Bold Tendencies Live Art

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3/3 A view from the third part of the evening, directed by Mike Levitt. 

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The Bold Tendencies Events Programme 2012. 

We posted images and details of upcoming events on this screen which was set into the wall of the Auditorium space. 

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The view from the last night at Bold Tendencies 2012

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Alex Rueben's NEWSREEL 1, in association with Sadler's Wells

Alex Reuben's latest film, NEWSREEL 1 (64’, UK 2011) is a poetic recording of social, cultural and political events from the streets of London.

Without titles or voice-over, ex-DJ Reuben’s skilled sound recording and fluid camerawork expertly reveal the beauty of spontaneous natural movement: dancing at an Eritrean wedding; protestors marching against government cuts; Rosemary Lee’s ‘Square Dance and a good old pub sing-along about Tony Blair and George Bush.

‘’a strikingly contemporary journey through the streets of a London that is liquid with motion’’ Sukhdev Sandhu, ‘Protest in Motion’.

Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, Arts Council England and exhibited by Picturehouse Cinemas, a startlingly fresh and poetic take on cinema and London:

Alex Reuben's film ROUTES, was nominated in the Top 20 Films of the Decade (Geoff Andrew, BFI/Time Out).

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Embodiment: Discussion Day

Structured around three cooked meals, this day-long public discussion focuses on questions of technology and embodiment: how does technology intervene in, disrupt or mediate encounters between bodies, objects and spaces? How do technologies of embodiment frame and contain the subject? In what ways has technology become the context or ground from which questions of the body are articulated? ‘Discussion’ relates directly to equipping people to engage with these questions; to giving those who take part the tools to contribute, and to develop and expand what they are contributing to, but does not refer exclusively to talking. Continuity is a key motivation, and we would like to create a collective discussion that will retain integrity and momentum after the event. We are interested in social experiences that are better than social media. The day will be facilitated by six discussion leaders who, together with those in attendance, will work towards developing an approach or practice for engaging with questions of technology, embodiment and encounter. Events will culminate in a group discussion, at 7pm, in which we hope to consolidate the day’s proceedings. By consensus, this event will be limited to 15 available tickets, to allow for a degree of intimacy and openness. Participants are encouraged to commit to the whole day's proceedings; the fuller the engagement, we believe, the more productive the day's experience. Discussion leaders will be: Iain Ball Mathew Cunningham Jesse Darling Boris Jardine Cadence Kinsey Arthur Swindells

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Dance for Film 2, in association with Sadler's Wells

A special collection of shorts by choreographers and film makers based in the UK and further afield, focussing on the body, and the freedom from time and location that comes with making dance for camera. The works look at the world through different lenses, but all with a sharp, articulate and occasionally humourous eye. Sadler's Wells Dance for Film is supported by Arts Council England.

Playing on a loop, in the auditorium space on level 8 of the car-park.  Total running time 33 mins.

1 Click Heather Eddington and New Art Club, UK (3.00mins) 2 Stonger Wilkie Branson, UK (4.14mins) 3 30 Cecil Street Dan Canham, Will Hanke and Laura Dannequin UK (7.20mins) 4 Atelic Alexander Whitely, UK (2.45mins) 5 Slow Dancing (excerpt) David Michalek, USA (8.00mins) (pending agreement) 6 Slow Dance Joe Cobden, UK (3.40mins) 7 Dubus Alexei Dimitriev, Russia (4.09mins)

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Dance for Film 1, in association with Sadler's Wells

The first screening is a selection of winners and finalists from IDILL, an international competition for short films of movement and dance. This biennial competition was set up by Charleroi Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, La Gaîté Lyrique, a new cultural institution in Paris, and Sadler’s Wells, the UK's leading dance house. Since the second edition in 2011, has worked in collaboration with Dança Em Foco, international festival of video dance in Brazil. Sadler's Wells Dance for Film is supported by Arts Council England. 

Playing on a loop, in the auditorium space on level 8 of the car-park.  Total running time 22 mins. 

