FÊTE QUAQUA 2009
 A three day international festival of improvised music

VENUE
The Vortex, 11 Gillett Square, London N18 8JH
August 16/17/18  Doors open 8 pm
Admission  £10 / £7 concessions  Three day season ticket £25 / £18 concessions
tel: 020 7993 3645
Guitarist and Mopomoso boss, John Russell, brings together another hand picked group of leading international improvisers in his three day annual festival -  Fête Quaqua 2009 .
PARTICIPATING MUSICIANS
Satoko Fukuda (UK)                  violin
Pat Thomas (UK)                        keyboards
John Butcher (UK)                     saxophones
Sabu Toyozumi (Japan)              percussion
Jean Bordé  (France)                  bass
Luo Chao-yun (Taiwan)               pipa
Ute Voelker (Germany                accordion
Angelika Sheridan (Germany)    flutes
Lol Coxhill (UK)                          saxophone
John Russell (UK)                       guitar
Shabaka Hutchings (UK)            reeds
Henry Lowther (UK)                   trumpet
Hannah Marshall (UK)                cello
The festival will feature both ensemble and smaller groupings to explore new collaborations developed over the three days, creating extraordinary new musical possibilities.  A major annual event on the international free improvised music scene. Booking advisable.
Mopomoso gratefully acknowledges support from The PRS Foundation and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Republic of China


