Ticket to Ride by 1st year students from the Art, Media & Performing Arts courses
Romeo & Juliet by 2nd Year Performing Arts students. Selected scenes from a promenade performance at the Loft nightclub in Leeds.
Tony Baker – Teaches Video at Leeds City College
Tony was born in the suburbs of Birmingham in the year that Grace Kelly married Prince Rainer, Berthe Morrisots’ painting ‘Jour d’ete’ was stolen from the Tate Gallery and Elvis Presley first entered the British charts with a song called Heartbreak Hotel.
He spent his childhood playing on the wasteland behind the Hatchford Brook Youth Centre (locally known as the Brook), building dens, go-karts and bonfires. He developed an early interest in Pop Music being a member of the Troggs Fanclub and forming his first band the Two Fits with best friend Robert Fairbotham when he was eight years old.
He survived school for twelve years, leaving with just one O’level in Art. His greatest scholarly achievements were being commended for looking out of the window, passing his Cycling Proficiency Test and cultivating a tonal deafness to avoid singing in the school choir. In 1972, he went to Foundation Art College and embarked on a journey of self discovery. Majoring in Cow Art, he developed an obsessional interest in Francis Bacon, Richard Hamilton, Fellini, Marlene Dietrich, the Marx Brothers, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Hollywood Musicals and tasteless clothes. In 1974 he went to Leeds Polytechnic to study Fine Art and get over exclusive use of cow motifs, worked in a variety of media : sculpture, video, print, painting, events etc, received a BA Hons 2:1.
On leaving college, he worked in various factories and building sites . He then went on to work as both a surface pattern & graphic designer finally ending up in education, teaching art, sound recording, photography, design, video, DTP and basic skills in a variety of Further & Higher Education Colleges. In 1984, he became runner up in the Cosmopolitan Bachelor of the Year competition, only winning a part share in a cheap plastic Kodak Disc Camera instead of the first prize of a holiday for two in Florida.
Tony has continued to work on various art-based projects and has exhibited in a range of Northern Art Galleries : Cow Art, How to make Modern Art, Several Images (Thesis 1), Towards Anonymity 1980 (Thesis 1 & 2), Propaganda Unlimited, Sitting Pretty, Challenging Perceptions in Photography, The Slightly Surreal Saturday Matinee and the Parallel Elvis Universe multi-media event. Formed Dream Stealers with Paul Staniforth (his lifetime collaborator), produced art karaoke , an audio visual album mixing sound and moving images to create a 55 minute moving painting (shown at Leeds Fringe Photography Festival, Evolution , Cabaret Heaven, York College and as a remix at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London). Currently working on an exhibition of prints & paintings inspired by Art Karaoke and has produced and directed Mekons Leeds (video), a documentary and live music DVD of the legendary Leeds band the Mekons filmed on their 30th Anniversary tour.
Since the Two Fits, he has formed a variety of bands : Household Name – post punk atonal funksters / Johnny Jumps the Bandwagon (video) – tongue in cheek cabaret country & western art band / yahoo family – urban country blues / Loved Ones (video) – melodic angst rockers / the Art Cowboys (featuring fellow Arts & Media staff, Claire Thacker, Kevin O’Hare, Maria Allen & Joe Mills)– country, blues , rock with sweet harmonies / The Jack Shites (video) – lofi noisy stuff (featuring his son Jack) / also working on his solo project, Only Child.
Tony is currently into Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Neil Young, The Heavy, Black Cat, White Cat, Amelie, Tommy Cooper, Reeves & Mortimer, Fish and icons of Elvis Presley .He enjoys talking about the meaning of life, playing guitar and washing up
He is married with 3 children, and a dog. Lives in Leeds.
Also see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd3wDmIs5Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNbLpgH2d8c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-J6nAVovCw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKl05XzYzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhy3I9b0CBQ
Some background information
On Wikipedia you can read about the Berlin Wall.
You will find an interview with Sarah Jane Dickenson, author of the play Not Yet here, some background about the writing process here.
There is also an article about the play and one about the performance at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“Not Yet” – The German script
Here you can download the German script:
If you have trouble opening the file, you might have to install Adobe Reader.
If you want to print the scipt, use the option “4 pages on 1 page” of your printer!
Liceo Scientifico Statale “G. B. Scorza”
LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE “G. B. SCORZA”, Cosenza, Italy. Our school is situated in Calabria, a region in the southern part of Italy. Our region is less industrialised than the northern ones, but it is rich in natural resources therefore particularly developed from a tourist point of view. We do not have any other particular need or problems, the percentage of immigrants or refugee is rather low, even though it is increasing rapidly.
Since our region has developed later than the other ones we have the need to confront ourselves with other realities and to widen our horizon to catch up the time we have lost.
