Tag Archives: East Archive

We need your help

Posted on August 12, 2020 by DaedalusAdmin

We had to stop everything at the beginning of lockdown, including our fundraising. We applied for emergency funding but didn’t get it. We’re holding fire on our touring show Mobile Incitement. But, with so many people isolated by coronavirus and … Continue reading →

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Numbi Festival 2017

Posted on June 27, 2017 by DaedalusAdmin

We’ve been talking to the inspiring Kinsi Abdulleh about adding some Somali storytelling to the East Archive, and she invited us to the launch event of this year’s Numbi Festival. Numbi is “a platform for collaborative cross-cultural exchange for artists … Continue reading →

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News from the East…

Posted on August 23, 2016 by DaedalusAdmin

Paul, our artistic director and also one of the organisers of East, wrote a piece about the evolution of the East project for the Apples and Snakes Blog. You can read it here. As you will see from the blogpost, … Continue reading →

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The East Archive continues to grow…

Posted on July 28, 2016 by DaedalusAdmin

The East Archive is an ongoing project and we’ve just added two new pieces by the celebrated local poet, novelist and storyteller Shamim Azad. Shamim’s also one of the key figures in our partner organisation for the project, BSK. We … Continue reading →

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East Archive Launch

Posted on May 23, 2016 by DaedalusAdmin

We had a really delightful launch for the East Archive at Rich Mix. Here are some photos from Farah Naz. And don’t forget to take a look at the archive itself: www.eastarchive.com!  

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The East Archive has arrived!

Posted on May 19, 2016 by DaedalusAdmin

  It’s here. We had a lovely launch event at Rich Mix last night (photos to follow) and the East Archive, featuring videos of stories and songs from our East storytelling project, is now live. You can find it at www.eastarchive.com. It’s … Continue reading →

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East Archive: progress report

Posted on February 24, 2016 by DaedalusAdmin

We’re now well into the process of recording our stories and songs from the East project for our online video archive. Today we had a look at all the videos we have so far. Bangla, Jewish and Somali songs, folk tales from Bangladesh and … Continue reading →

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Going Beyond East

Posted on December 16, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

Left to right: Farah Naz, Shamim Azad, Paul Burgess and Sef Townend. Photo credit: Indigo East‘s behind-the-scenes organisational team met at Rich Mix to plan the next stages of the project. What started as a simple, short-term community storytelling project (led … Continue reading →

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We’ve become a charity, and that means…

Posted on September 22, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

You know where this is going. It’s taken ages. The Charity Commission. HMRC. Many, many forms to fill in. Lots of help from the awesome ITC. But we got there. Now, probably, most people looking at this site are penniless artists. We don’t expect those … Continue reading →

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East social

Posted on August 31, 2015 by DaedalusAdmin

Members of the East storytelling group got together for an informal gathering yesterday, to catch up on on news, share food, discuss our plans for the future and – inevitably – tell some stories. (To those members who couldn’t make … Continue reading →

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