A Thank you to our funder and partners in Shallal Dance Theatre

 A thank you letter

Thank you to Reaching Communities for our funding for three years pre-Covid, it came in just before the pandemic was fully recognised and meant we could continue our two well established performance groups and maintain our rental for our new art studio.

It led to even greater opportunities, recommending us to Rank foundation who then have funded our Time to Shine leader, Sapphire

Last year we all were so concerned to keep in touch,  maintain provision creativity opportunities..and this hasn't left us, we are now doing a doodle poll across Shallal to capture our responses and needs for groups 

Last year we experimented with film, and zoom and ... within it Barbara made a great short film, the Studios did Picture Post and Shallal Sketchbooks came into their own, showing a huge need especially via Social Prescribing and doing a Christmas card share from children to those in care homes.

So much

And yet our creative juices were rumbling to perform, to connect, as we normally do, so Big Thank you

To Newlyn Art Gallery

to Blair for working with Akullah together they identified Arinda Daphine and Shallal as a potential pairing

Re, Artistic Director, Jo and I understand you to be the Lead Artist, in collaboration with Shallal Dance Theatre. Its your project, developed with Shallal, who are directed by Jo, for an exhibition that I have curated. It’s a large multi-faceted collaboration 

and a providential commission as Lou and Phoebe had contacted Kresen Kernow, who had thought to contact us but hadn't yet and the thrill of being involved in a small way with The Homecoming Project and the wonderful Ordinalia, Community Arts, Cornish Culture and cross art form! what more can you want and though i don't like 'themes' ( many of Shallal do) I'm just more abstract, symbolic or humour/dramatic.

Without the funding to keep regularly meeting we wouldn't have been able to participate and enable these fantastic opportunities challenging and stretching us even in lockdown.

We have been able to commission Bobby and Pep both multi arts skilled and performers to explore their film making.

I'm so pleased with all the work produced so far, Arinda's prompts and themes have opened a glorious door of responses, Love and betrayal or loss, nature and our relationship responses, deep connections and chanting your family lineage. "Okwevuga' example... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vmw643XieU