Global crisis - Shallal Response

 I collated this list recently and thought here is a good place to share it.

Global crisis 

Shallal Response

Worked with Manda Brookman supported by CAST for Regenerative Visions for the Arts in Cornwall

Speakers

Judith Knight-  Founder of Arts Admin

Jess Pendergast - ACE women of the year…Onion Collective

Katherine Lewis- Helston Climate Change Action group

Manda Brookman - Cornwall person of the year  - Cafe Disruptif

55 attendees on zoom

BSL and captioning paid by Falmouth Art Gallery & Feast

Regenerative Visions for the Arts in Cornwall Part 2

SW region participants discussion 35

Annual Visioning in Shallal 

Manda Brookman - guest speaker

Now working with her for a Shallal Charter for Change via VSF, external for partners and internal for our housekeeping

Videos - Green Choices introducing the Doughnut ( Doughnut Economics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9UY_USmWg

“If we ever go back to normal How are you going to change your life?” Eddie Callis artist with autism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO81NmPTMik  328 views

Instagram - created CornishDoughnutFeast 

https://www.instagram.com/cornishdoughnutfeast/?hl=en

Childrens Fire videos for G7 from Shallal individual participants: Sammy, Sam, Kerry, Toby, Katherine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8t3HsRE_c0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLzq2P6z8Y&t=12s

Shout Louder FEAST 

10 million ….reach stats for their films etc

Voices at the Table youtube film Doughnut Economics by Shallal 2

BSL and Makaton versions

Used by Kate Raworth on a TEDx talk

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbgZJ1WnuM&t=88s    423 views

Project Lab

Doughnut Economics based arts project accepted

Jo Willis one of first members of Cornish Doughnut Collective - Cornwall Council supported group

Culture Declares Emergency on strategy group for approx a year - hoped to promote    inclusion, left to focus elsewhere.

Shallal one of first Penwith organisations to support CEE Bill see blog

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5156469026002019590/8712075895199896522

I would now add fund raising and supporting action for people who are refugees, local and international projects

Benefit for Falmouth and Penryn welcome refugees 2019

Benefit for Children of the Ukraine and Mobile Refugee Support 2022

George's dress rehearsal photos

 There are so many places to put images nowadays FB, instagram etc so these are going in here for a change!

Some for publicity, marketing, some for funders, some just for those involved to see each other, some for our birthday cards! 2 to make one for Toby and one for Sam, both wonderful cross art form artists and good mates, both started in Open House Penzance years ago and now in Shallal Dance Theatre, Shallal Studios and more...

Thank you to George for these dress rehearsal photographs:

Anna Penhaligon

Rev Elizabeth signing, many thanks

good audience, wonderful space, introducing Mobile Refugee Support

to show we were streaming it in Landscape!!?!

Colin and Sam with sticks

Anna, Miles, Toby, Rowan, Eddie, Kerry and Tina

Kerry and all - great ceiling

Toby as Pharoh

Go Down Moses

Star, Bobby, Julie, Becky and Kerry T,
thank you to Julie and all those who were supporting performers 

Toby

Eddie's monkey mask

Bobby and mask

Sapphire, lovely to have her dancing with us - now she is busy with other exciting projects

Noah's Ark

Pete, able to join us for shows and busy in FAD

Toby recorder piece played at the entrance to the show

Debs and Kerry, Debs is back with us each week now

we work in circles

Shallal Village Project - Tobys' words

 Dreaming and Visioning is important, 

Action and Vision.

I asked Toby if I could share this:

"to Bobby, Shallal Village project.

 Hi Bobby, this is my actual response to your suggested project. Which the illustrations were developed from.

      I like the idea that that people could live in small communities on different levels, like medieval towns on hillsides with alleyways and steps leading up, weaving through.

This could be friendly fun community, with secluded gardens and courtyards and spaces people share and meet up. I would want it to invite the light to move gently through it. Openings such as windows, skylights, lantern roofs and places the sun would linger and warm.

 It would be a bit rustic style, different homesteads could be connected by cat walks, or bridges over walkways. Buildings could have cantilevered levels, which would overhang community thoroughfares.

It would spiral up, and the dwellings would have a nest like quality, built over levels where artisan workshops and trading or market areas for day to day hustle and bustle.

