Dear Jammers,
Well... How to begin... And how to end ...
Laura and Penny are stepping aside from the running of @TheGlasgowJam, and the jam this month is our last. For Laura, this represents the work of the past two years, and for Penny, the last four.
While we are looking forward to other projects (and to continue dancing), we would like to acknowledge all the support the community (that is, each one of you) has offered us to make the jam happen, and most importantly the dancing and playing that has taken place as a result. We would also like to warmly thank past and present board members over this time: Kim Simpson, Lindsay Keenan, Rosina Bonsu, Ron Montgomery, Sheila McCubbin, Emmie McKay as well as, of course, Tom Pritchard, who, together with Penny, is one of the founding directors. We also thank our facilitators, who have led us brilliantly, creatively and safely into jams. We are very grateful to Dominic Snyder for our logo, which we wear proudly on our t-shirts and head our communications with, and to our partners and peer organisations, including Dance House Glasgow, the CCA, the Beacon, the Workroom.
We have been looking back over the past four years: Tom Pritchard and Penny set up @TheGlasgowJam in 2014, running our sell-out Autumn Workshop Festival. The following year @TGJ received Creative Scotland funding to run the "New Jammers" programme, helping to develop the next generation of jam leaders, including Laura Gonzalez and Nina Enemark. Also on that cohort was Dom (he really deserves two mentions), who also had an exhibition programmed by @TheGlasgowJam at The Glad Cafe this Autumn, which followed on from the highly successful Project Cafe exhibition in 2015. Movement into drawing ... drawing into movement ... with singing, noise, spoken word, readings, typewriters and life-size dummies ... The more multidisciplinary the better. We really have had a ball!
This all happened in jams, classes, workshops, cakes, t-shirts, Global Underscores, outreach work, festivals around Scotland, DIG and Gathered Together ...
It has been a glorious past four years, and we do hope you can join us for the last Penny/Laura jam, as well as lend a welcoming dancing hand to Monika and Nina. With this newsletter, we hand over @TGJ to them and wish them well. We look forward to what they have in store for us as we join them dancing.
Penny and Laura x
LAST JAM WITH PENNY CHIVAS as @TGJ DIRECTOR
Sunday 17th, CCA, class and jam from 12pm with Penny Chivas
£12 class and jam, or just jam from 1pm for £7
Below is a sketch of plans for 2018 with Monika and Nina
Sun 7 Jan
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12.00 – 15.30 JAM
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Clubroom - CCA
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Monika Smekot
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Sat 20 Jan
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12.00 – 15.00 Workshop
15.30 – 16.00 Film: ‘Fall After Newton’
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Creative Lab - CCA
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Nerea Gurrutxaga Arruti
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Sun 21 Jan
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12.00 – 15.00 Workshop
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Creative Lab - CCA
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Zoe Katsilerou
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Sun 21 Jan
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15.00 – 17.00 JAM
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Creative Lab - CCA
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Nina Enemark
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Sun 4 Feb
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12.30 – 16.00 JAM
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Tramway
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Aya Kobayashi + Nicolette Corcoran (sound)
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Sun 18 Feb
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12.00 – 15.30 JAM
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Creative Lab -CCA
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Nina Enemark
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