Tamasha in collaboration with Mulberry School for Girls in east London is inviting applications for 8 playwrights for a pilot attachment scheme running February – May 2011.
This is an opportunity to create a new piece of writing and develop practical workshop skills in a school environment.
The scheme will be overseen and dramaturged by Mulberry playwright-in-residence and Tamasha Associate Writer, Fin Kennedy. There will also be input from Tamasha Associate Filmmaker Tanya Singh, including the opportunity to develop multimedia performance ideas.
This is a unique opportunity to develop a relationship with both organisations, learn some practical workshop skills from experienced practitioners, and develop a new piece of writing (10-15 mins long) for and about a specific inner London community. A small bursary and some training will be provided.
For the full brief and application forms please email admin@tamasha.org.uk with “Tamasha/Mulberry pilot scheme” in the subject line, or contact Felicity at the office on 020 7633 2270.
Open to artists from all cultural backgrounds.
Deadline for applications: Monday 31st January at 5pm.
‘Small Lives Global Ties’ Writer’s Group
Tamasha is looking for ten experienced writers to join a new writers group for a period of 4 months (February to May 2011), to collectively explore and feed into a central theme running through our current projects – ‘small lives, global ties’.
It is hoped that by collectively examining this theme, the writers group shall pioneer writings that succeed in demonstrating the complexities of contemporary British culture by focusing upon that which is particular. Tamasha is keen to provide a space to develop personal, nuanced voices, yet reach outwards to the broader theatrical and political landscape.
This opportunity is open to all writers who have experience of writing for performance (poets, playwrights/scriptwriters, lyricists, etc.), however you must be able to demonstrate your capacity for culturally specific writing, in its broadest sense.
Collaboration
Writers forming the group shall contribute in informing the direction of work explored, whilst also being lead by Tamasha’s associate artists Avaes Mohammad (playwright, poet, performer) and Kuldip Powar (film-maker). This collaboration shall engage in a call and response with the writer’s group, providing audio/visual as well as text based provocations, seeking to creatively ignite writer’s responses through alternative means. As well as leading the writer’s group, Avaes and Kuldip shall also be embarking upon a creative collaboration of their own exploring the same theme and as such will be sharing the results of their partnership amongst members of the writers group. Web-presence in the form of a Blog shall be created to document and share work with one another and also facilitate creative conversations between members.
For the full brief and application forms please email admin@tamasha.org.uk with “Small Lives Global Ties Writers Group” in the subject line or contact Felicity at the office on 020 7633 2270.
Open to artists from all cultural backgrounds.
Deadline for applications: Monday 31st January at 5pm.
For more than 60 years, the herosim of Noor Inayat Khan, one of Winston Churchill’s elite Special Operations Executive secret agents, has remained largely forgotten.
She was the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France, where her bravery has long been recognised, and for three months she single-handedly ran a cell of spies across Paris until she was betrayed and captured.
For ten months she was tortured by the Gestapo desperate for any information about SOE operations, but she stood firm and was eventually executed at Dachau concentration camp on September 13, 1944, aged just 30.
Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1949 and the French Croix de Guerre, but her courage has since been allowed to fade into history in Britain… until now.
And, mainly due to the efforts of her biographer Shrabani Basu, her bravery is finally to be permanently recognised in England with a bronze bust in central London, close to the Bloomsbury house where she lived as a child.
A campaign to raise £100,000 for what will be the first memorial in Britain to either a Muslim or an Asian woman has won the backing of 34 MPs and prominent British Asians.
Khan was born on New Year’s Day 1914 in Moscow to an Indian father and an American mother. She was a direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the renowned 18th century Muslim ‘Tiger of Mysore’ who refused to submit to British rule and died in battle.
Her father was an Indian Muslim preacher who moved his family first to London and then to Paris, where Khan was educated and later worked writing childrens’ stories.
Despite carrying a passport of an imperial subject, Khan had no loyalty to Britain. But she and her brother Vilayat despised the greater evil of Nazi Germany and fled to England after the fall of France.
In November 1940 she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and two years later her quiet dedication and training in radio transmitting atracted the attention of the SOE.
Despite doubts about her suitability, she was flown to France in June 1943 to become the radio operator for the ‘Prosper’ resistance network in Paris, using the codename ‘Madeleine’ and with the famous instruction to ’set Europe ablaze’.
