When: Saturday 25 February 2012, 11.00 to 17.00
Where: The Royal Inn on the Park, 111 Lauriston Road, Hackney, London E9 7JH
Admission: £10 donation (all profit to ISCAD)
Bookings: admin@islad.org, Tel.020 8986 3721
Information: www.islad.org

Open to any level of experience

A day of performances, sharing and training to celebrate the Italian mask-theatre tradition and the birth of ISCAD, international Society of Communication and Drama.

The Event

On February 25th, 1545, a troupe of comic actors signed legal documents to become the first incorporated theatre company; symbolically, Commedia dell’Arte was born, and it began to spread through public squares, royal courts and theatres all over Europe.

The Commedia dell'Arte Day, initiated by SAT and supported by the Italian Commission of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization) has been conceived to promote the knowledge of this global theatrical language, which was born in Italy in the sixteenth century and is still performed today throughout the world.

Programme

Using hand-crafted leather masks, physicality and improvisation, participants will collaborate in creating, staging and performing comical scenarios and impersonating the main characters of Commedia dell’Arte: Zanni, Pantalone, Dottore, and the Lovers.

The day is led by Paola Cavallin and Didi Hopskin, artistic directors and Commedia dell’Arte experts. Watch a video of Didi Hopkins Commedia Masterclass at the National Theatre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_0TAXWt8hY

The birthday

In 2012, the third annual Commedia dell’Arte Day coincides also with the official birthday of ISCAD, International Society of Communication and Drama. ISCAD is a not-for-profit Dramatic Society and child of ISLaD, Interactive School of Language and Drama. Born by an anarchic urge to bust up the mother school’s boundaries, ISCAD promotes intercultural communication across nations, cultures and social groups.

ISCAD, International Society of Communication and Drama,  is born from ISLaD to promote intercultural communication across nations, cultures and social groups through theatre and the performing arts. 

ISLaD, Interactive School of Language
and Drama, uses theatre to break down 
cultural barriers and provide learning
tools in the field of language, communication
and performing arts.

I am a ceramist and mixed media visual artist creating playful work that takes inspiration from a variety of natural structures and my East Asian heritage.

My latest work 'Biome' combines illuminated sculptural and aural elements, Biome will be touring the uk for the next event please see my blog!.

I also run community art workshops and specialise in delivering ceramic, mixed media sculpture and workshops themed around East Asian culture and arts.

I have extensive experience of working with vulnerable groups. These include participants based in pupil referral units, children high on the Autism spectrum, and adults who are in or have been through the mental health system.

In 2009 I co founded Forman street studios, based on Forman street Derby. We aim to provide an affordable creative space for a number of local artists.

mailout.co is a national participatory arts digital magazine and website. Our team of arts journalists post updates about UK participatory arts news daily to www.mailout.co. We also publish a bi-monthly digital magazine for subscribers. mailout.co also offer ArtsWorkWithPeople, a service to promote positive news stories from participatory arts organisations to the national press.

Mainstream Partnership is a BME arts development agency advocating for diversity in the arts. Mainstream Partnership offers training, information, professional advice and support to BME artists and to the mainstream arts sector. We are a membership based organisation and we exist to support members in their professional development. We also advocate for a wider and deeper understanding of diversity in the arts sector.  

Vist our website and become a member via our FREE Registration. Members can receive any of the 2012 Spring Training Events for 50% of the cost!

The Consortium for Participatory Arts Learning (C-PAL) was originally set up in 2005 in response to Arts Council England, North West research into continued professional development in the participatory arts sector, in which the need for this consortium was identified. The original set up was funded by Arts Council England, North West and was a group of regularly funded participatory led organisations across the North West.

C-PAL's main remit has been to develop an ongoing program of opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) for people who are currently working, or want to work in the participatory arts sector.  It also provides a network to share ideas and issues and explore the development of the sector in the North West.

Vision

We believe that people can benefit from improved health and wellbeing through sociable contact and therapeutic activities such as art and craft, horticulture, cookery and holistic therapies, and gain an increased sense of community through interaction and learning around aspects such as environmental concerns and social issues.