The Musicians
Jean Bordé
After studying Classical and Contemporary at Ecole      Normale de Musique de Paris, Jazz (with Jacques Vidal) and Tango (with Juan José Mosalini) bassist Jean Bordé has played with an array of improvising musicians in many situations including the quartet ‘Diktat’, Steve Beresford, Bertand Gauget, Simon H Fell, Pascal Marzan and Didier Lasserre. He also composes for film and radio. 
Angelika Sheridan
After studying classical flute at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essenn, Angelika went on to further studies in improvisation and experimental music with Ran Blake and John Heiss in Boston. Employing both bass and c flutes, she combines aspects of traditional tone production with extended and self developed techniques that redefine our notions of how the instrument is played. Whilst currently teaching flute at the Cologne Music Conservatory she performs improvised and contemporary experimental music as well as collaborating with other artists in the fields of dance and silent film.
Luo Chao-yun
Luo Chao-yun gained a Master's degree in Pipa Performance at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and now teaches at the National Hsin-Chu University of Education in Taiwan. A virtuoso, she is a tireless international ambassador for the instrument, equally at home with traditional Chinese  and contemporary music, performing as a soloist or ensemble member and giving master classes and lecture recitals in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Among the many groups she has appeared with are the Taipei Municipal, Grass Mountain Traditional and Penang Hui Yin Seh orchestras.
Lol Coxhill
Lol Coxhill became active in the jazz scene as a teenager, when he began organizing club events with both live and recorded music in 1947. During the 1960s he fronted bands of his own but mostly worked with visiting American Soul and R&B performers and later with such rock musicians as Kevin Ayers and Mike Olfdield.
By the close of the 1960s he had developed a distinctive, unrestrained style that he could integrate into any musical setting. His 1970 double album ‘Ear of the Beholder’ was one of the first releases on John Peel’s Dandelion label and throughout the 70’s he moved further into free improvisation, playing in Derek Bailey’s Company, The Spontaneous Music Ensemble and AMM. Ever eclectic Lol also began an acting career on stage, film and television. He continues to develop his improvisational skills with many of the world’s leading musicians.
Shabaka Hutchings
After growing up in Barbados Shabaka Hutchings studied classical clarinet at the Guildhall School of Music and, since graduating, has led his own trio ‘Zed-U’ and is a member of Courtney Pine’s Jazz Warriors and The London Improvisers Orchestra. A much in demand musician he has performed with amongst others: Polar Bear, The Heliocentrics, Byron Wallen, Kaidi Tathum, Anthony Joseph and The Spasm Band, Dylan Bates, Soweto Kinch, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Louis Moholo, Gary Crosby’s Nu-Troop, Tania Chen and    Roger Turner.
Henry Lowther
During the sixties Henry Lowther was one of the first musicians on the British jazz scene to experiment with totally free improvisation, notably with Lyn Dobson, Jack Bruce and John Hiseman. He played with the original and seminal Mike Westbrook band (which included Mike Osborne and John Surman), and also with John Dankworth, including playing on the now legendary Kenny Wheeler album "Windmill Tilter" while also working on the rock scene with Manfred Mann, John Mayall and Keef Hartley, with whom he appeared at the famous Woodstock festival. Henry's musical breadth is confirmed by his frequent engagements with major symphony orchestras and ensembles, including the London Brass Virtuosi, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the Matrix Ensemble. Until its demise Henry was for five years the solo flugelhorn player with the Strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra, and as a session musician he has recorded with Simon Rattle, Elton John, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Van Morrison, Henry Mancini, Bing Crosby, Nelson Riddle and Talk Talk amongst many others. He is one of only two or three players in the world to have had the honour of playing lead trumpet with both Gil Evans and George Russell. In the last few years Henry has become increasingly interested in composition and formed his own band "Still Waters" to enable him to pursue this interest further.
Ute Völker
Accordionist Ute Völker is a founder member of the New and Improvised music group ‘Partita Radicale’ and ‘Fineworks’ a pool of improvising musicians from North Rhein Westphalia, Wiesbaden and Bremen. She appears regularly at international festivals in both group projects and as a soloist; also working in interdisciplinary projects with visual artists, film makers, actors, writers and performance artists. She currently lives in  Wuppertal and teaches at the Musikschule Bochum.
Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas uses randomly selected, pre-recorded tapes, programmed electronics and effects boxes with electronic keyboards and acoustic piano and is a versatile musician, at home in a wide variety of musics. He has played, recorded and broadcast with many top improvisers including Derek Bailey, Roger Turner, Evan Parker, John Russell, Phil Minton. the Tony Oxley quartet, Sirone, Manfred Schoof, Fred Frith, Jim O’Rourke, Steve Beresford, Matts Gustafsson and Shelly Hirsch.
Sabu Toyozumi
Drummer Sabu Toyozumi began his professional career in 1967 playing with the Samurais and appearing at festivals alongside rock groups such as Pink Floyd, Ten Years After and Led Zeppelin. He started working in free improvisation in 1970 and joined the AACM in Chicago in 1972.
There followed a period of travel and he established his own group Sabu Unit in 1976. In 1979 he formed a duo with Kaoru Abe and from 1985 began touring in Africa, Europe, the Middle and Far East, India, Nepal, Mongolia, Korea and Burma. Since 1987 he has worked with many European musicians in Japan including Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Sonny Murray and Misha Mengelberg. In 2001 he began working in a duo with Takehisha Kosugi. He has also worked with (amongst others) Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, Harri Sjostrom, Ute Wasserman, Lol Coxhill and Veryan Weston.
John Butcher
John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s. His music ranges through free improvisation, various structurings, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and work with live electronics, amplification and feedback.
He has toured and broadcast in Europe, Japan, Australia and North America and was featured, playing solo, in the BBC TV programme Date with an Artist. Compositions include pieces for Chris Burn’s Ensemble, the Austrian group Polwechsel, the Australian ensemble Elision, the American Rova Saxophone Quartet and "somethingtobesaid" for the 8-piece John Butcher Group.
Satoko Fukuda
Satoko began playing violin in Japan at the age of seven, two years later coming to England to study with Catherine Lord. Her debut concerto performance was at the age of thirteen for the Anglo Japanese Society. She has since performed and recorded in the UK and Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Japan, Israel, RSA and USA. In 1997, she was invited to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Natasha Boyarskaya and Lucia Ibragimova on a full scholarship. During this time she made her television debut in Japan as a soloist, was invited to perform at the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Opera House with her Quartet and led the Menuhin School Orchestra through live broadcast for Classic FM and the Menuhin Festival tour in Switzerland as well as at the Royal Albert and Queen Elizabeth Halls. Satoko graduated from the Royal College of Music where she studied with Itzhak Rashkovsky as a Joseph and Jill Karaviotis Scholar with prestigious awards such as the Ian Stouker Prize and the English Speaking Union Scholarship. Over the last five years she has established herself as an improviser of great skill and imagination playing with, among others Steve Beresford, John Russell, Hannah Marshall and Veryan Weston.
Hannah Marshall
Born 1973 in South London and a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music, Hannah Marshall plays cello, musical saw, accordion, piano, voice and composes for theatre, performance and film. She also performs in visual theatre, sometimes with puppets (The Ding Foundation)and is a prodigious improviser working with, amongst others,Veryan Weston (Trio of Uncertainty,SOL), HTU,The Alexander Hawkins ensemble,Barrel and Somedectet.
John Russell
John Russell began playing the guitar in 1965, playing free improvisation in and around London from 1972 onwards. From 1974 his work extended into teaching, broadcasts (radio and television) and touring both in the UK and abroad.
In 1981 he founded ‘Quaqua’, a changing bank of improvisors put together in different permutations for specific events, with which he still performs. In 1987 he helped set up Acta records with John Butcher and Phil Durrant and in 1990 he inaugurated, and is the driving force behind, ‘Mopomoso’ which has becomeLondon’s longest running concert series dedicated to free improvisation.
See  http://www.mopomoso.com  for more on Mopomoso
Apart from solo work he is currently involved in a number of regular groups including:
a trio with Evan Parker and John Edwards, duos with Henry Lowther, Stefan Keune, Tanja Feichtmair, Phil Minton, Martine Altenberger and Lol Coxhill, a trio with Michel Doneda and Roger Turner, The Garden Gift Quartet, The European Contemporary Improvisers Orchestra and various projects with master percussionist Sabu Toyozumi.
‘QUAQUA’?
Originally used as a name for a weekly club for improvised music, the first Quaqua groups performed in the early 1980’s  under the heading ‘Fete Quaqua’ at the now defunct London Musicians’ Collective building in Camden Town. The basic idea behind all Quaqua projects is to extend existing collaborations in juxtaposition with new groupings and thus provide a fertile ground for free improvisation.
This was an extension of the way a number of us had been working at the Little Theatre Club and the London Musicians’ Co-Op concerts at the Unity Theatre from around 1973 onwards, where personnel changed from concert to concert from a pool of musicians with different approaches who shared a love of free improvisation.
This approach has always proved fascinating to improvisors, as it offers a great range of opportunities to be inventive in the most immediate way. Thus the music is very much about the here and now of performance and this is reflected in the fact that almost all Quaqua line-ups are never repeated after the event for which they were assembled. Some of the previous participants have built on their initial meetings in Quaqua and have gone on to work together in more fixed groups to great success.
For Fete Quaqua 2009 each of the three concerts will start and finish with a short ensemble piece, the main part of the evening comprising smaller groupings from the larger ensemble with each of the participating musicians playing at least twice.
‘Quaqua’ is a Latin word and means ‘whithersoever’.  John Russell

