Infinity Knot at Dialogue: Talking/Making/Taking Part - Oval House 22-23 November

Infinity Knot is an interactive workshop that Sheila will be presenting at Dialogue: Talking/Making/Taking Part at Oval House Theatre this Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November. 

Talking/Making/Taking Part invites you to play, chat and share - and eat - through informal discussions and interactive performances. 

Sat 22 and Sun 23 November, 10am-5pm. (Weekend tickets £10 | £8 conchs) (Day ticket £7)

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Photo: Pragma Weekend, Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, August 2014. Belinda Lawley ©

Some Patterns of Current with straybird

Sheila has been invited by straybird (Lucy Cash and Becky Edmunds) to work on their new project Some Patterns of Current at Hampton Library, London. straybird are artists-in-residence at the Library as part of Richmond Borough Arts Service's Dance In Libraries project.

Funded by Arts Council England, Dance in Libraries is a 2-year project which seeks to research and reframe library spaces through creative dialogue between dance artists and library users. The project places dance artists-in-residence in library spaces and allows the artists to research and develop ideas in response to the space and people associated with the building.

Over the next few months straybird and Sheila will be working towards creating a choreographic installation which will open in November 2014.

More info to follow soon... In the meantime there is a straybird blog about the project HERE

Hampton Library reflection by Lucy Cash

Sheila at SIGNAL Summer University in Brussels

SIGNAL is 4 days to reflect upon living art and the city, and 4 artistic interventions in public space in Brussels.

The Summer University of Cifas, which is dedicated to the relations between Living Art and Public Space, uses the notion of the "other" during three days to explore the existing tensions between hidden city and ideal city, more or less barricaded ghettos and unexpected encounters, correct social behaviour and compulsory participation. In these complex relationships which weave our urban everyday life, what role(s) do artists, cultural operators and people in charge of cultural policies want to play?

The Summer University will be extended to a program of living and ephemeral interventions in public space, furthering the reflection, but overall addressing the citizens and users of the City, in four different neighbourhoods of Brussels.

Sheila Will deliver a workshop entitled Thinking (perhaps) about the Rat: 

For the past year Sheila has been making Rambles with Nature - a new body of work that explores the hedgerow from many different angles, through many different art-forms and with many different collaborators. Over the course of the project she has worked with artists, illustrators, musicians, ecologists, gardeners, wildlife enthusiasts and foragers (to name but a few). Together they have been undertaking a series of Rambles, using the hedgerow as a starting point or 'spine'.

Detailed program on www.cifas.be

Rat Rose Bird Research

Summer Love - Covet Me Care For Me, Ramble 1, Infinity Knot

Sheila has a number of events coming up through July and August at Warwick Art Centre and Southbank Centre:

IFTR World Congress - Warwick Arts Centre: 

29-31 July 2014

Covet Me Care For Me & Ramble 1 Sheila Ghelani with straybird

Covet Me Care For Me will be shown on 30th July 18.00-21.00 (open to IFTR delegates only) and Ramble 1 will be in the foyer 29th-30th July as part of straybird's curated programme FOUND.

Southbank Centre, Pragma Enduring Love:

Infinity Knot & From Me To You With Love photo exhibition

2-3 August 2014 (Infinity Knot 11-5 Saturday & Sunday, Royal Festival Hall - Free)

Covet Me Care For Me Hearts - Image Manuel Vason

Meet at the Albany / Brighton Dome's Collidescope

Sheila has just facilitated 3 sessions for Meet Me at The Albany... Over the course of these, those that wanted to went on a Ramble with Nature with Sheila using words, materials, craft, conversation and...well, whatever took their fancy.  Each session felt very rich and produced some interesting outcomes - the results of which will be posted on Sheila's blog soon...

And in May (some time back now) Sheila was lucky enough to be one of the artist's selected to be part of Brighton Dome's pilot project Collidescope. An initiative in which a group of artists were invited to watch, experience and discuss 3 weeks of shows, talks and exhibitions at the festival.  It was of course another very rewarding experience... Sheila was also lucky enough to once more be housed by Blast Theory as one of their artist's in residence that month (More info HERE).

Image from Ramble 3 by John Hunter

Night Watch: Ramble 1 and Crepuscular Activity

Part of Night Watch - a non-stop 24 hour festival of new performance at Cambridge Junction.

Alongside Ramble 1 Sheila has created: Crepuscular Activity
This new Ramble takes place off site within some of the rural pockets of Cambridge City. There will be two twilight experiences, one at dusk 9.22pm and one at dawn on Sunday at 3.58.

Rambles 1 at Siobhan Davies Studios, Image by Lucy Cash

TATE Space 2014

Etyma: A tiding of good words

Sheila is currently co-creating a series of works with service-users from Broad Oak Unit, as part of TATE Space 2014 - a partnership between Tate Liverpool and Mersey Care NHS Trust.

The project takes its inspiration from the Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain exhibition currently on at TATE Liverpool, and more specifically Rose Finn Kelcey's The Magpie's Box a performance 'toolkit' (on display as part of it).

Key words have been used to stimulate everything from conversation to audio recording, to sketching and filming. Participants have been able to drop in and out of sessions at any time over the course of the nine-week project.

The results - titled Etyma: A tiding of good words - will be displayed at TATE Liverpool in July:

Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 July, 11.00 - 17.00 FREE

It is also one of Liverpool Biennial's 2014 listed exhibitions.

