News, pilot groups, ebook and more...

 So my dear daughter who is standing in on Zoom sessions from London, at the moment, but sadly hasn't made it to our Back Lane West residency this year, has encouraged me to keep going...i had thought i might pause this blog, as there is so much going on these days.

But maybe it will be more bullet points:

This week we have....

 Bobby in Back Lane West all week with an Open Studio Sharing on Saturday 1.30-3.30 of some of the work created....work can be seen on reels and the event is at https://www.facebook.com/events/

2 new pilot groups Newquay was on Monday, really fun! thank you to Sheron for helping start it and delighted to work with Julie and Becky as associate artists on it, handing it on hopefully to Sapphire as it develops she joins us for the next one on 14 November, same time, same place a bright beautiful old church hall with sea views!

and St Austell on Friday, thanks to the commitment and enthusiasm of Natasha, and seeding it with Janice and Demelza!

it made me reflect on starting our Liskeard group it can take time to establish groups, get the word out there.

In Newquay we might work on performances early on as Emily and Becky are strong experienced performers.

thank you to Anna for poster designs

Meanwhile we celebrate the launch of Shallal Studios awaited E-BOOK

Baccid by Amy Lawrence and I can detect a bat by Eddie Callis are also on Shallal Arts you tube.

Potential conversations re a dance group aimed for people with Parkinsons in Falmouth in the new year

Attending The Ladder Advisory Board meeting on Thursday

 ‘The Ladder’ at the former Redruth Library on Clinton Road.  The former Garde II listed library building had been closed for several years with the opening of the new library on Alma Place. A few months ago, Cornwall Council agreed to lease the property to a new community organisation, the Former Redruth Library CIC, who announced the relaunch of the library under the new name of The Ladder.  Refurbishment works to the building are being carried out with financial support from the Redruth HSHAZ scheme and Cornwall Council.  The Ladder is expecting to open its doors to the community later this year.' from https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/council-budgets-and-economy/redruth-s-revival-steps-up-as-historic-buttermarket-prepares-for-a-multimillion-pound-refurbishment/

Julie's Bicycle "We Make Tomorrow 2022" summit on catch up, 'creativity, community and connection'

Thank you to Elle for introducing me what canva can do, now to get us all using it!

Still trying to make my report sound more sensible...i experienced a real 'block' for the first time, writing isn't my strong point, as readers will know,...i felt i might mark myself on it, 'grammer - Shocking!'

...trying to get some more interviewees lined up, for my Citizen Journalism

did an extra zoom interview for BLW with Lisa, who was unable to be at the sharing for the installation 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaXhKth6FY8&t=418s

Shallal 2 had a great time in the zone in the installation environment at BLW 13 October and then fish and chip supper outing!

Passmore Podcast and more to come!

Podcasts started 

Thank you to Dean Evans for joining me

 

so many more planned, Manda Brookman soon and artist Georgie Finn and so many people to ask,

and 3 on Soul in planning, a separate but all related subject, that has been brewing for ages.

Thank you to Matthew Rogers for the excellent Citizen Journalism course and to all the other interesting and supportive students ...

 I'm back to 'school' - a poor pupil not really allowed to do official studies again*but might make it through this short course! 

*I dropped out of a Psychology degree in London to do Dance with Wolfgang Stange 

and later on was recommended to do the then new Dance and Movement Therapy post grad at Roehampton College, London, i commuted on Fridays from Penzance to London and left half way through,  so my family are not allowed to let me do anything 'academic' again, i get too restless and ( sadly ) too opinionated ?!

Happy Place

Happy Place

Demelza, Rita, Kerry T and Zoe photo by Bobby

Yesterday so much to recount but the heart of it all was Shallal 2 from 5.30-6.10pm

Dancers, artists, musicians, actors, writers, composers, photographers/film 

all in a room working within the installation and together,

all as someone said,  "in the Zone"

collaborative, nothing dominating, all adding to, stimulating, inspiring, working with, alongside, watching reflecting, immersing etc

Thank you to Lisa, Stuart and Eddie and all who came along

Zoe's exhibition and price list

 Zoe Wilton   

Renaissance Woman, Bon Vivant and a Big Beer drinker!  

