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You can discover what Moveable Feast is all about and if you register you can find out more. If you have been involved with any of our events you can get full access to all the relevant features of the site and keep uptodate with the projects.
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From Frances
I thought you might be interested in the following!
Cornish band Dalla are crossing the border and playing in your area soon:
11th December 8pm Totnes Folk Club - Concert
12th December 8pm Sandford Village Hall - Nos Lowen/Fest Noz dance night with Poisson Rouge
13th December 8pm Harbertonford Village Hall, with Wistman's Wood
Posted by
Tony Gee in
Misc on Thursday 27 November 2008 - 11:10:02
OUR CREATIVE DIVERSITY
The twentieth century has transformed the entire planet from a finite world of certainties to an infinite world of questioning and doubt. So, if ever there was a need to stimulate creative imagination and initiative on the part of individuals, communities and whole societies that time is now. The notion of creativity can no longer be restricted to the arts; it must be applied across the full spectrum of human problem-solving.’
Posted by
Tony Gee in
Misc on Wednesday 12 November 2008 - 10:32:24
MAKING IT AND EVERYONE'S A WINNER AND OTHER MOON SHOTS
It has been a time of consultation, developing new projects, preparing bids and lots and lots of keyboard work (ugh! - any volunteers to help contact: info©themoveablefeast.co.uk). This has been useful and led to several positive developments which can be viewed by site members in the newsletter forum. We have fourteen projects at various stages of development. Some will and some won't happen but the encouraging thing is the new spread of responisbilities in the company. It is great after three years with only organisational scraps to survive on that we are still in their scrapping (and not with each other, I hasten to add!). It is complex, sometimes unwieldly, certainly not corporate but it it is bloody well human.
Two of the projects are three-year long programmes that we are excited about and build on previous work. The first is called "Making It" and builds upon our partnership with Children and YoungPeople's Services making aspirational events for Children in Care. Last year we made a three-day event called The Wish. We are currently putting the structure together for a three-year programme that has Wish events in it but has a more sustained relationship with the young people involved and their mentors/support workers.
Everyone's a Winner is a a big bold brassy project involving at least 100 artists looking at how play and games impacts on practice as arts workers/artists/wrorkshop leaders/ particpatory artists/community artist/ public artists etc etc... AND creates brand new games for the 21st century. We hope to get this moving early next year.
So, there is a little update in the midst of a lot to do. Please contact us if any of this interest you. We may well be widening the company membership in the next twelve months. We are not an agency but a team with a common methodology who collaborate and combine our art forms to create fresk workshops and workshop programmes. We are interested equally in transformative social processes and quality artistic productions. This site is open to all arts workers and is not exclusive but the company can only accomodate a limited amount of members at any one time. We are happy to put any working artist on a list and notify them of opportunities, when and if they arise, to become a company member.
Posted by
Tony Gee in
Misc on Thursday 23 October 2008 - 17:34:30
NEW BEGINNINGS AND BACK TO ROOTS
September seems to be the beginning of a new round of work for a lot of artists - a new year. It also seems to be a bit of a lean time for many artits as they come out of the summer (for what that was worth) dust themselves down (or wring themselves out) and start putting out feelers for prospective work. At Moveable Feast , we had our forst company gathering of the year, which we call The Nine Diamonds after a process that we used to initiate the company three years ago, and shared our summer tales and peered into the mists of what might be.
We start our programme next week with an innovative initiative instigated (sorry about the un- intententional illiteration -ed) by a psychology lecturer at Plymouth University to make the pathway for new university students easier. Particularly, those that are anxious. We are running a two-day induction festival called First impressions that we hope will provide accessible activities that generate encounters for those arrivees who are not into getting pissed up and/or are feeling a bit intimidated. There are a team of six of us combining different art forms to look at those first impression and to facilitate those new students in making their own impressions.
As the company began their gaze into the crystal ball (or tea cup at any rate) and the big thing we still would like to do is get back to our roots : WORKSHOPS ON WORKSHOP FOR WORKSHOP ARTISTS. We are beginning the process of attempting to forge and craft a five -day festival for artsists in the South West in 2010. We have lots of ideas and fingers crossed that we can pull it off and put together something celebratory, developmental, renewing, collaborative, reflective and inspirational for south west artists.Posted by
Tony Gee in
Misc on Wednesday 17 September 2008 - 21:52:50
