For unit 10, these are the emails for Sophie and Nicole

Incase anyone needs to email them.

nicolekteahcer@gmail.com

sophie.a.collins93@gmail.com

Just an idea

Just thought I would suggest/ask does anyone think its a good idea to one day next week meet up and recreate the little piece we made with George to film it for the YouTube channel? Just thought it might be nice to get more stuff up on there of our rehearsals and ideas?. Also I found this image which I quite liked so thought I would post it on here. I think this is a really lovely and powerful saying and image with a lot of meaning behind it and thought it would be nice to keep in mind while working and coming up with new ideas for fringe.

Tutorials with Lisa at Ivybrook

Thanks to those of you who e mailed in advance to book your timeslot and who turned up.
If you didn't pre-book, you can do so for next Thursday by e mailing me. 
Tutorials will start normally at 1000, and you can specify a 20 minute slot or a half an hour slot. 

If you have missed a tutorial today, and want to get in touch before next Thursday, you can e mail me, or try to catch up on Monday lunchtime by dropping into the office.

Congratulations on your entry into the Fringe - it looks very exciting and I can't wait to see your show!

Regards,

Lisa

we're in!

We're in!

Hello here is our show!
http://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/performance/18417/my-grandfather-s-guide-to-life
people can start buying tickets now. Hurrah you. And to remind you of past successes, last show review:

Tackling Beowulf

Amazing show – funny, intelligent, visually rich and surprising, sonically sensate……moving…..….I could go on.

Brilliant ……enjoyable …..

Thanks everyone ….please pass on to all I have missed on the list  and all the students

Nick Gardner

Head of Creative Industries

Let's get some more of those!

(been in touch about the error for whoever spots it)

Fringe blurb

hello all, as i was telling some of you I had problems with finding an image for the brochure.
Jack helped but under advice from the venue, a lot of the images that we produced were considered not very good for promotion. After a frantic exchange on deadline day, and after sending them a lot of options, this is the final copy that they were also happy with. excuse the personal photo (my dad and children) but i had to go through all my photos….

My grandfather’s guide to life.

My grandfather used to be old. Very very old. But he’s younger now and has more time to talk. So I started listening to all the things he has to say. He said growing old is a young man’s game and it’s time you started playing.

But what do a bunch of 20 year olds making the show, know about ageing? Or life? Or anything? How do they get in touch with the older generation?

Fringe relaunch

• Plans; RSVP for festival brochure launch event next Tuesday at 6pm

• Organise who and how going to old age conference event 26th March

Content ideas to revisit and develop:

1. What will be the hook for our show? what will bring everything together? a story? an obsession? a question?

2. Best thing about ageing. What is old, what is young. What age would you like to be?

3. Actual facts about age - tv license, travel etc

4. Growing old together, jack & cody

5. Shakespeare as you like it speech.

6. I can't wait to be old piece

7. 21 vs 42 Vanessa & Jordan

8. It's not roses anymore & It's hard being 12 songs

9. Moment of feeling your age

10. Dan and Shivi look at developing stick piece

11. Podcast; Aging is neither inevitable nor necessary.

12. Teaching old dog new tricks. (emojis, language, new music etc…..)

Please document work and post on blog or the tube channel that charlotte set up

"Roses" Song

"Roses"

Getting out of bed is pretty hard,

Going to the shops is a chore,

My knees get stif, my hand shake – I’m always so cold,

I don’t walk the way I used to,

But it’s something to work on,

I guess it’s not roses anymore,

A cup of tea is what I live for,

Especailly if it’s with biscuts

I love to make cakes,

But sometimes I leave it in there for to long,

My friends may come and go,

My family means the world,

I guess it’s not roses anymore,

Yes, I feel young at heart,

I used to go dancing,

Just me and my sweetheart,

Passing the time away,

I still dance in the kitchen,

But sometimes I loose my footing,

I guess it’s not roses anymore

Some days I look back on,

All the memories I’ve made,

Going from a child to adult,

I want to relive it again,

Yes I’ve made my mistakes,

But I wouldn’t change a thing,

I guess…….

I added the last verse just to give an idea where the person looks back on their life and thinks of all the good things rather than the bad - from how they were then til now. I would also like to think of a last line instead of saying "I guess it's not roses anymore". Any ideas? 

