Maketank // Making Space For Live Performance

Maketank is an artist-led grassroots organisation. Its mission is to build a sustainable community-based platform for performance practitioners within the city to pioneer experimentation, collaboration, and creative civic engagement.

Maketank aims to provide space for local artists to keep in practice, create new performance work, and exchange knowledge and resources.

• devising, with a flexible open-floor plan; adaptable to  embodied practices such as dance, physical theatre,  and immersive performance
• workshop spaces for prop, set, object making of different kinds
• a rehearsal space for local and visiting companies and artists 
• a central location for creative community to think, meet, share ideas in co-working or conferencing environments

Maketank is membership based & open to artists across disciplines: theatre, live art, experimental music, dance, performance writing, performance poetry, scenography, expanded film and video, cabaret, site responsive and site specific interventions, participatory and social practice, etc.

Run by volunteers, Maketank relies on community support to cover its monthly overhead.

Maketank occupies a large disused commercial space in the city centre’s former Sofa Workshop on 3-5 Paris Street, Exeter EX1 2JB. On a ground floor it has a large rehearsal & workshop space for costume/scenography making, co-working area, on the upper floor it has co-working Writers Den space with tea/coffee service, and a bank of resources for artists to share with each other. ACCESSIBILITY: We are located at street level, and toilets are on the 2nd floor. There are accessible toilets approx 50m away at St Stephens House.

Exeter City Council

Exeter Phoenix

Princesshay

MacArthur Wilson