Many members of the network were arrested shortly afterwards but she chose to remain in France and, frequently changing her appearance and alias, she spent the summer moving from place to place, trying to relay messages back to London.
She was eventually betrayed by a Frenchwoman, supposedly the jealous girlfriend of a comrade, and arrested by the Gestapo who discovered that she had unwisely kept copies of all her secret signals. The Germans were able to use her radio to trick London into sending new agents – straight into the hands of the waiting Gestapo.
In November 1943, she was sent to Pforzheim prison in Germany where she was kept in chains and in solitary confinement. Despite repeated torture, she refused to reveal any information and in September 1944, Khan and three other female SOE agents were transferred to Dachau where they were shot.
Shrabani Basu, who has spent eight years researching official archives and family records, told the Independent newspaper: ‘I feel it is very important that what she did should not be allowed to fade from memory, particularly living in the times that we do.
‘Here was a young Muslim woman who gave her life for this country and for the fight against those who wanted to destroy the Jewish race. She was an icon for the bond that exists between Britain and India but also between people who fought for what they believed to be right.’
His efforts to rekindle interest in her story includes the making of a £10 million biopic by a British production company.
Around £25,000 of the cost required for the bust has been raised, and permission has been granted to site the sculpture on land owned by the University of London in Gordon Square. The cause has won the support of human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti and film director Gurinder Chadha.
Registration closes: 7 FEB 2011 Not long to go until the registration deadline!
It’s easy to be part of the Fringe – just follow our three step plan:
- Get an event
Anything can be an event in the Fringe; whether it’s a play, a comedy show, a dance piece or an art exhibition – it’s your opportunity to do anything you want!
- Get a venue
Once you’ve got an event, you’ll need a venue – take a look at the Fringe venue directory, read our venues page, or take a look at some of the latest suggestions by reading on…
- Register your event
Complete the Registration Form on the Fringe website, and that’s it! You’re part of the 2011 Fringe!
Legal & General Bursaries – Comedy
We’ve still got three of our fantastic bursaries left, all of which are in the Comedy section. So if you’re a Brighton resident, take a look at our bursaries page to see if you qualify for a free registration!
£1000 funding available for events from Kent
Year One Consulting are offering up to £1000 for performers from Kent to showcase their work at the Brighton Fringe. To find out more and to download an application pack, click here. Be quick, though – the deadline is Monday 10th January!
Perform in the Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage at the Fringe
Hendrick’s Gin, sponsors of the Fringe’s literature section are seeking participants to stage work in their 19th century rail carriage full of Victoriana-style curiosities. If you are interested, please contact Damian Barr, the venue curator, directly to discuss your ambitions and reuqiredments. In particular, the venue is looking for performers to stage either literature events, or a site-specitic theatre/literature work inspired by and performed in and around the carriage. The promenade piece must be no longer than 30 minutes and not specifically aimed at children. Time slots are available from 10am – 10pm from Friday 20th – Monday 30th May 2011. The venue will provide national and local marketing support, stewarding and free venue hire, as well as covering the registration fee.
If you are interested in using this space, please contact Damien Barr on 07711 306443 or email MrDLBarr@yahoo.com.
Formerly Hectors House, The Golden Fleece is a brand new cafe / venue space run by popular Brighton promoters Playgroup. The space is a quirky mish mash of strange sculptures, weird décor, comfy seating and ever changing surroundings. The venue is available for daytime performances all week and evening performances from Sunday to Wednesday. For more information, click here.
Help!
If you need help with any aspect of your Fringe registration, the Fringe team are on hand to answer your questions. Call us on 01273 764900 between 10am – 5pm on Monday – Friday, or email info@brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk
Twin artists Rabindra and Amrit Singh at home in Bidston, Wirral. Photograph: Christopher Thomond
The Singh Twins, two artist sisters who work as one, mix the personal and the political, pollution and Power Rangers, in their vivid paintings.
If it hadn’t been for a misguided teacher, Amrit and Rabindra Singh would never have become artists. Convinced that the sisters were being pressured into studying medicine despite a natural talent for art, the teacher warned the university to which they had applied that the girls’ decision was “because of family tradition and parental persuasion”. Stymied, the twins were forced to enrol on a humanities programme at University College of Chester studying, among other things, comparative western art.
