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Calling young creatives! 📢📢

Join us in Sudbury library for a series of FREE creative workshops led by award-winning artist @phoebestapleton.

Suitable for ages 8-13.

In the workshops, you will be invited to create characters, acted scenarios and physical storytelling vignettes. Discover how movement can be filmed and brought to life through greenscreen. Your creations will become part of the immersive
experience, with the opportunity to see yourself brought to life inside it and be invited to a VIP screening! ✨

Session dates:
• Sunday 18th October 11:00 - 13:00
Exploring the story behind our short film and creating material to be filmed later.
• Sunday 25th October 11:00 - 13:00
Developing the material further and exploring how to capture movement and storytelling on greenscreen.
• Sunday 1st November 11:00 - 13:00
Greenscreen filming day.

If you would like to take part in the greenscreen filming, you will need to attend all three sessions where possible.

To reserve your free spot, email libraries.arts@suffolk.gov.uk.

Spaces are limited, first come first serve! 🎟️ taken in Sudbury library by @phoebestapleton

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a day ago

TWO MENTORING PLACES AVAILABLE— One Seat Cinema

Curious what a creative career could actually look like?

Beyond the Bookshelf, our new immersive digital theatre experience coming to Suffolk libraries, is offering two mentoring places for 17–26-year-olds based in Suffolk, with co-directors Tom Hobden and Phoebe Stapleton

You’ll get:
 🎬 1-2-1 mentoring sessions with our team 💬 Bespoke, honest career advice 🤝 Real networking opportunities 🎨 Hands-on practical experience shaped around your interests; digital arts, performance, or community facilitation

At least 6 hours of dedicated time, on your schedule. Genuine access to how a creative studio actually works.

📌 This is an unpaid opportunity, no expenses covered; what you gain instead is time, access and connections that are hard to find anywhere else.

Interested? Email tom@tomhobden.co.uk by 2 October, telling us:
 1️⃣ A bit about you (your current bio) 2️⃣ What you’d most like to gain from this

No need to overthink it, we just want to get to know you.

📅 Apply by 17.00pm, 14 October 2026,  📧 tom@tomhobden.co.uk

This opportunity is possible through the generous funding of @suffolkcountycouncilofficial and @suffolk_community_libraries by @phoebestapleton

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20 days ago

Azores - Islands São Miguel & Terceira

Volcanos, caves, whales, dolphins, hikes, hydrangeas, storms, fog, sun, lakes, sea! Totally in awe at the world and nature all over again. taken in Azores Islands, Atlantic ocean by @phoebestapleton

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We wouldn’t usually direct you away from Sudbury, but if you’re looking for something to do this week, we can recommend stepping away from all the madness and taking a trip to @fscflatfordmill to see the digital art installation ‘Rivers & Skies’. The installation by artists @tomhobdenstudio and @phoebestapleton celebrates artist John Constable in what is the 250th anniversary of his birth.

Flatford is a beautiful National Trust location with riverside walks, boat trips, contains an RSPB bird and wildlife sanctuary, children’s free games and activities and a lovely tearoom ( recommend not hitting the lunchtime rush for this)!

We worked with Tom here at the arts centre when we first launched, to present a family friendly digital art installation called Spark and we hope to be working with him again in the not too distant future!

#Constable250 #RiversandSkies #Flatford #thehaywain taken in Flatford Mill by @phoebestapleton

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2 months ago

Today we opened the doors of Rivers and Skies at Flatford Mill and you showed up. All day long, families, site visitors, and friends stepped into Constable’s studio and experienced something we’ve been building together for months: their own stories, woven into his skies.

Thank you to everyone who came, shared their story, and made this project what it is.

Missed today? No worries: the installation stays open all week: 
Free admission.

Open: Monday 24th – Sunday 30th August, 11:00am – 3:00pm daily.
Where to find us: Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, CO7 6UL.

Commissioned by the EssexCulturalDiversityProject @essexcdp and the National Trust @nationaltrust , supported by Arts Council England @aceagrams by @phoebestapleton

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Interview by Simon Peachey from @nationaltrust Flatford discussing Rivers and Skies - Digitally Immersive Installation.

Running Monday 24th - Sunday 30th August

Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Suffolk (CO7 6UL)

🎟️ Entry is free.

Commissioned by the @essexcdp and the @nationaltrust supported by @aceagrams by @phoebestapleton

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2 months ago

Photos of the landscape surrounding the Granary, where we have been creating Rivers and Skies.

Two centuries later, @tomhobdenstudio and I relate to Constable’s guidance from the nature
surrounding. We hope that through Rivers and Skies, audiences will be able to feel some of what we have witnessed in this special blue and green space over the past five months!

