A Different Direction - bursaries and training for independent artists, curators and managers
We are seeking eight ‘independent’ artists/producers/curators/managers to take part in a tailored creative and cultural leadership development programme starting this autumn.
Are you working independently in the creative and cultural field? Perhaps you are a writer, technician, graphic designer, musician, producer, curator, visual artist, animator, performance poet, storyteller…?
Do you want to learn new skills that will help your career?
Do you have views about the way Bristol’s cultural community could become more diverse in terms of class, race, gender, sexuality, disability and age? Can you bring your personal and professional experience to inform this journey?
Do want to make connections with current decision makers (e.g. programmers, funders) to influence how decisions are made about resources, programming, and recruitment in Bristol?
Are you up to the challenge?
If so, we want to hear from you…
What’s on offer?
A tailored creative and cultural leadership development programme from October 2010 to April 2011:
One-to-one coaching
Peer learning days
Opportunity for mutual work shadowing with partner organisation(s)
Research trips to look at best practice in other cities in the UK/Europe
Take part in debates and masterclasses with inspirational leaders
A bursary of up to £2,500 is available to support your contribution and participation in the project
How to apply
If you are interested, we encourage you to come and meet the project partners on one of the following dates to find out more about the project, the commitment involved, how to apply, and to ask any questions:
Thursday 16 September, 10am – 12pm, Colston Hall
Saturday 18 September, 2pm – 4pm, St Paul’s Learning Centre
Monday 20 September, 6pm – 8pm, Easton Community Centre
To register for one of these sessions, please complete a short questionnaire on
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VJY8NJN by Monday 13 September.
For full application details and further information about the project please visit: www.asianartsagency.co.uk
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Film
Classic silent film: “Grass” (1925)
Sun, 12/09/2010
This pioneering silent documentary about the annual migration of the Bakhtiari tribe is a window into a forgotten world. Vivid, moving and unbelievably exciting, it is accompanied by the haunting traditional music of the region. The success of Grass enabled film makers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack to go on to make King Kong in 1933, but their account of the Bakhtiari’s migration is if anything even more thrilling!
The Bakhtiari people of western Iran are herdsmen who to this day move their flocks and herds hundreds of miles for grazing each year. When American film makers Cooper and Schoedsack tracked them down in 1925, this annual migration was entirely on foot and horseback – and through the most dramatic landscape. The film that resulted is a white-knuckle portrait of one of the toughest journeys imaginable. The bare-foot ascent of the snow-covered Zagros Mountains is unforgettable – and the crossing of the Karun River by 50,000 people, with their tents, their worldly possessions plus half a million cattle and sheep is one of the most extraordinary sequences ever filmed. “A fascinating, visually splendid film” (Time Out).
Grass highlights the hardships faced by nomadic peoples, and the ingenuity needed to surmount them and survive. Our screening will be introduced by Christien van den Anker (Reader in Politics, UWE) – and we hope to be joined by a native Bakhtiari speaker to provide context. The next day, 13th September, is the 3rd anniversary of the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – so we will use the screening to highlight the increasingly desperate struggle for survival of the world’s indigenous cultures. Survival International will be there with displays and an information stall. “Some of the most remarkable footage of the silent era – eye-popping!”(Village Voice).
Our screening of Grass is on Sunday 12th September – the Bar opens at 7pm, and the film starts at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5 (concessions available) – and should be booked on 0117 924 4512 or info@pieriancentre.com. The screening is at the Pierian Centre, 27 Portland Square, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8SA.

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