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NEWS AND EVENTS
FUNDING, PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
Maiden Voyage Dance Company presents BEST
A dynamic and fast paced dance theatre interpretation of the life of a football genius, BEST spans a 40-year period and leads the audience through George Best's many loves, highs, lows and triumphs. The performance will refer to the music, fashion, design and movement style of the various eras and is inspired by letters, photographs and Best’s 1998 autobiography Bestie alongside selected football highlights of his career.
LAST TOUR DATE:
Friday 5 March
Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick
Box office 028 44 610747
Book online at http://www.maidenvoyagedance.com/commissions.htm
Supported by: National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council. Youth outreach programme supported by Lloyds TSB Foundation.
Echo Echo DTC presents Undercurrent
Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th March, 11am
The Waterside Theatre, Derry/Londonderry
Box office 028 7131 4000
Tickets only £2.50 per school child. If your school or group is interested in attending, contact Sarah Young, Development Officer on 7134 2266 for full details.
Echo Echo dance theatre company, will be performing their creative and acclaimed children's show Undercurrent for audiences in March.
Undercurrent received excellent reviews from audiences at several arts and children's theatre festivals across Ireland, including the Imaginosity Children's Museum in Dublin in October 2009.
Undercurrent is magical, wacky and full of laugh out loud moments; submerging the audience into an episodic world full of superheroes, Grimm fairytales and friendly blue monsters.
Directed by Prehen dancer and choreographer, Ayesha Mailey, the production is aimed at children of all ages and can still be enjoyed by adults.
Born to Prance
Friday 19th March, 7.30pm
St Philip and St James Parish Centre,
71 Church Road, Holywood
Tickets: £8 incl. complimentary refreshments
Box Office / Parish Office: 028 9042 3622
Alternatively contact Anthea on 07980 494 063
One woman's singular story of dancing up Ireland!
Dance, story, wit and legend, all rolled into one. Come see Anthea McWilliams tell her unique tale when, in 2008 as she turned 50, she set out to dance all the way from Malin Head in Co. Donegal to Mizen Head in Co. Cork.
'An Irish Odyssey of the most wonderful kind.' - Belfast Telegraph
'The ultimate extreme in creativity' - Roscommon Champion
I'll Crane for You
Friday 19th March, 8pm
The Studio, Millennium Forum, Londonderry
A contemporary dance solo choreographed by Deborah Hay
and performed/adapted by Melanie Stewart
Invitation from the University of Ulster
Members of DRB are cordially invited to a performance of I'll Crane for You by renowned American Dance Artist and Choreographer Melanie Stewart.
In 2008 a group of 20 international dance artists commissioned the solo I'll Crane for You from the acclaimed American choreographer, Deborah Hay (Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Judson Dance Theatre; Deborah Hay Dance Company). Hay set the solo through directives that each performer translated individually into movement in his/her unique way. Following individual coaching by Hay with everyone present, the solo was ultimately individually "adapted" by each performer through a four month period of daily practice in advance of public presentation.
This adaptation of the solo, by the American choreographer and dance artist Melanie Stewart, concerns itself with the subtle and often fragile relationship between the audience and performer. As a woman caught in a space between time, constructs of human expression leak between the lines of song and fragmented story, the audience complicit in an original tale discovered at each performance.
Melanie Stewart, Artistic Director and founder of the Philadelphia based Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre, has been creating and producing original works for the concert stage, dance/film/video, and in education since 1979 and is renowned for her theatrical, highly visual and visceral approach to dance making. Stewart is visiting the Dance Department at the University of Ulster to work with Dance Lecturer Sandie Fisher on the development of the University's dance outreach programme.
Please RSVP to Niamh Pearce on n.pearce@ulster.ac.uk or 028 7137 5658 by Tuesday 16 March.
Dance United presents Exile
Thursday 1st April 2010, 8pm
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey
Ticket prices £8/£5, 10 for £45
To book visit http://www.theatreatthemill.com
or t: 028 9034 0202
Exile is the Northern Irish premiere of a powerful dance piece set to the music 'Harmonielehre' by American composer, John Adams.
The combination of sensitive dance sequences coupled with this extraordinary music enables the audience to experience the journey of loneliness, exclusion, humiliation and hope, which is the reality for many people living in exile.