1 Deep End Dance Conor Horgan, Ireland (2010, 6.20mins) 2 Sliced Constantin Georgescu, Greece (2011, 1.21mins) 3 I Am My Mother Mohamad Abbasi, Iran (2008, 1.02mins) 4 Hannah Sergio Cruz, UK (2011, 4.57mins) 5 Patria Karin Idelson & Gabriella Goldberg, Argentina (2011, 1.48mins) 6 Al Voitant del Montgo Juan Bernado Pineda, Spain (2011, 2.44mins) 7 Jeu de Societe Stephanie Aubin & Arnaud Baumann, France  (2010, 3.47mins)

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Bronzehead Performance at Bold Tendencies

BronzeHead is a 10-piece group from London, formed in 2010 to make new music inspired by the raw & heavy funk rhythms of 1970's West Africa. During this era, bands in countries like Nigeria, Ghana & Benin mixed traditional African rhythms together with funk & soul to form thrilling new genres such as Afrobeat, Afrofunk & Highlife. These sounds have incited dancefloor chaos for decades, and at the

 very core of BronzeHead is the desire to do just that. With past musical experience in rock, reggae, hip hop, jazz, ska, and electronic, BronzeHead's all-original interpretation of Afrobeat is unique and versatile, informed by our diverse cultural backgrounds and grounded in our daily experiences and challenges in London.

  BASS: Ben Turley  DRUMS: Giles Narang PERCUSSION: David Bebber  GUITARS: Joel Mumvuri, John Messenger VOCALS: Kuron King, Irene Oludolapo, Bola Kamson  TRUMPET: Gary Moskowitz  BARITONE/ALTO SAX: Josef Stout TENOR SAX: John Macnaughton

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Bumi Thomas Performance at Bold Tendencies

Bumi Thomas is a dynamic contemporary African, acoustic Jazz-folk-soul singer and songwriter whose style is inspired by her multicultural heritage. Her music explores identity, sensuality, Love, spirituality, retrospective and cross-culturism. Bold Tendencies is pleased to welcome her and her band to the roof, prior to her performance as part of Deloitte Ignite 2012 Africa weekend at the Royal Opera House.

Born in Glasgow, raised between the tranquillity of Kano (a Nomadic desert town in Nigeria) and the colourful excitement of Lagos (one of the most vibrant cosmopolitan cities in Africa) and now based in London after completing a degree in Fine Art Media & Visual Communication, Bumi's music represents the journey of a modern African creative in the Diaspora.

"My journey is essentially about transcending boundaries. Its ethos: a delicate exploration of the relationship between art and experience, how that expression is transformed to music and how that music translates to pure emotional impulse. As an artist, I find that my work also encapsulates my evolution as a woman."

Bumi's sound is a synergy that combines jazz, folklore, high life, Afro-beat rhythms, reggae grooves and tribal nuances. A truly organic fusion of ornate rhythms, thought stimulating lyrics, ambient melodies infused with funk and delivered with soul. A sound- scape rich in texture, imagination, originality and poetry inflected by the influence of Tracy Chapman, Sade Adu, Bobby McFerrin, Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba.

As a singer/songwriter, Bumi is inspired by the journey of life, the emotional spectrum of the human experience and the opportunity to drive positive change using art and music as the mechanism of empowerment. "I feel like I have earned the right to stimulate other people's consciousness with something that isn't generic but ultimately unique."

In 2011, Bumi received the Womatt Best of British (BOB) Award for Best Solo Newcomer and was also nominated for two BEFFTA awards "Best Female Act" and "Best Female UK Based Afro-Caribbean Act". Her Debut EP 'Feather Pearl' will be released in Summer 2012.

Bumi's band is:

. Bumi Thomas -Lead Vocals & Guitar

. Jon Speedy - Lead Guitar

. Matteo Grassi - Bass

. Jules Weishaupt - Drums and Percussion

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Lost in Transit: The Existential Road Movie

Two inventions marked the turn of the twentieth century: the gasoline-powered automobile and the cinema. Both innovations would radically contract time and space, taking people on a journey out of society, both literal and illusionary. In post World War II America, the unique synthesis of three phenomena; the construction of Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System; the dramatic increase in car ownership; the newfound sense of freedom felt by the baby boom generation -spawned a culture obsessed with the automobile. The death of James Dean in 1955 and the publication of Kerouac’s On the Road in 1957, catapulted the automobile beyond merely transportation and into a chariot fit for adventure. Embarking on a road trip became synonymous with the American Dream: autonomy, self-determination and the possibility of possibility. Lost in Transit explores the relationship between the cinema and the car. The program presents films that have immortalised man in his shiny four-wheeled steed, holding up a mirror to society. Lost in Transit questions the romantic vision of the road trip, so revered in America’s collective imagination, concentrating on the wave of early 1970s films that convey a cynicism about being on the road, and an ironic pretence that roaming actually does take the driver out of society. Here, the cinematic highway leads nowhere in particular, sometimes in circles invoking a forlorn sense of wandering or drifting - yet this spirit constitutes the road movie’s golden age. Panel Discussion with Jason Wood, author of 100 Road Movies and Nigel Floyd, film critic and presenter on the Radio 5 Live Film Review, on the various notions of existentialism reflected in the films and their socio-political context. The discussion will also cover the road movie more generally; its attributes, predecessors and appeal to directors and audiences over time and across cultures.

