Self-employed teacher, presenter and promoter of Chinese opera, Kathy Hall (CF 2004) focused her Fellowship on Kunqu opera, so that she could further her Kunqu performance skills in Hangzhou, China. Kathy was invited by the British Museum to perform an excerpt from the Peking Opera, The Imperial Concubine Intoxicated -The Hundred Flowers Pavilion on June 9 2023 at the close of the 2-day Conference: China's 1800s -Material and Visual Culture. In the same evening, Kathy performed an excerpt from the Kunqu Opera, The Palace of Eternal Youth - the Intimate Feast. This was an informative comparison and contrast between the two major Chinese Opera genres in music, singing, and movements.
Artist Maria Amidu (CF 2013) has been awarded the third and final Future Collect commission, which supports the creation of a major new work of art by a British based artist of African and/or Asian descent, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024. Maria has also done doctoral research which grew out of her Fellowship.
By Maria Amidu,
Freelance Mental Health Specialist and Arts Professional,Angela Samata (CF 2017) has a TEDx Talk I recorded live and available on Youtube. Angela talks about suicide prevention and the power of postvention and touches on her own experience of losing a loved one to suicide.
By Angela Samata,
We are sad to report the death of Artist Agathe Sorel (CF 1966). Agathe's obituary in the Jewish Chronicle describes her Churchill Fellowship where she travelled around the US and Mexico, meeting fellow printmakers and learning their methods. Agathe was particularly inspired by unconventional printmaking.
By Agatha Sorel,
John Warburton BEM (CF 1989) shared this photo with us. The photograph shows John posing next to a bronze statue of crime writer Dame Agatha Christie which was unveiled in the Kine Croft park in Wallingford, Oxfordshire on 9 September