Lighting at night would have a permeable magical quality, weaving shadows and reflections. Being reflected through moving water. Instead of garishly bright and relentless. This would contribute to people’s emotional and mental well being.

The over all design would resemble a small citadel, amidst trees and portages gardens, and animal runs and corales.

I imagine it having a flowing form, an integral organic quality. Ergonomic in design, it would invigorate. Inviting interactive play, spontaneity of being. Like Shallal.

Hope this is of interest.

Cheers Toby.

A Call for Home Truro Cathedral 6.5.22 comments & credits

this is a blog so my favourite photo so far:
 is George's, last minute, gaffa taped, 2 tripods on a cathedral platform construction to enable my poor Fairphone* - please note product placement- to livestream the event on FB to friends, last minute so not a big media push, and it came out sideways! however as we speak dear George might have resolved that issue!
Many thanks to George who in this effort epitomises the 'above and beyond' and 'can do' attitude so many bring to Shallal.

 Thank you everyone!

£611.15 raised for 2 charities

80 audience - old and new

Thank you to Sean, Steve, Joe and all team wonderful team at Truro Cathedral.

To Ian and Lin for lighting 

Tracy and Richard for serving the drinks

Elizabeth for signing

Star for suggesting we perform at the cathedral and all the people in Shallal for such a wonderful communal effort.

Photos from George coming soon and you can watch it on 

https://www.facebook.com/ShallalArts 100 views so far!

but apologies at the moment you need to turn it around to see it the right way up! - maybe watch on a phone.

Feedback:

"What a fantastic production last night. We were blown away with the passion, professionalism and sheer joy you all brought to us is such a wonderful setting. It is the third time we have watched  ‘A Call to Home’ and this was even more outstanding than the previous two.

Thank you both so much for making this happen and instilling such enthusiasm in the diverse troupe that makes up Shallal." performers parents email

"thank you so much for allowing me to sign.

What a wonderful company ... they are all so talented." email - signer

"performance was incredible. Eye opening, truly great !!"  email, new audience doctor

it was a joy to be there" 

"Loved the whole darned thing!

What a joy bringer...." whats app - performer

"it was the best and it was so amazing" whats app - performer

"Fantastic Jo ... ....., ...... & I watched it ( whilst eating at the table .. usually a big no-no but this was an exception !) & we loved it .. such an achievement .. WELL DONE  💕 .....sang along & was very engaged & enthusiastic throughout .. & we had front seats ... & what an amazing venue ! 

Now you can relax ! Such a lot of energy needed to pull together such a thing & practical logistics like live-streaming ... it was perfect, good visual & sound ." audience - zoom participant and family

Comments book:

Really wonderful and moving performance and evening, and great fun! Many thanks.

Most incredible evening, with so many wonderful people connecting and coming together . thank you x

"Brilliant

Very nice 

great fun!"

"Well done all wonderful evening" 

"Performances were very good to see"

" What total stars you all are. It was brilliant and very moving. Thank you"

"Such a powerful performance. Beautiful culture, music, dance and so good to people together again. Can't wait until the next one!

"Well done to all you excellent performance"

"It was wonderful and totally from the heart. Thank you so much"

" Absolutely Wonderful ! :) "

"and beautiful. Thank you so much"

CREDITS & INFO

 'A Call to Home' 

title by Michael Willis

Credits

Many thanks to:

Bells - Gem Boord,  with thanks to Terri Stevens

Children - Jacqui Callis and words by Suzan Caroll

Wade in the water/ Were you there - spirituals by (enslaved) African Americans

Lobster Song - words by Nick Darke and music by Jim Carey

Sky - Medwyn Goodall 

Bishops Jig/ No Song No Supper - Dalla

Shallal

The Origin of the world - Dave Shepherd, played by Toby Bridge

Hireth - the Ordinalia, - written and performed by Deborah Udy-O'Nyons

Live Improvised Music by George Clement Peer

The Animals Came in Two by Two  - recorded and produced by Eddie Callis with Stuart Blackmore, including Jacqui Callis - vocals

Lost in Translation - written and performed by Kerry Tomlins

'Reporter' - written and performed by Jo Lumber

Angels - dancers Star and Katie Wheeler filmed by Terry and Jacob, film edited by Star.

Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Go Down Moses arranged, played and sung by The Wheeler family: Glen, Zo, Katie, Joseph, Arron and Jacob.

Wade in the water and Where you there? - sung by Jo Willis signed by Demelza Rouncefield

Spoken word signing by Rev Elizabeth Foot

We were very excited and grateful to originally be given this commission by Kresen Kernow. Inspired by the Ordinalia and Out of the Ordinary.

It was our first live show since January 2020 and it was very well received on 24 September and in November we performed it at St Peter’s Church, Newlyn. We are pleased to offer an evening Benefit Performance.

We have worked with the themes of the Ordinalia and our own style of Open Improvisation, as always the gloriously varied creativity of everyone shines through and we hope you enjoy it.

A highlight for us is having our friends The Wheelers with us in voice. 

(It will still be sometime till we can all meet up and dance again indoors with them, so Katie danced in a field to be filmed, thank you to Star.)

You can see Zo and Katie with Lily and Zoe in Faraway dances on Shallal Art you tube channel.

The Wheeler family recorded and produced their own version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot at home...

"Everyone's worked really hard and got the swing low, sweet chariot song ready, I hope you like it, we are really pleased. we wrote the arrangement, produced, played and sung it all ourselves, all 6 members of the family feature on the track." Glen

"It's been amazing seeing it grow from nothing, we did the whole thing from scratch, no backing tracks for us. We all joined in, which has been lovely. Hope you like it." Zo

From that they have recorded in a day on their kitchen table, ‘Go down Moses’ for this show.

There's so much to say and we hope the work speaks for itself, do come and chat with us afterwards.

Dancers

Toby Bridge

Tina Butler

Eddie Callis

George Clement Peer

Colin Curbishley

Rowan Curbishley

Katherine Giddings

Jilly Hellerman

Kerry Jackson

Bobby Johnson

Peter Kirby

Jo Lumber

Anna Penhaligon

Demelza Rouncefield

Becky Smith

Star

Miles Stead

Sapphire Sumpter

Kerry Tomlins

Debbie Udy-O’Nyons

Sam While

Backstage/support/costume - Star, Demelza, Julie Watson

Technical Support - George 

Unable to join us today -  Zoe Wilton, The Wheelers and Justin Holland.

Creative Director - Jo Willis

Man of many hats! Co-ordination and transport and more...Colin Curbishley

Front of House - Chris and Viktoriia Gardner, Jenny Stead and Di Burrell

Refreshments - many thanks to Tracy and Richard Clowes

General manager - Chris Gardner

Finance manager - Ian Burns

Many thanks to all our trustees, family, friends and supporters and funders, and to Sean and all at Truro Cathedral for their support.

Please give generously this is a Benefit for Help for the Children of the Ukraine and Mobile Refugee Support.

If you fancy trying an informal fun approach to creativity do join us in person or on Zoom more info at www.shallal.org.uk

* FAIRPHONE https://www.fairphone.com/en/story/

CEE Bill support

'Caring in green'  photo by Steve Tanner
Kerry & Debs Shallal Dance Theatre

In a recent meeting we were discussing what Shallal has done and supports, so i felt this should be added to our blog

" ......The CEE bill - West Cornwall is going to present the open letter to Derek Thomas MP this Friday - earth day. 22nd April. We would love it if a member or two from Shallal could join us to hand it over?... Especially as Shallal were one of the early sign ups to the letter."

 Dear Supporters,

We just wanted to send a massive thank you to each of you for signing our open letter to Derek Thomas MP, asking him to support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.

You are in good company, your signature joins over 80 others from organisations across the St Ives Constituency including schools, business, town and parish councils, artists, church groups, farmers and a Mayor or two! Go here https://www.transitionpenwith.org.uk/cee-bill-for-organisations/
and scroll down to see everyone represented on our "wall of fame"

If you were an early signatory, you will know the open letter started before the pandemic. Since then support for the CEE Bill has steadily grown - 188 councils across the UK, 31 Peers and 120 MP's now back the bill. Now its time we ask our representative in parliament to join them.