Open: Monday 24th – Sunday 30th August, 11:00am – 3:00pm daily

Where to find us Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, CO7 6UL

Commissioned by the @essexcdp and the @nationaltrust , supported by @aceagrams by @phoebestapleton

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Next week, myself and @tomhobdenstudio head into the final week of creation for Rivers and Skies!

This is the week where everything we’ve been building over the past few months will start to magically come together. Always such an exciting and nerve wracking part of the process.

Next week is the tangible bit! The peak of the iceberg, but really it can only happen because of everything that has come before.

All the research, gallery and site visits, conversations, experiments, filming, dancing, workshops, choreographing, interviews, creating with communities, actors and dancers, testing technology, recording voices and all the little decisions that have shaped the work along the way.

I love that projects like this are formed by so many different artists, perspectives, ideas and ways of working coming together.

The final week might be when we see all these pieces together, but it’s the months of process, collaboration and decision making that have made that possible.

Come and experience it for yourself!

✨ Opening Celebration
Saturday 22nd August
Open daily until Sunday 30th August
11am–3pm, drop in any time.

📍 Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Suffolk (CO7 6UL)

🎟️ Entry is free.

Commissioned by the Essex Cultural Diversity Project and the National Trust, with support from Arts Council England.

@nationaltrust @aceagrams @essexcdp by @phoebestapleton

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‘QUIET REVOLUTIONS’ I’m so proud to be part of this film.

Quiet Revolutions is a celebration of community, togetherness and what happens when people come together through creativity.

With over 150 people credited, community dance artists and participants from across the country helped bring this story to life. Being part of it completely touched me, and watching the final cut @sadlers_wells Digital Dance Festival this weekend felt really special.

I started on the project as Assistant Choreographer, a role I was already honoured to hold, working alongside the incredible @tomhobdenstudio Then, a few days before the shoot, I was asked to step in and perform too. It was a surreal experience to find myself inside a story that speaks so closely to what I believe in and what I try to champion through my own work everyday.

I think this film will resonate with a lot of artists. It speaks to those moments where we question our value, our purpose. And comes at a time when opportunities to access the arts are scarce, and the value of the arts is increasingly belittled, this film is a reminder of why they matter.

Seeing the dancers from @giraffe_dance_uk , @dmu_dance , @jaynadanceacademy and @farnhammaltings on screen was really special. Their talent and the importance of what they do deserves to be seen and celebrated.

Thank you to @mbnewadventures for creating Overture, for making this film happen, and for continuing to invest in artists, communities and stories like this.

To the powerful team behind it all, what a pleasure it was to create with you.

🧡 by @phoebestapleton

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4 months ago

A special few weeks with @englishnationalballet
co-developing My First Ballet: Cinderella Illuminations workshops, alongside the wonderful Marie Lawrence and Charlotte Harding @_ceharding_ This work has been part of the My First Ballet tour, focused on making dance more accessible for disabled and neurodivergent children. We’ve been working with ENB’s partner schools, alongside relaxed workshops onstage and in the studio. Also this project introduced me to @icandanceuk and Juliet Diener check out their incredible work!

Movement for everyone. What an honour to share and celebrate dance with you. X by @phoebestapleton

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6 months ago

BOY by Leo Butler
Director: Nathan Curry
Movement Director: Phoebe Stapleton
Set & Costume Designer: Hannah Schlenker
Lighting Designer: Ruby Ferguson
Assistant Director: Beatrice Dempsey
Assistant Lighting Designer: Alisa Angove Encinas
Sound Designer: Roddy Lynch

Cast
Anthony Mkandawire, Áine Lawrence, Angelica Zanetta, Robyn Simpson, Lauren Woodley, Bela Gonzalez, Chase Nester, Elvis Gashi, Sophia Jeffress, Alexa Palena, Leo Beswick, Campbell Maddox, Daniel Raheem Gabana, Ellie Manfreda, Beatrice Dempsey

Production Team
Production Manager: Freddy Corbett
Stage Manager: Charlie McIntyre Newton
Deputy Stage Manager: Mia Batchelor
Technical Manager: Isaac Bowman
Lighting Programmer: Radym Makogin
Lighting Crew: Jayden Hollinshead, Henry Beardsley, Thomas Sleigh
Dance Captains: Bela Gonzalez & Lauren Woodley
Music Captain: Robyn Simpson

Thank you to @lehnilamide74 and the amazing team @rosebruford BA (Hons) American Theatre Arts. taken in Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama by @phoebestapleton

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