Exile has involved over 100 young people from across Northern Ireland working alongside international choreographer Royston Maldoom with local and international dance facilitators.
Exile was first commissioned as part of the Luxembourg European City of Culture Celebrations in 2007. Dance United NI has partnered with Tanz de Tolerance (Austria) and ResiDance (Germany) in delivering this performance which is part of a two year partnership programme involving the training and mentoring of trainee choreographers across Europe.
DRB Member Network Forum
if you would like to join us this month in Derry/Londonderry for the network forum then please get in touch!
Echo Echo have kindly invited fellow DRB members to their schools matinee performance of Undercurrent, their most recent production, on Tuesday 16th March at 11am as part of the forum. Tickets will cost just £2.50 as DRB forum attendees and the performance will take place at The Waterside Theatre in Derry. There will be the possibility of a post-show discussion with the dancers too.
If you are interested in coming along please contact info@danceresourcebase.org by of the end of this week!
London 2012 Open Weekend
23rd - 25th July 2010
London 2012 invites you to take part in Open Weekend 2010. Join us to celebrate two years to go until the Olympic and Paralympic Games!
Last year over 470 organisations hosted 800 events across the UK; 90% of organisations surveyed said their event attracted new audiences.
Be part of Open Weekend in 2010 and celebrate with hundreds and thousands of people across the UK. This year we are inviting Local authorities, sporting and cultural organisations and venues across the UK to set a challenge for the public to participate in. The challenge could be to create a new piece of art in 24 hours, organise a treasure hunt or stage a mass aerobics session - it's entirely up to you.
Who can be involved?
London 2012 Open Weekend is open to organisations and venues from the world of culture and sport. We ask that your event:
- Sets a challenge that the public can participate in
- Takes place between 23-25 July 2010
- Is non-commercial and not-for-profit
- Does not have any commercial sponsorship or offer any similar marketing rights
- Is open to everyone
How to register your event
To find out more about this fantastic weekend and to register an event visit london2012.com/openweekend. Registration will close at 12 noon on 16 July 2010.
Workshops
Workshops across the UK will be held on how you can get involved in Open Weekend. Workshops will be in:
Birmingham - 25 February
Leeds - 16 March
Bristol - 22 March
Southampton - 26 March
London - 13 April
To book a place on one of the workshops or for any queries regarding Open Weekend please contact openweekend@london2012.com.
TRAINING, WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Under One Roof
6th March 2010, 12pm - 7pm
Elim Christian Centre, Alexandra Park Avenue, Belfast, BT15 3GJ
To book your place please visit: www.vaughnpromotions.com
Classes on this saturday are:
12pm - 2pm - WAACKING
2:30pm - 4:30pm - HIP HOP
5pm - 7pm - HOUSE
A project going from city to city, bringing communities together and getting them dancing, whilst raising monies for local children's cancer charities throughout UK and Ireland.
A once in a lifetime opportunity to raise monies for local children's cancer charity, Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children, http://www.nicfc.com/
Supple will lead the workshops and has just finished filming the first series as Artistic Director with 'Got to Dance' (Sky TV) and is the hottest choreographer in the UK. Supple will be teaching elements of his new routines for 'So You Think You Can Dance Australia' this saturday!
For more information on Supple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cw39EgMauIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch#v=sYGFv4DEH7Q&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=EONzvgsFIpQ&v=pCbdLKsq0vg
Clarke School of Dancing New Classes
Zumba Class - Fridays, 6.20pm - 7.10pm
Children and Adult Hip Hop / Street Dance
Junior Dance Academy- Ballroom, Latin and Hip Hop / Street dance
ALSO...
Hip Hop Masterclass with Doug Holland, April 17th and April 18th *PLACES NOW AVAILABLE*
Contact Alan on 07740983506
www.clarkeschoolofdancing.co.uk
Distanced Learning Course in Working Together - Using the Arts with Young People
Have you Ever Considered Distance Learning?
Artsplan, the training and publications arm of Artswork, the national youth arts development agency, is pleased to provide a Distanced Learning Course, 'Working Together - Using the Arts with Young People'.
Already a successful one-day workshop, the course provides an overview of the benefits of using the arts with young people, outside of formal education. The new Distanced Learning version now provides greater flexibility and opportunities for those looking to develop their skills and knowledge in this area, with a lower price, one-on-one mentoring and extensive supporting material.
