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Would you like to explore different models of leadership through practice, through collective action and through inspiration? 21st Century Leadership is a new programme run by the Battersea Arts Centre in partnership with Watershed in Bristol and The Sage Gateshead for people who are playing a leading role across arts, culture and heritage.

The idea is to enable a group of practitioners to come together and explore different models of leadership: through practice; through collective action; through inspiration; through an exploration of independence, collaboration and resilience. The programme is not seeking to provide a formulaic set of answers or training opportunities. It is trying to create a physical and imaginative space which is about the talents, ideas and passions of the programme participants.

In this programme, we aim to learn together, to discover ways of “holding” each others’ work and wellbeing, of building the collaborative networks that can make us stronger practitioners. We are especially interested in the connections between people working as independents with those working in organisations and the mutual learning that can happen from sharing experience.

20 applicants will be selected to participate in this nine-week part-time programme. It is open to artists, curators, producers and academics, working across arts practice, arts organisations, cultural, learning or heritage organisations. It is open to you if you are interested in creating some space to develop your work, ideas and commit to working in a network of different individuals who have lots to learn from each other.

Please see the Applicant Information Pack for more details. We hope you will join us in exploring new ways of working together.

Applications due March 1st, 2012.

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University of Exeter Press is pleased to announce the publication of British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History, edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell, which is available now.

Drawing on archive material and an extensive series of personal interviews, the book reverses the neglect of this vital element in the history of contemporary theatre.

The book provides a detailed picture of the activity of twelve remarkable theatre companies and one major arts centre, including Tara Arts, Tamasha, Kali, Rasa and Rifco. Drawing on a wide range of new interviews with the practitioners involved and extensive research in the archives of those companies, it also contains a survey of British based South Asian language theatres by Chandrika Patel.

The book includes a DVD providing an album of rare and previously unpublished items from private collections: historical documents, programmes, designs, photographs, and clips from recordings of rehearsals and productions.

This is a major contribution to the understanding of diasporic arts through one of the most impressive movements of its kind in the world.

To order the paperback at the special price of £13.00 plus p+p, enter the promotional code DH05 at checkout on our website – offer valid until 31 May 2012 British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History.

For more information, or to order the book

Sustained Theatre website www.sustainedtheatre.org.uk was originally commissioned by Arts Council England