On the menu for this lovely lazy Sunday Pot Luck #4 are Bright Shadow, Little Cauliflower, Missy Maybe, new performance duo, Phoebe and Phil and more!

Tickets now available £6 / £5 (conc) plus 60/50p booking fee.

Ticket proceeds go towards future Pot Lucks

Bright Shadow

@brightshadow_uk

Linda – an extract of ‘Style a While’ (working title) –

Come and meet Linda, one of the practitioners in the local salon-for-the-mind. You will get to choose one of three ‘treatments’ that she has to offer in this one-to-one experience. This is an experimental exercise in the development of an installation that spotlights kindness (funded by ACE, KCC and Winchester Hat Fair).

Little Cauliflower

@CauliTheatre

The Night of the Big Wind

Little Cauliflower love telling tales and through puppetry and live music. This in an extract of the new show we are currently developing. It is based on the real story of a huge storm which hit Ireland with a vengeance in 1839. We shall explore the superstition, myth and tales which emerged from that fearful night

Missy Maybe

@missymaybe

Seduction of the Pizza Delivery Boy

Missy is fed up with being single and decides to take her love life into her own hands by seducing the unsuspecting Pizza Delivery boy, using the art of Burlesque. However Missy hasn’t spent the money on feather boas and silk stockings and improvises with a range of household items

Knickers in a Twist

Missy has finally succeeded in getting a hot date and has tried her best, with the aid of ‘magic knickers’ to look like the description she gave on the website! But the date has come back for coffee and now missy must prepare herself for a possible night of passion.

Phoebe and Phil

@_pheebs_ & @phabfil

For Flux Sake

What is Fluxus? Visual poetry? Intermedial ephemeralities? A voyage through Yoko Ono’s nether regions? Is it good or just a bit shit? Can it resolve the life/art dichotomy? Presenting work from a recently discovered Fluxartist Derek Wade, we are here to bring it back. We are Phoebe & Phil. For Flux Sake.

The Raw Junction Company

@The_RJC

The Contents of Jars

The Raw Junction Company would like to take you on a journey back to a time of innocence, play and imagination; but this is childhood with a difference. This is a small work-in-progress piece which explores a series of fragmented memories, sounds and characters that have been stored away only to be rediscovered once again.

Thom Herzmark (The Juggler With No Stage Name)

Thom has worked with young people for 7 years, developing ways of making circus skills accessible to those with special needs. He is also a member of Performers Without Borders and has entertained audiences in countries as diverse as India, Kyrgyzstan and Iraq. Tonight he will be delighting us with two juggling sets which, in turn, demonstrate the mechanics and celebrate the art form of juggling.

Hero of the 1940s radio serial, Dick Barton (played by widely experienced TV, film and theatre actor James Petherick), is back in an action packed adventure. Join DB, Jock (Patrick O’Connor), Snowy ,Daphne (Ann Lindsey Wickens) Colonel Gardener (Josiah Rose )Lady Laxington (Biff Harrison) and a host of old pals as he faces arch enemies Baron Scarheart (Brian Withstandley currently enjoying a cult following as Uncle Jesse in the “Battle of the Subway Sandwich!”) and Marta Heartburn (Marie Kelly), aiming to rid the world of evil in the name of decency and patriotism. This Spoof Radio production of EPISODE I in Phil Willmott’s series is directed by opera and musical comedy director John Drewry.

Sat 25th Feb 2012 – Matinee 2.30pm Evening 7.30pm £10  THE TOM THUMB THEATRE 2a Eastern Esplanade MARGATE CT9 2LB   Box Office: 01843 221791 www.wegotickets.com

Fri 9th and Sat 10th March 2012 7.30pm £13/10  THE DOMINICAN PRIORY St Peters Lane CANTERBURY CT2 8BD   Box Office: The Marlowe Theatre 012276 787787

Sunday 18th March 2012 8pmJERMYN STREET THEATRE (Stage 100 Awards 2011 for Best London Fringe Theatre)16B Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6ST  £18/£14  Box office 0207 287 2875

Sat 24th March 2012 7.30pm FARNHAM MALTINGS Bridge Square, Farnham GU9 7QR  Tickets £14/£12  Box Office: 01252 745444

Sunday 25 March  7.30pm THE ASTOR COMMUNITY THEATRE DEAL Stanhope Road, Deal, Kent CT14 6AB  Tickets £10/£9  Box Office: 01304 370220

Cast: Biff Harrison, Marie Kelly, Ann Lindsey Wickens, Patrick O’Connor, James Petherick, Josiah Rose, Brian Withstandley

Marie Kelly, Ann Lindsey Wickens Tel: 077187 11811/ 07703 207878
For KATAPULT Productions
Email: kellygreenproductions@hotmail.co.uk

The Awards celebrate the best of Canterbury District’s and East Kent’s cultural activity from the previous year (1st January to 31st December 2011).

