Timeline for Shallal in relation to other inspiration...

 Sharing an exercise from Citizen Journalism course, tracing dance and access from the background tradition that enabled Jo Willis Shallal's founder and creative director. 

Salamanda Tandem were always well spoken of, Shallal's first development manager Danu Fox managed to do some training with them, but that is all. However i have included them as Wolfgang was pivotal in their beginning inspiration as far as i know, and they work across art forms.

All the text is direct from websites so in their own words.

News

 Eddie and Phoebe were on the radio: www.soundartradio.org.uk.

I'm signed up to "Making the System Shift" https://www.systeminnovation.org/learning-festival-2022

Week 9 of Citizen Journalism and excited to be talking to Oliver Baines who was the Chief Executive at Cornwall Community Foundation and now deeply involved in current direct action campaigns. 

George is in an exhibition with Mel, with an improvisational Sharing of music, dance, poetry and song this Wednesday 7pm, entrance by donation.

Christmas songs coming in and so much more! Skye and The Wheelers already with us.

AGM postponed and Christmas Party planning and an online one soon to be announced

'Workshop as Art form' Tony Gee and 'The Five Part Session' Marcia Leventhal

Good day at Shallal Dance Theatre today/yesterday, 

finally forming our responses to new music choices and starting more large paintings and a poem written and ideas landing...

                                      photo from last week support for Climate Action Coalition 

answering an email today i found old links to ideas we work with all the time

Yes could do a workshop in a small form in smaller spaces as a lesson in adaptation and working in different spaces. could be drawing and dance, sound /word we could just see where it goes? 

we often work many art forms in same session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Vqu-AjK2s&t=67s

Moveable feast was a residential workshop offered at Dartington some years ago, one of the main people put forward the idea as Workshop as art form and i read about it as i hadn't attended it - my then Shallal Dance Theatre working partner Phil Jacobs did - it was multi arts event.

From that idea, as i have been running workshops for over 30 years i started looking at the process, and now it is similar to being in an art studio, the participants and their creativity are your materials and together we create work...it is not an 'us and them' but a 'we' a real in the moment collaboration and is quite scary but also freeing ( and hopefully fun) for everyone.

A third way: not individual, not collective, but person and community, recent podcast for R&D  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De1Fd5T97MA&t=1202s

Colin and i often refer to it and it comes from experience, it might be of interest to other facilitators, skills are involved but are in a different emphasis to many 'teaching/sharing' workshops.

Also useful to consider and reflect on 5 stages of a workshop from The Five Part Session Dr Marcia Leventhal: warm up, release, theme, centring, closure. https://www.marciableventhal.com/

A useful take away from a year, on a two year, postgraduate Dance Therapy course at Roehampton....many years ago

 & Structure, Stimulus and Suggestion

https://issuu.com/kevinmount/docs/amoveablefeast

A Moveable Feast

Published on Sep 30, 2003

A vivid description and analysis of Workshop’s distinctive features. Using a combination of narrative, explanation, and rumination, Tony Gee investigates the premise that Workshop is a distinctive creative form with its own politic, poetic and aesthetic.

Fantastic new participants to Newquay Pilot group and good to be working again with Sapphire.

Kerry J and Barbara came to visit Shallal 2, especially for Rita and Kerry to work together, and we hope to repeat it soon.

Learnt a lot from chatting with Jamie Moran and looking forward to chatting with Oliver Baines this week.

Podcasting make me slightly obsessive! and is quite time consuming in editing and caption checking etc but also a lot of fun!

It's quite a balance with that and new projects needing to land, but what i didn't add to the email was:

"Trust the Process" another major part of our approach 

and  ' don't get in the way' ( of it). 

'The work works' if it isn't, that is where we need to reflect on our practice and try again, trust the (creative) process.

