plus more film poem experiments in the offing.
Very happy to be revisiting Rust as an installation for York Open Studios next year too - a chance to catch it if you missed the first time round.

29/07/2019

A selection of stills and artwork from Rust, our immersive spoken word piece performed recently at the Arts Barge Riverside Festival.

20/07/2019

Thank you all who came and supported Northern Electric's 'Rust', our immersive spoken word piece in collaboration with Arts Barge - performed ON the Arts Barge itself - its rightful home last Thursday, over three performances.
The piece was originally a response to the barge, in its rusty & dilapidated state before refurb and it was great to deliver the finished piece on the (almost) finished barge as part of the current Riverside Festival.
It's been a long journey with this project - presenting a version at the excellent Free Fringe last July, receiving R&D support from York Theatre Royal at the end of 2018 then presenting this final version as part of the Great Yorkshire Fringe this year in collab with the wonderfully talented musicians Christian Topman and Chris Moore, who brought such generosity and instinctive skill to the piece - but we've loved it. It's a story that's seeped silty into our very veins. Runs deep like the Ouse.
We say thanks to the wonderful Arts Barge project who kick-started and finalised the whole shebang, to all the lovely folk who have supported us along the way and to the wonderful people of York (and beyond) who came to take part in the Rust experience last week. We love you all.

17/07/2019

Busy last week rehearsing our multimedia spoken word piece, Rust with our marvelous team - Northern Electric in collab with Arts Barge.
Final performances tomorrow 18th July 2pm, 6pm and 9pm on the barge itself.
Do the sensible thing and come take a peek.
Pay what you feel.

09/06/2019

Shots from our performance at the Ignite Blackbox Showcase last week at York Theatre Royal.
Scratching out part one of Rust in preparation for Arts Barge Riverside Festival in July

03/06/2019

Rehearsals for Rust underway. Sneak peek at Blackbox Showcase, York Theatre Royal this Thursday!

28/04/2019

Filming yesterday for Rust with these beauts!

10/04/2019

We have a sparkly new website to keep you up to date with what's going on and showcase our work so far.
Go check at

Award-winning advertising creative turned spoken word poet and theatre-maker, Katie has been telling stories to a wide variety of audiences professionally since 2005.

20/02/2019

Experimenting with projectors today for our Rust project (in development with York Theatre Royal Ignite R&D Programme & Arts Barge)
Drawing upon images of the river, its surrounds as well as Rust in its genesis film-poem format