current & ongoing projects
Planting the Lakanal Memorial Orchard 2009
Community Project
23rd August 2009
Residents and tenants from Scaux Gardens estate came together on Sunday 23rd August to mark the tragic fire that took place there in July. Six people, including three children, died in the fire. Thais and Philipe were members of the SLG's Staurday Club based opposite Lakanal block on the estate. Families and children planted six fruit trees in the communal area of woodland at the bottom of the now deserted 14-storey building.
The event was facilitated by artists Orly Orbach and Jess Thom, who encouraged children and adults to write dedications on signs placed around the young trees. They were helped in this by gardeners from Urban Orchard, supported by Southwark Council staff ... More »
Goin' Home - Southwark Walks 2010
Two Evenings of Music: A Gala Fundraiser for the
South London Gallery
23rd March 2010 & 25th March 2010
The Southwark Music Charts will be the outcome of a unique collaboration of individual artists who will come together to musically map the borough of Southwark with new compositions written by contemporary, classically trained composers in response to this inner-city landscape. The composers, coming from various cultural/ethnic backgrounds, have been asked to write a piece of music in response to a series of walks in Southwark. The aim for the resulting "musical map" is not to offer an "objective" musical response to the environment ? instead, the walks will be seen through the individual prism of each composer and as such will be reflected in the resulting pieces ... More »
A-Z [coming soon]
A 26-part video series for online consumption via random release dates
A '9 minus 1' production
'9 minus 1' is founded by Paula Crickard and Christian Smith to facilitate their multi platform projects. 'A-Z' brings a group of 4 unusual antiheros together under the leadership of Sister Pettipants who has been chosen by Tudo Bem (a Bicho-preguiça and all powerful spiritual being incarnate) to lead a small attack against greed in the 21st century. Over a course of 26 short episodes, the adventures of Sister Pettipants, Sudice Seduca, Sandar Van Dar Manstar and Orla McGarvey are told in a series of anecdotes set in various locations throughout Europe. A high camp, low brow montage in the style of Mr. John Waters and Senore Pedro Almodovar (so be our aspirations in this most tasteful homage to these heroes of humour).