This week

Hello valentine ninjas! Looking forward to catching up with you on tuesday at ivy brook. Remember this is the beginning of unit 10b time but with festival days and time off owed for reading week. Do work from home if best tomorrow on your essays and bring material to tutorials on tuesdays.
Hope you all had a good break.

Let's go to this!

This would be great research for our show. Book asap, free but will sell out.  I need to cross check dates with timetables but wanted to let you know.

It has emerged from our ongoing Public Wisdom programme here at Cubitt.  With the event we are aiming to set a new agenda around discussions of aging: bringing the conversation out from care homes and day centres, and to the public arena.  

We have invited a range of speakers, from across anthropology, sociology, visual art, architecture and performance to respond to current questions and share their practice. 

Key highlights include Lois Weaver, Counterpoint Dance and Grand Gestures Dance Collective.

It would be wonderful if you can attend and contribute to the debate and ongoing conversation.  If you are interested and able to attend, please reserve a free place through our online booking page: http://publicwisdom2015.eventbrite.co.uk

Full details of the speakers and presentations below. 

PUBLIC WISDOM 2015

26th March, 9.30-5pm

Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Is the aging population a ticking time bomb or an extraordinary asset? 

What would our cities look like if they were designed for an aging population? 

Could older people play a bigger role in public life?

Research has shown that, post-retirement, many people feel less visible in public spaces, less able to navigate the built environment, and less valued in public life.  Isolation and disconnection is a depressing reality for millions of older people whilst new developments, regeneration projects, and urban planning rarely account for the needs and capacities of the older body.

Public Wisdom 2015 is a one-day event produced by Cubitt Education and supported by the Baring Foundation, bringing together anthropologists, artists, performers, sociologists, designers and architects to explore how we can respond creatively and imaginatively to these issues through and within the arts.

The day will include practical and inspiring presentations from leading thinkers and creative practitioners, alongside in-depth open discussion, networking and a delicious lunch. 

• With Richard Sennett sociologist and author of The Fall of Public Man & Together on collaboration, communication and the collapse of the public realm;
• Lois Weaver performance artist and founder of Split Britches Company on sex and aging in public;
• Nick Tyler Chadwick Chair of Civil Engineering, UCL on the capacities of the aging body in the urban environment and re-thinking our cities around connection and community;
• Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects and Older Women’s Co-Housing on a radical co-designed housing development for older women; 
• Artist Sarah Cole on her performance work In Kind, which brought acts of care into the public realm; 
• Anne Karpf journalist and author of How to Age; 
• Performances by Counterpoint Dance and Bolder Voices Choir
• Anthropologist Jason Danely on aging, abandonment and public life in Japan; 
• Sophie Handler urban researcher and author of The Alternative Age Friendly Handbook on working creatively with older people to imagine possible public spaces.

Plus further speakers and presentations to be confirmed.

Limited free spaces for early booking: http://publicwisdom2015.eventbrite.com

Bravo!

A huge "Well Done"" to you all for working so hard to make last night such a success!!
Lots for you to be proud of, not least the consistency of energetic output in response to your very demanding audience!
Have a great half term, and see you on the 23rd!

V-Event

List of new ideas. Paige in charge! Paige, i think that if anyone is not there early enough to rehearse, they should not be allowed to perform for Sarah.
Please be ready at 11 to show Sarah the wonderfulness that is your work. Set up the space, get the piano, props, menu for her to look at and choose. I'm with BA's tomorrow, come and find me to get a time when you come in and tell them to come.
Please make the 11am showing inventive, polished without EVER coming out of it to comment or ask what is going on next. Sarah will be so very happy.

1. Love tips

2. Anti - pasti

3. Quickie

4. Cheese platter

5. Stripper

6. Finish me off

7. Speed date with the film characters

8. Order a sonnet / order a poet

9. Order a bollywood romance

10. All is fair in love and war

CALLS FOR THIS WEEK

MON - NO CALL
TUES - IVYBROOK ALL DAY
WEDS  - UCW ALL DAY ( DURRINGTON)
THURS  - DENTON LOUNGE 1630-2300.
FRI- STUDY DAY

WHOOP WHOOP!!

V event Promo -share share share!!!

www.facebook.com/ValentinesEvent

We also have a twitter page as well but i cant find the link so will post later. there is an event linked to the page so you can invite as many people as you like etc.

