Nutkhut and The Mela Partnership are offering a fantastic training opportunity to individuals within the Mela, Outdoor Arts and Carnival sectors. Nutkhut is looking to promote change in the wider outer outdoor arts sector by supporting a new generation of arts practitioners and arts leaders from diverse backgrounds. Alongside this we are on a mission to share our knowledge and experience, by teaming up with like-minded partners who share our vision.
In conjunction with the multi award-winning social enterprise Cause4, we are providing a 4 day training course to strengthen your skills and instil good practice, developing lasting Covid19 resilience.
The 4-module course will be delivered over Zoom video calling. Participants are required to attend all sessions for the benefit of their organisation and the programme as a whole. Sessions will take place on the following dates:
Application deadline is Monday 5th October 2020.
Successful applicants will be notified on or before 7th October. Please check your spam folder to ensure you don’t miss our communications!
You can contact Louise Green, Project Manager if you have any queries: louise@nutkhut.co.uk
Please click here for our short application process.
Nutkhut is excited to share that it needs members of the public to get involved in its latest project.
We’re on the lookout for personal stories about indentured labour in the 20th century as part of our new arts and heritage project, Girmit.
Project Girmit is a Nutkhut arts and heritage initiative focusing on the indentured labour system in Fiji between 1870 and 1920. After slavery was abolished in 1833, the British and other European powers started the indenture system to source cheap labour for their colonies.
Over 60,000 Indians were transported to Fiji between 1870 and 1920 as part of a legitimate but enforced mass migration.
Through the project, Nutkhut and its partners are looking to delve into this forgotten but essential part of history by sharing personal stories from those who knew people who were part of the indentured labour system.
Nutkhut is looking for people with indentured labour stories to tell and is especially interested in hearing from people of Mauritian, Trinidadian and Guyanese heritage, as well as British-Fijian heritage, whose ancestors were indentured labourers.
If you or a family member of yours is a descendent of an indentured labourer and are happy to share stories with Nutkhut for its Girmit oral history piece, please do get in touch with us.
You can email louise@nutkhut.co.uk if you’re interested and if you know someone who might be interested in speaking to us, please do pass on the message.
This is a chance to be involved in a project about a long-forgotten but vital part of our history.
Girmit is part of our Defining Moments series of projects. For more information click here
Nutkhut is committed to supporting our freelancers and we’re determined to keep our community connected!
We’ve teamed up with leading Bollywood Choreographer Jay Kumar and would like to invite you to join our twice weekly virtual Bollywood dance classes, in real time, via Zoom!
Jay will lead these fun, family friendly sessions, providing a fantastic way to stay fit and connected.
Join our social media channels for session time and day updates!
We look forward to seeing you Play the Nutkhut Way!
Nutkhut have been commissioned by London based Certain Blacks to create 3 x 4 minute dance films for the Newham Unlocked Festival on 15 and 16 August 2020.
Saans (Breath) by Ajay Chhabra, takes us through 3 stages of a woman’s life.
Through the footsteps of a child, we enter a world of joy and playfulness in one of London’s oldest outdoor markets, Queens Market, to a world of peace and memory.
The film will premier as part of this unique online festival to a global audience and feature Sujata Banerjee, the UK’s foremost leading Kathak dancer and choreographer.
The theme ‘Dance like Nobody is Watching’ will absorb CCTV footage into the narrative for each film.
Newham Unlocked is an action-packed weekend of exciting dance showcases featuring talented performers popping up in everyday locations and streamed online, courtesy of Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz and Newham Council.
Mayor Fiaz added: “We will work with a range of partners that already contribute to Newham’s cultural offer, as well as those that will be locating in Newham in the coming years. By 2022 some of the world’s leading arts and cultural institutions will be at the heart of London’s brand new cultural destination, East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which will include BBC music studios, a Sadler’s Wells dance theatre, the London College of Fashion and a new Victoria & Albert museum.
Ajay Chhabra, writer and director of the film said, “It’s an honour and privilege to create a short film in London’s much treasured, Queens Market, a place that I’m familiar with since childhood. The memories of shopping here as a child with my mother come flooding in”.
Saans by Nutkhut pays homage to the disproportionate numbers from South Asian communities, who have lost their lives as a direct result of Covid-19.
For further details and press enquiries please contact: emma@nutkhut.co.uk