Thanks to the meddling tutor, their art went from being a hobby to a vocation. They’ve had exhibitions in the US, India and the UK, made short films about their work, and this summer, they showed 27 of their paintings at the National Portrait Gallery as part of an exhibition of Indian miniature portraits. This winter, a retrospective of their work over the last two decades is on show at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. Ranging from the intensely personal to the deeply political, they draw on the tradition of Indian miniature art, every available inch of their work crammed with patterns, colours and references. At the same time, their paintings address familiar, universal subjects such as globalisation, migration and celebrity culture.
Yet despite their success, the sisters really did want to study medicine. “What we experienced as teenagers was negative stereotyping,” says Amrit. “You know, that whole thing of oppressive extended families and forced arranged marriages.”
“Which is why,” adds Rabindra, “a lot of the earliest works we did were about the family and community and expressing our pride in our own traditional values and heritage, even though we were living here.”
Nyrmla’s Wedding II (1985/86), for instance, depicts the twins painting henna on their sister’s palms. It is an idyllic domestic scene: children play in the foreground, toys are scattered about, souvenirs line the shelf. But through the window can be seen polluting industry, nuclear cooling towers and a terrifying Ronald McDonald peeping in. The picture could also be read as a critique of western values, until Rabindra points out the Batman and Power Rangers figures the children are playing with, as well as the cameras and technology that appear in much of their work, which “celebrate the duality of our identities”.
The Twins also took a rebellious view of their mixed, multiple identities – English, Liverpudlian (born in London but raised in Birkenhead, they were appointed “honorary Scousers” by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool last year), Indian, Sikh. Unwilling to be slotted into any one bracket, they questioned the idea of stereotypes and, inevitably, tearing them apart. They attended a strict convent school – the only non-Catholic girls to do so. Told they didn’t have to attend the compulsory chapel service, the twins insisted on it, eventually representing the school when Pope John Paul II visited Liverpool in 1982.
Soon they were rebelling against the idea of individual identities. It started at school where the teachers insisted on separating them into different classes and continued into university when, “in one of our exams, the external examiner snapped: ‘Haven’t you ever tried to be different?’ We had never really questioned it up to that point. It was only then that we realised it’s a problem for other people,” says Rabindra.
One of the most arresting aspects of the artists is that they have always operated as a single-identity artist-duo, the Singh Twins, which could draw comparisons with Gilbert & George. They call themselves “twindividuals” (questionable wordplay abounds in their work: their painting for the Museum of London is titled enTWINed; they refer to their style of art as “past modern”) and dress alike, down to matching earrings, bangles and accoutrement. “If you want us to be different, we’re actually going to be the same,” says Rabindra. Some paintings are collaboratively painted, some entirely by Amrit and some by Rabindra, but the credit is always shared. The twins encourage galleries to refer to them as one. Email correspondents are politely requested to address them simply as “twins”.
“It’s because it is such a big concept that it’s something that we wanted to challenge,” says Amrit of individualism. “There are so many ideologies and definitions that are bandied about and everybody accepts. But accepting them without questioning leads to the kind of prejudice that I’m sure all of us have experienced. People should question a bit more.”
The Twins clearly like the idea of being outsiders. Despite the extensive list of commissions, exhibitions and awards, they aren’t as well known as they could – or should – be. “There are always going to be obstacles,” says Rabindra. “There are areas of the establishment that will probably never accept our work. It is decorative, it’s figurative, it’s narrative, it’s small scale, and it comes from a non-European perspective, all of which are totally taboo, it seems.” Then again, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the Twins would have it any other way.
The Singh Twins: Retrospective is on at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens until 3 January 2011. The Making of Liverpool: Portraits of a City by The Singh Twins is published by Twin Studio, price £18.
Come and support the next MSF FUNDRAISER FOR PAKISTAN.
Doors 7.30pm // £5 entry
**all profits donated to MSF’s Pakistan appeal**
*LIVE HIP HOP *SPOKEN WORD *ACOUSTIC SOUL* BEATBOXING*
Following the overwhelming success of October’s Rich Mix extravaganza, LYRIX ORGANIX returns to the intimate confines of North London’s finest venue for a ground-breaking live Hip Hop experience that reinvigorates the lyrical, musical and conscious roots of the spoken word. Unearthing fresh talent and connecting a community of forward-thinking creative artists. Come down and see how you can get involved! This year Lyrix Organix has already smashed Rich Mix, Rising Styles Hip Hop Festival, Brighton Festival Fringe 2010, Graffik London, Blackall Studios and Old Queens Head
Weaving Hip Hop and Folk with conscious, humorous lyrics, this acoustic 3-piece brim with creative energy that has seen Big Chill and Secret Garden Party fall under their spell.