I'm pleased to tell you that we have an appointment to see Derek tomorrow, on Earth Day, 22nd April to hand over the letter. Pirate Radio will be covering the story and the Packet newspaper have ran an article you can see here
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/20077951.climate-ecological-emergency-bill-letter-signed-80-cornwall/
We are expecting more media coverage on the day, as you can imagine, we are very keen to show the strength of your support for the CEE Bill and its importance for us here in West Cornwall, protecting the natural landscape, our health and security.

Derek cares about his constituency members and what we want. He has been open to discussing the bill and many of you have contacted him about it. We need to continue the conversations and let him know that we are determined to keep the CEE Bill on the table until it becomes law. Please consider dropping him a line next week asking him how he feels about receiving the letter and whether he will commit to supporting the Bill. You can contact him here https://www.derekthomas.org/contact

You can find out the most up to date information about the bill and its journey through parliament here
https://www.ceebill.uk/bill

We are keeping the petition running for the time being, we want to continue gathering signatures from the individuals across West Cornwall, so their voices can also be heard. You can help by contacting the individuals within your organisations and asking them to sign the petition. Here is the link
https://www.change.org/p/back-the-climate-and-ecological-emergency-bill.

Finally don't forget to visit the CEE Bill Alliance - West Cornwall facebook page here
https://www.facebook.com/ceebillalliancewestcornwall

Once again, thank you all.

We are so chuffed! Together we can make a difference, our voices are amplified and the message is clear. We need the CEE Bill to give us hope and help safeguard the future of the planet and its people.

With every good wish
Lesley

Lesley Bradley
for CEE Bill Alliance - West Cornwall Team
ceebill@transitionpenwith.org.uk
www.transitionpenwith.org.uk

Sign Supported Show

Good news in last night!

Demelza signing Swing Low Sweet Chariot at Kresen Kernow 

in the middle of the normal muddle of dress rehearsal preparation, which is exacerbated by my not being in person but on zoom today - the wonders of technology we have all taken on since the pandemic- however not there due to covid in my home - so!! not quite so wonderful... 

Anyway i digress good news that thanks to a generous offer we now have a Sign Supported show

I wrote recently our heading on instagram 'we aim for equity and accessibility' however we often fall short of our aspirations but continue to learn and push on and so we are so glad to have this. The shows are fully collaborative, not written, so we don't know what people will compose and create until close to the performance time which makes sourcing support, planning and budgeting for audio and BSL far more complex.

We are grateful to have some outreach funding from Henry Smith Charity to people in our Cornish community who are deaf and with hearing support needs.

I was thinking we had enough films of this show but now we might need to look at film or live stream again so we can capture it for that community. 

Cornwall is a highly supportive connected community and we are so glad and grateful for this. We have the cathedral venue as they reduced the rate and then a private sponsor, not wishing to be known, funded the rest of the (hefty) cost hire.

We have the cast available and are excited to be performing this again. We have a very narrow get in and rehearsal time next Friday but are so pleased and glad to be fund raising for things we feel passionately about. Thank you to Star for suggesting the venue and to Demelza for all her work with BSL and connections.

Now all the major 'issues' affect us all, we are happy to be more 'political' in the broadest sense in our voice. We are all vulnerable and we all need support!

Come along to a Free Show and give what you can to those in fleeing and in need!

Donations collected for Helping Children of the Ukraine ( a Cornish based support group) who will have speaker at the event and Mobile Refugee Support https://www.mobilerefugeesupport.org/about-us

feedback Sketchbooks and A Call to Home and Truro Cathedral

 

Starting with positive feedback for Claire and Elle,

out and about yesterday with Shallal Sketchbooks

 
"Thank you for yesterday such a great session!  The sketchbooks you shared are amazing and the film with Pam I loved . 

It only underlined bringing it into hubs is so valuable and getting the sketchbook library on a roadshow with some drop in have a go and grab a sketchbook/join up, plus some referrals. "

So much going on it's hard to blog about it...

 

Coming soon...

an evening performance and an extra song by the Wonderful Wheelers

The Hand Shatring Exhibition is up on you tube needs a little edit for 2 words but otherwise great, publicity soon

The Exhibition and performance of 'Marks, Movement and Conversation' was 'a highlight 'of Fine Art Falmouth year!

Film up thanks to Richard Stead and another slide show to come!