NO Were invited by ‘Louche’ to perform at a special ‘ performance comedy’ edition of Mayor of London funded ‘BANTER’ comedy series in Romford. We chose the theme ‘Imposter syndrome’ as collaboratively we move into more demanding roles in our careers and consider how we got there: Costume -   Clown - wig / face paint / big trousers Magician - hat Props - Clown - pie / face paints  Magician - flowers / hat / rabbit in hat / cards (half with writing / half without)   Intro -  H i My name is Joe, but you will know me by my stage name “Mr Stupendous” - of course, stupendous being the quality of my magic (pulls flowers from arm- looks widely around for an applause, nods satisfyingly to self) - sometimes though i do find that people can twist my name a little… the children particularly enjoy referring to me as MR STUPID…. ha, ha. And i am Mr Clown - obviously, as you can see from my attire, i am a traditional clown - big trousers. face paint… wig. Anyway, we will be speak...

from, romfordarts.com, re. 'moNOpoly', part of mini markets, in Romford   MoNOpoly: No, MORE Romford encounters!   The performance piece MoNOpoly was lead into Romford Market in an early morning frenzy of excitement and expectation with the challenge of outreach, engagement with the added fear of reject.   This was the most PUBLIC place where NO has performed up to date, and the great range of people and cultures that passed by our modest stall can surely not be mirrored in many British towns. We got laughs and moans and questions and groans and damn right told off by some ladies who thought that we had misarranged the board- because their “mate down the road in Emerson Park has a MASSIVE house and their Road should definitely have been in place of Mayfair!” – all in good jest.   We gained participation from a range of ages; 3 generations on one board at one time during one game! The participants enjoyed dressing as a boy racer, the St Osyth Lion and counting their p...

The NO Collective are performing 'The Sustainable and Economic Development of the Romford Town Centre: Public Consortium: 18 April 2013' as part of the LIPA - 'Lock In Performance Art' event. This is part of Havering's 'Creating Brighter Futures's' Launch, which has been mentioned on the TIME OUT website:   Time Out  ( Mon Apr 15 2013) says:   A fun event to mark the launch of Havering Borough initiative Creating Brighter Futures. Creating Brighter Futures is geared towards helping young people mature into social and successful adults by engaging with different creative mediums: there’ll even be a performance from renowned Royal Opera singer Joanna Skillet competing for attention with live bands and DJs. What better way than to launch such an inspirational idea with a visit from celebrity clothes stylist Mrs Jones and a pop-up cinema? Don't forget that Mrs Jones will be on hand to offer workshops daylong on how to dress like a star."

A performance e xploring adverse changes and public participation within a towns planning iniciative. Slide 1   …So as you can see, if we increase the build around flagship points such the Quadrant Arcade, this will positively affect the local area’s consumption rate – increasing economic growth and eventually pushing house prices upwards – increasing the average mans asset and capital. Without this much needed change, the local town becomes stagnant – and with the local council’s intention of turning the Old Romford Market Town into a metropolis, we can establish much needed foreign business and a more concentrated town centre, encouraging a fireball of capital intrinsic business from Central London and in turn pocketing those middle class shoppers. Also within creating these much-needed 8,000 new homes in the historic town centre, we can create an interesting skyline with blocks ranging from 14 to 26 stories.  There are even thoughts in the pipe line of commissioning a Gugge...

rom, londoncitynights.com, re.  'The Culture Show, Episode 4; the Cultural Wasteland of London'  at LUPA17     "Up next was 'No Collective' doing a faux-Crimewatch sketch about the disappearance of culture from Romford. No Collective are Natalie Bays and Josef Easeman and their work is based around "investigating micro-cultures". It was very funny, one of the funniest things I've seen at a LUPA event I think. Their story explains how culture is 'trafficked' around the city which is personified as an abducted woman. There's a certain Chris Morris-y tinge to affairs, and they successfully capture some of the ridiculousness in an authority figure saying utterly ridiculous and bizarre things.   The highlight of this for me was Natalie's physical performance. There was a great mime styled bit where Josef was explaining how the 'kidnappers' of culture looked, while Natalie acted out how she'd imagine this description to look. Mor...

Section 1: Welcome Live Audience   Hello, and welcome, to what is this week a very sombre ‘Culture Show’ You join us here LIVE from a small garage in Bethnal Green in the midst of what can only be described as a ‘man hunt’ Normal, everyday, people surround us trying to locate a missing entity that has left a small town decrepit and frail. The question remains - how something like this could have happened to start with? - I pass you over to my colleague who has just received this police statement -   Section 2: Police Statement   Young, alone and new about town, the culture in question was last seen late on the Saturday night of 16th February 2013. The last time anyone saw her was when she was spotted by a passer-by stumbling barefoot out of the back of the ‘Brewery Entertainment Centre’ onto platform 1 of the local train station. There, we believe she was approached and dragged onto the 21:59 headed into East London. We believe she was apprehended by 3 men seen earlier ha...