Cody did a great job on the posters over the weekend! Thanks Cody :-) Share these!

Some bits for fringe

In Greek Mythology Geras is the God of Old age, with his opposite, Hebe, the Goddess of Youth.

Geras was considered a virtue. The more Geras (age) a man acquired the more fame, excellence and courage he was meant to have.

In contrast to this lovely idea, he is dipicted as a deshriveled old man.

Those who fail to give the honor and respect due to their elders cannot expect the approbation of fate, a belief dramatically, illustrated in "The Old Man and the Three Young Men," one of La Fontaine's best known versified fables:

An Old Man, planting a tree, was met
By three joyous youths of the village near,
Who cried, "It is dotage a tree to set
At your years, sir, for it will not bear,
Unless you reach Methuselah's age:
To build a tomb were much more sage;
But why, in any case, burden your days
With care for other people's enjoyment?
'Tis for you to repent of your evil ways:
To care for the future is our employment!"
Then the aged man replies --
"All slowly grows, but quickly dies.
It matters not if then or now
You die or I; we all must bow,
Soon, soon, before the destinies.
And tell me which of you, I pray,
Is sure to see another day?
Or whether e'en the youngest shall
Survive this moment's interval?
My great grandchildren, ages hence,
Shall bless this tree's benevolence.
And if you seek to make it plain
That pleasing others is no gain,
I, for my part, truly say
I taste this tree's ripe fruit to-day,
And hope to do so often yet.
Nor should I be surprised to see --
Though, truly, with sincere regret --
The sunrise gild you tombstones three."
These words were stern but bitter truths:
For one of these adventurous youths,
Intent to seek a distant land,
Was drowned, just as he left the strand;
The second, filled with martial zeal,
Bore weapons for the common weal,
And in a battle met the lot
Of falling by a random shot.

The third one from a tree-top fell,
And broke his neck. -- The Old Sage, then,
Weeping for the three Young Men,
Upon their tomb wrote what I tell.

Source: La Fontaine, Book 11, Fable 8.

Stages of life

From Shakespeare's As You Like It (act 2, scene 7):

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.

The Grimms' "The Duration of Life," a tale collected from a peasant in his field in 1840, presents the same pessimistic outcome, but adds a playful teleological explanation:

When God created the world he gave the ass, the dog, the monkey, and man each a life-span of thirty years. The ass, knowing that his was to be a hard existence, asked for a shorter life. God had mercy and took away eighteen years. The dog and the monkey similarly thought their prescribed lives too long, and God reduced them respectively by twelve and ten years. Man, however, considered the thirty years assigned to him to be too brief, and he petitioned for a longer life. Accordingly, God gave him the years not wanted by the ass, the dog, and the monkey.

Thus man lives seventy years. The first thirty are his human years, and they quickly disappear. Here he is healthy and happy; he works with pleasure, and enjoys his existence. The ass's eighteen years follow. Here one burden after the other is laid on him; he carries the grain that feeds others, and his faithful service is rewarded with kicks and blows. Then come the dog's twelve years, and he lies in the corner growling, no longer having teeth with which to bite. And when this time is past, the monkey's ten years conclude. Now man is weak headed and foolish; he does silly things and becomes a laughingstock for children.

Source: Retold from "The Duration of Life," Grimm, no. 176, type 173 (also categorized as type 828). Other versions include: "Man's Years," Daly, Aesop without Morals, no. 105; "The Span of Man's Life," Noy, Folktales of Israel, no. 26.

No one wants to die

An old woodcutter, too weary to pick up his load of sticks, exclaimed: "I wish that Death would take me!" Even as he spoke, Death appeared, but seeing him, the old man changed his mind. Now his only request was: "Would you help me lift this load to my shoulders?"

Source: Retold from "The Old Man and Death," Jacobs, The Fables of Aesop, no. 69, type 845.

Echo and Narcissus story - EDIT

Dan - Our night begins with a tale of woe, that of Narcicuss and the wood nympth Echo. Echo was young with a spring in her step,

Ami - singing and gossiping was what I do best

Dan - Narcicuss was tall and thought he was cool,

Jakko - I have no interest in the wood nympth at all.

Dan - Young Echo was gossping all the day long, till along came Hera who hated her song.

Ami and Jakko - Gossip aboout me, and you will see- the voice of others thats your burden to be.

