Thursday, January 04, 2007
2007
Happy New Year to you all!
As you may have noticed the blogger seems to have changed! I needed to update my account and I expect you will to, in order to post anything! Please do it.
Firstly, great news! Funding for SATTC (South Asian Touring Theatre Consortium) has been granted for the next 3 years....it hopefully means there will be more great South Asian theatre and opportunities for us to work more closely with some of the companies involved...more about this later!
Other than supporting the work of these companies when they come to the Clocktower, our other aim for the year is to raise our profiles as ambassadors of the Clocktower. I hope we can begin to do this by creating an interesting exhibition of artwork based around the current (abstract) theme of 'layers' and ideas about our community. It is planned that there will be a short series of artistic workshops led by local South Asian artists where we'll share, develop and create our own individual or group works (from photography or poetry to painting and sculpture). Please begin to think of ideas for work inspired by and hopefully reflecting our local community and fitting in with the theme or idea of 'layers'. The first workshop will be in decoupage (or the art of layering photographs with materials) and will take place in late January/early February.
The next bit of news is sad. Jonathan Kennedy is leaving the Clocktower at the end of the month, to become chief executive of Tara Arts (Ironically, one of the most established and successful of the South Asian Touring Theatre Companies). He was one of the founders of SATTC and will still be involved with the consortium at Tara Arts (so we won't lose touch).
The date of the next meeting will be Wednesday 17th at 6:30pm in the Workshops. At 8pm we can see the performance together, Memoirs de la Nuit, if you can stay. Look forward to seeing you soon.
As you may have noticed the blogger seems to have changed! I needed to update my account and I expect you will to, in order to post anything! Please do it.
Firstly, great news! Funding for SATTC (South Asian Touring Theatre Consortium) has been granted for the next 3 years....it hopefully means there will be more great South Asian theatre and opportunities for us to work more closely with some of the companies involved...more about this later!
Other than supporting the work of these companies when they come to the Clocktower, our other aim for the year is to raise our profiles as ambassadors of the Clocktower. I hope we can begin to do this by creating an interesting exhibition of artwork based around the current (abstract) theme of 'layers' and ideas about our community. It is planned that there will be a short series of artistic workshops led by local South Asian artists where we'll share, develop and create our own individual or group works (from photography or poetry to painting and sculpture). Please begin to think of ideas for work inspired by and hopefully reflecting our local community and fitting in with the theme or idea of 'layers'. The first workshop will be in decoupage (or the art of layering photographs with materials) and will take place in late January/early February.
The next bit of news is sad. Jonathan Kennedy is leaving the Clocktower at the end of the month, to become chief executive of Tara Arts (Ironically, one of the most established and successful of the South Asian Touring Theatre Companies). He was one of the founders of SATTC and will still be involved with the consortium at Tara Arts (so we won't lose touch).
The date of the next meeting will be Wednesday 17th at 6:30pm in the Workshops. At 8pm we can see the performance together, Memoirs de la Nuit, if you can stay. Look forward to seeing you soon.
