CATS Gardening Club

CATS Gardening Club
Hello Gardeners!
Here is the flyer for the dates of the CATS Gardening Club. It will be every Tuesday from 6pm and either Saturday or Sunday from 2pm to 5pm. The next weekend dates are as follows:
Saturday 3rd May from 2pm - 4pm
Saturday 10th May from 2pm - 4pm.
Hope to see you all there!
Regards
Dorinda

The Royal Marsden needs your help!

The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity

5 hours ago · Edited

The Royal Marsden needs your help. They want to purchase a building next to their Chelsea hospital so they can treat more patients and expand research capacity.

But unless they can gather 1,500 signatures to force the council to discuss the issue, there is a danger that the building could be turned into luxury flats.

Please help The Royal Marsden by signing the petition here:http://bit.ly/QEEj81 

Read more about this issue here: http://bit.ly/1fpVVuw

CATS Summer Day Trip is announced!

Summer Day Trip to Leigh on Sea

Summer Day Trip to Leigh on Sea

Let's hope that the weather stays fine for this year's CATS Annual Summer Trip  to Leigh on Sea on Saturday 9th August. We are meeting at 9am outside Toms Kitchen and will be leaving Leigh on Sea at 6PM. Tickets will be available from The CATS office which is above the Estate office, every Thursday from 10.00am to 12 noon and 6pm to 7pm from May 1st. Adults £10 and Children £5 Hope to see you all there! For more information please contact committee@catsinfo.co.uk

CATS Community Peace Garden on Project Dirt!

Hi all you Gardeners!
I have made a Project Page for the CATS Community Peace Garden on Project Dirt! If you do have a moment, can you please join the page and contribute to the blog and see updates and images of how the Project is going! Its a great site with lots of info about gardening and other events and projects that are happening all of London and The UK! Many Thanks Dorinda. Click on the Link below to have a look!
http://www.projectdirt.com/project/12390/

The Saatchi Gallery and Ministry of Nomads

Next Thursday 24^th April we are putting on an extra special event at the Gallery with the beautiful Helen Parker-Jayne, of the collective The Venus Bushfires. Please come along to the Gallery for a drink and to see the exclusive set performed live at our new exhibition Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America.

See below for more details or click here for our website

 And please do pass on to any friends who are may be interested!

 The Saatchi Gallery and Ministry of Nomads present a rare opportunity to see Nigerian born composer and performance artist Helen Parker-Jayne, of the collective The Venus Bushfires, play a captivating live set accompanied and interpreted by contemporary African dance.

Helen Parker-Jayne is renowned for her immersive performances which bring together wide ranging influences from Avant-garde, psychedelic, tribal and meditative arts to 70s musical pioneers such as Fela Kuti and Can. The evening presents an exclusive opportunity to see Helen Parker-Jayne playing the Hang, a Swiss-made PANArt instrument, alongside the percussion, guitar and Pidgin vocals of the Venus Bushfires.

The hour long performance is designed to resonate with Saatchi Gallery’s new exhibition Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America.

Doors open at 7pm, Thursday 24th April
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ
King's Road
London, SW3 4RY
Tickets: £5 (which includes a drink)

listen to them nowhttp://thevenusbushfires.com/

Please Come and Join in the Gardening fun

Calling All Gardeners!!
12th April Mowing and planting 1pm - 4pm
19th April Planting and Easter egg Hunt Event from 2pm - 4pmThis Estate will be planting Sunflowers in The RHS Growing for Gold, the 50th anniversary celebration of RHS Britain in Bloom. 

Please  forward to anyone who would like to come and print out a couple of copies of the poster and stick it on your door! Many Thanks! Dorinda! 

Late addition to the April 12 CAC programme:

CAC would like to announce, with pleasure, that the Argentine singer/songwriter/guitarist Corina Piatti plus tango dancers Jane Solomon and Richard Putko will also be performing at St Luke's Hall on Saturday April 12. 

