Joshua Sofaer’s Opera Helps is returning online for the Horizon Showcase
Opera Helps features in the Horizon Showcase pilot year
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Let’s talk about sex… with cancer, baby!
Innovative solutions to the often-ignored problem of illness, intimacy, sexual function and pleasure.
Opera Helps returns online
We were genuinely blown away by the power of feeling we saw in the feedback from Opera Helps.
Paw-Paw-Phwoar! The hot new Edicure Edition No.2 is here
Wunderbar is continuing its edible novelty nail experiment with the release of a brand new big cat inspired Edicure design.
Stick. Love. Lick. Edicure has landed.
Our biodegradable, unisex, non-toxic, vegan, cruelty-free, non-permanent, hand-crafted, super sweet edible nails are finally here.
It’s Time launch event – You’re invited
IT’S TIME BOOK LAUNCH Talk 5pm-6pm followed by drinks til 7pm-ish WEDNESDAY 3 JULY, ALPHABETTI THEATRE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE FREE ENTRY. How do you make experimental art projects that are inclusive and accessible to the core? Join Wunderbar’s Ilana Mitchell and Karl …
Great & Tiny War is best event Tyneside
Amazing news. Great & Tiny War won Best Event Tyneside in this year’s Journal and Gazette Culture Awards. We’re over the moon that Bobby Baker’s brilliant work has been recognised in this way. With Bobby’s approval, we dedicate this award …
It’s Time – New book unpicks Live Art
Wunderbar and the Live Art Development Agency have co-published a new book of Live Art case studies highlighting projects and initiatives that are re-politicising and re-energising our arts spaces. It’s Time: How Live Art is taking on the world from the …
Good Feels and Cool Friends – Wunderbar Foundation ready to launch
Wunderbar is marking the launch of the new Wunderbar Foundation with an extra special event in London this March. The Foundation is our new fundraising arm – a collaboration between Wunderbar’s artistic director Ilana Mitchell and our philosopher-in-residence, Dr Rachael …
World premiere announcement: Bobby Baker’s Great & Tiny War
Wunderbar is proud and excited to announce a major new artistic collaboration with long-time friend and tremendous artist, Bobby Baker. Commissioned by 14-18 NOW as part of its finale programme, Great & Tiny War will occupy a house in Newcastle …
Is there more to giving than Good Feels and Cool Friends?
At a time of profound change for arts funding, we’re continuing our partnership up with philosopher Rachael Wiseman to create The Wunderbar Foundation. The Foundation explores the ethics of asking for and giving money by turning the interaction upside down. …
Q: What happens when a Thought Bubble Bursts?
A: Good question. We’re on a mission to find out, as we’re pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded a Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England (ACE) for Thought Bubbles, our next phase of provocative, philosophical, participative and …
Ball games allowed in Burmontofts
Play Ball is a playful, public, football-pitch-creating one-day event. Part pop-up, part flash mob, part crop circle, it’s a simple way for a group of people to create a proper football pitch on an available area of public land in …
Do you have a problem? Opera Helps.
Can the power of song help us look at a problem in a new way? Applications are now open for the UK premiere of Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer. Produced by Wunderbar, Opera Helps is now on tour, stopping in …
Info-graphicarama! Introducing the Wunderbar review
Since 2008, Wunderbar has been bringing artists and audiences together on journeys of intrigue and wonder. We thought it was time we told our story. So, here it is, our gift to you – the Wunderbar Review – just click …
A million miles away
Gemma Paintin, Co-artistic Director of Action Hero, gives us a flavour for the upcoming Natural Selection performance with an account of a not-very-ordinary invitation to visit Jim (he’s the one pictured right, Rob is on his left with the pants …
Edicures on offer at The Urban Village Fete
Wunderbar’s deliciously different edicures will be available at Greenwich’s Urban Village Féte this Sunday. Our artistic director, Ilana Mitchell, will be personally pampering féte-goers with these biodegradable, delicious, unisex, non-toxic, non-permanent fashion accessories – easy, fun-to-remove alternatives to traditional nail …
How to review a human book
The legendary Human Library is about to open its doors in Bedfordshire and Newcastle. In Bedfordshire, the shelves are bulging with gripping stories waiting to be read including Lazy Single Mother, Lonely Gays in the Village and Happy To Be …
An invitation to teenagers – Create a Nightwalk (with the help of some Canadians)
Wunderbar is looking for young people to help us create a public event called ‘Nightwalks with Teenagers’. These Nightwalks have been happening all over the world conceived by a bunch of brilliant Canadians we’ve worked with before called Mammalian Diving …
Will you do business with a Wunderbiz?
Wunderbar is poised to launch Wunderbiz, its playfully disruptive and alternative approach to business models and structures. Wunderbiz’s first outing will be at the Thinking Digital Conference at Sage Gateshead, from 20 – 22 May. Thinking Digital is billed as …
November newsletter
The No Festival Festival Dear Wunderbar allies, It’s November, so we’ve realised it’s two years since our last official festival. Which would be strange, if we weren’t so adrenaline-fuelled and fizzing with activity. So we while we still think and …
We Stand Out The Most When We Stand Together: Photos!
Conceived by artist Nicola Singh, We Stand Out The Most When We Stand Together was a choreographed parade exploring architectural space through human collaboration and movement.