Zoe works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, digital drawing, fashion, dance, video, music, photography, writing and performance. 

Currently, Zoe is inspired by films and tv shows where she draws the characters and scenes. She is also exploring working from her imagination, which has led to her writing her first novel, which is called The Crazy Detective and developing a series of memory paintings. 

Zoe has exhibited throughout Cornwall, at Newlyn Art Gallery, Studio 62 Gallery and Krowji Open Studios. 

Zoe has regularly appeared in the local ‘Cornishman’ newspaper and has regularly been awarded as a finalist in the Down’s Syndrome Association's annual, ‘My Perspective’ photographic competition.

Over the last 40 years, the list of people she has met reads like a ‘Who's Who’ ~ including members of the Royal Family, Lords & Lady’s in visits to The House of Lords, Prime Ministers at Number 10, assorted Politicians, Mayors & Celebrities and in 2005, Dawn French during her visit to The John Daniel Centre (where Dawn was presented with her own portrait painted by Zoe). The Actor Timothy Spall bought three of Zoe’s paintings during his ‘Somewhere At Sea’ tour around the Cornish coast. 

As a founder member of the Shallal Dance Theatre Company, Zoe has been involved in performances across the county performing through dance, theatre and her clarinet.

On top of all this, Zoe worked for many years for Cornwall Health And Making Partnerships (CHAMPs), helping people with a learning disability in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly get equal access to health service. 

You can view a film about Zoe’s practice here: http://vimeo.com/102927001

Shallal Artists Talk 3, 'I can hear music and expand'  by Zoe Wilton is on Youtube

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8Aj6mD2S4&t=97s    

www.shallal.org

PRICES

1.  Pop Art    £88   acrylic on paper

2.  The card game        £132   acrylic on paper 

3.  I am ready.           £88   acrylic on paper

4.  Portrait of the lady £50   acrylic on paper

5.  Pizza cafe             £55   acrylic on paper

6.  The great sea    £88   acrylic on canvas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

7.   At the poolside   £55   acrylic on canvas

8.   Nude on the bed £55   acrylic on paper

9.   Ballet Roma          £88   acrylic on paper

10.  Boat race             £88   acrylic on paper

11.  Ballerina              £55   charcoal on canvas

Regenerative thoughts, podcasts etc

Always 'excited' with creative ideas that bubble away in Shallal and this time excited to start our new project/s and Back Lane West.

Our new project hopes to bounce off the inspiration of Cornwall Philanthropist John Passmore Edwards into, 

" What would he do now?

 or "What would you do now if you had the means to fund the most critical issues you feel we face?" 

How would you leave your mark, 'be useful'? 

How would you use your time and money/assets to make this world better? etc etc...

On Tuesday I started a Citizens Journalism one term course with tutor Matthew Rogers at Penryn Campus, hoping to make some podcasts to enable and inform our R&D and give a voice to our positive collective future, from those who are passionate and invested in it from diverse positive view points.

This morning i sat in on Culture Declares Emergency Declarers Breakfast https://www.culturedeclares.org/declarers-breakfasts/ 

Rapid Transition

We are united by the importance of evidence based hope. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can,” although spoken in a very different context, those words of the great sportsman, Arthur Ashe, neatly capture how in tackling climate breakdown we must begin now, with the choices available to us and use all the opportunities we have.

https://www.rapidtransition.org/news-and-campaigns/art-of-rapid-transition/

Culture Declares Emergency 

adapted the Doughnut Life belt 

https://www.culturedeclares.org/take-action/pathways-to-action/

Chris and I are now very grateful to be working with their model!

and below this is interesting in helping to expand and broaden our thinking

Lost in Translation and thoughts including 'Communalism'

 Captured Kerry's poem, from 'A Call to Home'...