With a voice that could melt butter, Michael has been justifiably compared to Otis Redding and Bill Withers. Currently supporting Rumer and Paolo Nutini, his sound is dripping with soul and dusted with charm – destined for big things in 2011.
Astonishing audiences from Lovebox to WOMAD, Vid Warren combines beatboxing with instrument wizardry – e.g. harmonicas – for an unforgettable show. “Frankly extraordinary” (Venue Magazine)
An enigmatic performance poet and writer, E.Amato lyricism regularly bewitches audiences from LA to New York to London. Lyrix Organix is lucky to have her back on these shores.
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The devastating floods that hit Pakistan in July affected 14 million people on an unimaginable scale. Whilst flood waters have finally begun to recede, the need for humanitarian aid continues. MSF teams are still assisting displaced populations with mobile clinics providing healthcare, clean water and shelter. It will take a very long time for Pakistan to recover from this tragic force of nature, so please support the MSF’s appeal.
Since 1988, MSF has been providing medical assistance to Pakistani nationals and Afghan refugees suffering from the effects of armed conflicts, poor access to health care, and natural disasters. MSF does not accept funding from any government for its work in Pakistan and chooses to rely solely on private donations.
New Orleans Christian Scott comes from a jazz pedigree, being a nephew of saxophonist Donald Harrison. Scott began his journey on trumpet at 12 and began his recording career at 16 years old with Harrison on Paradise Found. Scott has become one of the great innovators of his generation, receiving a Grammy nomination in 2006 for his second album Rewind That.
This Birmingham date is part of a tour in support of his album Yesterda…y You Said Tomorrow produced by Rudy Van Gelder and which features guitarist Matthew Stevens, pianist Milton Fletcher, Jr., bassist Kristopher Keith Funn and drummer Jamire Williams. The music from this latest album makes statements on the issues Scott feels persist in the modern world including his views on Hurricane Katrina, gay marriage and the American presidential election. It also features Thom Yorke’s tune Eraser and has a drama and intensity with rock, hip hop and jazz sensibilities.
Jazz Times has heralded him as “jazz’s young style God.” His music and style is contemporary and highly distinctive. This band in the Hare & Hounds will be hip, stylish and the gig an unmissable experience.
New Orleans Christian Scott comes from a jazz pedigree, being a nephew of saxophonist Donald Harrison. Scott began his journey on trumpet at 12 and began his recording career at 16 years old with Harrison on Paradise Found. Scott has become one of the great innovators of his generation, receiving a Grammy nomination in 2006 for his second album Rewind That.
This Birmingham date is part of a tour in support of his album Yesterda…y You Said Tomorrow produced by Rudy Van Gelder and which features guitarist Matthew Stevens, pianist Milton Fletcher, Jr., bassist Kristopher Keith Funn and drummer Jamire Williams. The music from this latest album makes statements on the issues Scott feels persist in the modern world including his views on Hurricane Katrina, gay marriage and the American presidential election. It also features Thom Yorke’s tune Eraser and has a drama and intensity with rock, hip hop and jazz sensibilities.
Jazz Times has heralded him as “jazz’s young style God.” His music and style is contemporary and highly distinctive. This band in the Hare & Hounds will be hip, stylish and the gig an unmissable experience.
Understanding Trafficking
Part of the Unchosen Film Festival raising awareness of human trafficking.
Tuesday 2nd November 2010 7.30pm
Hall 2 at the Colston Hall, Bristol
Directed by Ananya Chakraborti
This is the South West premiere of a documentary following young girls lured across borders into the sex trade in India. Exploited by their own communities in return for a steady income. The film stresses the need to allow migration and migrants whilst, at the same time, pulling out all the stops to prevent Human Trafficking. The film will be introduced by Denise Marshall OBE of the Poppy Project.
There will be a pre-film performance byIndian Classical singer Jatanil Banerjee and a Post Film Q&A with the Director Ananya Chakraborti.
