Off to Bristol early this morning and testing how 'office' train works.
I am a 'looking ' out the window addict and dreamer so we shall see.
So AHSW Seminar and Prize giving today, and sadly Lesley Ann can't come so I am going it alone, too far to negotiate more of us and short notice.
Shallal 2 dress rehearsal at Gyllyngdune Gardens, Wednesday.
Rehearsal in a main co Friday.
Shallal Dance Theatre at Funky Llama Festival, Plymouth Hoe, Saturday 4.50pm performance.
La Mer and others, La Mer has now looked out over St Ives harbour and Mounts Bay so Plymouth Sound here we come with sea shanties, abstract pop ups etc!
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186258-i36783860-Plymouth_Devon_England.html
Hope to be able to introduce our nice new administrator later this week.
Lou is working hard on Porthmeor Studio Residency planning and I had a good meeting with Gary at the John Daniel Centre hoping that Sally Walters and 2 other artists might join us.
Other young, emerging, re-emerging and "I would love the time and space to reconnect to my art" artists coming into view.
Critical creative time now for both companies as we pull together work for performance and as always unexpected dynamics come into the balancing act, there has been a lot of illness and absence in both groups the last few months and now George's broken collar bone in main co, Anna bad back - getting better now - in Shallal 2, so all our recent research into new improvisation performance methods is necessary and will be tested. The wonderful thing the performers hold is their commitment, unique styles and integrity so I look forward to it all, my worry is always to be able to best frame their skills.
The style we work needs physical warm up obviously but also a mental concentrated alertness which is more elusive to have on demand especially in distracting exciting new places.
However as i reread this it is the joy of it all, that comes through from them, and that is tangible when we all meet and they perform.
Lesley Ann came yesterday to collect Shallal Studio paintings from the Studio Challenge and some from the past Small Picture Show to be hung in the marquee.
Now i am procrastinating and will go to pack!
Sunday, 7 June 2015
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Shallal 2 prepare for Dance on the Grass
Well back to some good work but half numbers for reasons from health to bereavement so we await next week and our dress rehearsal on the grass, weather permitting!
Meanwhile we have a running order and the music sounds good - i think - some interesting jazz and other new artists chosen mainly by Zoe and Jo.
The group enjoy large group work and some experimental music and there is a delightful "No Bus Stop Dancing" a quote and sign from Jo created last summer at workshop with Kneehigh at Heligan which i now need to fetch from Kneehigh's kitchen for the show.
Depending on the availability of performers - there has been a lot of times with some dancers absent - the 'show' may become a 'sharing and showing' of new work. We await to see how the dress rehearsal goes, they were so good before Christmas at Falmouth Art Gallery. But this term we have lost Skye - her studies are exhausting on the day we meet - and Paul has moved onto Zumba for now. However we will be joined by Rosie and Maybel hopefully who are dedicated members but didn't make it last time. So a moveable feast!
Anna (with injured back) and Zoe (not so well) took some photos for us last night!
Meanwhile we have a running order and the music sounds good - i think - some interesting jazz and other new artists chosen mainly by Zoe and Jo.
The group enjoy large group work and some experimental music and there is a delightful "No Bus Stop Dancing" a quote and sign from Jo created last summer at workshop with Kneehigh at Heligan which i now need to fetch from Kneehigh's kitchen for the show.
Depending on the availability of performers - there has been a lot of times with some dancers absent - the 'show' may become a 'sharing and showing' of new work. We await to see how the dress rehearsal goes, they were so good before Christmas at Falmouth Art Gallery. But this term we have lost Skye - her studies are exhausting on the day we meet - and Paul has moved onto Zumba for now. However we will be joined by Rosie and Maybel hopefully who are dedicated members but didn't make it last time. So a moveable feast!
Anna (with injured back) and Zoe (not so well) took some photos for us last night!
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| warm up - favourite music at present Arvo Part's Spiegel im spiegel |
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| No bus stop dancing! 1 |
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| 3 |
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| practising together in case others not available! |
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| image from the final dance and Peter's cheeky look! |
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
News and summer performances
So we enter a new phase with all new trustees.
http://www.shallal.org.uk/trustees.html
Many thanks as we have said before to the old ones and many thanks to our office manager Diana who moves on and we await to welcome our new admin support - more news very soon...
Thanks to our patron Robert Fripp:
http://www.dgmlive.com/news.htm?entry=5133
Meanwhile I have had an 8 day amazing trip to Kenya thanks to my brother and his wife who I have mentioned before.
www.facebook.com/theelephantmovie
www.markdeeble.wordpress.com
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| An amazing aggregation of elephants by a water hole. |
Demelza is walking the pilgrims route Camino de Santiago, she sent an image of an old doorway. She is raising money for 2 really worthwhile interconnected charities.
"A local charity "Bringing Freedom" supporting a bigger more established and international charity
LOVE146 - against child exploitation and trafficking. Also young men and women.
Link copied from the page is here below.
http://www.justgiving.com/
JustGiving sends your donation straight to Love146 and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more.
Thank you for your support!
JustGiving sends your donation straight to Love146 and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more.
