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Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil

In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.

The Gathering: an Update From Peter Keelan

Your Creative and Critical Input Greatly Appreciated….

Greetings all,

You may have read/scan/perused the recent document with regard an idea to hold a ‘community arts gathering’? This project is now focussed, happening, and will appreciate and benefit from your input and support.

The Gathering (Scottish word meaning ‘the coming together of clans’) will bring together the local, State, National and International Community Arts sector, to share, explore and extend existing knowledge and practice.

We are presently in the development phase, focussed on the Regional Gathering in Denmark 2011, a ‘mini’ gathering and ‘test run’ towards the inaugural international community arts event, The Gathering 2013. More...


Do put our prisoners on the stage, Mr Straw (UK)


The Justice Secretary’s diktat to limit drama in jails shackles brave prison governors. Creativity — and, yes, laughter — work

"It takes a lot to get me to a party conference. I am immune to their thrill. But needs must: last week I had five minutes’ ranting in a dank cellar in Brighton with battered Labourites; tonight the same in the Ruby Lounge in Manchester with Tories.

My brief moment is sandwiched between the performance poet Akiel Chinelo and an ex-prisoner called Jonny on the guitar. Around midnight Jonathan Aitken will spring from the wings to deliver his increasingly practised and passionate views on prison life; and less obviously, but encouragingly, the Shadow Attorney-General Ed Garnier promises to do a turn, after the children’s writer Anthony Horowitz. In Brighton Jo Brand topped the bill (“Slightly disappointed to hear Gordon Brown has denied using drugs . . . was planning to try and buy some crack off him tonight.”) She was flanked by powerful playlets, a limerick, Denise Black from Coronation Street and an ex-prisoner called Eileen with heartbreaking songs by Holloway inmates.

Why such a rolling motley cabaret? Jack Straw, that’s why..."

Read Libby Purves excellent article in full at Times Online

The Carla Bruni Foundation - France

"Cultural activities are on offer in all penitentiary establishments (In France, 194 prisons and detention centers). Concerts, film screenings, plays, street art, writing workshops and plastic arts… Artists are increasingly making it over prison walls.

Like access to health care, sport or education, access to culture is one of the priorities of prison administrations within the framework of its missions of reintegration and prevention of recidivism. Cultural activities are organized in partnership with the Ministry of Communication and Culture and with the support of local authorities, and enable detainees to develop their views of society. These activities contribute to the fight against illiteracy and enable integration of non-French speakers...."

France's first lady, Carla Bruni Sarkozy has recently inaugurated her new website in which she presents the activity of her foundation that, amongst other things, is strongly supportive of arts in prisons (the website is available in French and English).

www.carlabrunisarkozy.org/fr/culture-en-prison/

Streetwise Opera on SANe

Here's a figure to chew on, though you may find yourself choking. It comes from the US, but there are similar numbers in the UK, too. Remember those banks that were so close to collapse, so desperate and needy they held out the begging bowl and pleaded with the taxpayers for help? Well, it turns out that nine of those banks – who between them trousered $175bn of the American public's money in bailout funds – have fallen back into their old habits: last year they paid their top staff $32.6bn in bonuses.

You read that right: the number is in billions, not millions. Institutions that were so broke the government had to raid the public piggybank to help them have rewarded their employees – the geniuses who drove the world economy off a cliff – with a $32.6bn shower of cash. That includes the truly incredible $98.9m paid to Citigroup's master of the universe, Andrew Hall, along with 5,000 lucky individuals who received more than $1m each.

Read Jonathan Freedland's full article at Guardian Online

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Syd Barrett Fund

London to Cambridge Walk: Dates, Aprox Route and Other Important Stuff

OK so here’s the plan regarding the walk as it stands now.

The aim as you probably know is to do what Syd did when he’d finally decided he was done with London, that is walk all the way to Cambridge.

Nobody knows exactly what route he took, however it’s likely to have been along the most direct road, which is now the M11 so we won’t be going that way.

Having considered a couple of options for dates, I’ve settled on my original plan of the Easter weekend. Easter provides a four day holiday per… Continue

Posted by Syd Barrett Fund on November 24, 2009 at 12:33pm

Syd Barrett Fund

Syd in the December Issue of The London Magazine

Yesterday we received a copy of an article, appearing in the December/January issue of the London Magazine, looking at Syd Barrett the painter.

Author of the article Will Shutes says of his work: “Presuming the reader not to know that Syd Barrett was a painter, and not to know, perhaps, who he was at all, the article is an introduction to the subject of him as a painter. I have long been interested in him, but more and more it has become apparent to me that, since he considered himself to be a… Continue

Posted by Syd Barrett Fund on November 24, 2009 at 11:00am

Cindy Fallsen

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As an independent artist, you often have to cover your own Dental Insurance Plans. I have looked into International Health Insurance, since some work is International, but I have yet to find something that might work.
Do you guys know of networks that might be available to independent artists? Any tips or advice welc… Continue

Posted by Cindy Fallsen on November 24, 2009 at 2:15am

Inga

International Physical Theatre Lab - February 22-17, 2010


International Physical Theatre Lab

February 22 - 27, 2010
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

Intensive practical training, lectures and discussions
for actors of physical, dramatic, dance and musical theatres, dancers,
choreographers, circus performers, directors.

