South Asian Ambassadors

Last night we began planning a South Asian Ambassador Project.

The project will include:

• An 8 week exhibition in Space C from Feb 2nd - 30th March 2007
• A one off live event in the Theatre on Saturday 19th May 2007

The reason behind the project is twofold, to engage new audiences and develop ambassadors own arts practice. Ultimately, it is your project, so creative decisions should come down to you and the team! These include......ideas for exhibition and event content, which arts organisations and companies we invite to perform and which responsibilities you personally want to shoulder.

Here are our notes from last night's meeting (which we might call our first official project meeting!):

Aims:

• To create an Ambassador exhibition in Space C (theme & ideas to be discussed)
• To hold a one off live event in theatre (either a whole day or 2/3 hours)

Objectives:

• Develop ambassadors own skills and knowledge (particularly in a specific area of arts practice that they would like to focus on for this project)
• Develop closer ties to local arts organisations, companies and groups
• Celebrate rich diversity of arts practiced by S.Asian local community
• Bring S.Asian arts groups and organisations together to share and experience work
• Provide a public performance opportunity for local groups wanting to showcase what they do
• Promote the work of the Clocktower to new audiences and develop the interest of the existing audience
• (feel free to add any others)

Agenda items (Space C):

• Photography
• Caricatures
• Pottery & sculpture
• live drama/spoken word
• (It would be good to put the exhibition into context. I wondered if we couldn't unite everyone's work around a single theme, image or idea for instance? Could we create an installation to house each individual work? Could this be an exhibition based on your own aspirations for instance? Could you set yourselves your own artistic challenge and combine this with something you want to say? This is open for discussion)

Agenda items (Live event):

• Dance
• Music
• Drama
• Comedy
• Magic
• Massage
• Yoga
• Mehendi

Programme options for one-off live event on 19th May:

• Whole day event (where audience are free to come and go)
• 2-3 hour event with an interval or two

Please keep blogging your thoughts, ideas and suggestions............

Is everyone coming to the next Ambassador Meeting on Monday 16th October 6:30pm – 8pm Workshop 1?
If you’re staying to see The Trouble with Asian Men afterwards at 8pm – just to warn you it’s doing well and there are only about 50 tickets left – so do grab your free ticket before they all go!

The Tuesday performance has 8 tickets left, so if you can urge anyone to see it please recommend them the Monday night! And don’t forget to tell them about the 2 for 1 special offer with the postcards (available in the Clocktower).

Look forward to seeing everyone! Please bring your usual enthusiasm and we’re gonna have a round table (well actually, it’s a square table) discussion about our ideas for a South Asian Ambassador event (or exhibition) in 2007. So come armed with ideas and comment!