Artsnet / Toolkit Musicians’ Professional Development & Networking Event

Wed 10 March, 1-6pm

Band on the Wall, 25 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ

This event’s for you if you’re a Manchester-based artist in the early
stages of your music career.

Whether you are (or want to be) a musician, band member, workshop
leader, producer, independent record company, music student etc etc…
this is for you.

So if you’re interested in getting hooked into networks, talking to
other people in the business, finding out about opportunities & events
that are available to you… come on down!

It will be a very informal day. Drop in at any time, stay all day or
just pay a flying visit.

It’s completely FREE to attend!

Music organisations attending include:

Affinity Entertainment
All FM
Armstrong Learning
Drake Music Project
Fat Northerner
Greater Manchester Music Action Zone (GMMAZ)
Manchester Music Service
Musicians Union
MusicLeader
North West Vision and Media
Orderly Bazaar
School of Sound Recording (SSR)
Spearfish
Unconvention

To book visit http://music-networking.eventbrite.com

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DRAMA, IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY: workshop for drama workers and teachers

Tue 23 March 2010
10am-3.30pm
Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre

Beginning with the simple question, “What If?”, drama can take children and young people on a journey of discovery. What if I was a refugee? What if I went to that school? What if I didn’t have any friends? What if everyone looked at me with suspicion?

Drama can enable us to create fictional characters and put them in fictional situations which reflect real people in the real world, without leaving the safety of the classroom. To give someone a name and a voice, in other words to humanize ‘the other’ can dramatically affect the way we see them.

Using some of these ideas as a starting point, this workshop will use
practical, accessible drama-based approaches to explore issues around
identity and diversity, and is suitable for everyone working with both young people and adults.

Cost: £50 (teachers & practitioners) / £30 student teachers

Book at Royal Exchange Box Office: 0161 833 9833

More information from Exchange Education: call Amanda on 0161 615 6720

Tags: drama, Royal Exchange Theatre, workshop
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Venture Arts Open Book Exhibition

Venture Arts Open Book Exhibition is taking place at the following venues:

The Lowry: 11 February – 28 March
People’s History Museum: 24 April – 6 June
Manchester City Art Gallery: ‘ We came, We saw…..We ventured’ 16 March – 28 April
Zion Arts Centre -12-18 July.

For more information see the attached press release: Venture Arts Press Release

Tags: exhibition, Venture Arts, visual arts
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Half Term activities at Zion Arts Centre

This half term holiday Zion Arts Centre will be offering a range of hands on activities for young people. Some sessions are on a drop in basis and others run for the whole week and end with a chance to perform at the Zion – showcasing your work to friends and family! Choose from the sessions below and get in touch with Zion to register, or just drop in. Call 0161 226 1912 or visit www.zionarts.com

Mon 15 – Fri 19 Feb

ALLFM – route into radio, ages 10-16, 10am-1pm, £10 for 1 week

Creative Hands – create African beats, practice playing the drums and build up to a performance. 10:30am-12pm Monday & Tuesday, 1-2:30pm Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (ages 8+, £2.50 per session or £10 for the week).

Street Dance – Hone your skills with the UK champions and show off your new moves in Saturdays’ showcase (11:15am – 12:15pm, £2.50 per session or £10 all week)

Odd Theatre – Work with a professional company to put a play on in a week and improve your acting skills(1:30-2:30 pm, £2.50 per session or £10 for the week)

Wed 17 Feb

MMU Art Attack – Drop in and work with the creative art students to create some original art works that will be displayed in the Zion (£2.50 per session, 10am – 12 & 1 – 3pm)

Thu 18 – Sat 20 Feb

One69A – Drop in any time during the session to design and screen print your own t-shirt to take home (Wed-Sat 2:30 – 4:30pm, £3.50 per session. Last entry to session is 4pm)

Sat 20 Feb

Free! Street Dance – Hone your skills each Saturday with the UK champions (ages 5-13, 10am – 12pm)

Free! All In One – With MC Crystalize. Discover all there is to know about the music business! Runs every week (ages 11-19, 11am – 1pm)

Free! ACCA Capoeira – Brazilian inspired music and movement class. Runs every week (ages 12-16, 10:30am – 12pm)

Boys Street Dance – with Company Fierce. Learn fun, funky street dance styles whilst keeping fit every Saturday (ages 8-14, 1 – 3pm £2:00 per session)

Giggle – Have heaps of fun with Big Comedy and then see yourself on a big screen! (£5.00 per session, ages 6-12, 2 – 4pm)

Young Person’s Showcase – Everyone is welcome to come and see the work prepared during the half term workshops. Free tickets for those who took part/£2.50 otherwise (4 – 4:30pm)

Free! Family Friendly screening of Kung Fu Panda – to celebrate the Chinese New Year come down for the Kung Fu demonstration and watch the film (4:30 – 6:30pm)

Tags: Capoeira, comedy, dance, Film, Kung Fu Panda, music, screen printing, street dance, workshop, Zion, Zion Arts Centre
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Seeing and Being Seen [24 Feb-10 Apr]

Adam Booth | Lee Deaville & Richard Turner
24 February – 10 April 2010 (Public preview: 24 February, 5-11pm)
greenroom, Manchester, www.greenroomarts.org

Seeing and Being Seen is a collection of new photographic works by Adam Booth and collaborators Lee Deaville & Richard Turner curated by Blank Media Collective. A common theme between Booth’s and Deaville & Turner’s works are the way in which they replicate the cinematic within beautifully lit and framed photographic images. Their works compliment each other through their exploration of traditional genres of landscape (Adam Booth) and portraiture (Lee Deaville & Richard Turner). Seeing and Being Seen highlights the photographic works by these three exciting up-and-coming practitioners selected from Blank Media Collective’s online Artist’s Portfolios.
Seeing and Being Seen is an exhibition curated by up and coming Blank Media Collective at greenroom, Manchester, opening with a public preview on 24 February (5-11pm) until 10 April. Find Out More at www.blankmediacollective.org/seeingandbeingseen

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Could you be the British East Asian acting star of the future?