Event promoted by Mopomoso -  http://www.mopomoso.com

2008 Round Up.

2008 was quite a year for Mopomoso. January saw our last concert at The Red Rose, which had been our home for nearly 20 years, after the lease was sold and the new owners decided to turn it into a snooker hall. This was despite a public campaign and many behind the scenes negotiations, including an offer to buy the lease from them.

In February we put together a free concert at The Vortex in Dalston to introduce the audience to our new venue and the support was heartwarming, with the musicians playing to a packed and enthusiastic audience.

The March concert was a return to our regular third Sunday of the month spot and really tested the venue's possibilities, with dancers and computer generated sounds alongside more conventional groupings. In the past all our concerts had been recorded on audio by Tim Fletcher or Martin Davidson and the March concert introduced video documentation as well, from Helen Petts, Chris Cooper and Paul Martin.

From April through July we maintained the impetus with a strong programme of fine musicians mostly playing in pre-existing groups with occasional first performances. Mopomoso, acting as a partner, also put together an evening performance in Paris as part of the Roc de Choc festival. Helen Petts took over our mailing list and press release duties and also fund raising. We received an annual grant from PRS of £1000 towards our running costs.

August was for my own 'Fete Quaqua', which is now establishing itself as an annual three day event. I see this as an in depth chance for a group of improvisers to really stretch out and for the audience to get a little closer to the unfolding excitement of free improvisation. We were helped in this by a grant from Culture Ireland to enable the participation of Dublin based pianist Paul G Smyth.

Back to regular concerts for September and October, again with mostly pre-existing groups and a couple of debut / first time in the UK performances.

The Vortex management asked us to put something special together to coincide with The London Jazz Festival in November so, ever obliging, we not only put together a great line-up in an extended concert, but also an afternoon participatory workshop. Both were a great success and we intend to host more workshops in 2009.

Finally in December, 'It's that time again!', we held our annual celebration of all things improvised ' A Galaxy of Stars ' which brought together over fifty musicians playing in different permutations in a more casual setting than the usual concert format. A great time was had by all!









Thank You!

At the start of the year we were ably assisted on sound and light duties by Ashley Wales. Thanks Ashley!

Ashley has taken time out for personal reasons and Richard Barrett took up his duties for a couple of concerts before Will Connors volunteered for the post and Will has proved himself a great asset as stage manager.
Thanks to both Richard and Will!

Throughout the whole thing George Coote has continued to handle the box office, room organisation, distribution of fliers and countless other tasks with skill and dedication. Thanks George!

On the documentation front thanks are due to Helen Petts, Tim Fletcher, Chris Cooper, Paul Martin and Martin Davidson.

Thanks are also due to Michael Lorek for his help with the website.

Helen Petts has also proved invaluable, overseeing and extending our mailing list, sending out press releases and fundraising, and generally helping to increase our profile and that of improvised music in general.
Thanks Helen!

I'd also like to thank the Vortex management for having us at the venue and to all the volunteers at the Vortex who make it all happen.

Grateful acknowledgement also to PRS and Culture Ireland for their financial assistance.

Thanks are also due to the musicians themselves for the support they have given to Mopomoso over the years.

Finally a big thanks to our audience, whose unstinting support and appreciation really make the whole thing meaningful.


John Russell











MOPOMOSO CONCERTS 2008

January 20th

'Alexander Hawkins Quartet'
Alexander Hawkins ( piano )
Chris Cundy ( reeds )
Ollie Brice ( bass )
Javier Carmona ( perc )

Chefa Alonso ( sax ) / Tony Marsh ( perc ) duo

Henry Lowther ( trumpet ) / John Russell ( guitar ) duo

February 6th

'Alan Tomlinson Trio'
Alan Tomlinson ( trombone )
Dave Tucker ( guitar )
Roger Turner ( perc )

Chris Burn solo piano

Steve Beresford ( piano ) / Satoko Fukuda ( violin ) duo

John Russell ( guitar ) / Roger Turner ( perc ) / Ute Wassermann ( voice ) trio

March 16th

'Revolver'
Kim Johannesen ( guitar ) / Fredrik Kirkevold ( perc )

'The Cristophe Charles Quintet'
Christophe Charles
Yasutake Watanabe
Hoonoda Kim all laptops electronics
Lisa Koiso
Woo Kyung Son dance

Jason Robinson ( sax ) / John Russell ( guitar ) / Roger Turner ( perc ) trio




April 20th

'Furt'
Richard Barrett / Paul Obermayer ( live electronics )

Gail Brand ( trombone ) / Mark Sanders (perc ) duo

John Russell ( guitar ) / John Butcher ( sax ) duo

May 18th

'Arc'
Sylvia Hallet ( violin )
Gus Garside ( bass )
Danny Kingshill ( cello )

'Coxon / Noble / Thomas / Wilkinson'
John Coxon ( guitar)
Steve Noble ( perc )
Pat Thomas ( keyboards )
Alan Wilkinson ( sax )

Lol Coxhill ( sax ) / John Russell ( guitar ) duo

June 15th

'Rick Jensen Quartet'
Rick Jensen ( sax )
Phil Somervell ( piano )
Colin Somervell ( bass )
Paul May ( perc )

Richard Barrett ( electronics ) / Ute Wassermann ( voice ) duo

Henry Lowther ( trumpet ) / John Russell ( guitar ) duo

July 20th

'Barkingside'
Alex Ward ( clarinet )
Alexander Hawkins ( piano )
Dominic Lash ( bass )
Paul May ( perc )

John Edwards ( bass ) / Adrian Northover ( sax ) duo

Chefa Alonso ( sax ) / Albert Kaul ( piano ) / John Russell ( guitar ) trio


August 17 / 18 / 19

'Fete Quaqua'

Bill Hsu ( interactive computer )
Chris Burn ( trumpet )
Dylan Bates ( violin )
Hannah Marshall ( cello )
Jean Borde ( bass )
John Butcher ( sax )
John Russell ( guitar )
Lol Coxhill ( sax )
Max Eastley ( self made instruments )
Paul G Smyth ( piano
Roger Turner ( perc )
Ute Wassermann ( voice )

September 21st

Jeff Cloke ( live elctronics ) / Dave Draper ( guitar ) duo

Dominic Lash ( bass ) / Dave Solomon ( perc ) / Garry Todd ( sax ) trio

Phil Minton ( voice ) / Veryan Weston ( piano ) duo

Ketil Gutvik ( guitar ) / John Russell ( guitar ) duo

October 19th

'Ensemble Progresivo'
Ricardo Tejero ( saxes / clarinet )
Alison Blunt ( violin )
Adrian Northover ( saxes )
Marci Mattos ( bass / electronics )
Javier Carmona ( perc )

Chris Burn ( piano ) solo

Stefan Keune ( sax ) / John Russell ( guitar ) duo







November 16th

'Swift are the Winds of Life'
Charlie Collins ( perc )
Beatrix Ward Fernandez ( violin )
Yvonna Magda ( violin )

Steve Beresford ( piano ) / Satoko Fukuda ( violin ) duo

'Alan Tomlinson Trio'
Alan Tomlinson ( trombone )
Dave Tucker ( guitar )
Rpger Turner ( percussion )

'Furt'
Richard Barrett
Paul Obermayer ( live electronics )

Evan Parker ( sax ) / John Russell ( guitar ) / John Edwards ( bass ) trio
plus a John Russell / Richard Barrett led afternoon workshop.

December 21st

MOPOMOSO 'GALAXY OF STARS' SET LIST.

Rick Jensen (tenor sax), Dominic Lash (bass), Dave Solomon (drums), Noel Taylor (clarinet) quartet

Gabriel Keen (piano), Bob Peachey (alto sax) duo

Adam Bohman (tabletop electronics), Adrian Northover (soprano sax) duo

'Meat Xylophone'
Simon Littlefield (guitar), Nigel Summerly (drums) duo

Viv Corringham (voice), Lol Coxhill (soprano sax) duo

Andrea Caputo (guitar) solo

Marci Mattos (cello), Marilza (voice), Alison Blunt (violin), Rodrigo Montoya (shamisen) quartet

Daniel Thompson (guitar), Keith Thompson (alto sax) duo

Ian Diplock (horn, bells and klaxon), John Russell (guitar) duo

'Swift are The Winds of Life'
Charlie Collins (drums), Yvonna Magda (violin) Beatrix Ward-Fernandez (violin) trio

Steve Beresford (toy guitars) solo

Jeff Cloke (electronics), Terry Day (voice), Max Reed (dance) trio
Pat Thomas (piano), John Coxon (electronics), Roger Turner (drums), Alex Ward (clarinet) quartet

Phil Minton (voice), Ute Wassermann (voice) duo

Karl D'Silva (alto sax), Dominic Lash (bass) duo

Martin Speake (alto sax), Dave Solomon (drums) duo

Leila Adu (voice), Steve Beresford (piano), Hannah Marshall (cello) trio

Harry Gilonis (words). Richard Barrett (guitar), John Russell (guitar) trio
Kay Grant (voice), Hannah Marshall (cello) duo

'Scatter'
Pat Thomas (piano), Phil Minton (voice), Roger Turner (drums), Dave Tucker (guitar) quartet

Alexander Hawkins (piano), Tony Marsh (drums) duo

Lol Coxhill (soprano sax) solo

Ute Kanngieser (cello), Guillaume Viltard (bass) duo

Alan Tomlinson (trombone) solo

Ricardo Tejero (tenor sax) Will Connors (percussion), Adam Bohman (tabletop electronics), Alison Blunt (violin) quartet

Satoko Fukuda (violin), John Russell (guitar), Fabrizio Spera (drums) trio

'Conductivisation'
Steve Beresford (piano), Dominic Lash (bass), Dave Solomon (drums) Ricardo Tejero (tenor sax), Rick Jensen (tenor sax), Marcio Mattos (cello) Dave Tucker (guitar) septet

Originally used as a name for a weekly club for improvised music, the first Quaqua groups performed in the early 1980's under the heading 'Fete Quaqua' at the now defunct London Musicians' Collective building in Camden Town. The basic idea behind all Quaqua projects being to extend existing collaborations in juxtaposition with new groupings and thus provide a fertile ground for free improvisation.
This was an extension of the way a number of us had been working at the Little Theatre Club and the London Musicians' Co-Op concerts at the Unity Theatre from around 1973 onwards, where personnel changed from concert to concert from a pool of musicians with different approaches, who shared a love of free improvisation.
This approach has always proved fascinating to improvisors, as it offers a great range of opportunities to be inventive in the most immediate way. Thus the music is very much about the here and now of performance and this uniqueness is reflected in the fact that almost all Quaqua line-ups are never repeated after the event for which they were assembled. Some of the previous participants have built on their initial meetings in Quaqua and have gone on to work together in more fixed groups to great success.
This years' 'Fete Quaqua' has twelve 'original voices', some of whom have worked together for many years, and others who have never played together before. Their musical backgrounds stretch across an enormous variety of styles and settings.
Each concert will start and finish with a short ensemble piece, the main part of the evening comprising smaller groupings from the larger ensemble to be decided immediately prior to performance.
'Quaqua' is a Latin word and means 'whithersoever'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8AUdyw6lm4

June Mopomoso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sWFKXfESY

June Mopomoso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoF9Nw3UG4M

From June's Mopomoso. Henry Lowther and John Russell

Rather nice piece of news re. the old Red Rose piano. When we had to vacate the premises Ian Fraser very kindly drove to London from Cheltenham and took the piano down there for safe keeping.I just bumped in to him and his partner Caroline at an excellent Vortex concert with an Evan Parker quartet (Steve Beresford,Mark Sanders and John Edwards).Caroline told me she is playing it every day and is having lessons from a one hundred and four year old teacher! Now that really does warm the heartstrings:-)

Just to thank those of you who came and made this such a good night. The venue is smaller than the Red Rose but there were a number of compensations.Most notably Steve Beresford and Chris Burn playing on the wonderful piano wonderfully. The full range of dynamics explored by Alan Tomlinson's trio and the beautiful acoustic playing of Satoko Fukuda plus Ute Wassermann's intelligent use of the house pa all show that this is a very workable venue for free improvisation. In terms of getting to and from the venue lots of people came up with a number of route ideas via bus, train and car. We've also had quite a few people asking for playing slots already and there are some exciting programmes in the offing.
Dave Tucker has posted a short film called 'Last notes at the Red Rose' on Youtube. There are plans to release archive material from various concerts that have taken place there over the last twenty years and create a Mopomoso database. If anyone has any material of any sort they think would be useful it would be good to hear from you.
Peace and love to all:-)

I just received this from John Zorn and I'm sure we all send our best wishes for Andrew.

message from Trevor Dunn myspace


Benefit for ANDREW D'ANGELO 2/22 w/trio-convulsant


Hi Folks. My good friend Andrew D'Angelo has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Fuckin' drag. He doesn't have health insurance so we're having a benefit for him at the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn on Feb 22. I decided to dust off my trio-convulsant to try and bring some people out.

The gig was originally supposed to be a record release party for Andrew's new trio CD on Skirl records. He goes under the knife this week and we are all sending love and good vibes his way. You can learn more about it here: www.andrewdangelo.com

It should be a good night of music. Though we're still in the process of organizing it, I believe that Jim Black, Chris Speed, Oscar Noriega and myself will play some of Andrew's music, and that Matt Wilson's band will play also, as well as my trio-convulsant.

It's been a while since Ches Smith, Mary Halvorson and myself have played together, and may be a while after....but the cause extracted it.

Please come out and drop as much money as you can in the tip jar. 100% of it will go to Andrew's exorbitant expenses. You can also make contributions at his website.

peace.

Please sign this petition that I have been forwarded if you haven't already and forward it onto anyone who has an interest in theatre and the arts...

Nearly 200 arts organisations, including 37 theatre companies, have been
told they are to lose all revenue funding from Arts Council England, in the
most radical cuts in ACE's 61-year history.

The move to axe subsidy completely from 195 organisations (for most from
April 2008) is leading to threats of closure and redundancies right across
the country. This will this deprive many areas of any cultural output and
expression and also ghettoise diversity and create a more divided and less
integrated society.


See: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Stop-the-Cull/
Please sign this petition that I have been forwarded if you haven't already and forward it onto anyone who has an interest in theatre and the arts...

Nearly 200 arts organisations, including 37 theatre companies, have been
told they are to lose all revenue funding from Arts Council England, in the
most radical cuts in ACE's 61-year history.

The move to axe subsidy completely from 195 organisations (for most from
April 2008) is leading to threats of closure and redundancies right across
the country. This will this deprive many areas of any cultural output and
expression and also ghettoise diversity and create a more divided and less
integrated society.


See: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Stop-the-Cull/