Tickets £2. To book click HERE or call the Colston Hall box office on 0117 922 3686.
To find out more about the Unchosen Film Festival visit: www.unchosen.org.uk
2010 BAFA ANNUAL CONFERENCE – 3-5 NOVEMBER 2010, Brighton.
OUTLINE PROGRAMME
Conference Programme:
Wednesday 3 November
4pm Welcome Reception hosted by Brighton and Hove City Council
Choice of events at 6pm – Brighton Early Music Festival Commuter Concert, guided walk by Nick Dodds, visit Brighton Photo Fringe exhibition
7.30pm – attend Brighton Fringe launch
Then for those who are interested we have a table booked at Jamie’s Italian for a late night supper.
Thursday 4 November
Festivals: Stay Connected
Festivals: Work Smarter
Keynote: Minute Manifesto: Roger Wright, Joanna MacGregor and Deborah Bull respond to these ‘difficult times’ with their personal ‘Minute Manifestos’ on keeping the artistic bar high.
Roger Wright, BBC 3 Controller and Director of the BBC Proms, Joanna MacGregor, Artistic Director, Bath International and Ignite Festivals and Deborah Bull, Artistic Director of the Royal Opera House – this session will be interactive with the delegates – delegates will be invited to ‘tweet’ in their own Minute Manifestos before hand and will be invited to reveal them during the discussion by facilitator Stewart Collins, BAFA Chair
Keynote: Olympics and the Arts: Ruth Mackenzie, Director of the Cultural Olympiad.
Seminar: Choice of two: Hear about Londonderry/City of London successful bid to be the first British City of Culture or a panel discussion on Collaborative Programming with Cultural Attaches from Europe, the British Council and Visiting Arts.
Workshops: Stay Connected. This section looks at the organisations that festivals and events could/should have relationships with and explores especially what can be gained from strengthening these in these difficult financial times: Local Authorities/NALGAO; Arts Council – local offices not national, Arts&Business/Regional Development Associations (especially what is going to happen to them), Tourism – local (Visit Brighton as the example) and national (Visit Britain).
Workshops: Work Smarter. This section looks at money saving/budget balancing issues in relation to: Sustainability: economic/social/environmental. Digital Marketing. Volunteers: threefold: stewards/interns/unpaid performers – these will be three round table facilitated discussions.
Friday 5 November
Festivals: Mean Business
Keynote: Peter Florence, Director of the Hay Festivals in Wales, Colombia, Spain, Lebanon, Mexico, India, Kenya, and the Maldives launches the day in conversation with Jonathan Holloway outgoing Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Norfolk & Norwich Festival – new Artistic Director, Perth International Arts Festival
Keynote: Brighton and Hove City Council – Festival City – a discussion on the festival cluster in the region, how the council have added to that, what their vision is, how they support the arts.
Seminar: New Politics and the Big Society. A facilitated session led by the National Campaign for the Arts with all the political parties represented,
Workshops: Mean Business: These look at the business of running an event or festival: On line ticketing, Research, Fundraising (really looking at new and innovative ideas), Accountancy.
The B&H keynote will be in the afternoon and will be followed by a choice of three site visits looking ‘back stage’ at some of the festivals that will be happening whilst we are in Brighton:
Photo Biennial/ Photo Fringe – around the gallery spaces and meeting Brighton Photo Biennial and Brighton Photo Fringe
Outdoor Performance sites – showing sites that have been used and continue to be used. Involving Brighton and Hove City Council Events and licensing teams
Partnership working – Brighton Festival will talk about using new venues and partnerships
Have fun if you’re going
For more conference info and how to book check out this LINK.
This afternoon’s highly-anticipated Spending Review announcement has reiterated that the government will maintain free entrance to museums and galleries, and confirmed that funding extensions for the Tate and British Museum will still go ahead – valued at almost £350m. Arts Council England (ACE), however, has been hit with a 29.6 % budget cut, amounting to a real-term reduction of £100m – from £450m to £350m by 2014. Local government also faces funding cuts of 7% year-on-year, reducing cash by 28% by 2015. The double whammy of grim news is likely to hit the arts hard, as provision of cultural services is not a statutory duty for local authorities and ACE has already declared itself to be operating at its most streamlined.
