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| Gershwins restaurant | |
| An ambient jazz themed restaurant based in the very heart of Newcastle upon Tyne. We pride ourselves with the quality and diversity of our food and wine menus, service and atmosphere. The chefs mix of World and European cuisine offers you, the client, the highest quality food at unfaultable prices. Our starlit ceiling, candles, jazz theme and live jazz music heighten the interior décor and atmosphere. |
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| NESTA - The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts | |
| Working to increase the UK's capacity for innovation, NESTA invest in all stages of the innovation process . This includes maximising the social, cultural and commercial value of the UK's outstandingly talented individuals. The Fellowship programme has been designed to address this by offering a support structure for accelerating the development of creative expertise in a way which doesn't currently exist anyway elsewhere.
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Thirteen high achieving individuals from across Yorkshire have been given a unique opportunity to pursue their creative goals in science, technology and the arts through NESTA's pioneering (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) Fellowship Programme. Here are some of them... |
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Simon Warner is an accomplished photographer specialising in landscape and the theatre and will develop his emerging interdisciplinary artistic practice to encompass video, installation and performance. He will develop work from historical optical illusions (Diorama and Panorama) into a contemporary format. |
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Louise Wilson is a distinguished contemporary visual artist, Louise wants to push the boundaries of her practice by bringing different disciplines together to create a range of new artworks based on Cold War sites in the UK . She hopes to do this by collaborating with archaeologists and experts from acoustic archaeology, an emerging new field. |
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Graham Barber is an academic and musician working in the field of classical music and specialising in organ music. His Fellowship will facilitate his exploration of the technical interpretation of organ music and organ centred improvisation. He will also investigate of the possibilities of multimedia musical performance and study performance practices with particular references to the impact of the juxtapositions of mixed media. |
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Peter Coates is an accomplished stonecarver and sculptor who wishes to develop his skills to use in creating new kinds of public art for particular landscapes. Peter is going to use his Fellowship to, among other things, pursue an exciting interdisciplinary collaboration with engineering consultancy, Arups, and explore new materials such as granite and the juxtaposition of traditional with new and unusual materials. |
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Dharambir Singh Dhadyalla is an established arts activist. He has an exceptionally strong record in his North Indian music and his specialism in sitar. He occupies a unique position in expertise as a teacher of Indian music in a UK context and will use his Fellowship to develop as an educator, working towards the creation of new pedagogical tools for the teaching of Indian music to children. |
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Jenny Hanson is a professional viola player who will use her award to pursue major developments in her work. Among other pursuits, she will work on the development of an electric violin playing in an innovative style and explore the educational applications of the music and techniques involved. |
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Duncan Higgins is an established and exceptional visual artist working with new and emerging image making technology. He has recognised that a shift in his physical environment will facilitate deep reflection, exploration and stimulation in his work and through is fellowship will be enabled to work in Solovki in Russia for a period of time immersing himself in the art practice and the intellectual and physical environment |
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| Hugh MacPherson is a trained engineer, a practising acupuncturist and is a senior researcher in Health Sciences at the University of York. Hugh's Fellowship will allow him to realise his long term ambition of finding synergies between Western and Chinese medical practice that will bring demonstrable benefits to patients with chronic problems. |  |
| Stephen Manthorp is an interactive media producer working in the field of videogames and digital arts, wishing to explore the social and commercial potential of media technologies. He aims to do this by creating videogames as tools for social and cultural change and extending the vision of the videogame sector towards more relevant content. |  |
Becky Truman is a respected contemporary trapeze artist. She will use her Fellowship to research and create narratives about identity, injury, illness and the effects of ageing in relation to the career trajectories of performance based artists. |
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Director, Camera, Editor Music & Sound Design Special Thanks |
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Dear Steven This is a short note to thank you on behalf of NESTA and our awardees for the excellent job you have done for us on our “Celebrating Open Application” Fellowship DVD. As a client I have always been kept informed and you have consulted both on the business and creative aspects of the work in a useful way. You have clearly managed your time well and put those being interviewed at ease. I do hope we get a change to work together again in the future. Yours sincerely Venu Dhupa |
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