Friday, 15 October 2021

catch up

Nearly there with 2 or 3 films

One has had a very long birth 'The hands of Victor Jara', coming soon, just a few Spanish updates.

'Voices at the table' Shout LOUDER 

and whilst checking out how to credit and link Manda Brookman https://twitter.com/mandabrookman?lang=en

i found this post

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582 good news 

Access to a healthy environment, declared a human right by UN rights council

Activist links in them all.


Foraging Nectar is now up on YouTube 

Thank you to Sapphire for her hard work is best said by Arinda:

 "I have enjoyed the exhibition video so much. Sapphire did great work. My regards and gratitude to her. I love it."

I ended up doing a little side project, ( aided by feedback from Anna and Jo) to allow everyone to hear Jo L's recording in full...



Back to Film

Manda's spoken word for "Voices at the table"- is that the title?? i'm trying to decide as i write this and reply to Bobby who is finishing it this weekend.

We have ended up with 2 versions one with Makaton and one with BSL. 

In conversation and our limited time frame we weren't able to explore or be more creative with the placing of these languages on screen and so have kept to their traditional placement lower right corner, but we want to continue this and so we need to develop stronger bonds and understanding.

Interestingly a friend who is a founder in https://falmouthandpenrynwelcome.org/wants training in Makaton to support conversations with young children who are learning English :)

This spoken word by Manda is the basis for the film.


"So the question is: what is Doughnut Economics?


Doughnut economics is a way of looking at economics in a way that is fit for the 21st Century.

Up to now, economics, which actually has nothing to do with numbers, is about really managing what we have and where we live – well that’s what economics actually means; but somehow the economics up to now has managed to leave out the planet in that thinking, and it’s also left out people who don’t have a fair share.


So right now economics is a pyramid, the few at the top have the most and everyone else at the bottom has the least. So instead of that pyramid, imagine a doughnut, the sort with the hole in the middle. The vision of doughnut economics is to have a sort of economics that leaves no one behind in the middle, in the hole, in the gap, making sure that everybody has the essentials of a life: enough food and water and housing, healthcare, good company, joy, laughter and culture.


But as we create those systems we need to make sure we don’t use more than we have the right to take. If one person takes too much, it risks someone else not having enough, and busting through that outer ring of the doughnut, the one where we start going into overdraft, in terms of the impact on the climate that’s how we cause a climate breakdown – where we make the oceans acidic, and full of plastic, we destroy our forests, we break down our living planet, which really isn’t the wisest thing we can do.


So in actual fact, all doughnut economics is, is about making sure we build economic systems that are fair, that make sure that everybody can shop and travel, and take a break, and have a future and have a present that means that everybody has a fair share on a healthy planet. That nobody has not enough, that nobody is in the hole in the middle, but what we have built doesn’t end up busting through those limits, the planetary limits, it’s a finite system. We can’t carry on taking more than the planet can sustain, we can’t carry on poisoning our rivers and burning down our forests and depleting our resources. We can’t do that, what we’re looking for is planetary and human health, where everyone has a fair share on a healthy planet, that’s what doughnut economics is. It’s an economics for everyone, and for the planet.


So if economics is about the management of what we have and where we are, not just about money,  then doughnut economics is about everyone, and ensuring that human health and planetary health is a priority, it invites a new way of thinking where we join the dots between people and place, between food and culture, between well being and caring, between homes and community, where we prioritise human and planetary health and where we invite all those voices to the table, especially those who have never been invited before or who have been excluded. This is about all of us, for us all to listen to the diversity of views and to make an economic system that hears everyone."


Onto Back Lane West  BLW ( our annual residency)

coming soon, the timetable filling with fabulous, crazy and interesting collaborations investigations. I so love process!

I made a decision in Shallal Dance Theatre SDT and then was unsure of the detail rolling it out so have put it under R&D BLW.

Showcasing & Sharing

more about that in another blog...


Sharing our timetable for SDT and knowing there is so much more going on in Shallal 

(such as the The Underworld Studio Project https://shallal.org/projects/underworld)


5 November 
an R&D Showcasing & Sharing at St Peters Hall 2pm 
Open improv performance approx 30 mins and 20 mins audience invitation to join in.
we hope to do these regularly/ monthly in the round
free/donation
please invite family and friends and artists/dancers


12 November 
afternoon trip to Back Lane West Residency Redruth (run by Anna Willis and Megan Burridge for 2-15 Nov) to play 'dressing up' with costume ie. jackets, hats etc

26 November
2pm A Call to Home
St Peters Church Newlyn
donation

We had a good Artists meeting last week, just so good to be in touch, share practice and explorations especially the new world of Blended Delivery. Many thanks to Duchy Health Trust for supportive digital equipment.


Last not least remembering dear Trevor 
and best wishes and thanks to John who is running the half marathon for his Memorial Fund tomorrow! 

donate at https://gofund.me/29b206c0

In George's words
"Trevor is a shining creative soul. May his cheeky spirit continue to resonate in this wonder-filled world."

 

One more highlight: joy of reconnecting with Leigh Jacobs and being invited  to have conversations re Shallal working with 3rd year Fine Art students at Falmouth for their campus gallery! Which links back to Artist meeting conversations and Liskeard group investigations with Janice re movement and tracing pathways etc.

 Everything connects ( which echoes in Doughnut Economics and UN statement ) as  Phil Jacobs, Leigh's younger brother, was drama facilitator in Shallal when we restarted, 2002/3 and I remember Leigh acting in The Ordinalia approx 20 yrs ago.


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