Curated by Danya Hannah as part of the MA Film Curating course at the London Film School / London Consortium

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Community TV Trust Presents: Peckham North, South, East, and West; Peckham from Four Different Points of View

CTVT’s 3-year venture in positive media worked with local young people aged between 10 and 15 to produce short films: fantasy, drama, teenage pregnancy, street culture, revenge were themes that emerged.The trip from playful childhood into darkened urban adolescence presents a powerful portrait of growing up in south London. Rebalancing media coverage is the issue. With media making spread across mainstream, local and social platforms, we have real options.

Partners include Bermondsey’s Bede Youth Adventure Project, Camberwell’s St Michael & All Angels Academy, Goose Green Primary School, Academy at Peckham, Prendergast Vale College. FRIDAY 24 AUGUST, 7PM PECKHAM TRAVELLERS: LIFE ON THE MARGINS & ISLAM IN SOUTHWARK   This film screening provides an opportunity to learn about one of Southwark’s most characterful and elusive communities, the Irish Travellers. Three official sites have been set up in SE15 after long years of campaigning. Before the controversial Dale Farm evictions, Channel 4’s “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” had pushed Travellers into the public eye with typical mainstream media sensationalism. This event offers some correction.

Community TV Trust was commissioned by Southwark Council, with funding from the Government’s Prevent Violent Extremism fund (seen by some as provocative), to produce a documentary about Muslims in Southwark, their history in the Borough, their life and their faith.

Among contributors to the project were Bengali, Somali, Turkish and Nigerian worshippers and Imams, and young presenters and producers from Peckham’s Reprezent Youth Radio. It’s a chance to meet your neighbours. It became clear that the first job of this local media venture was to correct the stereotyping promulgated by mainstream media. SUNDAY 26TH AUGUST, 7PM ART, IMAGE + PECKHAM – LIFE AFTER DAMILOLA Concluding the series of events around local media, Peckham and the work of Southwark.TV, there’s a chance to meet key players from local galleries – Hannah Barry Gallery, South London Gallery, Peckham Space -  and to see Chris Haydon’s short film “Hidden Cities:Peckham” exhibited in Istanbul at this year’s videoart and photography International ArtExpo, a film which was in part inspired by the panoramic vistas available from Frank’s Café ! Peckham’s media image, dripping in blood and distorted by stereotyping, is fiercely contested by local residents as last August’s Peckham Peace Wall movingly indicated. So what might be the role and impact of art galleries on local communities?

In 2002, CTVT’s local media venture “Southwark.TV” was piloted and launched in February 2003. The point was to facilitate local people’s media making, and this at a time prior to social media when uploading video to the internet required a modem, craft and enormous patience. Ten years on and a substantial archive of films has accrued, via projects with local schools and youth groups, educational DVDs on subjects such as Knife Crime, Healthy Eating, Peckham Travelers and Islam in Southwark. Local film screenings stands as testimony to the efficacy of local media overlapping with local life.

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Helga Wretman's Fitness for Artists Workout Class

Her interactive performance piece ‘Fitness for Artists’ brings together sport and art. In London’s Olympic year, Bold Tendencies welcomes her to the roof, and hopes to see Peckham’s very own local artists stretching and jogging with her.

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We Can Elude Control Curated by Paul Purgas

Free evening of sound and music featuring the debut of a new collaborative improvised electronics project by Roly Porter and Paul Jebanasam from the Bristol based Subtext label, as well as an exclusive performance by Bill Koulligas, founder of the celebrated Berlin label PAN. In addition there will be a live set from Glaswegian electronic musician Ruaridh Law from the Broken20 tape/digital project and contributions from the London based artist Roberto Crippa, presenting live instruments and custom hardware, and a turntable/spoken word performance by Rosie Farrell.

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Community TV Trust Presents: Violence

Peckham’s image oscillates in mainstream media between Trotter’s three-wheeler and horrendous, violent youth crime with little or nothing in between. This event considers the link between Shame and Violence and will preview a major documentary film Chris Haydon is currently completing.

The key speaker will be Jonathan Asser, whose pioneering work in HMP Wandsworth deployed his Shame Violence Intervention programme and won the BACP’s Innovation Award. SVI was later stopped dead by the prison authorities despite all the data showing significant decrease of violence had resulted from the work. He will be joined by ex-offenders from Wandsworth Prison with whom he worked over some years. These powerful, formerly angry and violent men, bring incontestable evidence to authenticate Asser’s thesis and demonstrate the system’s inability to evolve.