Discover if you have what it takes to make it on our screens & stages!

Yellow Earth Theatre ( the UK’s leading East Asian theatre company) and ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts) are working in partnership to offer Yellow Academy 2010, an exciting new scheme to introduce British East Asians aged 16-30 to professional acting & performing.

FREE actor training activities are held in Belfast, Birmingham, London & Manchester.

Round One – Taster Talks

Manchester – 20 Feb

For details of the full programme visit www.yellowearth.org/initiatives/yellow-academy

This project is funded by The Skills and Learning Council.

Yellow Academy 2010 in Manchester is supported by Contact

Tags: Contact, Cultural Diversity, East Asian, theatre, Yellow Earth
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Manchester Day Parade – call for participants

Manchester Day Parade
Sun 20 Jun

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS….

This is an opportunity for community groups, resident groups, local businesses, individuals etc who may be interested in participating in the new Manchester Day Parade.

If you’d like to register your interest in the below opportunity please complete the attached form and email or post to Billie Klinger, Walk the Plank, 72 Broad Street, Salford M6 5BZ / info@walktheplank.co.uk

Would your group/organisation/family like to take part in the first Manchester Day Parade…a celebration of all that’s great about our city? This is your chance to be part of an amazing procession that brings colour, music, dance and larger-than-life characters to the streets. What do you think is so fantastic about your city that it’s ‘Out of this World’? Who are your heroes? What bit of Manchester past or present would you like to celebrate?

There’ll be opportunities to create floats & costumes, or work with dance specialists to develop movement and dance, or to come along on the day and get dressed up in fantastic outfits and make up.

There are 3 levels of involvement that you can apply for:

Gold – for groups that want to work with an artist to develop your own ideas for designing a float, or creating costumes, or making music or movement
Silver – for groups that want to take part and already have costumes/a float, or groups that want to take part but have only a limited time to work in advance of the parade
Bronze – for individuals, small groups or families who want to take part and are willing to work with other people to create a section of the parade, or want to get involved but don’t know where to start…

We can’t promise to involve everyone that wants to take part in the first year, but we’re certainly going to try!

Tags: Manchester Day Parade, parade, Walk the Plank
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Mexico – Manchester Exchange for Artists

Between the 7-21 June 2010 a group of artists from Manchester and the North West will make a journey to Mexico City and Oaxaca. There will be a number of performances in public spaces, opportunities for dialogue with different people, documentary and recording opportunities for visual artists, photographers, writers etc. If you are an artist in a relevant field you could be one of those taking part in the trip.

For more information please view the attached flyer or contact the event organiser John Forrest at: producerjohn@hotmail.com

Mexico 2010 – Brochure 2

Tags: creative, Exchange, opportunities
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2010 Dance classes at Sunshine Studios

Monday:
6pm-7pm Street, Beginners with Natalie
6pm-7pm Contemporary, Beginners with Anthony – Starts 8th Feb
6pm-7pm Commercial Jazz, Intermediate with Red Ice – Starts 8th March
8pm-9pm Contemporary, Intermediate with Anthony – Starts 8th Feb
8pm-9pm Wacking/Vogueing, All Levels with Nina – Starts 15th Feb

Tuesday:
6pm-7pm Lion Dance, All Levels with Michael
8pm-9pm Latin, Advanced with Jen
8pm-9pm Street Jazz, Beginners with Debbie, £4(Jan/Feb Offer)

Wednesday:
12.30pm-1.30pm Ballroom/Latin, Advanced with Jen
1.30pm-2.30pm Street & Hip Hop, All Levels with JV
7pm-8pm Street, Beginners with Natalie
7pm-8pm Street, Intermediate with Jaxx
7pm-8pm Lindy Hop, Beginners with Mike and Kate
8pm-9pm Pop Jazz, Beginners with Noosh, £4 (Jan/Feb Offer)
8pm-9pm Lindy Hop, Intermediate with Mike and Kate

Thursday:
6.30pm-8pm Hip Hop, Advanced with Laura, £7
8pm-9pm Pop Jazz, Intermediate with Noosh, £4 (Jan/Feb Offer)

Friday:
5pm-6pm Under 12′s Street, Under 12s with Keshia – Starts 5th Feb

Saturday:
2pm-3pm Street, Beginners with Alex + Rowan – Starts 6th Feb
3pm-4pm Street, Intermediate with Alex + Rowan – Starts 6th Feb

Sunday:
1pm-2pm Street, All Levels with Ess

Don’t forget to check out the Sunshine Studios website to view our timetable.
We look forward to seeing you at the studio.

enquiries@sunshine-studios.co.uk
www.sunshine-studios.co.uk
03330 883328

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Acro Balance workshop

Circus Diaspora brings you an Acro Balance Workshop

Zion Arts Centre, Hulme
Tue 16 Feb, 6-8pm
Circus Diaspora Manchester’s newest circus company is dedicated to brining world class circus training and performance to Manchester. For our first workshop of the year we have invited our friends from So & So Circus to offer a masterclass in acro balance.
This two hour session will be suitable for anyone who would just like to try learning some of the skills or for those who have already done some acro balance and are keen to learn more.
Price: £30 per person
To book your place call 07704954823
For more information visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Circus-Diaspora/238868501089?ref=ts