About me: TELL
Treasures of the East London Line - a response to its closure.
Action research project celebrating the past, present and future of the East London Line through collaboration with local community groups.
Postgraduate students from the MA in Cross Sectoral and Community Arts at Goldsmiths College, New Cross delivered in partnership with the National Theatre, will engage with local schools, Transport for London staff and members of the public in a participatory arts activities throughout May 2007. This will culminate in a one day celebration on the trains and at stations along the East London Line. Participants will be given an opportunity to express personal stories and reflections creating a platform for corporate and community engagement.
This is seen as an initial research stage of a larger community engagement project that will run alongside the planned ELL development.
The project will be delivered in three phases;
Phase 1: April – May 2007.
Initial engagement and research with accompanying showcase event.
Phase 2: May – December.
Review lessons learned, delivery of line wide participatory arts festival to coincide with line closure. Participants will fall into three groups – Community, Staff and Passengers.
Phase 3: December 2007 – 2010.
TELL artists run a variety of artist led participatory art projects working with community groups along the now closed line creating and sustaining communication between these communities.
This will culminate in a line wide participatory arts festival coinciding with the opening of the new line.
Hey! How's life going?
I'm just hitting some friends with a quick note to let you know about our second single release "End of the World"; it's out on June 18th and you'll be able to pick up a live or studio version of the song from iTunes, Napster and so on!
We're also heading back to the UK for a week of gigs taking in Kent, Essex, Swindon, Birmingham and Cambridge before heading back to the US for our regular shows around NY and NJ and hopefully a few further afield.
Drop by the page for dates, it would be great to see you at a show soon!
xJake
Just a quickie to let you know that our debut EP is going to be released on Tuesday 5th June @ Centre Stage in Bournemouth. It would be great to see you if you can make it for the launch night. The EP will cost a mere 5 earth pounds.....So put it in your diary !!
If you can't make the launch night, it will also be available online (both as CD and as a download) from the 6th June.
If you can't remember what we do, you can watch some videos live from the studio here
See you soon
Steve Jones
The Velvet Hearts
NEXT GIGS:
9 May 2007 Boiler Room Guildford.
13 May 2007 The Cellars at Eastney Portsmouth.
29 May 2007 Edge @ The Wedge Southsea.
5 Jun 2007 8:30 Centre Stage Bournemouth.
This will be our last posting for a while... but it's good news... We decided to release our single 2 days early to our Myspace friends! You can download the studio version that's playing on our page or a previously unheard LIVE VERSION from our last UK tour.
Both tracks cost just 99c / 79p each! Click either store logo to go and download it now! xJ
