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FILLUM!
The British Asian Film and Video Festival – 1997 to 2004
We
worked with the former Eastern Arts Board to develop the Festival
in comjunction with Luton Borough Council, British Film Institute
and a dedicated company set up to achieve a range of objectives.
We have run three Fillum! Festivals since 1997 Collaborators have
included BBC Community Television, CineBlitz, Asian Age Newspaper,
British Film Institute, NTL Cable Tel, Movie Magazine, 'g' magazine
Bombay, Eastern Eye newspaper. Plans have been formulated to extend
the Festival - to include regional touring in conjunction with
Southern Arts. Kalwant Ajimal is the Festival Director and Founder.
A major outcome of the Fillum! programme is the British Asian
Short Film Competition.The British Asian Short Film Competition
is known as "Celebration". Fillum! has its own Website.
Please see Fillum.com
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Millan
- A Reunion of Traditions
Millan is a collaborative project arising out of work started
in conjunction with TAPS - Traditional Arts Projects, based in
Bracknell. Responsibility for artistic policy rests with Roger
Watson. Asian Arts Access was the source of the inspiration behind
the project and was instrumental in creating the access to Asian
musicians, audiences and funding.
Millan
is managed by TAPS and generates work for TAPS. Asian Arts Access
will be working on proposals to extend Millan to Asian communities
and to new audiences based on a review of its achievements.
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Ephemeral
Arts
This
Festival initially aimed to promote 'ephemeral arts' of the Asian
communities. The term is used in this context to describe the
arts that have short life spans or are temporary in their purpose
and use. Examples include Rangoli and other arts created on the
ground using patterns and powders, face and mask painting, effigies,
sculptures, costumes and kites. These arts relate to the cultural
calendar and serve to celebrate specific events.
The
inspiration for this project is attributed to John Chandler of
Axxiom, a Slough based Creative design company. Bharati Joshi,
a Rangoli specialist who is based in Bournemouth is also one of
the lead collaborators. Asian Arts Access have created a Festival
of Ephemeral based on funding by London Borough Grants, London
Boroughs of Kingston, Croydon, Bexley and Merton.
Several
local authorities including Slough and Bournemouth Borough Councils
and regional arts boards have been involved. Detailed information
will be available at Ephemeralarts
.com
Asian
Arts Access welcomes proposals for collaboration and touring from
visual arts organisations, funders and artists engaged in the
ephemeral arts.
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The
Crafts of Muslim Communities
Asian
Arts Access has been instrumental in developing this programme
for regional and national development. Initial funding was received
from Southern Arts for a research and development phase and the
wider development of the project is to be based on popular consultation
with Muslim communities based in Slough, Oxford, Peterborough,
Gravesend and Crawley.
An
extensive crafts based programme is being planned, with possibilities
of residencies, touring exhibitions, cross-artform development
and an extended Education Programme for Schools. Cross-RAB collaboration
is planned in order to generate the widest possible benefits for
the Muslim community, members of which feel that its interests
in arts development have been marginalised.
We
welcome enquiries from crafts workers and educators from all Muslim
countries to work with us.
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Asian
Street Theatre
This
is a new project and is being developed by Asian Arts Access to
support the enthusiasm and to channel the skills of a number of
street actors and entertainers who wish to develop street theatre
as a specialism. Further information will cover aims, target audiences
and methods of delivery. We welcome enquiries from artists who
wish to contribute towards the development of this programme.
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Drumbeat
- An International Festival of Percussion 2000-2001
Development work on this new Festival to be known as Heartbeat
has been in progress during the last two years. It is dedicated
to combined arts and cross-cultural development, having received
support from the Arts Council of England, Slough Borough Council,
Berkshire Young Musicians Trust and six other local collaborators.
Funding options are now being explored.
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Collaborative
projects with Asian artists - 1994 to 1998
Major
examples are: Asian Arts Access has worked on Kindred Spirits,
a cross-cultural music project in conjunction with Pandit Vishwa
Prakash of Dev Sangeet Shala, which Kalwant Ajimal helped to set
up. Another collaborative project was Parampara - The Tradition.
Asian Arts Access has supported the work of the Hounslow Asian
Arts Agency, an development programme initiated by the London
Borough of Hounslow.
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Local
Authorities Support Programme
Asian
Arts Access provides regular inputs into policy development and
strategic planning objectives of local authorities. We have assisted
local authorities to build platforms for change through open consultation
with Asian communities, introducing new artist-led programmes,
empowering new arts organisations, directing community leadership
towards regular programming and assisting new groups to work within
the funding mechanism through training and development. We have
also assisted under-performing organisations to review policy
and to build internal mechanisms for coping with change. Asian
Arts Access has also helped local authorities to attract Lottery
funding by holding surgeries in conjunction with regional arts
boards.
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