Hope the Summer treated you well and the Olympics and Paralympics were an inspiration for you to get active and get out and engage in more activities around you!
BOOKING NOW FOR:
Death of a Musical Genius: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Remembered, Friday 5
Oct at 18.30 - £9, £6 concessions
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor died 100 years ago, aged 37. He was born to an
English mother in London and a doctor from Sierra Leone. To mark this
special anniversary, hear a newly commissioned celebration featuring
poets Malika Booker and Dorothea Smartt and music ensemble Music Off
Canvass, with talks and excerpts of Coleridge-Taylor's music, led by
prominent and talented artists, scholars and historians who will pay
tribute to his musical genius.
Jointly organised with the Royal College of Music, The Books Project
and the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation. With special thanks to
Black Cultural Archive and Historian Jeffrey Green.
Open the attached flyer for more details!
TO BOOK CALL 020 7942 2211 OR VISIT www.vam.ac.uk/whatson
There are lots of new and exciting events and displays and here's a
preview of what's to come:
Caribbean Activism in Literature, Art and Design, Friday 19 October,
14.00 - 18.00, FREE - booking essential
Discover the best in Jamaican, Trinidad and Tobago culture and
literature with MARGARET BUSBY and MICHAEL LE ROSE, as they explore
cultural activism in the arts with NEW BEACON BOOKS. Hear more about
the V&A’s new Contemporary Caribbean Art and Design working group,
enjoy films, a shebeen and take a tour of Caribbean objects.
Part of the UK wide Jamdown Meets Liming Events Series, in
collaboration with TILT
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago at 50, Friday 19 October, 19.00 - 21.30 -
£12, £8 concessions
Tilt and V&A presents a night of brilliant voices and literature in a
carnival-style mash-up to celebrate Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago’s
50th Anniversary of Independence, featuring LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, LOVERS
ROCK MONOLOGUES, ALEXANDER D GREAT, SELENA GODDEN, ANTHONY JOSEPH,
ATTILLAH SPRINGER, MONIQUE ROFFEY, MARGARET BUSBY, HANNAH LOWE, MELANIE
ABRAHAMS, NEW BEACON BOOKS and more. Join us for the sounds, tastes and
feeling of the islands - dancing optional!
Part of the UK wide Jamdown Meets Liming Events Series, in
collaboration with TILT
V&A Hendrix at 70 Season with celebrated photographer Gered Mankewitz,
the Emperor of Soul Bobby Womack with special guest TBA:
Fashioning Hendrix - Friday 16 November, 17.30-18.45 - £9, £6
concessions
Focusing on the Hussar jacket, explore the military, cultural and
gendered clothing choices Hendrix made and the popularity of army
surplus wear on the postwar British fashion conscience.
Part of the V&A Hendrix at 70 Night.
Hendrix Through the Lens, 16 November, 19.45 - 21.00 - £9, £6
concessions
Hear celebrated photographer Gered Mankowitz as he speaks about his
photographic relationship with Jimi, the iconic photographs produced,
the social period of the time and the subsequent legacy of rock
portraiture. Plus watch an interview with Jo Boyd, who directed the
documentary ‘Jimi’.
Hendrix: Rock and Race, 23 November, 19.30 - 20.45 - £25, £20
concessions
Join Bobby Womack for a landmark discussion of race within the realms
of rock and roll. Discover how a generation of British musicians
‘broke’ America with their interpretation of US blues-based rock,
and hear about the alternate musical journey made by Womack and Hendrix.
"Jimi first found a loving audience who greeted him with open arms in
London. Jimi's fans embraced him all throughout England and continue to
celebrate his great legacy to this day.This year his spirit returns for
his 70th birthday. The family is honored to be at the Victoria and
Albert Museum to celebrate the legacy."
Janie L Hendrix, President/CEO, Experience Hendrix
Hendrix at 70 events season is jointly organised with Contemporary
Black Music Culture™. With thanks to the Royal Albert Hall and Fender™
Musical Instruments
Display: Africa at the V&A - Exploring Hidden Histories, Opens 15
November 2012 - February 2013, FREE
Building on Museum-wide research (originally supported by the Heritage
Lottery Fund), Exploring Hidden Histories presents a fascinating account
of the V&A’s collections of art and design from Africa. Many of the
exhibits – including jewellery, textiles and sculpture – have never
been on public view before, and the stories behind them chart the
Museum’s changing attitudes to African cultures from the 1850s to the
present day.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/v-and-a-africa-exploring-hidden-histories/
Seminar: Arts of Africa: Design, Culture and History Since 1851
Saturday 17 November, 11.00 - 17.00
£45, £35 concessions, £15 students
Discover the Africa collections at the V&A, including textiles,
jewellery, photography and sculpture. Experts will address this fresh
narrative and the history of the collections in the wider context of the
development and significance of African art and design since the 19th
century.
