Open Sessions 2023

Our Residencies programme provides time and space for creators at all stages of their careers. A supportive environment to create, be curious, and try out new ideas. Many artists host Open Sessions: a unique chance for you to go behind-the-scenes and experience work-in-progress. Find out more and book an Open Session below.

Welcoming our Snape Residency and Enquiry Residency Artists for 2023.

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unprocedure
Open Session

un:procedure

‘Our upcoming residency at Snape Maltings will be a chance for the team to trial the technology and logistics involved in the realisation of this work, including spacialised audio, projection mapping, speaker placement and so on.'

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

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Nwando Ebizie
Open Session

Nwando Ebizie

‘Hildegard: Visions' is a modular two-part immersive opera by Nwando Ebizie, inspired by the works and life of Hildegard von Bingen and commissioned by Mahogany Opera. A multisensory experience of sound, movement, scent and taste, it will combine song, electronic soundscapes and ritual traditions from across cultures and eras, for a UK premiere in Spring 2024.

Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape Maltings

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Xhosa Cole
Open Session

Xhosa Cole & Nathan England Jones

‘Over the course of the week at Snape, Nathan England Jones and I strive to bring the full range of our musical experiences together in a collaborative exploration of what sonorities are possible with this duo.’

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

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Stick in the Wheel
Open Session

Stick in the Wheel

"We are looking forward to having some dedicated time and space to concentrate on making a body of new work, focused on working with traditional music forms but still pushing this forward through modern thinking and contemporary music practices. We expect the environment of the residency will invigorate our practice in new and exciting ways."

Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape Maltings

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Hooligan Art Community. Five people wearing balaclavas.
Open Session

Hooligan Art Community

Hooligan Art Community is delighted to be returning to Snape Maltings one year since their emergency residency took place in summer 2022, when the team reunited after being displaced by war and developed their acclaimed show “Bunker Cabaret”.

Snape Maltings

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Afrikan Boy
Open Session

Afrikan Boy

During his Snape Residency, Olushola will be developing new creative ways to write music, exploring soundscapes and how to relate them to storytelling, and working on new performance techniques.

Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape Maltings

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Laura Cannell and Luke Abbott
Open Session

Laura Cannell & Luke Abbott

‘New Dreams of an Ancient World’ sees two East Anglian based internationally recognised musicians recontextualise ancient instrumental technologies to generate a new collaboration and compositional practice through sampling, reinterpretation and live performance.

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

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Anna Helena McLean
Open Session

Anna-Helena McLean 'Orlando Descends'

A split-stage, immersive opera updating Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' through a contemporary lens. With a new libretto by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh, brought to life by 5 actor-musicians this poetic feast explores the interconnectedness between planes of “Difference” exposed through new ways of listening.

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

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A banner of five artists.
Snape Residency

Jennifer Farmer, Ella Jarman-Pinto, Charlotte Marlow, Laura Attridge, Yshani Perinpanayagam

An offering, an invitation, an invocation, a roar, (with the hope that) the fire will not consume us is collective creative exploration on holding space for both healing and rage.

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Gloarybox.
Enquiry Residency

Glorybox

Glorybox is a queer feminist three-piece band playing synth-driven, energising and genre-blending tunes which draw on a love of 90s dance and RnB, with an edge of rock.

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Reload.
Enquiry Residency

Reload

The thought process behind this residency is to explore the story telling aspect of rap music with a fusion of Orchestral composition, electronic music, and acoustic folk. The theme and direction of the residency is entitled “Father/Hood”.

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