Contents Page Inside the 3rd issue of the Quarter.... Introduction Welcome Back! You have in your hands issue number three of the Chocolate Factory’s very own guide to all the great and good going on in the arts world, in Haringey and even further abroad. As well as all the usual fun you’ve come to expect from us, including music, literature and entertainment for the little ones, we’re very proud to announce the introduction of two new original nights to our thrilling line up of regular events. But it doesn’t end there! We’ve also 03 04 06 07 got a friendly chat with Illustrator and No Quarter: Internet: Jane Roberts : graphic novelist, the amazing Oscar Crouch End Zarate, a full report on Collage Arts’ Everything You Creatively Open At Karamel Patrons Portrait recent illuminating visit to Barcelona, Never Wanted to Unveiling and a load more in the way of fresh Know About Sex... Discrimination and exciting content for you to get stuck into. With the summer finally around the corner, what could be better than relaxing in the park with a nice, cool drink, and a nice, new edition of Haringey’s favourite free paper? Created and distributed by Collage Arts www.collage-arts.org Editorial Team Andreas Stylianou Manoj Ambasna 08 10 11 12 Preeti Dasgupta Oscar Zarate Haringey Poetry and Jazz at Karamel Interview Literature Live Paella Design Evelyn Ofosu Contributors Xantoné Fayeton-Blacq Dominic Hunte Paul Lyalls Richard Peacock Kate Pemberton Chris Sheehan Phil Sherman Conor Supka Jamel Taylor Sian Tomlin 13 14 15 16 17 Michael Walling Breaking the PramDepot: Karamel Kids Apprenticeships For any comments or enquiries, Border or to suggest an article: Sound Barrier Crossings Karen Lois Whiteread [email protected] or 0208 829 1318 2 The Quarter | Issue 3 | Chocolate Factory Artists | Collage Arts No Quarter: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex... It’s the equal curse and blessing of our digital But reverence for the person is nothing Franco the latest to be embroiled in a age; that previously unimaginable ability new either. Liszt generated a frenzy in his scandal involving a much younger girl, to share and disseminate information like audiences comparable to the Beatles or and experiencing an inevitable backlash nobody’s business, and put everybody’s Biebers, and is often cited as being the from his fans, who, for what it’s worth, are business in the open for all to see. The tabloid first celebrity back in the 19th century. not solely comprised of the kind of 17 year newspapers, and sites like TMZ and Gawker, So where does the difference lie? When it olds he would meet on the internet. do a brisk trade in exposing the infidelities of comes to the creators of the art we love, sports personalities and stars of reality TV, are we spreading muck just because our Still, the idea that boycotting a film, or feeding into the never ending “build ‘em up, new toys let us, or is there a genuine need song, or exhibition could change someone smash ‘em down” cycle of popular culture. The to expose the crimes of the supposedly for the better or force them to confess to a cult of celebrity is real, and whether you choose unassailable, and see real social justice crime is a noble one, but pretty farfetched to engage in it or not, you can’t ignore its done? Would we rather stay in the dark? in reality. It’s easy to see why many power. But away from the web’s ambivalence advocacy groups would choose to do and the sensationalism of the red top press, How to reconcile love for a piece of so; however, it leads to a kind of negative there exists a kind of celebrity separate from art with the possibly horrific actions of reinforcement which can have the same the common flock , held in higher regard, the its author is a debate that recently has deifying effect on a person’s psyche as thinking person’s pin-up. Let’s call them artists. been unavoidable, although for some putting them on a pedestal. Until the media it’s apparently simple. In many media stops canonising and condemning artists, That artists are not necessarily good people discussions of the resurfaced allegations we’ll never be able to objectively view their is not really a surprise. The biographies of surrounding Woody Allen, people referred creations without them being coloured, many of the great innovators and masters in to the novelist Lionel Shriver and her positively or negatively, by thoughts of all fields of artistic expression are filled with assertion that Allen the man is unimportant; their personal lives. Only by letting our debauchery and ASBO-worthy behaviour, from his work is separate from his personal life, favourite artists be human first can we bigotry, to addiction, to murder, and worse. and his actions won’t taint her affinity for create an environment where admission