There are 10 Awards and you can enter as many categories as you like and there are just a few simple questions to answer for each so it’s a great chance to showcase your achievements to the rest of the cultural sector.

Entry forms should be completed and returned by 12 noon, Friday 16 March.

Please note there is no entry form for the Canterbury Award; this is awarded directly by the members of the Canterbury for Culture Board.

Key Dates

Entry deadline: 12 noon, Friday 16 March

Shortlisted entrants notified by: Friday 30 March

Awards ceremony: Thursday 21 June

The awards are designed to assist with the cost of a special course, a workshop or a project involving any of the arts : music,   dance,   drama,   visual arts,   multimedia

Closing date for applications is Friday 9th. March

Auditions will be held on Monday 26th. March
Awards will be announced in April

Application forms available online or from Scholarship Administrator, Sara Kettlewell, 18 Bennells Avenue, Whitstable Kent CT5 2HP or by phone on 01227 266272

The event will take place during caravan 2012, on Monday 14^th May at the Corn Exchange in Brighton.

If you would like to take part in this event please complete the application form and return to Harriet Anscombe at harriet.anscombe@farnhammaltings.com or Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR by 5.00pm on Monday 27th February 2012.

Please note this is an application form and a stand at the exchange is not necessarily secured. We will let you know once we have selected the companies.

If you require any more information or have any questions please contact Harriet on the email address above.

Canterbury Innovation Centre

People United offer an event for those who would like to learn more about mentoring and advice-giving within the arts sector.  The session is primarily aimed at Kent-based individuals who already informally offer advice and guidance to other arts colleagues and would like to know more.

The interactive session will be led by Sara Robinson, who currently coaches and mentors arts leaders on the Clore Leadership Programme and will feature a range of presenters including Joanna Jones, Director of Museums and Galleries at Canterbury City Council and Mary Ann le Lean from Year One Consulting.

The event is free but please reserve your place 

The Little Blue Hut sits on Tankerton Slopes, near Whitstable, offering inspiring sea views and tranquil creative thinking space.

As one of our artists in beach hut residence, we’ll want you to:

• Use the Little Blue Hut for a minimum of 18 days over your residency
• Hold an open day for members of the public to visit and find out about your work
• Post a weekly blog about your Little Blue Hut experience on www.creativecanterbury.com
• Have public liability insurance cover

And in return, we will:

• Provide use of the Little Blue Hut
• Promote your residency work

The next residency runs from:
Wednesday 14 March – Wednesday 25 April

The Little Blue Hut is 10ft by 10ft, has sea views and natural light. There is no electricity or running water, although public toilets are nearby!

Interested? Then email your C.V. with a letter telling us why you’d like to use Little Blue Hut and what you’d like to achieve (in no more than 500 words) to: arts@canterbury.gov.uk by noon on Friday 2 March 2012

Please note that the deadline for interested parties is very short notice.

How to Apply
Please submit a written bid, 2-sides of A4, to include your initial thoughts and ideas about the project, including methodology and process, a recent CV, examples of successful projects of a similar or related nature, two references and your financial proposals – specifying your day rate.

Timetable
Submissions to be received by Irene Seijo by 5pm Wednesday February 22, at the KAC offices in Chatham Historic Dockyard. Submissions by email are preferred.

Interviews are to take place from 10.00am , Friday February 24, 2012 in Chatham.

The contract commences from March 1 2012, or earlier if feasible, and will continue throughout 2012/13, with an expected event taking place by September 2012.

Introduction
Kent Architecture Centre – KAC – is an independent not-for-profit team of committed design and planning professionals who assist in place making and provide design support to local communities, local planning authorities and the development sector. A social enterprise in the voluntary and community sector, we were established in 1995 in The Historic Dockyard Chatham, to support North Kent.

