Message from Salman Rogers, Britain:

Way back in 2002, the Subud Youth Association Britain under Brianna Rose organised a project to make a documentary film about the British congress that year - BIG 2002. It was mostly shot by Alex Scott with the help of a few others including me. After the congress, the project rapidly ran out of steam, and the tapes were forgotten for the past five years. However, the tapes have recently been passed in my direction and I have transferred them to the computer. The material is 8 hours of random interviews and congress activities, mainly concentrating on the youth. Some of it is really good - probably more interesting now than in 2002. It is especially interesting to see many of you 5 years younger! The files are in DV format and still of excellent quality. I was thinking that it would be really nice to edit and screen it at Thankyou 2007 this year.

Is there anyone out there (or anyone who might know someone) who wants to help with the editing? I could send you copies of the footage on DVD and perhaps we could get together for a day or a weekend to put it together (hopefully with Alex Scott too)... maybe SYA can be persuaded to fund our travel and expenses....(?) It might be fun. Video editing is really easy nowadays with big hard disks and lots of free software so you don't need to know much to have a go - although if anyone out there has relevant experience, please do come forward. We could also think about making a film of Thankyou 2007, or other movie-making activities, using SYA's video camera.

xx

Salman

Members are invited to submit their work for an exhibition entitled “INSPIRED” to be held in August as part of the ThankYou 2007 event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Subud in the UK.

SICA (Britain), which is organising the exhibition, hopes it will be of the highest quality and work submitted will be assessed by a panel of practicing artists and culturally aware members whose decision on which pieces are exhibited will be final.