of But to deny the value of the art they produced it. While many would see that as correct, personal guilt doesn’t signify the end of a is impossible, so those transgressions are put to many others it’s irresponsible and does career, but is the first step to curing the ills aside for the sake of preserving their work for a great disservice to those really affected. of society it helps to illustrate. No amount later generations. And, if we’re talking about When similar incidents keep occurring, of witch hunting or blind eye turning does Caravaggio, for example, that’s easy. He’s long eventually so will the apportioning of blame any good, but who knows, compassion dead and gone, and so is that moral obligation and the most readily available target might. After all, artists are people too; let’s to be shocked. All that’s left now is the art for is always the most visible, the creator make them behave like it. us to study and revere, totally independently of and performer. Sadly, similar incidents the person or any criminal behaviour they may do keep happening, with actor James have committed. Collage Arts | Chocolate Factory Artists | Issue 3 | The Quarter 3 Internet: Creatively Unveiling Discrimination The steel of a machete blade flashes, cuts Among the participants was Martin Schmalzried through the air, still heavy with lingering from the project #DeleteCyberbullying, who profanity and mocking laughter. For a second, has been instrumental in developing an online it’s all dark and quiet, a title card stamps the identity toolkit for young people, whereby they screen; ‘This is England.’ All of a sudden we’re can create avatars of themselves and join back in the room, in Barcelona’s majestic like-minded others in a digital protest with a CCCB building, learning not about Britain’s ugly physical presence, dubbed The Big March and Eighties, but about the real challenges faced set to take place on June 11th 2014. Martin by Italian youths in finding their own identity described the phenomenon of Cyberbullying, and seeing the world through each other’s as a ‘continuation of bullying in general’, with eyes. Although jarring and disconcerting at much the same effects, and went on to discuss first, Roberta Lulli and Marco de Cave’s highly the increased level of police intervention in the impactful presentation was impossible to ignore, area, and the issues that can arise from their and a great introduction to the work they’re involvement. With the recent prosecution in doing to highlight the unseen stories of Italy’s Britain relating to journalist Caroline Criado- overlooked minorities. Perez, it’s easy to see why the law’s response to the issue is so relevant, and such a crucial This was just one of many fascinating aspect of the discussion which surfaced in highlights of the recent i:CUD conference, a many of the presentations and my following two day exploration of all the various issues conversations. Speaking with Marco de that surround our online lives, and how to Cave, from the Italian project National Youth create a safe and healthy space for all users, Work Network Against all Discrimination, it regardless of their differences. Against the became clear just how difficult things could backdrop of Barcelona’s magnificent and be for a young person living in Italy, with the eccentric architecture, Collage Arts was one pressure coming not only from peers, but from of several organisations that gathered in the the institutions supposedly in place for their Catalonian capital to share new ideas and protection. Using the inventive technique of a valuable, ground-breaking research. With purpose-made role-playing computer game, the contingents from all over Europe, the Centre de organisation seeks to highlight these issues by Cultura Contemparania de Barcelona became putting you in the shoes of a young immigrant, a buzzing hive of multi-lingual conversations living exactly as they would, within pretty paltry and international networking, allowing for means. It’s no easy feat, and really drives home some great progression to be made in the the struggle faced by many people all over project’s ultimate goal: creating a cross- Europe. However, despite all the hard work the national framework for exposing and destroying organisation puts in, Italy has seen no new laws discrimination online, through education and introduced to help these vulnerable members positive activism. Even from Harvard researcher of society, and no ‘This is England’ type expose Danah Boyd’s impassioned welcome message, to prompt those new laws along. I asked Marco it was clear that we were in for an informative whether he could envisage a film like that being and illuminating journey, guided by some of the made, and, he indicated that, although there foremost experts in the field.