Wakefield performing arts college to host first digital festival

Wakefield's CAPA College will host its first ever digital performing arts festival next week, with a series of short online films premiering online.

CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) College will partner with their in-house Performing and Creative Arts company Momentum, to present their inaugural Digital Arts summer festival.

Described as "a spectacular celebration of uniqueness, creativity and young talent", it is designed to showcase the talents of the college's students and will feature eight short films created over the last year.

The four day festival will begin on Monday, August 3, and will see two films a day posted to CAPA's YouTube channel.

The films will include satirical mockumentary The College, musical Dreaming Wide awake and Tonight The Streets Are Ours, a montage film which offers multiple perspectives on life in lockdown.

All of these works were devised, written, filmed, produced and edited by current CAPA College students alongside an extended creative team which included John-William Watson (Sadler’s Wells), Joe Hancock (National Theatre), Jonny Dixon (Coronation Street), Alex Bowen (Dusty the Musical) and Sean Selby (Fame).

CAPA College said they hoped the festival would be "a moment of triumph in a year that has been otherwise bleak for performing arts".

A full programme with links to the premieres can be found here, and further updates will be issued on CAPA College's Twitter.