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hamim Azad, the poet and storyteller who is one of the professional artists supporting our East storytelling project, will be talking about East‘s participation in the Tower Hamlets Season Of Bangla Drama, along with representatives from other participating groups. It’ll be on Channel One Europe at 7.30pm this evening. Tune in!
And here’s a blog post about SBD from Queen Mary, University of London, which will be the venue for East.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, directed by the brilliant Susan Worsfold, a Daedalus Associate Artist, opens in Edinburgh tonight. Do try to see it if you’re in town!
Here’s ’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project, a video by Sean Yongxiang Li which re-imagines the community events organised in support of striking miners. Our regular collaborators The Black Smock Band appear as the in-house band. It’s a great piece; both thoughtful and powerful. And it’s a great inspiration for our upcoming collaboration with the band on The Radical History Project (working title), about which more soon…
’84-’85 Miners’ Strike Project from Sean Yongxiang Li on Vimeo.
The Black Smock Band, a regular partner for our sharing events, is playing is playing a party on FRIDAY JULY 11 to celebrate the end of the 2014 3 Rivers Clean Up events – a three week long Festival of Rivers in South London: The Quaggy, The Ravensbourne and The Pool. The party, which is a free public event, will take place at Ladywell Fields (north, by the cafe) – near to Ladywell Station (a 10-12 minute train journey from London Bridge). The event runs from 6.00-9.00 pm p the band will be on around 7.00.
3 Rivers Clean Up (3RCU) is organised by Thames 21 alongside a number of local volunteer organisations from the boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley. For more information about 3RCU check out: http://
One of our regular collaborators, Vera Erenboug, is part of Jeremis Iron Arts Collective. JIAC has recently put out a call for true stories about Belgrade, for an audio tour they’re doing. If you can help them, please do! Details are here.