Overall, the DCMS will lose almost 25% of its funding over four years. Chancellor George Osborne has ordered that 41% of this budget cut is to be shouldered by a reduction in the department’s administrative costs. The DCMS currently receives £1.6bn grant-in-aid, which will be slashed to £1.1bn by 2014/15. Osborne also declared that front-line arts services” and “specific projects” are to be cut by not more than 15%, with the remainder of the savings to come from admin costs. ACE has been told to cut 50% of its own administrative budget in order to protect front-line services.
Alan Davey, Chief Executive of ACE, said that the cuts “will inevitably have a significant impact on the cultural life of the country”. The Creative Partnerships programme for instance, administered by Creativity Culture and Education and long-rumoured to be heading for the chopping block, has been cut entirely. While Davey has “agreed to try and limit the effects on funded organisations and any cut in the first year to less than 10%”, ACE’s National Council will meet on 25 October and further announcements are expected shortly after.
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt said: “To deal with an unprecedented financial deficit we have been forced to make some incredibly difficult decisions. But, in the current economic climate, this is a good settlement for DCMS’s sectors…by cutting bureaucracy and waste and prioritising the services valued by the public we will be able to protect our sporting and cultural core for the long term.”
The Olympics will not suffer budgetary constraints, and will receive the full £9.3bn currently ear-marked.
With less than 1 month (18-21 NOV 2010) to go, the Australasian World Music Expo 2010 (AWME) is gearing up take over Melbourne’s city streets for four days and nights of incredible music from around the globe.
This year AWME once again features a selection of the world’s finest local and international artists playing back to back over four days, at some of Melbourne’s premier music venues including the Arts Centre, The HiFi, Fed Square and The Toff in Town. The lineup this year includes Nigeria’s mighty, Afro-beat luminary, Femi Kuti and his 15-piece band The Positive Force (Nigeria); internationally acclaimed, conscious roots-reggae masters, Groundation (USA); Jamaica’s oldest, foundation-shaking sound system, Stone Love; and Australia’s own rising star, Dan Sultan.
Joining them on the bill is Katie Noonan & The Captains, TheRaah Project, Mista Savona, King Kapisi (Samoa/NZ), Neil Murray, Frank Yamma, Kavisha Mazzella, The Bombay Royale, Kulkal Baba Dancers (TSI), Black Jesus Experience, Electric Wire Hustle (NZ), Mama Kin, Diafrix, Busby Marou, Future Roots feat. Lotek & R.u.C.L., Cumbia Cosmonauts, Poi Piripi Kapa Haka Group (NZ/Australia),Tijuana Cartel, Graveyard Train, Celenod (New Caledonia), Nathalie Natiembe (La Réunion/France), Afro Mandinko, Yien (South Korea), Chant Down Sound, The Woohoo Revue, Microwave Jenny, Systa BB, Blak Roots, Ngaiire (PNG/Australia), Bella Kalolo (NZ), That 1 Guy (USA), WAI (NZ), King Kadu, Sol Nation, Maisey Rika (NZ), Street Warriors, Mr Percival, Nga Tae (NZ), Lajamanu Teenage Band plus many more.
Tickets can be purchased for individual concerts or alternatively register online as a delegate and attend all shows and speaker sessions. Early bird delegate passesavailable until 30 September! Check website for full details www.awme.com.au
Concert tickets on sale now and available from each of the venues.See website for full program.
A SOUTHBANK CENTRE weekend celebrating the best in spoken word with a focus on outstanding speech innovative presentation, ideas and laughter.
In association with Tilt. Curated by Melanie Abrahams.
Discounts are available for anyone booking two events or more from this series. Discounts are not available online, please call the Ticket Office on 0844 847 9910 (9am – 8pm daily).
SQUATTING
Large Scale Photography Works from 2003 – 2007.
On display until 2012.
Arts Council England, National Office, Great Peter Street, London.
Selected by Arts Council England, the works on display include a range of works from my earlier body decorative pieces to the more recent Squatting series. For more details about these works see Hetain’s website.
