Aftermath

The event was great and lots of people showed up which was quite nice. The Austrian Ambassador now wants to hold more speeches for the German Department and the Provost of our university was very happy with it all. Thanks to everyone who participated and/or came, particularly Chiara Marchini, who curated the exhibition, Rachel Chonka, who organised the food sale, Nick Spickernell, who directed the play, the UCLU Garage Theatre Workshop, the speakers, Dr. Gabriele Matzner-Holzer, Professor Malcolm Grant and all the interviewees that I was allowed to plague for the film!

Performance of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's "Am Ende"
Director and Kammerdiener: Nick Spickernell
Graefin - Aurelia Mason
Graf - Richard Soames
Kammerdienerin - Felicity Hoskins







Austrian Ambassador, Dr. Gabriele Matzner-Holzer, holding a speech on the first evening of the event



















Professor Malcolm Grant, provost and president of University College London, holding a little speech at our exhibition
























Mike Allen's performance piece at the exhibition








The exhibition










Chiara Marchini - the curator

General summary

The event that we're organising is shaping up nicely. We've got more and more going on. Highlights now include a speech of the Austrian Ambassador, Dr. Gabriele Matzner-Holzner, and of the President and Provost of UCL, Professor Malcolm Grant.

We've also got a sweet line-up of artists: Karin Aue (illustration, graphic design), Smallcaps alias Jeffrey Koh (photography, illustration), David Tett (photography), two Norwegian artists (painting and collage), another artist doing an art work on wittgenstein, Michael Allen (performance art) and two graffiti artists/graphic designers from Frankfurt.

Musicians that contributed to the soundtrack of the exhibition are: Opera composer Sidney Corbett, the minimal techhouse band Vierte Heimat, Berlin DJs and Producers Schlafcola and DJ Dionysos and ambient electronic music artist Dr. Nojoke.

If anyone (even from far away) still wants to contribute to the event, deadline for artists is the 23rd of February. This event has been advertised in all German departments of the University of London, will be circulated in the Goethe Institute newsletter, the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD) newsletter and internal staff emails and be visited from students and friends from all sorts of colleges. Great publicity then. We also have a budget now and some costs could be re-imbursed, so get your lazy bums up and contribute!

This is the official programme, also available on the website of the UCL German website:

Thursday, 8 March
3.00-6.00: Art Exhibition "On Language" by various artists and a debate about the state of the arts. Würstchen, Sauerkraut, Kuchen, Apfelsaftschorle, Süßigkeiten, kleine Bretzeln... anything your Teutonic heart desires will be sold during the exhibition!
3.30 and 4.30: Performance Art (10 minute show)
7.00-7.30: Film viewing: What good are the arts? A German perspective. Written and directed by Lam Thuy Vo
7.40 - 8.40: Lecture: Dr. Gabriele Matzner-Holzer, Ambassador of Austria: "The arts of peace, social justice and intellectual courage: Three Austrian women"
8.40-9.00: Intermission
9.00-9.45: Performance of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Am Ende (1895), directed by Nick Spickernell

Friday, 9 March
3.00: Official Welcome and Introduction by Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of UCL
3.00-6.00: Art Exhibition "On Language" by various artists and a debate about the state of the arts. Würstchen, Sauerkraut, Kuchen, Apfelsaftschorle, Süßigkeiten, kleine Bretzeln... anything your Teutonic heart desires will be sold during the exhibition!
3.30 and 4.30: Performance Art (10 minute show)
6.00: Gallery closes
7.00-7.30: Film viewing: What good are the arts? A German perspective. Written and directed by Lam Thuy Vo
7.30-7.50: Intermission
7.50-8.35: Performance of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Am Ende (1895), directed by Nick Spickernell

Provost at our event!

The provost and president of UCL is not only going to come to our event on March 9th, 2007, he is also going to introduce it! So come and gather at 3 pm at the Garage to be a good audience!

Lami

Garage

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Malcolm Grant - UCL Provost and President

Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of UCL, will be attending our event!

He will attend one of the afternoons, probably that Friday. Unfortunately, he won't be able to attend the evening, but I'll make sure to give him a copy of the film!

:)

Yahay to him!

Some more new faces

I have received confirmation from a composer in Houston, Texas, who will provide us with a few more tracks for our festival!

Also: we got two more people on the film team, welcome Harry King and Juliane Matz!

Anyhow, hope all is well. Filming will officially be wrapped up this week!

AND WE NEED MORE ART PIECES! So let me know whether you can contribute (just comment on this blog).

Austrian Embassador and Sponsorship

Dear all,

We've just received some sponsorship with which we will fund the exhibition.

Additionally, Ms G. Matzner, the Austrian Embassador has offered us to hold a speech at the event on 8th March. We're all very happy!

About the film and the play: according to my hard-working colleague Nick Spickernell, the rehearsals have been going well. As for the film. Filming is almost wrapped up with the exception of 2 interviews, one of which will be conducted tomorrow and the other one either next Wednesday or next Friday. Let's hope it'll all work out well.

As for other points: a cooking team has been assigned, we've received our second musical contribution and are awainting a few more. Artists are still encouraged to participate and we are hoping to be able to fund some of the projects if not all, depending on how much sponsorship we can get.

Everything's looking dainty!

Lami

Karin's wonderful poster for us!

An amazing little lady called Karin Aue did this poster for our art/theatre/film festival at UCL Union's Garage theatre on 8th adn 9th of March!

Hope to see you all there as there'll be amazing works displayed at an exhibition by Karin Aue, Jeffrey Koh, Dave Tett, Tim Ireland accompanied with music by opera composer Sidney Corbett, my Berlin-based band Vierte Heimat, Dr. Nojoke, DJ Dionysos and Schlafcola.

There'll also be an amateur documentary film (which I hopefully will not ruin) with interviews from professors around the German department and the performance of a German one-act play. So let's hope to see you all there!

Layout for the theatre

LAYOUT C will be an approximate layout for the theatre but without an isle between the seats. For more information about the Garage visit: http://www.stagecrew.uclu.org/

During the day, two of the stage's wings (which are drawn onto the plan) will not be there. So we can place information tables around there.