Thank you for your support!
All the money raised is going to a safe house in Bournemouth opened by LOVE146 last year for the restoration of trafficked slaves."
And I have booked my tickets to go to
Arts & Health South West Prize 2015
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS ON JUNE 8TH
SEMINAR FOR SHORTLISTED ORGANISATIONS at the Royal West of England Academy
and PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
I plan to join the world of laptops on trains and tidy my files!! inspired by tent 'offices' in the bush at Tsavo National Park ( See photo Mark, Vicky and Et working) and my travels, on planes and trains i was the only person not on a device! i had books, sketchbooks and my daughters camera - a real holiday.
You can see:
Shallal Dance Theatre
perform at Funky Llama Festival on Plymouth Hoe on Saturday 13th June
http://www.theatreroyal.com/whats-on/2015/funky-llama-festival-2015/
Holifield Camping Weekend at Holifield Farm 26th June short performance followed by Colin's colourful improvisation workshop between 12 and 2pm
http://www.holifieldfarmproject.co.uk/wp2/holifield-camping-weekend
We highly recommend it and love going!
We hope to drop in on Mazey Day, Penzance again this year, more information coming soon.
Shallal 2
perform "Dance on the grass" at Gyllyngdune Gardens Wednesday 24th June 6 - 6.30pm free
and at Playfest, Truro, Wednesday 5th August.
http://www.visittruro.org.uk/whats-on/play-fest-2015-p1044503
Last not least, best wishes to George our wonderful improvising musician who broke his collar bone recently, we await to hear how the repairs are going! but plan B is in 'operation' should he be out of action.. we hope to see him soon.....
interesting article!
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-05-11-dramatic-discovery-bodleian
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Appeal in Falmouth Packet
We are in The Falmouth Packet as well
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.
and news re AHSW prize
http://ahsw.org.uk/news.aspx?id=1489
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.
and news re AHSW prize
http://ahsw.org.uk/news.aspx?id=1489
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Donate! link
Many thanks to George for setting up
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/
where you can donate to our recent appeal....
and there is a Donate button now on the homepage of our website as well
www.shallal.org.uk
Here's Hoping and Thank you for your Support from one and all x
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/
where you can donate to our recent appeal....
and there is a Donate button now on the homepage of our website as well
www.shallal.org.uk
Here's Hoping and Thank you for your Support from one and all x
Monday, 11 May 2015
Friday, 8 May 2015
Press releases
A lovely day today in main company and Marjorie's 85th Birthday celebration, Toby's birthday is also tomorrow and we wish him a Happy Spanish Birthday! as he is away travelling in Spain.
Sam is 29 on Sunday and we will celebrate it next week as i am forgetful!
So press releases, today we photographed this.....
for This press release
PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN we are so close to achieving this goal, which would make such a difference to our stability and development, create beautiful art and performances in interesting and diverse spaces, celebrate our heritage and Passmore Edwards amazing philanthropic contribution to Cornwall and give back to the community in many ways....
Help Cornish Charity to Aim High and Reach their Funding Target
Local inclusive dance and arts charity Shallal are closing in on their goal of raising £118,000 for a
major new three year project bringing people of all ages and abilities together to enjoy self
expression and creativity. But your help is urgently needed to make it happen before time runs out.
National funding organisations Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund have pledged a
combined £80,000 towards this project which uses dance and arts to celebrate Cornish Heritage, but
the money will be withdrawn unless match funding is secured by 10th June this year.
Shallal is calling upon one and all to donate any amount of money, large or small in one last effort to
get the project funded and keep this money in Cornwall for our communities.
The county-wide project entitled ‘Cornish Doorways’ works with the libraries as well as arts and
heritage venues to offer skills and opportunities well as boosting self confidence and improving the
health and wellbeing of participants.
Shallal is an established charity with over twenty years of delivering inclusive projects in Cornwall.
The charity has a matter of weeks to find this money before funding is withdrawn. To donate, please
email us at admin@shallal.org.uk .
Next Press release
Fantastic friend, collaborator and supporter of Shallal Barbara Santi entered us for Arts and Health South West Prize, this is another way to try to gain funding to sustain and develop our work through our exciting Doorways Project!!
Arts & Health South West Prize – shortlist announced for £5000 prize
Eight innovative arts in health projects based in Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and
Somerset are in the running for three awards of up to £5000 in the 2015 Arts &
Health South West Prize.
The shortlisted projects are competing for a first prize of £5000, runner up prize of
£1000 and an individual prize of £1000 in recognition of their outstanding
contribution to arts, health and wellbeing in the South West region in the last year.
The shortlisted organisations are (in alphabetical order):
Az2B Theatre Company, based in Penryn, Cornwall, for their play Grandma
Remember Me?