Artsplan is the largest provider of specialist youth arts training courses and publications in the UK, and the in-house training provider of ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network). All training and publications are written and supported by experienced youth arts specialists, currently involved in a variety of project work through the UK.
The course involves a combination of workbook exercises, self-evaluation and trainer/mentor time to be completed at your own pace over a period of 6 weeks. The one-on-one mentor time is more personal and practical, fitting in with existing commitments. Ideal for those new to using the arts with young people in any setting, the course will start with an exploration of the term 'youth arts', progressing towards developing an understanding of the key ingredients needed to run a successful youth arts project.
As Lesley Bennett, a previous participant enthuses:
"The course was enjoyable, a positive mix of enabling me to use my creative side alongside the need for practical intelligent thoughts. A stimulating experience!"
The course is available at a range of prices, depending on circumstance. The substantial supporting material includes the celebrated 'Youth Arts Learning Passport', your own workbook/log book to keep and a certificate of attendance. Overall, it is a package designed to offer greater flexibility within creative development. If the course is successful Artswork hope to be able to offer the full range of Artsplan courses within the distanced learning format in the future.
For further details on Artsplan courses or to make a booking, please contact the Artsplan Development Manager Rachel Preston on t: 023 8068 2535, e: artsplan@artswork.org.uk
Regular Harness Workshops
Apsley St Community Centre, Off Donegall Pass
Contact Flora if interested via email: circusboneidle@yahoo.co.uk
Basic technique, specific choreography and new moves all covered!
These classes are open to anyone with experience in dance/circus/gymnastics.
There is no charge, but participants are requested to contribute £2 or £3 towards room and equipment hire.
If you own a harness please bring it along as we only have limited amount of equipment at the moment.
Upcoming dates and times are:
Friday 5th March, 7.30pm-9pm tbc
Wednesday 10th March, 10am-2pm
Friday 12th March, 7.30pm-9pm
2010 Classes at the Dance Resource Base Studio, 35 Donegall Street, Belfast
- Capoeira Class
Saturdays, 12.30pm - 2pm
Starting Sat 9th January 2010
£5
Capoeira is a uniquely Brazilian form of cultural expression. Although it contains obvious African influences, it is a striking and unusual mixture that defies an easy explanation of its origins. Capoeira is a subtle blend of dance, martial arts, acrobatic skills and music. It is marked by deft and tricky movements.
The instructor, Maia Feijaozinho, originally from Brazil, arrived in Ireland four years ago. He has been playing capoeira for 20 years, and has a lot of experience in teaching capoeira for more than 10 years. The instructor has travelled around Europe, participating in many international capoeira festivals, did various social projects in Brazil and Ireland, where he was working with children and teenagers.
- Pro Dance Classes
Wednesdays, 6.30pm - 8pm
Starting Weds 6th January 2010
£5 / £4 Dance Resource Base members
Pro Dance classes, facilitated by Maiden Voyage Dance Company, are essential to any professional dancer wishing to maintain and improve their contemporary technique.
- Crescent Arts Centre Classes
Starting Tuesday 12th January 2010
A range of classes take place Monday - Wednesday at the DRB studio and are organised by the Crescent. For further info and enrolment for these classes please visit http://www.crescentarts.org
Beginners Pilates Mat Work Classes
with Jennifer Jordan
Working on: core stability, overall strength, flexibility, posture, balance, concentration, breathing, and flow of movement. Jennifer works with each individual's needs at their own pace.
Weekly classes:
Monday
6pm - 7pm and 7pm - 8pm
Queen's PEC
Tuesday
10:30am - 11:30am
Club Class Fitness, Lisburn - 02892603494
8pm - 9.15pm
Bally Earl Leisure Centre, Newtownabbey
Wednesday
7.30pm - 8.30pm
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday
10am- 11am
Woodvale Pres. Church
For further info please contact Jennifer on 07835113894
Unltd Level 1 Funding
The UnLtd Level 1 awards programme is open for applications on a monthly basis with up to £5,000 on offer plus a tailored package of support for individual who want to get a new social impact project off the ground. Applying couldn't be easy with only 7 questions on the application form and pre-application support on offer to help refine a raw idea.
