Sam's exhibition and Shallal summer celebration

What a joy to see so much of Sam's work over many years on display.

Thank you to the venue Grow Box Cafe, Krowji which we highly recommend, delicious food, lovely space, art on the walls! and so friendly and supportive.

It was a lovely evening with many people from across Shallal and Sam with family and friends.

A week or so ago Jo L had sat eating cake with Sam while George helped adjust the art work on the walls and she penned some words which became wonderful spoken pieces that she shared today, we sang a song and more!

Thank you also to Oli who used his climbing skills to put up the highest cardboard pieces!

Most of Sam's work is not for sale, however orders for inkjet prints are being taken, so he can share his work.

More cafe exhibitions to come:

Anna Willis in September and Shallal Studios collective in November.

 

Comments from Known and Unknown

Audience written comments 

Sooo enjoyed the performance

well done to all you are inspiring x

Brilliant improvisating

Very moving work - Thank you

Lots ands Lots of Unknown. I know i know nothing.

You help me love it. Thanks

The thought 'inclusion' kept coming to me

the love and trust shone through

Wonderful to watch and to be a part of

Inspiring me to show myself more alone and in contact

Spoken 

Brilliant

'Known and Unknown' credits and chat

 Running order

Credits:

KNOWN

Who lights the sun                        Rene Aubry

Wellerman - Ragtime Version     Scott Bradlee

Telephone                                          Martynas

Viola Saga: Movement 2               Joe Hisaishi, Weiner Symphoniker

UNKNOWN

Tides - Catrin Finch

Storm Front

Barometer Rising

Reflection

Utopian Dreams

Gwlaskor  Vol 1                    Matthew Thomason ( grateful thanks )

Carn Brea

Keunyjek Prelude

Keunyjek

Resrudh

Porthleven

Known and Unknown by Shallal Dance Theatre Friday 7pm 12 July @thecentrenewlyn

We are keen to keep progressing our 'spontaneous response' style performances.

Free admission / donate if you can.

'Known' has music the dancers have moved to before and 'Unknown' is new to them.

We aim to make work that's "Relevant" as we are in an era of change and upheaval, 

some things we know will happen ( predicted/ Known ) some/many are Unknown.

Come along and tell us what you think, leave a note, have a chat.

We will have a Questions and Answers session afterwards.

Accessible venue, drop off limited parking

Background chat:

As always, risk and change are daunting and exciting at the same time.

As an artist the work always speaks to you, is a dialogue, and this morning while rummaging around for more music for today, at the end i realised it had themes i love: the land i grew up and live in my Cornish Heritage, Gwlaskor  Vol 1     and the roots of my mothers heritage  Wales Tides - Catrin Finch.

Both sections by amazing contemporary composers very grateful to Matt as i fell in love with this music at a recent concert, and its still only on CD! a challenge to my tech today - thank you to Anna for help.

We love this work and so far, so have our audiences, so here we go again (and on the 31st July we dive in even deeper with improvised grand piano for 7 minutes on the Hall for Cornwall stage.)

Do come and see us here or there!

There are so many strands to the creative life of Shallal and i can feel us needing to embrace humour and themes again soon. However for now my favourite place: the body and space Dance, with Music and Others, and Audience.

A joyful mix! 

and we look again at the themes of: 

Person and Community - the 'politics' of being

and 

Ecstasy, Enthusiasm and Encouragement - why do we dance?

Diary dates

23 July Tuesday 5-7.30pm Grow Box Cafe Krowji Sam's exhibition and Shallal summer end of term celebration

31 July Hall for Cornwall 7.30pm Let's Create Showcase

https://www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/whats-on/lets-create-showcase/#Details_in

As always nearly forget the most important thing

THANK YOU to all the amazing dancers and artists who make up our Shallal family and especially to those sharing their gifts today.

Thank you to all the carers, family, trustees and others who make it work and support it in the background

Farewell to Lou and Phoebe

Phoebe pointing to studio door when we first opened
Lou and i are there and somewhere, i have the full photo,
 but that needs another archiving session to find quickly! 

 

NEWS

Farewells - many thanks to Lou Brett and Phoebe Barnicoat for their hard work, inspiration, creativity and support for all, while establishing Shallal's Studio at Krowji, and for all the extra behind the scenes work. We will miss them and are sad to see them go, but wish them all the best for their new ventures which include  https://www.comotionprojects.org/ and we hope to continue working together. Checkout Janet Hollands amazing Hospital Rooms commission that they organised and supported. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6I2XH-oekF/

Studio Use We are trialling opening out access to our Studio space this summer, encouraging artists who can work without support or bring their own support,  to enable artists to develop their own practice, as well as expanding collaborations and explorations across art forms, do contact us if you are interested at present Mondays, Fridays, weekends and evenings are available. to discuss this contact Jo Willis via admin@shallal.org.uk

 Lots going on as ever

 "it was wonderful to have Shallal as a key part of the Winter Festival and I absolutely loved the performance and the artworks involved.

....it was really nice to hear that you had such a good experience with George and Cassie; I know how much working with you and Shallal meant to them and we all look forward to collaborating more in the future!"

needing to share nice email that came in a while ago from Tate StIves .

We had a fun AGM , yes they can be fun!... see our post...https://www.instagram.com/p/C8AqgwlCfNZ/?img_index=1https://www.instagram.com/p/C8AqgwlCfNZ/?img_index=1

Last week I in started at the Studio with the Thursday group a real pleasure to be there.