The first aim of our activities with other countries is the cooperation among nations, schools, teachers and students, the idea of working together to reach goals. The second is the comparison of cultures through a wider and deeper knowledge of a series of aspects concerning our towns and their hinterland, in particular history, literature and art, urban development and facilities, dialects and geography.
We are expected to be more aware of a wider European dimension and of the fact that we are all citizens of the same community, accepting diversity as a natural and qualifying characteristic that makes our working and living “together” even more precious. This awareness motivates our students to learn and research material on a multidisciplinary basis, in order to know more about their own country and countries that seem very far but that are actually very close. These activities bring our students to appreciate their cultural heritage and to be ready for an exchange with other students that will enriched them from a cultural point of view. Moreover our local authorities are quite sensitive towards European Citizenship and they are very aware of the fact that a common consciousness must be “built up“.
The last, but not least, of the aims is linguistic: the use of a foreign language (English) to communicate is very motivating for the learning of this language and it will certainly improve our students’ communicative competence. As a consequence of this their self-confidence will increase.
Agrupamento of Escolas da Guia
The Agrupamento of Escolas da Guia is situated at the north of Leira, a town on the central coast of Portugal. Our “Agrupamento” covers four small places called: Guia, Carriço, Ilha and Mata Mourisca, which belong to the west side of Pombal – the main central municipality. This is a very rural and peripheral area in which the main activity is agriculture. This is basically why our students and the members of our community have lots of difficulties in getting access to culture and new technologies. Many people still can’t read or write and the per capita income is not very high. Moreover, there are no places to go, like shopping centres or cultural centers, within a radius of 20 kms.
This project would give our students, who live in a very disadvantaged social environment, wonderful experiences to change and enlarge their view of the world and of European citizenship. In addition to this, participating in this project would be a way to use the English language in a real situation. Not only the students but also the whole community would be exposed to the multiculturalism that this activity would offer.
Joliot Curie High School
JOLIOT CURIE HIGH SCHOOL, Hirson,France, next to the Belgian border, close to Brussels, Paris,and Luxemburg, this school in Hirson isn’t far from Germany, Holland or Great Britain.This town suffered from various invasions, religious wars and the two world wars so people are deeply aware of the impact of History but at the same time want to build a better future for the new generation; then in this rural area everybody is willing to enlarge contacts in particular with different european countries to build a better and safer world based on understanding the others’ culture and learning thanks to trips, exchanges and partnership.
Leeds City College
LEEDS THOMAS DANBY as a part of LEEDS CITY COLLEGE is a general Further Education College in Leeds, UK. The College has 14000 full and part-time enrolments across a range of provision including Hair & Beauty, Hospitality & Food Manufacture, Sport & Leisure, Care, Arts and Media, Business and IT.
The College has nearly 20 years experience in delivering EU projects and has been held up as an example of good practice for quality project delivery. The former EU Projects Co-ordinator was part of the stakeholder consultation into the Leonardo element of the Lifelong Learning Programme in Brussels prior to the programme launch.
In 2006 the College was awarded International College of the Year by the Times Educational Supplement for its innovative projects, the majority of which were funded through the EU Programmes.
The college is located in the middle of Leeds Inner City.
You can establish contact here.
Juozo Miltinio Vidurinė Mokykla
JUOZO MILTINIO VIDURINĖ MOKYKLA , Panevėžy, Lithuania. Panevėžys is the fifth largest town in Lithuania. It is situated in the middle of Lithuania halfway between two Baltic capitals – Vilnius and Riga. A lot of people think of Panevėžys as the city of the legendary J.Miltinis drama theatre. After studies at a theater school in Paris in 1940 J.Miltinis arrived in Panevežys and started a new epoch in the history of Lithuanian theater. Our school is proud to have been named after J.Miltinis – a famous actor and producer. He was faithful to his credo: ”Acting cannot be learned, – it is a creation of a live man from a live man”. Drama as an optional subject has been tought in the school since 1991. Students develop their creativity, self-expression and better understanding of art. There’s a tendency at school that parents leave for foreign countries looking for jobs and better financal life. The face some problems with pupils who live alone or their grandparents. J.Miltinis school students staff are from local families.
Friedrich-Albert-Lange-Schule
FRIEDRICH-ALBERT-LANGE-SCHULE, Solingen, Germany is one of three comprehensive schools in Solingen.
Comprehensive schools are an alternative to the three other types of school (Gymnasium, Realschule or Hauptschule). Comprehensive Schools offer children of different qualifications or social background a possibilty to learn together. According to the percentage in the city’s population there are children of migrants and refugees (e.g. from former Yugoslawia) in the classes. FALS has become famous for its theatre week. Many music and theatre groups of the school, from other schools in Solingen or professional groups perform. Because of the success of the work FALS is popular in and around Solingen. Solingen is famous for its knives and blades.