If you fancy a bit of shaking your bootie Indian style, check out the press on London’s new Bollywood training ground. Set up by top Indian actors Anupam Kher, Urmila Matondkar, Tabu and Boman Irani, the school will open in September. (Thanks to Boing Boing.)
Photo from Topnews
Another cracking 2 week workshop from my Alma Mater, The London Film School. This one is for the shooters out there: Lighting for HD with award-winning Cinematographer Nina Kellgren BSC. You can get more information here. Discounts available for freelancers.
I blogged a few weeks ago about the Writers Gym with Ellis Freeman at the London Film School. It’s an eight week course aimed at getting participants to exercise their writing muscles. I’ve been doing this course, and I just wanted to take this opportunity to recommend it highly.
I’ve been writing nearly all my life and have always enjoyed the solitary nature of the beast. So, I was quite skeptical about being on a course with other writers, planned exercises, etc. But, I’m really getting into it. It’s amazing how many excuses we make up to keep us from writing. This course helps you to get rid of all of the excuses and to develop the discipline of getting down to writing. I’ve already noticed the difference after two sessions.
There’s another eight week session starting on the 16th of October.
Remember those film workshops at the London Film School wot I wrote about last week? Now Skillset has gotten involved by providing travel and childcare grants for the Technical Drawing class (August 20th to 31st). A good deal as this course is an intensive 2 weeks. You can email my mate Saskia for more details at s.vanroomen@lfs.org.uk. And, you can see more info here. I’ll also be there taking photos, but that is probably not as big an incentive to be there as the free childcare.
Had a fantabulous time at the Central St. Martin’s BA Fashion Show. CW scored us some tickets, and we tubed it over to York Hall in Bethnal Green. Forty students were showing their work, and it varied from “stuff I would wear if I bought new clothes” to some kind of spooky performance art and everything in between. Here are some pics I took on the mobile, so beware of the quality.
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Well, it’s the start of the 3 week school holidays that can only mean one thing - the start of complete brain damage whilst all the parents in the land try and find enough stuff for their sprogs to do every day without depleting their bank account at the same time. It is a virtually impossible task. Our local tennis camp lasts 2 hours per day and costs £150 per week. Quite what they expect the kids to do for the other 6 working hours I have no idea. So far I’ve booked some comedy at the Soho Theatre for the Saturday afternoon and a 2-for-1 special at Roast. I know that London is a great city but most kids that live here have done the Natural History Museum, the V&A, the Science Museum as part of school trips. As a kid I remember relishing the holidays as a chance to mess around but after a week my kids just want to go back school. Is that a good thing?
In retrospect I had an idyllic childhood even though I hated school, had spots until I was nearly 40 and wore baggy clothes to hide my humongous breasts that attracted attention wherever I went. Still, I was lucky being American that I never had to go through the grueling entrance examination process that faces every 13 year old child here wanting to go to public school. All the good London schools are oversubscribed with children looking at a 1-20 chance of getting their first choice of school and parents looking at fees of £10,000/year+ for sending them there.
