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The Festival Video

Apolofies to everyone for taking so long to finish the video, but it is ready now; actually we have two videos, the first one was produced by Viv Galvagna and the second one created by Arturo and Chris at the Index Arts offices. We wil be sending copies to all the organizations that came from [...]

Roger from Ten Feet Away

Hi, I really wanted to add this post to the website, it’s about Roger who has been volunteering at the Union Chapel for several years plus he takes part in the poetry and visual arts workshops. As part of the Postcard project he produced an amazing piece, please click her to listen to Roger himself.

Roger

Crafty Folks - Art Exhibition @ the Gramaphone

We are inviting everyone to this exhibiont that will take place at the Gramaphone (60-62 Commercial St, Spitalfields, London, E1 6LT). The exhibiton will stay for 1 and a half months and it’s quite promissing, keep visiting the site for updates!!

Musubi’s Feed back

We definitely enjoyed the whole experience. It was also a good opportunity for everyone in the group to travel together and the shared experience would be one of the most beautiful things we had in life.
People were so friendly and that made me feel comfortable. It was different from Japanese customs and I liked that [...]

The Pictures…

It took me a while but I managed to put the first chunk of pictures, there is a thousand more and I don’t know if I’ll manage to upload everything but if you went to the festival and want your picture, get in touch.

Click here to go to the thumbnail (which is not a thumbnail). Enjoy the pictures…

One more thing, Chris is at Index Office video-editing… just so you know…

The Festival!!!

Two and half weeks have gone and people are still talking about the festival. We are still doing a lot of post production, pictures, films, feed back… Talking about feed back, if you went to the festival and you have something to say, please use this space to tell us and everyone your experience… We’ve got hundreds of pictures from the photo booth , Joe - who by the way did an amazing job at the festival - is processing all the pictures but if you want to get yours quicker email him at joseph_de_haan@hotmail.com. Please visit the festival page to see more pictures.
Thanks again to all the individuals and organizations for your great input in the festival, too many names to be displayed here.

Thanks to all international visitors, your presence at the festival was very uplifting and it was a pleassure to host you all, we really want to hear from you, I think there are many things to say and a future to build up!
Arcadi - Put do MoiMusubi - Japan Hanny and Tina

Asylum Monologues

And here we are with Actors for refugees and their brilliant performance that will take place at the Ten Feet Away International Festival on Saturday at 8:00pm, We are really looking forward to it!!

Asylum Monologues is an account of the UK’s asylum system, told first hand by the people who have experienced it. With personal testimony at its core combined with public opinion, political statements and statistical fact, this production will disseminate what it really means to be displaced in the UK.

Critical Mass - Streetwise Opera

We are two one day away from the festival, St John’s church is becoming a different place and we’ve been working a lot for the last three day, on saturday evening Streetwise Opera will put together and exiting performance…
Review
Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Streetwise Opera performs an excerpt of Critical Mass, a collaboration with Almeida Opera [...]

Festival Program

Hello everyone, I must tell you all, we put lots of effort making sure that there would be plenty of activities, performances and opportunities for everyone. We really hope you come along to the festival and have a great time; it has been a year of work and preparations to make this happen and finally it’s SHOWTIME!!! I also want to say thanks to all the people who in one way or another contributed to make this possible. But there is one person I have to mention here and that is Julia Farrington for having that vision and believe this event was achievable.

Please click here and check out the festival program, if there is something missing please leave a comment, if it is urgent give me a call +44(0)7795430152.

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