# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 13 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Mon, 13 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Folkestone Performing Arts Company is offering a 6-week training course on The Viewpoints, an improvisation technique developed by the theatre director Ann Bogart in the United States.

Through working with the Viewpoints, the course will focus on playing with form through responding to outside stimulus rather than the interior psychology of a character. This creates a highly collaborative ensemble and a fresh and dynamic approach to theatre making.

FPAC is a pioneering proponent of this technique and the only theatre company in Kent to use it in ongoing training and new work development; this use of Viewpoints gives the FPAC Ensemble a distinctive voice in theatre-making. 

If you are interested in learning more about FPAC or the Viewpoints, visit here: http://www.fpac.info/about or get in touch.

Sessions start on 13 October 2025 from 6.30 to 9pm with a free taster session at the Sunflower House, Folkestone and then on the following dates: 20, 27 October; 3, 10, 24 November. New sessions will start in early 2026 as well.  The 6 sessions [including the free taster] will cost £50.

Matthew Hahn, the artistic director of FPAC, has been working in the Viewpoints technique for 30 years having first encountered Anne Bogart in university. Since then, he has trained with Ms. Bogart at the Abbey Theatre and Central School of Speech & Drama and with her company, SITI, in New York City. He has also led numerous Viewpoints workshops at RADA, Central School of Speech & Drama, & Goldsmiths College, amongst other drama schools and universities. As an international theatre director, he has co-created productions utilizing the technique to build ensembles and to devise new work.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/folkestone/open-viewpointing-sessions-with-the-folkestone-performing-arts-company/200028848169852
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, performances, entertainment, workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Folkestone
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Sunflower House
- **lat**: 51.08332
- **long**: 1.17849
- **full address**: Sunflower House, 45 Foord Road, Folkestone, CT20 1, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company being held?
  - **A:** Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company takes place on Mon, 13 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Mon, 13 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm at Sunflower House, 45 Foord Road, Folkestone, CT20 1, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company?
  - **A:** Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company is organized by Folkestone Performing Arts Company.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Folkestone, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Open Viewpointing Sessions with the Folkestone Performing Arts Company sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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