Background
URBAN Fringe proposes a series of 4 x artistic interventions to enable a depth of engagement within the unique context of North Kent’s fringe lands. The project offers time and space for artists to meaningfully engage with people who live there, to draw out the narratives of this unique place, and to influence future renewal and developments. These artistic interventions will be commissioned in the urban fringes between Medway and Kent, where the river Medway becomes coastal towards the Isle of Sheppey, and where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea. It is only here that these waters converge and touch the North Kent landscape of marshlands and bird sanctuaries, urban sprawl and rural community, industry and outstanding natural beauty. The fringelands of an urban area are often socially and economically disadvantaged, lack a ‘sense of place’, and have limited access to the arts. Through these commissions, artists will connect people with place through deep engagement, and encourage and motivate people to take an active role in shaping their physical environment. The ambition is to creatively engage communities in looking at the distinctive qualities of their neighbourhood and the area where they live. To draw out a narrative about the area that articulates the particular things that they value, or things that they would like to change. This project aims to use the art to broaden the idea of ‘place’ beyond the physical and to help communities think more intuitively about their area, and therefore to be able to engage in regeneration and change in a very skilled and sophisticated way. It is often said by regeneration practitioners that ‘the place is the client’, this project aims to give the place a ‘voice’ through creativity and engagement.

The aims:
• To give artists time and space to explore a unique context
• To bring a depth of engagement through innovative participatory, ‘live’, celebratory
interventions created for and with marginalised communities.
• To engender a sense of ‘pride of place’ and encourage communities to actively engage.
• To influence future placemaking by developing a resource of creative documentation that
articulates the narratives of the area, for planners, local authorities and urban renewal
teams.
• To develop and empower a group of emerging locally-based artists.
• To better understand the role of artists in shaping places.

The project
What we would like to deliver:
Four artists will initially act as mentors and the ‘creative voice’ of the existing place; to capture the textures, narratives and stories emerging from the project and the fringe land more widely, and to gather these in a rich and layered artwork and resource to be made available to artists, planning teams and local authorities. These artists will then go on to work with and for fringe land communities, each with a live, participatory, celebratory activity at its core in Medway and in Swale. They will explore the nature of changing places and social ecologies – the ‘new story’ that will emerge as the project develops – bringing a new perspective and different dynamic to the project.

Working closely with our ‘Culture and Place Group’ we will select four artists for the activity, chosen for their interest in this type of work. These artists will have up to 7 months to work with communities towards an event or intervention in the Medway / Swale fringelands.

Overall Objective
To deliver four creative commissions in the ‘fringes’ of Medway and Swale, giving artists time and space to develop celebratory interventions that enables a depth of engagement with the people that live there. The commissions will capture and explore the relationships between artists, place and communities – their values and customs. The Creative Producer will report back to the Project Manager at KAC (Irene Seijo) at regular intervals and to the Culture and Place Group during key project delivery milestones. The Creative Producer will support KAC to deliver the peer mentoring, evaluation and strategic delivery of the project, particularly monitoring the learning, development and new direction of the organization and its influence of new ways of working.

Scope
* Establishing a detailed Implementation Plan for the ‘Urban Fringe’ project
* Developing the detailed brief for the artists selected by the Culture & Place Group, and managing this commissioning process. Working with those artists to identify locations in the areas identified.
* Leading the planning of the ‘Urban Fringe’ project, in particular the implementation of the vision into a series of individual event(s) in two distinctive urban areas.
* Managing the development of the process of research into the textures, narratives and stories around the ‘built environment’ and ‘place making’ agendas and issues in the specific urban communities and the ‘fringe lands’ selected, by whatever means are seen as appropriate for the project to achieve successful outcomes, within the specific resources constraints.
* Identifying and establishing relationships with relevant communities and constituencies in the selected ‘urban fringe’ area(s).
* Managing the work of the selected artists, and facilitating their involvement with relevant communities and constituencies in the selected area, and managing these relationships over the course of the project.
* Producing a series of activities and events in the period of the project, including in the period leading up to the final activity – these may be workshops, conferences, exhibitions, installations, events using social media and digital processes, education and training. The Creative Producer will be responsible for the management of all production requirements of these activities.
* Developing and implementing a communications plan for the ‘Urban Fringe’ project, in conjunction with relevant KAC staff team and advisers.
* Working with relevant public and private sector stakeholders to ensure successful partnerships, and if appropriate establishing new relationships and partnerships, both for this specific project, and for the future.

Through the development of this pilot project, exploring the feasibility of establishing the model of the “Urban Fringe’ project as a core project of KAC, to be developed and implemented in other urban areas that KAC are working with, in the future. This is envisaged as a symposium / seminar / conference at the end of the event(s).

Note : All these activities will be undertaken in conjunction with the project leader Irene Seijo and the KAC staff team

Outcomes
These will include:
* Detailed knowledge and documentation of the selected ‘urban fringe’ areas
* Successful event (s) taking place in the summer of 2012 in the selected ‘places’
* Detailed, documented, case study of the process of development and delivery of the project, and of the communities/ constituencies involved.
* Legacy plan detailed, and forward action plan agreed by all parties, including, if feasible, commitment of parties, to undertake this.
* Evaluation report, structured as agreed, to meet both KAC, KCC, and ACE requirements.

