INSIDE OUT
For tickets for TPO Company’s Butterflies performances (see below for details) go to: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/863
 Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July
10am - 5pm
This weekend we open our doors for a weekend of summertime fun for children aged 3 plus and their families.  Explore a lovely building full of hidden surprises, get creative with Chats Palace’s favourite artists and experience some of the best international theatre for children.  Follow the magical metamorphosis of the butterfly with TPO Company, one of Italy’s leading children’s performance companies.
Free entry to the weekend.
Tickets are required for TPO Company’s performances of Butterflies - details below:

BUTTERFLIES
by TPO Company
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th July
11am & 2pm
TPO Company is one of Italy’s most distinguished visual theatre companies, creating original experiences for younger audiences.  Butterflies takes a magical journey through the life of a butterfly - from larvae to grown up, cocoon to flower.  The children get to virtually paint with their arms, compose lullabies with their feet, chase caterpillars on all fours and immerse themselves in a theatrical experience for the eyes, ears, knees and toes.
Butterflies offers a highly sensory theatrical experience for young audiences seated around a large, specially devised digitally-animated performance area.  Fitted with more than 60 pressure sensors, this is the space on which TPO present their interactive worlds where dancers share stories enhanced by clever video projections triggered by breath, light and sound.  At each show some audience members also have opportunities to participate.  For a quick preview go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPjvsQoYr9c
Tickets:
£5 (£3 concessions to 19 and under, unwaged and students) from:
http://www.wegottickets.com/f/863
Call 020 8533 0227 for more details

A TRACE OF MY EXISTENCE
28th May 2009 - 31st August 2009

“The subjects of A Trace of My Existence are full of charm, humour, pathos and a kind of triumphant dignity”.  Ken Russell, The Times, 2nd June 2009.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6407864.ece

A Trace of My Existence is the first European show by the Colombian collective Click por los Barrios (Click for the Neighbourhoods).  These arresting images were taken by children and young people who live in the poorest areas of Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin.
In recent years, Medellin has reinvented itself as a cosmopolitan centre with major public developments such as the city’s metro.  However, in some neighbourhoods away from the centre, the presence of poverty and armed groups is still pervasive.  This exhibition brings us a portrait of the daily lives of the people living under these threats and yet maintain some form of normality as well as ambition for their future.
Click por los Barrios was set up 5 years ago by a group of professional documentary and press photographers weary of feeding the media appetite for images of violence.  Each photographer works in a particular area of the city, working with young people aged between 5 and 26.
A high proportion of the students come from families displaced by violence.  Improving the young peoples’ self-esteem is as important to teaching practical skills.  This project aims to support the students long-term.  The images taken by the students are unique, and come out of situations of hardships and poverty but show huge optimism and energy.  Of course, many of their concerns are those of young people everywhere - friends, family, their neighbourhood and its characters - just messing around.

All the prints in A Trace of my Existence are for sale, and proceeds will go to Click por los Barrios. 

PHOTOCHATS GROUP SHOW - Autumn 2009

PHOTOCHATS GROUP SHOW 2009
SECOND SKIN
This autumn Photochats proposes  to stage a group show on the theme of neighbourhood, be it Dalston/Hackney or whichever part of London you live in.  The exhibition is open to Photochats members and the final submission date is 31st July 2009 for the exhibition from 1st October 2009. The exhibition will also be part of the East London Photomonth festival.
For more details see the Exhibitions page