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“Wicked, amazing and always a pleasure to work with such good people…”

Ajay Chhabra - Artistic Director, London Mela

See 'Something Wishful' - our performance in Chester on youtube

Go to our Forthcoming Events page for a full list of events and full details.

See a pdf of our latest newsletter here

1980 - 2010 - it's EEA's 30th Birthday
This will be a special year for EEA and we hope you will join us along the way for a series of memorable occasions – of which, more in the next edition.

In the meantime if you care to share with us any special memories about EEA and the part you played in our journey we’d love to add this to our archive. Please send a message to info@eea.org.uk marked ‘Memory’.

Lewisham Youth Theatre and Emergency Exit Arts present 'School Ties' - part of the Platform 11+European project.

school ties poster

Come with us on a journey into the deep, dark, dusty corridors of your memory. Inhale the stale stench of floor polish, click open your Barbie lunchbox, tuck in that shirt and straighten your tie!
For just two nights, young people from Lewisham Youth Theatre, will be setting the rules; creating the school of their dreams, or maybe your nightmares. This is school as you have never seen it before.

Join us at the Charlotte Turner School, Borthwick Street, Deptford, SE8 3HD on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th February @ 7.30pm
For tickets please call 020 8690 3428 or email info@lewishamyouththeatre.com.
Tickets £5 and £3 concessions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

EEA is producing a two day event for the public Opening of Windrush Square in Brixton on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 February 2010.

On Saturday between 1pm and 5pm come along to see live music and performances, a spectacular human Catherine wheel, and a lantern-lit procession by local children led by EEA’s extraordinary Giant Phoenix. On the Sunday between 12pm and 4pm there will be open workshops in the square.

This is the first of many community events to take place in this new space at the heart of Brixton.

EEA is delighted to announce that we will be working in Tower Hamlets this year to create the Baishakhi Mela Parade on 23 May 2010 in East London. This Mela in Banglatown, Brick Lane is the largest celebration of the Bangla New Year outside of South Asia. This huge annual community celebration of music, performance and dance in the streets around Brick Lane is a key event in Tower Hamlets’ cultural calendar.

Drawing by Jennifer Lewis

Bollywood Brass Band

Band

The BBB have been in India performing for weddings in Delhi, Calcutta, Indore and Mumbai - the home of Bollywood. It was wedding season of course - there were 1,000 weddings taking place in Mumbai on the day the BBB played there!

The band have played at 100's of Indian weddings in the UK, but never before in India, they are due to return in Febrary before the wedding season ends.

Berkshire Bollywood

concert

One Prom leads to another - after the success of the Family Orchestra event for the BBC Proms, Kay (trumpet) was asked to create a piece for the Schools Prom at The Royal Albert Hall on 11th Nov! The event was organised by Music for Youth which is run by Lincoln Abbotts, our Family Orchestra leader. See pictures and video here.

The collaboration involved 2 groups - The Notorious Dholi's from Windsor Boys School and Berkshire South Youth Brass Band and Kay created a 4 minute medley of Jai Ho and Dil Laga Na from the film Dhoom 2. The performance took place on the huge stage of the Albert Hall and was part of an amazing evening of youth music. Kay has written an article about the experience for the February edition of Music Teacher Magazine .