Chelsea Art Collective - April 12th St Lukes Hall - 7.45

CATS (Chelsea Association of Tenants) presents CHELSEA ARTS COLLECTIVE (CAC)

CAC is a new grassroots initiative by painter Lilia Pegado http://www.liliapegado.com/ and arts journalist/curator Donald Hutera (The Times, etc) donaldhutera@yahoo.com

Welcome to St Luke’s Hall and tonight’s programme which comes to you on a lo-fi wing and a non-denominational prayer. The bill (order not yet determined at press time) for April 12:

‘Empty, Theatre, Dream’ (15-20 mins approx.) finds the London-based dance company Corali in a poetically playful place into which the audience is also invited.  Performers: Graham Evans, Housni Hassan (DJ), Bethan Kendrick and Jackie Ryan. Devised by them plus Jacobus Flynn and Sarah Archdeacon. Animation by Merlin Evans. www.corali.org.uk 

‘Chase’ by Simon Rice's troupe of mature ballet dancers Sage (4 mins] features Zelide Jeppe, Cecil Rowe, Carol Mercer, Gilly Wesley, Jill Raven, Teresa Earle, Olivia Lousada and Catriona Maccoll. Choreography by Fionuala Power. Music: Ron Ford.                      www.sagedancecompany.com

A work-in-progress freshly made for CAC, ‘The Panel’ (15 mins) is a consideration of the interfaces between physical and verbal language, dance and the consideration of dancing. It’s an archaeology of dance excavated in the present by Jia-Yu Corti and Lizzy Le Quesne in collaboration with director Michael Popper.

‘Thunder comes rushing forth from the earth again’ (10-15 mins approx.) is by the butoh-trained cross-disciplinary performer Florencia Guerberof.

“When, at the beginning of summer, thunder comes rushing forth from the earth again, and the first thunderstorm refreshes nature, a prolonged state of tension is resolved. Joy and relief make themselves felt. So too, music has power to ease tension within the heart."
www.florenciaguerberof.com and www.asianperformingartsuk.com
‘Laura Laura’ (15 mins) is a sequel and/or companion piece to ‘William William’ by immigrants and animals (Jamila Johnson-Small & Mira Kautto). www.immigrantsandanimals.com

CAC Details: Doors open 7.45pm. Show time 8pm. Suitable for ages 12+. All performances in this first phase of CAC are FREE but your donations are gratefully received and will help us to continue to operate and pay the artists. Please talk to them – and us – about your experience tonight. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!

Future performances:  CAC is happily planning two days of activities May 30 & 31. More info will be available in advance at http://www.catsinfo.co.uk/ and elsewhere. For directions to St Luke’s Hall please see at http://www.chelseaparish.org/stlukeshall.htm 

CAC has been funded by City Living, Local Life / Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We also gratefully acknowledge technical support from Chelsea Theatre and support from The Chelsea Association of Tenants.

National Gardening Week - 14th -20th April

Dear Growing for Gold participants, Don’t forget to add your Growing for Gold events to the National Gardening Week website this weekend! National Gardening Week runs from 14 – 20th April and groups across the UK will be adding their gardening events to the online listings to reach out to thousands of potential new volunteers and supporters. Just complete the events form at www.nationalgardeningweek.org.uk and see your launch event added to the online selection. Publicise your event Don’t forget to publicise your Bloom launch activity too – we’ve developed a series of Bloom 50th poster templates (see support and resources) to help you do this and also a press release that you can amend and send out to your local media. The RHS website also has advice about sowing your seeds and creating larger golden displays. We hope you have lots of fun with your launch events. Please let us know how you get on and send us your photos so that we can share your stories with other groups via our newsletters. Send your feedback and photos to: communities@rhs.org.uk.

Film - Chelsea -

I received the below letter from a young filmaker -  if anyone would like to take part or is interested please let myself or any of the Committee know.

' I'm an independent artist filmmaker currently working on a film about Chelsea, and having met and interviewed quite a few people in the neighborhood already various people have suggested to me it would be good to approach residents of the Sutton estate about their experiences of living in Chelsea . 

My film is a contemporary portrait of Chelsea today. It will be an alternative perspective to the one that appears in the hugely popular TV show 'Made in Chelsea', instead interested in the various people who really live in the area and their experiences of the neighbourhood, past and present. The film will be an imaginative journey meeting, for example, old Chelsea characters, people who live on houseboats, and Chelsea pensioners, but will also touch on certain social realities .

I'm not sure if you yourself are a resident of the estate, but I would love to come and meet you for an hour if you were willing to talk over what is going on at the estate at the moment. I am not looking to film people on camera, but rather to record conversations that will then be threaded over visuals of the area. It would be great also a some point beyond that to meet some of the other residents and I'd be happy to come to a committee meeting if you think that is the best way to introduce my project and intentions, '