The Shrine / Zigurat Ltd

Past / Current work by Zigurat includes:



Programme Consultancy

Creative partnership with The Barbican (from conception to staging) of the Fela Kuti, Black President Festival October ‘04.

Artistic Directors of Celebrating Sanctuary (Annual Refugee Artists Festival)

GLA’s Respect (Anti-Racism) Festival [‘05]

Wychwood Festival [Cheltenham ‘05]

Somerset House (summer ’05)



Workshops

Devising/leading the ‘Free Jazz meets DJ’ Workshops for The London Jazz Festival (‘04) and the Banlieues Bleues Festival [Paris, ‘05]

Underground Pop Video workshops for British Council [Caracas, Venezuela ’05]



Our workshop projects and performance sessions involving local youth have included our Dubbing the Roots Project with the British Council (all over East Germany /June ‘02), Dubbing the City with the Thames Festival ‘03 (Waterloo), Who Are We Now? (Aug ‘04) for BBC Blast in Reading and Afropop (Aug ’04) in Berlin.



Production

Ongoing Shrine Synchro System gigs (UK and International), Shrine Club & Shrine Presents events.



The SHRINE SYNCHRO SYSTEM is our ever-evolving musical unit, which has developed out of our SHRINE club nights. At its core, the soundscapes created by DJs RITA and MAX lay the foundations for the live musicians to rip it up onstage - musicians including TONY ALLEN, TY and WUNMI (for Berlin’s Heimatklänge & Womad UK), and Zimbabwe’s mbira queen STELLA CHIWESHE for the our Electronic Shabini Collective February ‘04 /continuing).



THE SHRINE, our club night was inspired by Fela Kuti's Lagos club and the rebirth of Afrobeat brought about by his untimely death in 1997.It’s become the biggest Afrocentric club night in London, breaking acts like Orishas, Daara J and Tinariwen.