Coda Music Trust, which works across Bournemouth and Poole for their
project Dementia Notes
Encounters Arts, based in Devon, for the Ageing Well community engagement
project in Torbay
Mean Feet Dance, working across Somerset for their One Step Forward dance
and mental health programme
Misfits Theatre in Bristol for their film Premature Deaths of People with
Learning Disabilities
North Bristol NHS Trust for A Better Place to Be, the public art programme for
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Plymouth Music Zone for the project Music for a Change
Shallal, a charity based in Penzance, Cornwall for their inclusive arts
programme during 2013/14
The shortlisted schemes were selected from more than 50 organisations competing
for the prize, awarded by Arts & Health South West (AHSW). AHSW is a nationally
recognised, registered charity which promotes the use of the arts to encourage
health and wellbeing.
The AHSW Prize is kindly sponsored by the Fine Family Foundation.
The judges faced a challenging task in selecting the shortlist. One of the panel,
Frances Chinemana, Associate Director of Public Health, Wiltshire, said:
“Arts organisations and health trusts are working together to develop creative and
innovative interventions, designed to help some of the most vulnerable groups. I
am hopeful that increasing the profile of arts and health and its effectiveness
through the AHSW prize will add to commissioners' understanding of this work, and
encourage them to mainstream it as part of public health provision”
The winners will be announced at a prize giving event at Bristol Museum and Art
Gallery on June 8th. The event coincides with the exhibition: William Hogarth: Painter
and Printmaker. Hogarth was a founding father of Arts and Health through his work
with the Foundling Hospital. Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum, will give
a keynote speech at the event.
info@ahsw.org.uk / www.ahsw.org.uk
Sam is 29 on Sunday and we will celebrate it next week as i am forgetful!
So press releases, today we photographed this.....
PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN we are so close to achieving this goal, which would make such a difference to our stability and development, create beautiful art and performances in interesting and diverse spaces, celebrate our heritage and Passmore Edwards amazing philanthropic contribution to Cornwall and give back to the community in many ways....
Help Cornish Charity to Aim High and Reach their Funding Target
Local inclusive dance and arts charity Shallal are closing in on their goal of raising £118,000 for a
major new three year project bringing people of all ages and abilities together to enjoy self
expression and creativity. But your help is urgently needed to make it happen before time runs out.
National funding organisations Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund have pledged a
combined £80,000 towards this project which uses dance and arts to celebrate Cornish Heritage, but
the money will be withdrawn unless match funding is secured by 10th June this year.
Shallal is calling upon one and all to donate any amount of money, large or small in one last effort to
get the project funded and keep this money in Cornwall for our communities.
The county-wide project entitled ‘Cornish Doorways’ works with the libraries as well as arts and
heritage venues to offer skills and opportunities well as boosting self confidence and improving the
health and wellbeing of participants.
Shallal is an established charity with over twenty years of delivering inclusive projects in Cornwall.
The charity has a matter of weeks to find this money before funding is withdrawn. To donate, please
email us at admin@shallal.org.uk .
Next Press release
Fantastic friend, collaborator and supporter of Shallal Barbara Santi entered us for Arts and Health South West Prize, this is another way to try to gain funding to sustain and develop our work through our exciting Doorways Project!!
Arts & Health South West Prize – shortlist announced for £5000 prize
Eight innovative arts in health projects based in Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and
Somerset are in the running for three awards of up to £5000 in the 2015 Arts &
Health South West Prize.
The shortlisted projects are competing for a first prize of £5000, runner up prize of
£1000 and an individual prize of £1000 in recognition of their outstanding
contribution to arts, health and wellbeing in the South West region in the last year.
The shortlisted organisations are (in alphabetical order):
Az2B Theatre Company, based in Penryn, Cornwall, for their play Grandma
Remember Me?
Coda Music Trust, which works across Bournemouth and Poole for their
project Dementia Notes
Encounters Arts, based in Devon, for the Ageing Well community engagement
project in Torbay
Mean Feet Dance, working across Somerset for their One Step Forward dance
and mental health programme
Misfits Theatre in Bristol for their film Premature Deaths of People with
Learning Disabilities
North Bristol NHS Trust for A Better Place to Be, the public art programme for
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Plymouth Music Zone for the project Music for a Change
Shallal, a charity based in Penzance, Cornwall for their inclusive arts
programme during 2013/14
The shortlisted schemes were selected from more than 50 organisations competing
for the prize, awarded by Arts & Health South West (AHSW). AHSW is a nationally
recognised, registered charity which promotes the use of the arts to encourage
health and wellbeing.
The AHSW Prize is kindly sponsored by the Fine Family Foundation.
The judges faced a challenging task in selecting the shortlist. One of the panel,
Frances Chinemana, Associate Director of Public Health, Wiltshire, said:
“Arts organisations and health trusts are working together to develop creative and
innovative interventions, designed to help some of the most vulnerable groups. I
am hopeful that increasing the profile of arts and health and its effectiveness
through the AHSW prize will add to commissioners' understanding of this work, and
encourage them to mainstream it as part of public health provision”
The winners will be announced at a prize giving event at Bristol Museum and Art
Gallery on June 8th. The event coincides with the exhibition: William Hogarth: Painter
and Printmaker. Hogarth was a founding father of Arts and Health through his work
with the Foundling Hospital. Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum, will give
a keynote speech at the event.
info@ahsw.org.uk / www.ahsw.org.uk
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