Also taking part will be Jennifer Blake who runs “Safe”, a project on Peckham High Street set up for the benefit of local young people. Jennifer’s work on the ground in Southwark is informed by her own mixed past, growing up on the infamous ‘no-go-area’ that was the North Peckham Estate. “SOUTHWARK HOUR”, a series broadcast on Community Channel, featured in one edition a group of boys from a local Pupil Referral Unit who took then DCI Brian Paddick into their subsequently demolished Peckham estate. Everything points towards earlier intervention, towards engagement rather than disengagement.

This session will be filmed and may be incorporated in CTVT’s film on SVI.

Celebrating a decade of local media in Southwark from Peckham-based Community TV Trust [CTVT], led by director Chris Haydon, this series of six events over the summer investigates how local media production in the hands of non-broadasters opens up meaning and understanding that lie beyond the mainstream. Experience of teamwork, enhancement of self confidence, even the acquisition of those much vaunted ‘transferable skills’, all may derive from participating in local media making.

In 2002, CTVT’s local media venture “Southwark.TV” was piloted and launched in February 2003. The point was to facilitate local people’s media making, and this at a time prior to social media when uploading video to the internet required a modem, craft and enormous patience. Ten years on and a substantial archive of films has accrued, via projects with local schools and youth groups, educational DVDs on subjects such as Knife Crime, Healthy Eating, Peckham Travellers and Islam in Southwark. Local film screenings stands as testimony to the efficacy of local media overlapping with local life. Now in a no-money partnership with Peckham Settlement, CTVT has set up a 2-camera studio with equipment salvaged from the Maudsley Hospital. The aim is to serve local groups and enterprises, encourage volunteering and engagement. Given that we are all now producers, if we want to be, Media has a real role to play in modern, multicultural, multifaith life. But do we have anything to say ?

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ToMax Talks present Reframing Space

ToMax Talks visit Bold Tendencies to present an evening entitled 'Reframing Space'. Top architects William Alsop OBE RA and Lily Jencks (architect and landscaper) will be joined by a Paloma Strelitz to explain how they preserve magic and history while bringing fresh inspiration to a site. Listen to the talks, discuss them and have a drink in the evening rays.

Today, few buildings or landscapes are created from a 'tabula raza', so most architectural challenges involve reinterpreting space. Whether it be on a macro-scale - re-shaping the lay-out of a town, or on a micro scale – converting an obsolete power station, barn or monastery - architects must decide what to strip away and what to keep. Should they 'scrape' away the layers of history to uncover an ideal (which may never have even existed), or should they follow Ruskin's 'anti-scrape' doctrine? And how do you re-frame the aesthetic and function of a place to give it a new life?

This topic is especially relevant in light of the attempted regeneration of East London and, of course, for Bold Tendencies itself which has re-framed a car park as a seat of artistic inspiration.

William Alsop is one of Britain's favourite architects. Among his most reknowned buildings are the Hamburg ferry terminal and 'Le Grand Bleu', the seat of the regional government in Marseille. He designed the L-shaped Peckham Library and was responsible for the 'Bradford City Masterplan'.

Lily Jencks is a rising star of architecture and landscaping and has worked on projects throughout the world. Last year, she collaborated with Rem Koolhas to create a landscape for Maggies Centre Gartnavel and she is currently working with JencksSquared on a project in Geneva at CERN to create a schematic masterplan for a thirty-acre public site. ToMax talks are about accomplished speakers sharing their experience and vision. Their talks revive the art of story-telling and are informative and fun. They carefully put together original juxtapositions of voices.

The evenings are intimate, with plenty of opportunity to join in the discussion and meet the speakers. Now ToMax are developing a club and want to give their members all sorts of good stuff. 

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Sleeperhold at Copeland Book Market

The 4th release on Sleeperhold is a paperback which functions as a collection of 14 short stories. Each piece stands independently, but are also meant to be read as a larger narrative sequence. At the center is the eponymous B.H. Friedman essay “The Most Expensive Restaurant Ever Built”, on the opening of the Four Seasons Hotel. The other sections of the volume borrow from the tone, history, and themes of this core. Contributions by Beni Bischof, Jason Fulford, J.G. Ballard, David Horvitz, Peter Sutherland.

The event is a lecture delivered by Ward Heirwegh of Sleeperhold Publications which uses the book as a tool/escape vault to connect to 14 different facts, artists, stories.

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School 004 at Copeland Book Market

At the Copeland Book Market SCHOOL, a nomadic series of seminars, will focus on spoken word – four writers will present new work that in due course will be published by AOTCS PRESS.

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