 

and some interesting thoughts from emails:

1] Capitalism has been the engine of the exploitation of nature, and thus the generator of the climate crisis. We need to cooperate with nature, and cease seeing it only as a commodity. Nature is sacred, according to indigenous peoples. All of nature has a spiritual significance, not just a material importance. The article below by Erin McCarley delves the way in which capitalism is killing our planet. It is a call for Americans – and everyone else in thrall to them – to wake up.

 

[2] Capitalism kills off the human sense of solidarity, communing and community, togetherness, and divides people in such a way that all sense of the common good, the common interest, the common destiny, uniting all humans is rejected. Redemption is humanity’s  common destiny, and it allows no ‘winners and losers’, no ‘saved and lost.’ Capitalism creates the vast gulf between rich and poor. Something like the 10% of the richest people in the world own 90% of the world’s wealth. 100 oranges and 100 people. 10 people ‘own’ [have stolen] 90 oranges, so that is 9 oranges per person. 90 people are left with 10 oranges, which is 0.1 orange per person, an amount so small, it hardly registers. Could you sit at table with 9 oranges in front of you, to eat at your leisure, while your neighbour next to you was sitting with 0.1 per cent of an orange in front of him? Any gap is wrong, yet this kind of gap routine to capitalism is obscene.

A third way Communalism... Jamie Moran

from an email by Jamie Moran,  retired senior lecturer in psychology and counselling at Roehampton University.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wound-Existence-Jamie-Moran-ebook/dp/B00HEPAG44

and

https://www.passionofheart.co.uk/about/

We must build massive networks of support and care at local and community levels, while at the same time, build international political movements that can replace the most corrupt capitalist states. It’s a long, hard road ahead and a multi-generational project, and it’s not for the weak of heart. It’s going to take all of our courage, all of our resilience, and all of our love for our children and grandchildren. And it starts with telling the truth about capitalism.

 

from It’s a Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis by Erin McCarley, an independent photojournalist, filmmaker and writer based in Denver, Colorado.

I've written before that Shallal holds a vision for how we can all live together which can point  beyond art, (and the above quotes are others perspectives and thoughts), we all have different ways of getting to the same place, of 'celebrating diversity, ability and community'. 

At it's best we feel the 'Communalism' of our work together and we care for people who are vulnerable and realise we are all vulnerable and need love, care, respect and consideration and the planet and our fragile ecosystems are part of it and need it to now more than ever. 

Personally, I am committed to bringing positive voices, to help us in our global crisis, into all our projects and Kerry's poem and plea, is one I'm happy to have out there.

I'm also pleased to be starting a Citizens Journalism course soon at Penryn Campus. - Jo Willis founder and creative director Shallal

Back Lane West Residency diary and notes

 Back Lane West Residency

Lines/Installations/Knitted Together/ Song/Spirals/Alphabets and more!

Diary....so far still under changes 

October

3 Rosa Lily James, Clay workshop afternoon

4 Jo Lumber and Bobby words 

5 Lisa Mortensen, Eddie and Stewart, Kyle sound lines installation music

6 Colin Curbishley and Kerry Tomlinson, Exploring Paint, reels on   instagram https://www.instagram.com/shallalarts/reels/

7 Shallal Dance Theatre artists visit and tidy in afternoon

8 Lisa Mortensen and Stuart developing work

9

10 Star.paper, paint and point ballet, film

11  Available

12 Lisa Mortensen, Eddie and Stewart sound lines installation music

12 Shallal 2 in installation move within

13 Out There visit?

14 Installation in place, SDT afternoon artists visit

15 Installation Shared day public opportunity to explore and interact

16 Julie filmwork of projection/shadow ( idea brewing from linseed oil paintings ) 

17 Julie

 18-20 Shallal Studios 

            Knitted Together project recycled sculpture and exploration with artist Ruby Ingleheart sculpture, light recycling 

21 Available

22 - 29 Bobby Johnson and others model making and more

30 - Anna  - line and more