Creative Kindling is a multi-form arts initiative providing space to experiment, try out and test new ideas for live performance. At our scratch night you might find new plays, dance, performance poetry, film or multi-form pieces from local performers and creatives.

We will be kicking off with a scratch night on the theme 'VIRAL' in October at Salisbury Arts Centre. Be an active audience, share your thoughts on the work or just enjoy.

October performances

Estelle Phillips
Into my Arms
A dramatic two-hander.
My dad flies his glider in a competition. Gliders pass over the landscape and scare the trees below. Brother Beech is an upstart. He is not scared – until Dad makes a catastrophic escape and enters a deadly spin in the sky over Brother Beech’s canopy.

Christian Emmerson
Maggot Girl
Bringing the rich folklore of Wiltshire to life, Moon & Water Theatre, founded by Christian Emmerson and Emily Butler, share part of a lively half-hour show of storytelling, live music, puppetry, audience participation and physical theatre.

Jessica Clarke
The Forest. A Giant. An Adventure…
Follow Juniper on her mission through the New Forest as she searches for a way to save the forest from greedy hands. Expect traditional storytelling, puppetry, and family-friendly fun. From the development of a piece for young audiences.

About the organisers

Sam Holland-Bunyan is an award-winning director experienced in developing new writing and new work for performance as a director, actor and writer (incl. Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and Royal Court, Gate and Hampstead in London). Her company The Hungry Actors created devised collaborative work focusing on physical performance alongside text-based work and her theatre and film production company Hinterland provides a platform for female creatives in the mid phase of their lives. She continues to develop new work for performance at City Academy, Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre and Xikanda Arts and as a freelance practitioner.

Dan Avery is a Wiltshire-based actor, director, facilitator and creative practitioner with a strong track record in new writing, scratch performance and original live work. He has worked alongside writers, theatre-makers and companies to develop, produce, direct and perform new pieces for festivals and performance platforms, and is committed to creating opportunities for artists to test ideas and share work in progress in front of an audience. He received an honorary mention for Outstanding Performance at the 2018 Minack Awards. Alongside his theatre practice, Dan has extensive experience in youth arts tuition and applied performance.