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 ‘ten feet away’ International festival for me.

The ‘ten feet away’ International festival for me.
I was involved in this festival from an early stage, I went to St. Petersburg as part of the festival, I was part of some of the decision making and finally I photographed a lot of the event. This is as honest a review of the festival [...]

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.

Demian at coghlan st. (Buenos Aires)

Demian is a juggler and my brother took the pictures and as we are still waiting for Buenos Aires to say hello, I thought I would post a couple of pictures, just to make the wheel move, let’s see if something happens.

Billy

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The circle of homelessness - St. Petersburg

picture taken by Nadezhfida Davydova

The picture shows Arcady Tyurin of St. Petersburg’s Street Paper ‘Journey Home’ in a public performance piece. For Russians, access to social services is dependent on registration at an address. St. Petersburg has at least 54,000 unregistered individuals living in the city. To be registered you have to have proof of past residency, and without this you cannot get access to jobs, healthcare and other necessities to live. If you cannot get a job you cannot get an address. This means you cannot get registered. This is the vicious circle of homelessness in Russia.

In this short podcast interview, Arkady Tyurin of ‘New Social Solutions’ talks about new ’surviving technologies’, solutions to tackling social exclusion within St. Petersburg’s unregistered population.

Click Here to listen

New Social Solutions also publishes Putdomoi (Journey Home), St. Petersburg’s Street Paper.

Design by Alexander Menus

Photos from 8th March website launch

So - this website is officially launched and here are the photo’s to prove it.

Click here to go to our news section with all the rest of the launch photos

Hello from ‘tent city’ Tokyo

Ten Feet Away.

I live in a park in Tokyo. I was asked to send a message to your website. Performance from Tent City Tokyo - this is a big .mov file about 5 megs. click here for video

Misako Ichimura

Hello from Osaka

Thank you for the opportunity to get involved to the festival. We wish the movement of international homeless festival could spread wider across the borders. -about Koe to Kotoba to Kokoro noHeya (the Room of Voices Words and Hearts=Cocoroom)Non Profit Organization Cocoroom have made efforts to introduce social issues to the public and we have specialized our activities in art. In our headquarters Cocoroom located in Shin-Sekai region, Osaka in western Japan, we have unique guests everyday such as artists, homeless people, handicapped people, people Not in Employment, Education or Training, and people who have difficulty to be socialized. Cocoroom has been the place we can talk face by face, and that have created a lot of interesting art projects under the question “How can we become socially recognized?” Each of those movements are small, however, we hope it would give each person a warm embrace of heart to achieve wisdom of life.