Application deadlines are always the 2nd last Friday of every month with applicants getting a decision to them in 4-6 weeks.
If you have a new idea for 2010 get in touch with the UnLtd team on 02890 244 007.
Provisional 2010/11 arts budget announced
The following is sourced from www.artscouncil-ni.org
Following the proposed budget announcement made on Monday 11th January by the Finance Minister of a £367 million budget cut across the government departments in April 2010, the Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Nelson McCausland, has indicated that the Arts Council should plan for a budget cut of approximately £1.1 million in 2010/11.*
The Arts Council had been expecting an uplift of £1.55 million in 2010/11, based on the government’s three-year budget projections announced back in 2008. Monday’s budget announcement means that the expected final year uplift will not now materialise.
Taking into account inflation and increased pressures on the arts budget in 2010/11 due to priority commitments such as the additional and unavoidable running costs of the new and recently refurbished venues (eg., Playhouse, Waterside and Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry; Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast), it will be difficult to maintain even standstill funding for the majority of the sector.
In line with all public sector bodies, the Arts Council will be expected to continue to make efficiency savings to its own operational costs.
The Chairman of the Arts Council, Rosemary Kelly, OBE., said, “We are of course disappointed at the prospect of this cut to the arts budget and very aware of the painful consequences that this will inevitably have for our artists, arts organisations and venues.
The Arts Council will continue to put the case on behalf of the arts sector during the remaining six-week consultation period. However, given the political consensus already reached on the overall budget, we recognise that we must all prepare for difficult times ahead.”
* The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), which is the Arts Council’s parent department, is itself set to lose £25.9 million, making it in proportional terms the second hardest hit of Northern Ireland’s government departments.
Helen Lewis, pioneer of modern dance in Northern Ireland dies aged 93
It is with regret to announce the death of Choreographer and Author, Helen Lewis, who died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 93.
Helen Lewis was born in Czechoslovakia in 1916 and trained at the Milca Mayerova School of Dance in Prague. In 1942 she was deported to the Jewish Ghetto in Terezin, then to the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the liberation, she emigrated to Belfast in 1947, where she settled with her husband Harry and her sons, Michael and Robin.
She was a founder member of the Belfast Modern Dance Group and enjoyed a long association with the Lyric Theatre, and with the Arts Council, as an advisor on the Drama Committee during the late 1970s and 1980s.
In 1992 Blackstaff Press published Helen Lewis’s highly acclaimed, best-selling autobiography, ‘A Time To Speak’, recounting her experiences as a Holocaust survivor. This memoir was dramatised by Sam McCready in a Lyric Theatre Production at the 2009 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s.
Her contribution to the development of contemporary dance in Northern Ireland was recognised in 2001 with the award of an MBE. She accepted the honour as “a very rare and welcome acknowledgement of the importance of the art of dance in our lives. Through dance people can come together who wouldn’t have come together in other circumstances”.
Rosemary Kelly, Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in paying tribute, said, “Helen made a lasting impression on the development of contemporary dance in Northern Ireland as a dance teacher, and as distinguished choreographer for theatre and opera. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be taught by her will always remember her passion for dance and human movement as an art form, and for the warmth and humanity of her personality.”
Youth Arts in Focus: the 6 guideline collective
£35 + FREE P&P
Artswork is delighted to present ‘6 guideline collective’, a set of comprehensive guidelines to help you explore and set up initiatives within the wide-ranging world of youth arts. Each pack compliments a same-named course in the Artsplan training programme so that theory can be put into hands-on practice.
Artsplan is the training and publications arm of Artswork, developed to help professionals, volunteers and artists use the arts with socially excluded young people more confidently and effectively. Artswork is an independent youth arts development agency, committed to developing creative opportunities for young people aged 12-25. One way of doing so is by encouraging the participation of organisations, institutions and individuals who have little or no experience within youth arts to get involved – that’s where the guidelines will become your best friend!
Artswork has produced these guidelines in conjunction with youth arts professionals and organisations that specialise in each of the 6 respective fields, so you are guaranteed expert advice. We are offering you the chance to snap up THE WHOLE set in an exclusive deal: £35.00 plus FREE postage and packaging. (Normal retail price is £45.00 plus £4.08 for postage, therefore you make a big saving and receive 2 guidelines totally free!)