Dan Cursing the nypmth with something she'll lack, she could only repeat the words she heard back

Ami – words she heard back

Dan -Desperate to speak but her voice was too weak, Echo ran to Narcicuss and kissed his soft cheek.

Now narcicuss knew he was rich, handsome and tall

Jakko though my ego is big my balls were quite small.

Dan -He pushed her away with all of his might, she'd certainly given him a terrible fright.

Jakko-Dont kisss me again,

Dan he warned with a scorn,

Jakko Ive only love for myself since the day i was born.

Ami: Takeme away, I caan bear it no more. If he will not boogie, I'll leave the dancefloor

Dan: her prayers were answeredd, and echo was gone. No longer to be seen.

Dan & Ami: Just a voice in a song.

Dan: Meanwhile narcicuss the vainest of all, was checking himself out in a reflective wall.

Jakko - Who is this person so gallant and tall?

All of us - why, that is you replied the wall.

Jakko - Look at my lips and gaze at my eyes, is there anyone with bigger bulge in their flies?

Dan - It was love at first sight for mirror and him, joined together forever in mortal sin.

Jakko -Struck with love for myself

Dan-, he died on that spot,

Ami-and in the space of his bones grew a tiny white dot.

All- A beautiful flower for all see,

Jakko grows on the riverbank reflecting thee.

Dan -so

Jakko -narcicuss

Dan and

Ami echo

Dan are not here at all,

Ami but my voice

Jakko and my flower

All is a warning to us all.

Dan-So the man became a seed

Jack – and my seed became a flower

Dan – and the girl became a voice

Ami - That spoke on every hour

Dan – Ladies and Gentleman that time is here

Ami and Jakko – the ghosts are all around us

Dan – thats their breath in your ear. In the shimmering of the trees

Ami -the echo of the walls

Jakko – and in the shudder of the dance floor

Dan -the lovers hear their call, hold on to your seats or

all -fall and fall hard

Jakko – Leap with the blind

Ami – and lower your guard

All- Stand and deliver

dan – one

jakko -two

Ami – three

All – tonight love asks, what will you do for me?

To do for tomorrow

WE HAVE TO DO THIS!

Forgive the capitals, but we do!

Dear Participant,

Thank you for registering with Brighton Fringe. I am pleased to inform you that your event meets the application criteria for our Arts Industry showcase WINDOW. Please find details below.

If you would like to be considered for inclusion in WINDOW, you MUST download an application form at this link: http://brightonfringe.org/images/WINDOW_application_form.doc

Return this to us along with a link to a short (maximum 3 minutes) video in which you tell us about your event, plus any supporting material by 12 NOON ON WEDNESDAY 4^TH FEBRUARY 2015 toartsindustry@brightonfringe.org. Applications received after this time will not be included.

What is WINDOW?Window is Brighton Fringe’s Arts Industry showcase created to develop and encourage artists ready for the next step in their career. Window creates a platform for high quality, new work to be highlighted during the first days of Brighton Fringe.

Who is WINDOW aimed at?
WINDOW will be marketed to visiting Arts Industry Professionals, through the Arts Industry Service at Brighton Fringe. The visiting AIPs come from diverse backgrounds, but might include: Venue Programmers, Festival Programmers, Development Agencies, Talent Agents, Freelance Producers and Directors, Casting Agents, Film & TV producers etc.

When is WINDOW?
Window 2015 will take place from 1^st – 7^th May 2015. 

Who will be included?Inclusion in Window will be decided in 4 stages:

Stage 1: Completed. Brighton Fringe participants must meet the following criteria in order to be considered for WINDOW:

·         Performances at Brighton Fringe during the WINDOW dates

·         The production must have been developed or premiered since May 2014, or be a UK premiere

·         The production must be ready to tour

Stage 2: Now!
Please complete the application form and return toartsindustry@brightonfringe.org no later than 12 noon on WEDNESDAY 4^TH FEBRUARY.

Verbatim.

Hey Y'all. 

Really wanna look into some Verbatim on Tuesday, here are a couple of youtube clips we could look at. 

Any more, feel free to add ! 

Two Best Friends

Growing Up in the 30's

105 year old's secret to happiness.

Caroline. 103.

Playing a man his favourite music.

(This one i can see a really heart warming piece.) 

any more please add :) 

I'm excited for Tuesday ! Yippeeee