Feel free to contact Sally if you have any questions about the project or would like to know more: sally@sheilaghelani.co.uk

Hand sewn word by one of the project participants

Rings, Loops and Double Backs - Ramble 2

Ramble 2 is finished! Come along and experience the piece at:

Undercurrent Festival 2014

Rings, Loops and Double Backs (Ramble 2)

Fri 11 - Sun 13 April, 10am - 4pm

Sat 12 & Sun 13 April, 12pm: performance with St Mary de Haura Handbell Ringers
The Old School House, Ham Road, Shoreham by Sea

World Premiere

The latest in Sheila's Rambles with Nature series, Rings Loops and Double Backs is a sound installation set amongst the leaves of a living tree and was created in collaboration with sound designer Scott Smith and musicians / widlife experts met in Shoreham during one of Undercurrent's Slow Boat Residencies last Autumn. Ramble 2 was also supported by a Blast Theory studio residency and through a work in progress presentation at Blast Theory Studios in December last year.

As well as the drop-in installation, there’s a chance to hear a performance by the St Mary de Haura Handbell Ringers at midday on Saturday and Sunday.

Undercurrent Festival is three days of playful performances, installations and games. From the station to the sea, Undercurrent will create a trail of imaginative events across Shoreham town centre for inquisitive adults and mischievous children. Free for all ages.

Supported by Arts Council England through the National Lottery

Photo credit: Blast Theory

Metes and Bounds - Imperial War Museum North

For 6 weeks in January and February Sheila worked with Second year BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre students from the University of Salford at The Imperial War Museum North to make Metes and Bounds, a collective response to the Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War exhibition that was being shown on Level One. Together, they made a performance which aimed to bring audience a little bit closer to the works on display and question perceptions of war and conflict, land and bodies, boundaries and nature.

It was a really interesting experience working at the Museum, not only did all of the making have to take place in public, but students had to sensitively respond to the site / subject matter themselves and place their own 'live' work alongside the work of other extraordinary artists...

The students recieved excellent feedback from the museum.  Read some comments about the work HERE.

The students involved were:

Catherine Hallas, Liam Byrne, Bethanie Southwell, Charlie Colquhon, Hannah Day, Glynn Slater, David Cannon, Laura Christou

With special thanks to Camilla Thomas (IWM) and Niki Woods (University of Salford)

Image from Rambles with Nature - Ramble 1, Photo credit: Lucy Cash

Ramble 1 installation at Siobhan Davies Studios

Ramble 1 has reached installation stage! All four cine-poems are being shown together for the very first time in London, opening Wednesday next week... the installation runs until March 2nd so there's plenty of time to see them. Details below:

Rambles with Nature – Ramble 1

Siobhan Davies Studios, SE1 6ER

Weds 15 Jan - 2 March

Plus

Tues 18 Feb, 2pm-3pm - exhibition tour with the artists
Fri 28 Feb, 7pm - artists in conversation (This event is part of South London Art Map’s Last Friday)

Free entry to both events, book at reception or call 020 70919650

Sheila Ghelani with straybird (Lucy Cash and Becky Edmunds) open their installation of four film works based on the humble English hedgerow.

Cash and Edmunds were invited by interdisciplinary artist Sheila Ghelani to collaborate on her Rambles with Nature project. In August 2013 they undertook a ‘ramble’ together which resulted in a series of four short cinepoems for small screens. Ramble 1 is shown for the first time as an installation that invites you to discover the works on your own ramble through the Studios.

Rambles with Nature - Ramble 1 runs until 2 March.

Read more →

From Fur and Feather - one of the four cine-poems

Rings, Loops and Double Backs - Ramble 2 work in progress event

You are warmly invited to attend the first Rambles With Nature event:
RINGS, LOOPS, AND DOUBLE BACKS - work in progress sharing, Ramble 2
Friday 13th December 2013, Blast Theory Studios, Portslade

Installation open from 3pm-7pm, with a few words and festive refreshments at 4pm

Sheila will be presenting a work in progress installation of Ramble 2 at Blast Theory studios in Portslade, supported by Undercurrent.

Please come to this address and press the door bell for Unit 5 Blast Theory:

Unit 5, 20 Wellington Road

Portslade, Brighton

East Sussex, BN41 1DN

Any one is welcome to stop by throughout the opening times, however please note that wheelchair access is limited 3-5pm. If you need any assistance please call: 07960 450 856 and please email sally@sheilaghelani.co.uk if you have any queries on access requirements.

Sheila has been foraging for sounds over the course of a residency in and around Shoreham by Sea, supported by Shoreham based Undercurrent through a Slow Boat residency and Blast Theory through a studio residency.

Sheila has been working with local musicians (such as Scott Smith and the St Mary de Haura Church and Hand Bell ringers), wildlife experts and others she has met along the way, and created an experiential sound installation. Come along to experience the installation, give some feedback at this stage of its development and enjoy some festive cheer! 

Contact: sally@sheilaghelani.co.uk with any questions, or to let us know you will be coming.

St Mary de Haura Handbell

Presence! as part of The Good Neighbour

Last week Sheila installed her new look WHITE Presence! room at Battersea Arts Centre as part of The Good Neighbour. The piece is on until January 4th and is perfect for children aged 6+.  Here's some further info:

Battersea Arts Centre and Bloomberg Futures present
THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR
6 Dec - 4 Jan | 2pm & 7pm

Battersea Arts Centre’s critically acclaimed show for children aged 6+ and families returns this Christmas.

★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ Time Out  ★★★★ The Guardian

There are long-forgotten mysteries lurking behind every creaking door of Battersea’s old Town Hall. Cobwebs cling to hidden doorways and secret passages, and from these old and dusty places an adventure is waiting to burst out and take over the building.

George Neighbour has lived at Battersea Arts Centre all his life and knows it like the back of his hand, but now he needs your help to uncover the mystery of his lost memory. Join him on a thrilling dash through the building, jumping in and out of magical worlds where curious characters all have their own incredible tale to tell.

Full priced tickets £12 - £19.50
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Inside last years Presence! room