I often say to artists make friends with/get to know you own way of working there is no right or wrong way. What works for you? ( and is reasonably healthy.) We waste a lot of time trying to fit ourselves into other formats, how we think it 'should' be done, when we need to embrace our own style and way of creating/doing things, reflecting knowing your strengths, weaknesses, areas that need support etc and allow a sense of humour into the mix it helps to gently laugh at ourselves. Take ourselves lightly.

If you can have fun, then you can engage and trust, take risks, experiment, extend your practice.

Podcasts, BLW Sharing, Dean Evans talk, new work

 Two new podcasts and more to come

with my brother 'PoP'  Passing on Passmore

and 

with my old dance teacher Quality of Soul?

So much going on and enjoying the opportunity to listen and learn more that podcasts bring...

Thank you to Skye- Anna for my 'jingle' from Dreamin'

Enjoyed the wonderful mix at Sharing at Back Lane West, we sat around Rosa's banquet table of clay vessels, watched films and looked at paintings and tapped and moved shells in a gentle installation.

Thank you to all the artists, we make sense out of what we do ( eventually/!)  and it is always a privilege to see people work/dance/play. 

Miles solo with support is such a little gem and we hope to show it soon. Shallal 2.

We have no idea and lots of ideas where our Passmore Project will go but Dean Evans comes along to tomorrow, now todays, session so we will have someone to inform us and who we can ask more of.

Looking forward  also to a wide roll of thick paper and seeing some of our artists work BIG again.

Thank you to Dark Pony Coffee, a nice mention in this article for Joseph and hoping for Sam's exhibition in the new year and then we will be there twice a year which feels just right. 

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/news/creativity-streets-dark-pony-coffee

Fingers crossed re funding news coming in, not sure i can face more uncertainty, but that seems to be the way of it all. Big thank you to all our funders who support our long term provision so we can relax and develop initiatives and get on with the work, and to all our team who work so hard constantly.

Knitted Together Workshops

 Shallal Studios Knitted Together workshops Autumn term 2022

 

If you are interested in joining any of the following workshops, please let Lou know on lou@shallal.org. Places are limited but there are often one or two spaces.

 

All workshops take place at Shallal Studios, G08 Krowji, West Park, Redruth TR15 3GE. There are directions on the Krowji website here: https://www.krowji.org.uk/contact-us/

 

Natural dyeing and felting with Naomi Hannam

Tuesday 1^st November 10:30 – 12:30

Tuesday 1^st November 1:30 – 3:30

Tuesday 8^th November 10:30 – 12:30

Tuesday 8^th November 1:30 – 3:30

Tuesday 15^th November 10:30 – 12:30

Tuesday 15^th November 1:30 – 3:30

You are welcome to come to all three weeks if there is space. Please choose either the morning or the afternoon session.

 

Weaving memory looms with Stina Falle

Using surplus wool, string and interesting objects to make a personal tapestry

Thursday 10^th November 10am – 12:30

Thursday 17^th November 10am – 12:30

Thursday 24^th November 10am – 12:30

You are welcome to come to all three weeks if there is space.

 

Weaving, knitting and playing with seaweed. Ruth and Kerry from The Seaweed Institute

Wednesday 16^th November 2 – 4pm

Tuesday 13^th December 10:30 – 12:30

Tuesday 13^th December 1:30 – 3:30

Thursday 15^th December 10am – 12:30

Please come to just one of the four sessions. On Tuesdays, please choose either the morning or the afternoon session.

 

Giant knitting in a group with Katie White

Experiment using things like our arms or chair legs as knitting needles to make big knits!

Tuesday 6^th December 10:30 – 12:30

Tuesday 6^th December 1:30 – 3:30

Wednesday 7^th December 2 – 4pm

Friday 9^th December 10am – 12noon

Please come to just one of the four sessions. On Tuesdays, please choose either the morning or the afternoon session.

 

Workshops in the January term include Wearable Ceramics with Susy Ward, Kimono-making with Isla Campbell and something fun with the team from Make-a-Mends in Redruth. Watch this space for dates and details.

If you would like to suggest a workshop to do with textiles and using recycling materials please do.

Please contact lou@shallal.org