Performance Research - On Repetition

Sheila has a two page spread in Performance Research On Repetition! 

On Repetition is online, and also available in beautiful hard-copy HERE.

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PERFORMANCE RESEARCH VOLUME 20 ISSUE 5

On Repetition 

Issue editors: Eirini Kartsaki and Theron Schmidt 

ISSN: 1352-8165 (2015) 20:5

‘The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love,’ wrote Søren Kierkegaard in 1843 in the guise of Constantin Constantius, describing his attempt to relive a love affair that was always-already lost. But to love repetition is to love impossibility and paradox, and a number of these contrary impulses are foregrounded in On Repetition: between originality and repeatability, between boredom and excitement, and between the now of performance and the longed-for not yet or never again.  Explored in relation to ritual, protest, gender, and trauma, as well as dance, theatre, and performance, this issue combines perspectives from artists and scholars; and, as to attend to repetition is to attend to the form of writing itself, it encourages textual interventions that blur the lines between the two.

Frame 18 from 24 Frames in Commemoration of You (Made for On Repetition)

Slow Story Slide Show at Bloomsbury Festival

Saturday 24 October 12-5pm & Sunday 25 October 2-5pm is another chance to see Slow Story Slide Show at Wellcome Collection's Reading Room as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2015. http://bit.ly/1M6PFXI

All events at Wellcome Collection are FREE.

Slow Story Slide Show is an audio/visual meditation on Light that excites the mind! For 10 individuals at a time - come along and see Sheila this weekend!

Slow Story Slide Show Photo Credit: Sheila Ghelani

BANK - part of Synergy at London Glassblowing

Sheila recently collaborated with Louis Thompson to make BANK. The piece is currently on show at London Glassblowing as part of Synergy

11th September - 17th October

London Glassblowing
62-66 Bermondsey Street
London, SE1 3UD

Open Mon-Sat, 10-6

A selection of plant-life collected downriver of The City, found growing dustily on the peninsula, in the shadow of its banks. Rooted in the crevices, growing doggedly at the edge, by the old Surrey Docks - the silvery / gold rush of water.

Harvested by Louis and Sheila in Rotherhithe on Wednesday 9th September at around about noon.

 “You cannot take the Thames with you. It has always been the river of commerce. The watercress-growers of Gravesend, the biscuit-bakers and store-shippers of Tooley Street, the ship-chandlers of Wapping, the block-makers and rope-makers of Limehouse, all owe their trades to the Thames…” p.539 Peter Ackroyd London The Biography (2001)

SLIP at Moseley Road Baths

Head down to Moseley Road Baths in Birmingham this weekend for SLIP, curated by Fierce Festival and the Friends of Moseley Road Baths. Sheila will be presenting a version of 'Rings Loops and Double Backs' (Ramble 2) created originally for Undercurrent Festival 2014. 

Open this Friday 11th September 4-8pm and Saturday 12th September 10am-4.30pm.

Rambles with Nature (Ramble 2)

Covet Me Care For Me - Appetite, The Big Feast

Covet Me Care For Me arrived into Stoke on Trent for Appetite's ‪#‎BigFeast2015‬ along with a whole host of other brilliant, mostly free, events. Covet Me Care For Me was shown on Sat 30 & Sun 31 August at Bethesda Chapel. http://www.appetitestoke.co.uk/whatson/covet

Photo Credit: Nicola Brodard

Ramble 1 part of Forest Fringe

Ramble 1 is going to be in Edinburgh this year as part of Forest Fringe!

17-30 August
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG
All events are free (donations gladly accepted)

For further details click HERE

Ramble 1 Image credit: Lucy Cash

Rambles with Nature - book launch - you're invited!

Rambles with Nature book launch 

Friday 24th July 2015
6-9pm
The White Building

Rambles with Nature will be launched jointly with Ways to Wander, edited by Clare Qualmann and Claire Hind. Both books will be available to purchase on the night, and you can purchase Rambles with Nature on Sheila's website here.

Launch event
6.00pm: Browse the books, nibbles & drinks
6.45pm: Ways to Wander introduction
7.00pm: Rambles with Nature introduction 
7.45pm: Opportunity to wander with Claire and Clare 
9.00pm: Finish

Please do join us, you can reserve a free place at the launch event by following the link to the main invitation HERE

 
Photo Credit: Sheila Ghelani

Covet Me Care For Me - Arc, Switzerland

Arc artist residence Re-opening party: Saturday 16 May

Covet Me Care for Me is a quiet, brutal, celebratory performance about heartbreak and heritage, objects and history, anatomy and difference. It encourages the viewer to consider the mixed up mess that resides in us all. 

Arc in Romainmôtier, Switzerland have invited Sheila to present Covet Me Care For Me at their Re-opening Party on 16 May 2015. This sees Sheila return to Switzerland, following presenting Covet Me Care For Me in Fribourg in 2011 as part of Belluard Bollwerk Festival (pictured). 

Photo Credit: Nicolas Brodard

Slow Story Slide Show - On Light Wellcome Collection & UCL

On Light
Friday 1st - Monday 4th May 2015
Wellcome Collection & UCL

Slow Story Slide Show is a specially created experience for ten people at a time 'on light'. Participants are invited to use headphones to listen to a meditation, or story, written by Sheila, whilst viewing a series of slides through desktop slide-viewers - each slide an image carefully selected from the Wellcome Collection.
On Light is a weekend of free activity, performance, discussion and art with events taking place at Wellcome Collection and UCL. On Light will illuminate our human relationship with light with four days of free events.  

Slow Story Slide Show, commissioned by Wellcome Collection for ‘On Light’, a collaboration between Wellcome Collection and UCL.

Photo Credit: Sheila Ghelani

And Fell Unto a Circle Sphere

For 6 weeks in January and February 2015, service users at Broadoak Unit co-created work with Sheila as part of Tate Space - a partnership between TATE Liverpool and Mersey Care NHS Trust
 
The project took its inspiration from the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington's diverse output and life, in advance of an exhibition of her paintings, sculptures, texts, costume and set designs at TATE Liverpool, 6th March - 31st May.

Together Sheila and the participants of the project made And Fell Unto A Circle Sphere - a series of framed images and texts (one of which is pictured).

Tidemill Studio's Art Auction for CoolTan Arts

Come along to an Art Auction at the place where Sheila's studio is. Featuring lots and lots of INCREDIBLE artists and all for a good cause.

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Recent Facilitation, Mentoring and Teaching

Sheila has recently acted as mentor for a lot of very talented artists: Jamal Harewood and Kay Channon (both MA students at the University of Chichester) Demi Nandhra (as part of Fierce Festival's Fierce Fwd scheme) and Ilker Cinarel (based in Cornwall / London). Check their work out!

Sheila has also just finished leading a Performing Medicine 4th year Academic Support Programme with 33 medical students at Kings College. The students produced some very moving work as part of their final performance presentations. Performing Medicine is a programme of courses, workshops and events which use the arts to provide training to medical students and practising health professionals. Sheila is lucky enough to be one of their team of Associate artists...

And last but not least Sheila was also very happy to recently lead a Masterclass at the University of Chichester (containing lots more artists to watch out for in the near future)...

Merops and Family from "Quiet Hours with Nature" by Elizabeth Brightwen