Members Round-up

By MiriamZ 15/09/10

We like to keep busy here at IdeasTap and so do our members. Here’s what some of our multi-disciplinary lot have been up to recently...

Artistic collective Interrobang run open-mic nights (see above) featuring everything from comedy to art and poetry. Their latest event is on tonight (Wednesday 15th September) in London. It will feature performances from comedian Dan Green, performance artist Brian Lobel, the Nutshell Contemporary Dance Company and illustrations by Hannah Horn. It’s £3 on the door, but organiser Vanessa Hammick splits the door money between all performers at the end of the night. Check them out at The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, London, EC2.

Producer and director Beth Nesbitt spent the summer with Forest Fringe at the Edinburgh Fringe, but now she’s returning to the south to co-direct Battersea Arts Centre’s youth theatre group YPT1. She and co-director Kris Webb will teach 12- to 14-year-olds to work as a team, to build their confidence and to begin to create some innovative, improvisational theatre. BAC also run sessions for 14- to 17-year-olds and 17- to 25-year-olds – find out more here.

Mohammad Munir Malik is a very busy filmmaker at the moment. He has been sitting on IdeasTap’s editorial board, where decisions about the content and direction of the site are made. He is also in the process of shooting IdeasTap-funded short film Lamb, a comedy-drama following two young Muslim brothers who seek revenge on council estate bullies by using water balloons as punishment.

Bi-monthly film festival Brain Wash is a collaboration between young filmmakers, writers and artists putting on programmes of interesting and innovative short films. They’ve just presented a "Best Of" selection as part of the Peckham Free Film Festival and are heading to New York this Halloween to showcase their work.

Architecture student Tom Surman has also been working hard. His idea for a pedal-powered water battery has been shortlisted for Ideas Fund Green. Tom wants to generate pop-up power that will allow gigs, theatre productions, film screenings and educational workshops to take place anywhere, so long as the audience are pedalling. His collective ThriftLab have made a great short film to express their excitement at the shortlisting and show the idea off – check it out here.