TEN
This is Hetain’s first piece of live work to be performed in theatres. It sits somewhere between theatre, dance, spoken word and visual art. It explores the language and identity preoccupation that you can find in all of his art practice but addresses a new mode of presentation. See website for further details. In addition to the U.K tour, it will be
travelling to Sydney, Australia in January 2011. Further details to follow. TEN U.K tour 2010
25 September: Rich Mix, London
26 September: Greenwich Theatre, London
30 September: Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
13 October: Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire
14 October: Brewhouse, Taunton
15 October: Arnolfini, Bristol
19 October: Drill Hall, Lincoln
20 October: Embrace Arts at the RA Centre, Leicester
21 October: Mac, Birmingham
22 October: Greenroom, Manchester
04 November: Nuffield, Lancaster
19 November: Royal Opera House, London (as part of ROH2 Firsts)
20 November: Royal Opera House, London (as part of ROH2 Firsts)
Photography and Video Works
Throughout October 2010, dusk til 1.30am daily.
Projection on the Royal Centre, Nottingham- (Projected outside the building, opposite the Cornerhouse). This projection will screen clips from photography and video works, in
addition to showing snippets from TEN. It forms part of Nottingham Creative
Business Awards’ Creative October.
IT’S GROWING ON ME (As part of Hatch and Sideshow, the British Art Show fringe in Nottingham)10th October 2010 – Embrace Arts at the RA Centre, Leicester from 6pm-late 10th November 2010 – The Castle Pub, Nottingham, time tbc.
Here Hetain will be performing a work-in-progress of a new live piece that uses a
stand-up comedy format to explore mustached adventures that link Spider-Man
to Bruce Lee. Combining the lesser seen side to an artists life, with
stories you might tell your mates in the pub, this exciting testing ground
allows him to inhabit new spaces, physically and conceptually. I hope you can
come along to laugh with (or at) Hetain. TO DANCE LIKE YOUR DAD & KANKU RAGA
These two video pieces will be exhibited and screened together in different
venues and contexts over the next few months nationally and in Stockholm and
New Delhi. See below for details: 13th October – 13 November 2010 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster.
Shown here in conjuction with TEN to be performed in the Nuffield Theatre. 21 –24 October 2010
UKYA, Derby (Kanku Raga only), BBC Big Screen.
This is the first UK Young Artists event which aims to showcase young artists between 18-30. I’ll be supporting the event as a past participant of the International Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean. 11 November 2010, 8pm – midnight
FRICTIVE FAMILIARITIES Biografteatern Rio
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by Art Kino in a beautiful refurbished 1940’s Cinema, this project is curated by Diana Kaur in collaboration with Farah Siddiqui. Its a screening event with works originating from South Asia and its diaspora, gathered around notions of heritage and hybridisation. Exhibiting artists include: Jaishri Abichandani, Said Adrus, Chanchal Banga, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Baptist Coelho, Nidhi Jalan, Gautam Kansara, Kiran Kaur Brar, Monali Meher, Hetain Patel, Tejal Shah. 10-13 November 2010 IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance
New Delhi, India
This includes the Indian premiere of To Dance Like Your Dad. 23 November 2010, 6pm THE AUTHENTIC SELF Broadway, Nottingham
Short films and panel discussion exploring the authentic self, including shorts by David Shrigly, Oriana Fox, Hetain Patel, Clare Harris, Jennifer Ross, Chambers Judd, David Shrigley, Jon Burgerman, Multitouch Barcelona and Liam Aitken. Also including an exclusive screening of “Child of the Atom” by David Blandy.
With only weeks to go till our heavyweight event drops in London, we’re here again shamelessly promoting it
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Ikea has scrapped its quirky guerilla kitchen makeover adverts in favour of a new approach involving filming 100 cats making themselves at home inside a superstore.
The TV campaign is the first work by Mother London since the ad agency picked up the £8m UK account from Trevor Beattie’s BMB.
BMB introduced the eccentric kitchen makeover squad which featured in a series of commercials, the last one in April, secretly overhauling the kitchens of needy consumers using Ikea products.
Mother, which has developed the new tagline “Happy Inside”, has taken a completely different approach with a stylishly shot ad featuring 100 cats making themselves at home in Ikea’s Wembley branch.
“The idea behind the work is that cats know better than anything what makes them feel happy inside, they live their lives in pursuit of their own comfort,” said Feh Tarty, creative director at Mother. “So we released a hundred cats in to the Ikea Wembley store, for real, to see where they went and what furniture made them happy.”
Ikea’s TV campaign is part of a wider marketing push to launch the Swedish retailer’s 2011 catalogue, which will include press advertising, in-store media and a Facebook page, developed by the communications agency Cake, and a “making of” video.
