We hope you are well!
We are hosting a safe space town hall for our Jewish members next week. If you feel affected in any way by last weekend's events at the Royal Court and want to be in a Zoom room with like-minded friends, please join us. Reply to members@menaarts.uk with the subject line 'Royal Court'. Indicate what the best kind of time would be for you to have this Zoom, 2hours across lunch or an evening next week, and Steering Group member Philip Arditti will be back in touch by Friday afternoon with a time that most people can do.
We have two more of our free workshops coming up soon!
'Inclusive MENA+ Stories for Children' led by Nadine Kaadan on 15th November at the Arab British Centre, and 'Access Training: Making your Artistic Practise Accessible And Welcoming to Sanctuary Seekers', in partnership with Stand and be Counted on November 18th online. You can book your tickets for these workshops and more HERE.
Sharing Conversations and Opportunities
There is also a survey that will help the team gather valuable data to create better contracts: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NHFH99T
- Would you or someone you know like free, confidential support to work through a challenge?
‘I’m Neusha, a Senior People Development Consultant, NLP Master Practitioner and classically trained actor based in Brighton. I’m currently undertaking a 15-month professional Apprenticeship in Coaching. As part of the programme, I’m looking for a number of coaching clients to develop my skills with’.
If you’d like to find out more or have specific questions please contact: neusha.milanian@landg.com
- Fuelled by Youth and Offset Projects are launching a new £15k artist commission for a co-creation project celebrating the diversity of Milton Keynes youth culture.
Deadline: 31st Dec. To find out more: https://www.offsetprojects.org.uk/opportunities
- The RSC are looking for an Assistant Director to assist on two upcoming productions in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre – Henry Rebellion (Henry VI Part Two), directed by Gregory Doran and Owen Horsley and Wars of the Roses (Henry VI Part Three), directed by Owen Horsley.
Deadline: 21st November. To apply: https://careers.rsc.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/assistant-director---henry-rebellion-henry-vi-part-two-and-wars-of-the-roses-henry-vi-part-three-0603/621/description/
- Playful Productions is looking for a Production Assistant to join the team of one of the largest independent theatre production companies in the UK.
Deadline 19th November. For more info and to apply: https://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-job/post/production-assistant-ff7f83f706/
- LAMDA are currently recruiting for a part-time Singing and Music Practitioner to deliver a range of classes across multiple courses.
Deadline: 25th November. Details: https://www.lamda.ac.uk/about-us/work-us
'Alternative Narratives: Islamic Mythology, Reimagined’ is a series of digital images re-interpreting Islamic myths found in religious texts, medieval manuscripts and folk stories told through visual and conceptual experimentation. Within his artwork, Samman incorporates digital art with old traditional tales relying heavily on the power and aesthetics of Arabic, the language in which most of the myths were originally written and told, capturing their true essence.'
Check it out here: https://p21.gallery/react/alternative-narratives-islamic-mythology-reimagined
Directory Shoutouts!
Part of our Directory and have a show/project coming up? Let us know so we can shout about it in the next mailout! In the meantime, check out the following work featuring our wonderful Directory members:
- Catch JULIE-YARA ATZ in season 6 of Shetland as the character of Salma Nassan, currently showing every Wednesday on BBC1 and then on replay on ITV!
- Congratulations to ALEXANDRA BOULTON for receiving a scholarship to train for a week on a residential retreat with vocal coach Barbara Houseman. We hope you enjoy!
https://twitter.com/AlexandraBoult/status/1453343693566513155?s=20
- Catch SOPHIA ELENI in the upcoming Christmas special episode of BBC's "Call The Midwife", where she will be playing the role of Maria Kaufopolous, a significant role in the episode!
- Catch JOSH ZARÉ in Measure for Measure at Shakespeare’s Globe for their 2021 Autumn Season.
Buy tickets here: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/measure-for-measure-2021/#0
And that’s everything! For the new members, mailout is usually sent on a fortnightly basis. Please keep sharing and sending me any of your wonderful work or opportunities you want included in the next mailout to this email. Now more than ever lets keep circulating our brilliant stories; whether it's past work, articles, videos, or something you think the membership may find interesting, please do drop me an email! Please continue to sign up to our directory, and share our community with your friends in the industry!
Have a great week,
Jessie x
MENA ARTS UK
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Our position on endorsement.
Our main areas of work is to help connect the creative industries with UK MENA+ talent, so we will always share castings, job opportunities, or marketing information. We will track these projects in the hope that they are a great example of how MENA+ talent is used. But by sharing this information, it should not be seen as an endorsement of the project.
We will call out work that is appropriating a MENA+ narrative and does not have MENA+ talent at the heart of the creative process; and we will always champion, front and centre, work that is made for and by MENA+ talent.
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