Mission statement

To encourage and inspire people of all ages to try new crafts, skills and relaxation techniques shared by passionate craftsmen and practitioners and to use these skills to recycle and re use everyday items in creative ways, whilst appreciating the environmental impact of their actions and the therapeutic benefits of the activities

Based in Lincoln, we are a new social enterprise working co-operatively to provide creative and holistic workshops and taster sessions, providing  a hub whereby local practitioners can promote their own workshops/businesses/practices/organisations etc  to the general public.  Workshops sessions are either free or affordable and the enterprise aims to become self sustaining through an art  and craft gallery/craft supply and gift shop and Tea Parlour featuring traditional Lincolnshire Fayre.

Initially offering Workshops from Renew Involvement Centre in Mint Lane Lincoln, we are preparing to open our own premises in Sincil Street, Lincoln in Spring 2012 and are inviting volunteers, skill sharers and creatives to become a part of this exciting new community venture

Participatory Arts and Crafts Person. Based at The Cultural Sisters studio in Stoke on Trent and working throughout the Midlands.

Coruscate Theatre (Cor-us-cate) is a theatre company based in the East Midlands, with a branch in London, which offers educational and community theatre workshops to participants of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. We embrace theatre as a medium for innovative performance, social development and academic achievement. We are developing a visual and physical theatre practice, using puppets and masks, to encourage community participation in the arts and to strengthen the presence of theatre in the education sector. We focus on the activation of the body to stimulate creative learning and unlock the imagination. Our work is led by the varying needs of the different groups of people we encounter.

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Words Without Weapons Showcase

What's in a lyric? Young people from across Leicester have been working with urban artist Wavey, to create powerful tracks that deal with issues of violent and knife crime. They will perform in a Words Without Weapons showcase at The Mus...ic Café, Leicester, on Saturday 17 December. Lots of local artists will also be supporting this show and watch out for some surprise guest artists!

Words Without Weapons Showcase
Doors Open 6pm
7pm, Saturday 17 December 2011
The Music Café,
New Park St, Braunstone Gate, Leicester

FREE entry!

MUSIC - DJ GLAMOUR

HOST - PRESTO

CONFIRMED ARTISTS SO FAR
SLICK DON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqM4V5OjZ_I
J-SOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhlufsuVJ5I
COLD FEVER
MATTHEW R
LACKY C
YASMINE
GIFT DOUGLAS
NEWBORNZ
JONEZY
CRISIS


For more information on this showcase, or if you would like to take part or get involved, please contact Vijay Mistry on 0116 261 6824/ info@2funkyarts.co.uk.

Words Without Weapons is being supported by The Home Office
Communities Against Guns, Gangs and Knives Fund.

Creative Director of The Core at Corby Cube. A theatre-maker and director specialising in developing new multi-artform work with young and emerging artists.

After nearly 20 years in Arts Development and Music, I now work as a freelance practitioner delivering music centered workshops, Arts Coordination in Schools, composes original royalty free music for a variety of applications, and am a music producer and arranger working from my cellar studio in the East Midlands

As a Creative Practitioner in music technology delivering music/media centred workshops, I provide opportunities to enable anyone with an interest, or a range of skills experience and expectations to access music/media at all levels, on all scales and in a variety of roles ‘whoever you are’

My aim is to be  completely inclusive, and for many years have worked with people with a disability, people in rehabilitation through injury, and children with SEN creating music and exploring ways that music/media can be used to communicate using assistive technology recognising that ‘Music is ‘a powerful tool!’

As a music producer, My Production technique is to 'listen', centered around my philosophy that 'music is what feelings sound like' and won't produce for production sake, my creativity evolves and develops around what I am hearing and feel from the original idea, often being presented with 'just an idea' and taking it on to develop ideas and elaborate using my skills in the Logic or Protools. I love a mixture of both Acoustic and electronic sounds and experiment all the time with new sounds, creating from nothing much..

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Sian Hedges Photography provides a relaxing Home Studio for creating Portraits of you and your Family

With a choice of High contrast Bright and Bold images to classic artistic portraiture, we just like capturing your personality in an image

Junction Arts is recognised for high quality rurally based participatory arts work that changes peoples lives, builds confidence and skills, increases communication and supports community and personal empowerment.

Our vision is to increase and extend access to high quality arts through inspirational innovative participatory arts programmes and projects through partnership and collaboration within rural areas of the East Midlands.

News just in.....

ACE funding secured, a new young people focused artwork and workshop programme will be rolled out in early 2012.

More info soon......

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Education; primary, secondary, youth, youth justice. Film, animation, music, mixed media, performance, installation.

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