Pack titles include:
Creating Respect: using youth arts to develop an understanding of cultural diversity’
Using the Arts with Juvenile and Young Offenders’
Access all Areas: disability and youth arts’
Working Together: using the arts with young people’
Using the Arts to Work with Young Asylum Seekers and Refugees’
Using the arts with young people at risk’.
Each pack addresses specific issues within its topical area, such as focusing on the ways in which barriers to participation within the arts can be removed for disabled young people and young asylum seekers.
As Rachel Preston, Artsplan Development Manager explains: “The ‘6 guideline collective’ is a wonderful opportunity to taking the first step towards involvement with such a hugely diverse area as youth arts. Informative but not mind-boggling, each pack makes sure you have just what you need to know!”
Please also remember that ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network) members receive 5% discount on all Artsplan publications and training!
For further details on the Artsplan 6 guideline collective or to make an order, please contact the Artsplan Team on t: 02380 682 535, e: artsplan@artswork.org.uk. w: www.artswork.org.uk/artsplan
Participatory Arts in Healthcare Good Practice Guidlines Published
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust and the Health Service Executive South (Cork) Arts + Health programme, with financial support from the Arts Council of Ireland, recently published Guidelines for Good Practice for Participatory Arts in Healthcare Contexts which were produced by the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
The Guidelines are designed to present clear, concise and user-friendly guidance to those working in the area of participatory arts in healthcare contexts. They are also intended as an aid to partnerships surrounding arts and health that can bring new challenges to artists, healthcare professionals, clients and those working in the health-related community and voluntary sector.
Developed through consultation with individuals and organisations working in an arts and health context, the Guidelines are now available on request from the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) and the HSE South (Cork) Arts + Health programme and online from their websites. Feedback on the Guidelines is invited from artists and others working in the arts and health sector until 31 October 2009. The Guidelines will be reviewed accordingly in light of feedback received.
www.waterfordhealingarts.com
www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/Arts_Practice_in_Healthcare_-_New_Guidelines.htm
Co-operative Community Fund
Community Fund grants, between £100 and £2,000 are awarded to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects that meet the following criteria. To be successful a group must carry out positive work in the community and their project must:
* address a community issue
* provide a good long-term benefit to the community
* support co-operative values and principles
* ideally be innovative in its approach
To read more about the Fund and fill out an application form, visit www.co-operative.coop/membership/Community-Fund
Is your Arts Group registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee (NI)?
From 1 October 2009
When the Companies Act 2006 is fully commenced in October 2009 it will provide for a single company law regime applying to the whole of the United Kingdom.
Companies will be UK companies rather than GB or Northern Ireland companies, and the same legislation will apply to all. As a consequence, Companies Registry Northern Ireland (CRNI) will integrate fully with Companies House, Cardiff on 1 October 2009. CRNI is currently part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment NI (DETINI); but from October will transfer to Companies House, under the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).
The Northern Ireland office will remain at its current address:
Companies House
Waterfront Plaza
8 Laganbank Road
Belfast BT1 3BS
Website From 1st October, the current Companies Registry NI website be closed and all of the relevant information will be made available from the Companies House website: www.companieshouse.gov.uk
More information at www.detini.gov.uk
NICVA has a dedicated company law reform web page showing the key changes in company law and which highlights the new regulations with which you must comply and the new provisions which your organisation can avail of to help with the administration of the company. More at: http://www.nicva.org/index.cfm/section/General/key/141205Lgreform
Funding Central
Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
If completely or relatively new to fundraising, Funding Central provides a 'guided search' option, enabling you to identify the most appropriate funding and finance opportunities that best suit you and the beneficiaries that you support. Or, as an experienced fundraiser, you can drill down through thousands of opportunities to identify the most appropriate funding or finance for your organisation.
Funders will have exclusive access to the 'Funder Zone'. Here you can explore statistics on your funding programmes or contracts, including web visits and comments made and add your own helpful hints to support fund-seekers.
Infrastructure organisations (such as national umbrella and lead bodies) can use Funding Central to access a wealth of support materials to enhance your work with other groups and identify funding and finance opportunities for your own needs.
Dance takes the lead
Dance and the Cultural Olympiad
For the past few months, representatives from across the dance sector have been meeting to develop a case for Dance to be a major project within the Cultural Olympiad.