Responsibilities
The Creative Producer’s responsibilities will include:
* Establishment, and the management, including all necessary attendances leading up to, and on the day(s) of the events.
* All legal and contractual arrangements with the artists, venues, suppliers and any other party, as agreed.
* Project budget management and cash flow in consultation with KAC.
* All Health and Safety requirements, including any event and related Licensing / Temporary Event Notices (TEN’s), crowd management and security.
* Ensuring the Environmental impact of the events is in accordance with local requirements and parameters.
* Recruitment and management of any part time and temporary staff, and the involvement of volunteers, according to KAC Human Resources guidelines, and their Equal Opportunities Policies and Practice.

All these responsibilities will be undertaken in conjunction with IS and the KAC staff team

Budget / Fee
This is a freelance contract, open to individuals, partnerships and companies. We estimate that 15 days are required to be work on the project, but there is some flexibility here. The successful applicant will be responsible for their own National Insurance, Tax and related self employed costs including insurance and inclusive of travel. The programme and project budget will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate, and is envisaged as £40,000 +

Governance
The Creative Producer will report on a day to day basis to Irene Seijo, and through her, to the KAC Culture and Place Reference Group, which meets on a regular basis, in conjunction with the KAC Chief Executive, Chris Lamb.

Person Specification
Artistic vision, and the experience to effectively implement this vision in a variety of settings. In particular, an understanding and experience of the relationship between ‘culture’ and ‘place’, and the role of artistic / cultural interventions in place making, and of ‘site specific’ projects.

Exceptional proven arts and cultural project management skills and experience, both as a strategic negotiator, a commissioner of high quality cultural projects, and as an effective cultural producer.

Knowledge and experience of the arts and cultural sector in Kent and the South East, and of the artists who live and work here.

Knowledge and experience of the arts funding infrastructure in the region, including with relevant local authorities

Experience of working on a project with multiple partners, and partnership working, in conjunction with both the public sector ( eg Arts Council England, Local Authorities), private sector ( property owners and developers) and with more informal community and constituency groups ( artists, young people)

Cultural leadership expertise, in this type of context, especially with other practitioners, including experience of facilitating groups and workshops, and of working with communities.

Ability and experience of working on own initiative, as well as working as a member of a dynamic team.

Excellent communication and advocacy skills, and an understanding and, if possible, experience, of strategic marketing and implementing marketing plans in this field.

Financial management skill and experience, able to establish budgets and work within budgets.

Irene Seijo
Kent Architecture Centre
Admiral’s Offices, Historic Dockyard
Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ
Tel:   01634 401166
Fax:  01634 403302
Email:  irene.seijo@architecturecentre.org

Jarman Studio, School of Arts.

Tues 28th Feb, 1 – 6pm

All are welcome, but places must be booked in advance. For booking or further information please contact Keeley Saunders: ks424@kent.ac.uk

Jon Savage – ‘Teenage – A 30-Year Odyssey’

Jon Savage’s singular study, Teenage: the creation of youth culture, 1875-1945, was published in 2007, marking a high point in a project that he had begun 27 years earlier with a cancelled Granada television series. The project, however, did not finish with the book’s publication, and has since generated two compact disc collections, and a forthcoming feature documentary. Jon Savage will talk about the genesis, development and future of Teenage. The story he will tell will cover his 30-odd years of working in British television, his career as a journalist and, as he has experienced it, the shifting role of the critic.

Jon Savage is the author of the seminal history of punk, England’s Dreaming. He has made documentaries on Joy Division and Brian Epstein; compiled numerous cd collections — including “Black Hole — a compilation of California Punk,” and “Meridian 1970 – Protest, Sorrow, Hobos, Folk and Blues”; written for most of the major music magazines, and he is a regular contributor to The Guardian.

Oddfellows Hall, 142 High Street, Ramsgate

Clive Holland & Mischievous Theatre invite to you attend the birthday party of AWN Pugin, architect and visionary. There will be parlour games, a Victorian buffet, theatre, film and music and of course, a cake!

Mischievous has been awarded funding from Arts Council England for the research and development of their Pugin theatre project – The Man in the Wide Awake Hat – the party gets things underway!

Tickets £12 (£8 under18/over65) from clive@mischievoustheatre.co.uk or 07971 223282 orwww.wegottickets.com (10% charge per order)