Workers of Art
Clever Projections
and Butch Auntie

Olympic poet Lemn Sissay created a poem for Thanet...

Lemn Sissay worked with three communities within Thanet - Minster, St Nicholas at Wade and Margate. From the communities he gathered thoughts, feelings and memories about the places they live - these then inspired the poem he wrote for the people of Thanet.

The peom was presented as part of a community celebration on the 26th January 2012 in each of the three places about which it had been written. In St. Nicholas at Wade the poem was translated into a song, in Minster a dance was performed at the Abbey and in Margate the poem was projected large onto the Turner Contemporary building.

Among the local artists taking part were the company "StevensonThompson" in collaboration with associate dance company "Moving On". They produced a thought provoking interpretation of Lemn's poem featuring intergenerational dancers, students from the University of Kent & nuns from Minster Abbey.

International composer, conductor and musician Tony Castro created a song inpsired by the poem. This was sung by a local community choir "The Big Sing".

The Project aimed to explore the role of the artist within our changing communities and more specifically to promote, inspire and stimulate a love of poetry.

Poetry Isle has been disigned and delivered by Workers of Art in partnership with Community Development at Thanet District Council and Arts Council England. This event launched Thanet's celebration of culture and heritage taking place throughout 2012.

Proud Video Compadres of the Mighty Eric Kleptone, Butch Auntie helped turn the Silent Disco Crowd into a yodelling mess @ Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.

Probably the most fun we've ever had :-P

Where do they go when they Die?


This Video for 'Destiny & Tenacity' by The Kleptones was created by Butch Auntie.

If at first you don't succeed - try, try again. We all do our best, but sometimes failure is a cruel punishment for such hard work. If you don't admire cats, look away now. Do they really have nine lives? - or do they simply never give up.

Being reborn into the world they were always meant to live in, re-enacting the kills and spills every fibre of their body was designed for.
Or coming to rest in the body of a domestic cat, as respite before the next life, back on the plains.

A capacity for courage and individual fortitude.

Done, done, and onto the next one.



Destiny & Tenacity is featured on the Uptime Album:
kleptones.com/pages/downloads_ud.html

Butch Auntie, a VJ team in London, collate and build videos for The Kleptones Live Performances, world-wide.

Bespoke VJ team Butch Auntie built a set for this great concept-event organised by BBC Radio 1's Bobby Friction. An ecclectic fusion of such bombastic music is quite a task to prepare for visually, - but as usual, Auntie rolled up her sleeves and did herself proud!...




From the Site:

Award winning BBC Radio 1 DJ BOBBY FRICTION, presents his own club night FRICTION which is set to bring a new lease of life into the Asian Underground music scene.

Each and every month, Friction is curated by BOBBY FRICTION himself and will showcase the elite artists of Asian Music; both live acts and DJ's.

For the debut event on Friday 24th October 2008, Friction are proud to present PANJABI MC who will be showcasing new material from his new album "Indian Timing". Undoubtedly one of the innovators of the British Asian music scene, PMC has picked up numerous awards over his career such as winning Best Dance Act at MTV Europe and UK Act of the Year at the Mobo's to name a few!

In addition, Friction welcomes cult live act SWAMI as well as PANJABI BY NATURE and SONNY JI from the BBC Asian Network to complete an awesome line up. Not to mention BOBBY FRICTION himself as your host, bringing the freshest sounds of the Asian underground and the coolest Desi beats to Birmingham!

Friction is a fusion of East meets West, Desi meets Urban Electronica in a celebration of the Asian underground. Each artist is hand picked by Bobby himself so expect to see the crème de la crème of exciting, fresh artists alongside leading world class tastemakers in one of the most unique settings in the UK.