The working language is English.

The Lab will t… Continue

Posted by Inga on November 20, 2009 at 10:55pm

Inga

International Physical Theatre Lab - February 22-17, 2010


International Physical Theatre Lab

February 22 - 27, 2010
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

Intensive practical training, lectures and discussions
for actors of physical, dramatic, dance and musical theatres, dancers,
choreographers, circus performers, directors.

The working language is English.

The Lab will t… Continue

Posted by Inga on November 20, 2009 at 10:55pm

Inga

International Physical Theatre Lab - August 16-22, 2010


International Physical Theatre Lab
August 16-22, 2010
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

Intensive practical training, lectures and discussions
for actors of physical, dramatic, dance and musical theatres, dancers,
choreographers, circus performers, directors.

The working language is English.

The Lab will take pla… Continue

Posted by Inga on November 20, 2009 at 10:54pm

Inga

OPAL - international theatre direction course


Ostrenko Performing Arts Lab (OPAL)
international practical theatre direction course
under the direction of Sergei Ostrenko

Leitring bei Leibnitz
Austria


February - May, 2010

OPAL is the practical theatre direction course with further direction practice opport… Continue

Posted by Inga on November 20, 2009 at 10:53pm

Jeffrey E. Salzberg

You've been Delled -- and you didn't even get kissed

Last July, I got hired at the very last minute -- 13 days before opening -- to light a show. My laptop computer was dying (rather dramatically so); there was no way it would make it through another show. At the time, I was in rural Vermont; there was obviously no time for mail-order and the closest thing to a computer store was Staples...and the only laptop they had that I could afford was a Dell.

I was hesitant to buy Dell. I'd had one 5 years before and the experience was not good -- as soon… Continue

Posted by Jeffrey E. Salzberg on November 19, 2009 at 12:41pm

Syd Barrett Fund

Symon Vegro's Book on Amazon

Having told you about
Symon Vegro’s book ‘All that You Touch’ earlier this week, we can now let you know that it is available for the very reasonable price of £11,99 from Amazon.

Click here to get a copy. Amazon suggest the book will be delivered in 1 to 3 weeks.

Sym… Continue

Posted by Syd Barrett Fund on November 19, 2009 at 12:06pm

Jen Chau

'Peer pressure, not punishment, is the way to make prisoners accept that there is no such thing as a victimless crime'

'Recently, I met an offender on an enhanced wing – the enhanced bit meaning that he has been on a few courses and ticked a few boxes. He was furious because, due for release soon, he had been classified as a prolific or other priority offender (PPO).

"So, that means you've committed the same crime over and over again?" I asked. He was proud that he was indeed a career criminal. He was 45, and had spent 10 years in jail for repeat offending. He was resentful that, although he was soon to be rele… Continue

Posted by Jen Chau on November 19, 2009 at 11:44am — 2 Comments

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Out of the Darkness

Perched on a wall, sitting in a shaft of late afternoon sun, Oliver Longden is in a reflective frame of mind. The 30-year-old is, he says, in a good place at the moment: he’s got great friends, he enjoys his job, he’s studying for a second degree . . .

“If someone had told me three years ago that I’d be here now, living the life I’m living now, I’d have laughed bitterly and ordered another drink,” Oliver admits, with a wry smile. “Life is really, really good; better than I could have ever imagined, to be honest.”

To meet Oliver now – a witty, engaging and fiercely bright man – it seems incredible that, those three short years ago, he was literally crippled by depression.

Read the article in full at The Cambridge Evening News

Geese Theatre Company honoured by the Royal Society for Public Health

Geese Theatre Company has received a prestigious award from the Royal Society of Public Health.

Professor Stephen Clift from Canterbury Christchurch College and Chair of the Awards Committee said:

“The annual ‘Arts and Health’ award was established by the RSPH and Canterbury Christ Church College in 2008. For the first year the focus of the award was research and practical programmes focused on ‘Music and Health’ and this year ‘Arts and Mental Health.’ The Award Committee decided to award Geese Theatre the practice award this year in recognition of its long-standing commitment to the education and rehabilitation of offenders and those at risk of offending – a population widely known to experience a high level of mental health difficulties. We are also impressed by the wide national reach of the project, given that Geese has worked in most if not all prisons and other criminal justice settings.”

Living With the Infidels

Developed with the full blessing of the Muslim Council, LIVING WITH THE INFIDELS centers around a bumbling, Bradford-based terror cell. Initially set on a path to martyrdom, Yorkshire's jihadi warriors discover the West isn't as bad as it seems.
www.livingwiththeinfidels.com

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What is SANe?

Think of SANe as a meta- network, an adhocracy, for people, organisations and other networks that are working in the field of arts and social action. The only requirement for joining SANe is that you have an interest in the arts as a means for raising awareness: a way of groping towards a collective super-ego or social mind.

SANe is supported by the Syd Barrett Fund which, amongst other things, is working towards the creation of the Syd Barrett Social Arts Centre in Cambridge, UK. More...

Our next fundraising event will be a walk from London to Cambridge. Want to come along? Find out more...

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Visit the SANe bookstore for a great range of books on socially inclusive arts. A percentage of any book sale made through SANe is donated to Escape Artists (UK registered charity no. 1086004) and helps to pay for the costs of managing this network.

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