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All the best and kind regards,
Janet Browne
Programme Manager
Black Heritage & Culture
Learning & Interpretation Division
Victoria & Albert Museum
South Kensington
London
SW7 2RL
Direct Line: 020 7942 2184
Email: j.browne@vam.ac.uk
Leader on 020 7942 2190 or email: j.banham@vam.ac.uk
Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary
31 May – 30 September 2012 at V&A South Kensington
Sponsored by Ernst & Young
Book now on www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/heatherwick-studio/
See the exhibition for free if you join as a V&A Member
www.vam.ac.uk/members
Modern British Childhood, 1948-2012
13 October 2012 - 14 April 2013 at V&A Museum of Childhood
Admission free
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Hello people,
This might interest those looking to do an M.A. Contact the university for more information.
Best wishes -'Funmi
Some Bursaries have now become available for this degree so we are re-advertising
**There are still some available places on Brunel's MA in Contemporary Performance Making'**
The MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University is a combination of taught and project work; it is 70% practical with a strong underpinning of training in methodologies and contextualisation, and includes a placement with an artist or organisation. It is taught by a world-class staff of practitioners and academics. The degree covers a range of specialisations in performance, including Directing, Solo Performance, Writing for Performance, and Digital Performance, and student-initiated work. Recent degree shows have also included film, installation, object theatre, dance and other time-based media. The MA can be studied full-time (one year) or part-time (2 years).
Fiona Templeton
Convenor, MA in Contemporary Performance Making
School of Arts
Brunel University
UB8 3PH
DanceDigital Research, Development and Performance Scheme, 2012-14
MOBILITIES
DanceDigital is currently looking to work with a cohort of artists in the development of a festival that will be presented in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire in April 2014. DanceDigital will recruit new Associate Artists and new Catalyst Artists, who will be given opportunity to develop new work through a support scheme that includes mentoring by DanceDigital Artistic Fellows, space in kind, a cash contribution and presentation in an international festival event, which marks culmination of the scheme.
Digital technologies have created new, and now accepted, modes of production and have repositioned dance performance as a multi-sited, digitally mediated art form. Investigation of our current theme, Mobilities, offers opportunity to consider how digital technologies transform experiences of the mobile in new choreographies that may be located on stage, online or on the ground. We are interested in the distinct performance vocabularies and innovative modes of participation that are enabled by digitally embedded choreographic processes. We are also interested in the mobility of collaborations across disciplines that bring together the expertise, vision and innovation of artists, technologists, scientists and users in the creation of new art works.
If you are interested in developing work that moves audiences in new ways and creates touching human experiences by harnessing choreographic practice and digital innovation, then we would like to hear from you. We are particularly interested in proposals that address the interactivity of performers/audience and technology, and from those who are interested in developing new high quality performance work through interactive methods.
To find out more and to download the application form, please visit: http://dancedigital.org.uk/2012/09/dancedigital-launches-new-artist-development-schemes/
Gaspard Zamble will be giving a 2 hour workshop in traditional dances from the Ivory Coast at the beautiful Siobhan Davies studies, South London.
He will be accompanied by Henri Gao Bi and Odartey , masters of the art of drumming, so even if you do not want to dance, you may want to come just to listen to these two musicians together!
This is a rare opportunity to expand your knowledge of West African dance and rhythms beyond the more familiar contenders and have fun exploring new steps and movements, learn different breaks and calls, accompaniments and structures, all while enjoying the fabulous, live drumming!
DATE:
Saturday 6th October 2012.
11-1pm
OPEN LEVEL
Address:
SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIO
85 St George's Road, ELEPHANT & CASTLE ,SE1 6ER London,
transport: Elephant & Castle tube. Bakerloo line or Northern line.
Price £12 IN ADVANCE
£15 - on the door
To book your place..... Contact dundunkini@gmail.com
Cuba, An African Odyssey
A two-part documentary showing on The Africa Channel (Sky 209)
on Tuesday 26th September 9pm
Continues on Tuesday 2nd October 9pm
This film unravels the little-known story of Cuba’s involvement in Africa during the independence and post-independence periods, when the continent was used as a battleground on which the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were played out.
Beginning with Nelson Mandela’s first foreign visit (to Cuba) after his release from prison, the film asks: why did an international icon of freedom make this visit to see Fidel Castro and pay homage to a country that many feel limits the freedom of its own citizens? The viewer is then taken back to the start of Cuba’s long engagement with Africa from 1960 onwards, beginning with independence in the Congo, and the subsequent assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Intriguing interviews with some of the key figures of this period illuminate the narrative, including Fidel Castro, Larry Devlin (the CIA officer in the Congo during the 1960s) and Pik Botha (the former South African Foreign Minister).
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