The music in the commercial is called Pianni by Mara Carlyle. Media planning and buying has been handled by media agency Vizeum.
You can also see ‘the making of the advert’ in this clip….be sure to watch it all as towards the end are some beautiful slow-mo shots of the cats.
Part of the SKY ARTS ARTICHOKE SALON SERIES with TATE.
Are large-scale public events nothing more than a waste of resources and a drain on the public purse? Or does creating a shared andspecial history by galvanizing a community far outweigh thedisruption and cost?
Artichoke, producers of live events such asLa Machineand AntonyGormley’sOne & Other, are collaborating with Sky Arts and Tate tomount a series of public conversations about the nature and useof public space.
In the wake of Liverpool ‘08 (European Capital of Culture) and as the6th Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition,Touchedexploresthe impact of art on a city, join us for this public conversation toconsider the true legacy of the programme of events thattransformed Liverpool.
The event will be chaired by the curator and broadcaster Tim Marlow, who will invite the audience to quiz a provocative panel ofcommentators. Join us in the mysterious underground kingdom of the Williamson Tunnels to examine whether a city can still produce events of the kind seen in Liverpool during 2008, particularly during these straitened times during a recession. After booking your place, you will be invited to submit a question to ask our panel during the discussion. The panel includesLewis Biggs, Artistic Director, Liverpool Biennial; The Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool;Helen King, Assistant Chief Constable, Merseyside Police;Helen Marriage, Co-Director, Artichoke.
DATE: THU 7 OCT 2010
TIME: 6.45PM
WHERE: WILLIAM TUNNELS HERITAGE CENTRE, SMITHDOWN LANE, LIVERPOOL, L7 3EE
PRICE: £7 / £4 CONCESSIONS
BOX OFFICE: www.tate.org.uk or PHONE: 0151 702 7400
RISING STYLES is the longest running UK Hip Hop festival and 2010 being our seventh year we have teamed up with two of London’s heavyweight Hip Hop party planners to bring this exciting event to you.
SUNDAY MENU AVAILABLE FROM 12:00 – 18:00.
COCKTAIL SPECIALS AND 2-4-1 OFFERS.
* We will update the event information over the next few days so keep your eyes peeled for some little extras
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TIMINGS
OPEN: 13:00
CLOSE: 24:00
COST & AGE
B4 19:00 – FREE / UNDER 18’s ALLOWED
FROM 19:00 – £5.00 – TICKETS ON THE DOOR – NO CONCESSIONS / OVER 18’s ONLY
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ABOUT RISING STYLES
This festival is developed and delivered by KALA PHOOL, one of the UKs leading arts development agencies. With particular focus on providing positive experiences for artists, audiences, funders, partners across all projects, Kala Phool’s work is highly respected. Kala Phool’s work has reached many territories including, Australia, USA, Singapore, India and across the UK.
RISING STYLES is the UK’s longest running Hip Hop Festival, its not for profit and run entirely by dedicated volunteers. It fundraises each year to meet the needs of the various events it delivers under the festival banner and attracts artists from across the UK and internationally.
Rising Styles achievements have only been made possible with the support of the artists who take part, the volunteers who work tirelessly to make it happen, the venues and sites who work with us, the funders who support us and to the audiences who come out each year to experience the positive side of hip hop and in particular, hip hop from the UK.
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ABOUT HOOCHINOO
For over five years Hoochinoo has been showcasing, supporting and promoting new acts from the UK’s underground alternative hip hop and urban music scene. Giving people an opportunity to perform live in exciting environments has attracted a lot of attention from new artists and the establishment alike.
“Hoochinoo put on a fine night, helping to showcase unknown talent and bringing a new vibe to the capital’s musical landscape”. ~ UKhh.com
“Not your regular hip-hop night” ~ London Tourdates Magazine
The live event emphasises the alternative side of the music, incorporating everything from flute playing beatboxers to some of the best scratch DJs and live acts that perform within the UK. People get what they expect from a hip hop night but are also treated to something completely different, an all encompassing full on spectacle of live hip hop fusion.
Hoochinoo’s main aim is to push the music through barriers that have been created in the industry. We give artists who truly love hip hop and urban music the platform to perform and reach their potential audience.
The alternative perspective allows all forms of experimental hip hop to be included and leads to a very refreshing take on urban music, but the raw edge remains.