Kyle is offering to create wonderful bespoke merchandise, bags and tea towels, when he works with Tony Minnion ( Eddies Dad, Redruth Press)

Colin has had his hip operation and should be hopping back soon, meanwhile it's also a joy to cover Friends and Dancing for him and see old friends.

We have a performance coming up on 12 June @ 5.15pm if the weather is fine

some of Shallal 2 and friends 

and a stall there with art work for sale, as the exhibition came down today.

Janice is installing art work from a project at Curnow School.

We have new 'show' coming soon 

and hope to be at Mazey Day, Penzance, Blue Light Day and more!

Isabella Mouse and Friends Exhibition

 

Exhibition info below.

We had a joyful Celebratory Tea Party today with fifteen of us including Lily and Xanthe on zoom from Spain. The exhibition is on for at least three weeks.

Isabella Mouse

Isabella Mouse is a story written by Nicky Harvey and Illustrated by Helen, which you can find on youtube https://youtu.be/moIjkxp2moY?si=wqxKebtCu13 sS93_

It came out from an idea for a project for Shallal Art Connection group when we were thinking about doing Illustration. We immediately thought that Nicky might be a good person to write a story for us.

For the next few months over the hour sessions the artists, who meet on zoom once a week, sat down and started creating wonderful drawings, most of these are included in this exhibition.

Alongside these drawings are Isabella Mouse’s ‘Friends’ more paintings by Nicky’s daughter Lily who was one of the main artists.

Shallal has often been described

as a family and so all the pictures in this exhibition are from the Shallal family, and some of the artists outside the Art Connection have joined in with adding sketches and drawings that you can find in the glass case.

We hope you enjoy it.

Shallal works collaboratively and collectively across a range of art forms and mediums, ages and interests, if you feel like you’d like to join us do get in touch.

We have dedicated this exhibition to Lily’s mother Nicky who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Many thanks to Falmouth Art Gallery who have always been a wonderful supporter of Shallal. Many thanks to Anna Willis without whose help this exhibition wouldn’t have come to fruition, as Lily lives in Spain and we didn’t want ask her to send over original paintings.
Many thanks also to Oliver Raymond Barker who helped us get these and Helen’s images into print.

Some of the work is for sale and there is a list further up at the end of the story on the landing.

www.shallal.org

contact via admin@shallal.org.uk

- “Founded during Lockdown, Shallal's "Connect and Create" group continues to meet on Zoom on Tuesday mornings from 10:30 to 12:30 for an hour of dance followed by an hour of art.

- We work on individual ideas and also group projects, like illustrating the story Isabella Mouse.

- The story was written especially for us by Nicky Harvey and it was a joy to bring her delightful characters to life.

If Isabella Mouse and Friends has inspired you to get creative, contact Shallal and perhaps we will see you on Zoom one Tuesday soon.

We hope you enjoy our exhibition "Isabella Mouse and Friends" inspired by, and in memory of Nicky.”
by Helen

Art Connection welcomes artists, writers, makers and particularly reaches out to those who for any reason can't easily get to in person groups and activities.

Tuesdays
Dance and Art Connection
Dance 10.30 - 11.30
Art 11.30- 12.30
The sessions are informal and encourage participants input and suggestions
they are currently run by two of Shallal's most experienced facilitators:
creative director Jo Willis and community lead facilitator Colin Curbishley to be sent the zoom link contact colin@shallal.org
Sessions are free and donations are encouraged to support Shallal's work https://shallal.org/donate

www.shallal.org 

By leaves we live & Ubuntu

 “This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

https://www.mairimcfadyen.scot/blog/2015/8/2/patrick-geddes

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63382

' Geddes’ main legacy is a legacy of the mind. Pelican in the Wilderness (1956), Silent Spring (1962), Blueprint for Survival (1972), Small is Beautiful (1974) all challenged the squandering of Earth’s resources and the brutality of modern planning and architecture. Geddes was rediscovered, with his mantra ‘Think Global, Act Local’, in time for the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 and he is now the secular saint of the environmental movement.'

Chasing the ideas  of a Third  Way and Person and Community and how to express it and  returned again to Ubuntu

...maybe that is what we are working with...we are asked to evaluate our work and i can't do it the way a medical or social analysis might ask us to, "how do you feel?' 'have you improved', it feels invasive and not what we believe in. We do believe strongly in being alongside people but we hope to open out new vistas, new ways to be, consolidate and expand and i have always said 'we learn from each other' and share and each persons contribution is unique and we don't know the outcome', it is hopefully bigger than ourselves

His legacy is now a general commitment to careful and detailed survey of the problem, to the generation of an individual solution to an individual problem, to the genuine involvement of the people affected, in the planning and execution.

https://patrickgeddestrust.co.uk/vision/

 ...which entities aspiring to the description "man " must have, the African view of man denies that persons can be defined by focusing on this or that physical or psychological characteristic of . the lone individual . Rather, man is defined by reference to the environing community . As John Mbiti notes, the African view of the person can be summed up in this statement : " I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am . " '

https://universityofsaintthomas.github.io/sjlaumakis/reading%203-african%20view.pdf

There are many different (and not always compatible) definitions of what Ubuntu is.^[7] Even with the various definitions, Ubuntu encompasses the interdependence of humans on another and the acknowledgment of one's responsibility to their fellow humans and the world around them. It is a philosophy that supports collectivism over individualism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy