The Movement and Meaning Symposium
Important news on the forthcoming Movement and Meaning symposium.
An update from the Founder Artistic Director
I’m inspired by two manifestos I discovered on a recent trip to India. Both
of these hold strong anchors for PAL’s future.
New Year message from Susan Benn
Susan Benn, PAL'S Founder Artistic Director writes...All of us at PAL hope that this New Year brings you, your family, our friends and colleagues the very best of health, enough time, space and resources for what you most want to do and much love and friendship.
PAL's Achievements in 2011 pave the way for bold plans in 2012 and beyond. Here are a few of our 2011 milestones which you will read more about, along with the new opportunities to take part in PAL's work, which will appear on out site in the coming months.
If Not You, Who Else?
INYWE PAL: Reflections from lab participant Sian Goldby.
Being an unemployed arts graduate feels like being caught in an endless loop; the job search swallows your days whilst your creativity rapidly disintegrates. Most visual artists, poets and designers are able to work alone, however dance requires a relationship with other bodies in space. On leaving university you lose a vital network and support system. You feel pushed out the back door, your academic and social life is dispersed, and you’re left with little money standing at a gaping entrance that is the rest of your life.
From outside the National Portfolio
Arts Council England has supported PAL’s work throughout our 21 years, the last six as an RFO. Given the financial fragility of the times, it was no big surprise to learn that we were not to be included in ACE’s new National Portfolio. PAL’s process, much like the process of making great art, thrives on risk-taking and not-knowing – on the part of the artists themselves, and adventurous funders. With your help we will continue to make our ambitious Labs, exploring difficult questions, gaps and challenges.
If not you who else?
This eight-month non-residential Lab is a new venture for PAL, both in form and in focus. It is a structured collaboration between artists, young people (aged 18-30) and their chosen communities from the boroughs of Southwark and Lewisham. The aim is to make great art which builds community awareness and participation and to help young people find a lasting confidence in their individual capacity to change their lives.
Next steps for our work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
The lessons we have learned from our Creative Science Teaching and STEM Fluency Labs could, we’re sure, make a major contribution to teacher education and to pupils’ enjoyment and achievement in their learning.