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

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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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Neck of the Woods [12 Feb-11 April]

12 February – 11 April 2010 (Public preview: 11 February, 6-9pm)
Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester, www.nexusartcafe.com

Neck of the Woods is a group exhibition investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving. Artists and practitioners join from throughout the UK and Internationally to challenge the audience’s preconceptions of community and how this can be explored within their own personal artistic practice.

Highlights of the exhibition include the work of Canadian artist, Lynne Heller. Within the online community of ‘Second Life’, Heller and her intrepid avatar, Nar Duell, will ‘wear’ an alternative avatar costume, a ‘walking’ snow globe. Whilst exploring her own virtual community she will also be available for online web-chats with visitors to the café.

Manchester-based artist Taneesha Ahmed collaborating with Alex Moore present their alternative community, The Denmasons, a secret society enticing viewers into a Denmasonic life-style. Whether you’re young or not so young you’ll remember those Sunday afternoons building a Den in the back garden – this is the moment to re-live those memories…

Neck of the Woods launches on Thursday 11 February with a public preview (6-9pm) including a live performance from Manchester-based Edwyn Butler replicating an old-fashioned Country and Western knees-up around the piano. Alongside this John Leyland and Annette Cookson will be collaborating on a one-off performance of works inspired by the exhibition.

Neck of the Woods is an exhibition curated by up and coming Blank Media Collective at Nexus Art Café opening with a public preview on 11 February (6-9pm) until 11 April. Find Out More on www.blankmediacollective.org/neckofthewoods

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Distance Learning – ‘Working Together: using the arts with young people

Artsplan is delighted to be able to offer its 6-week distance learning opportunity Working together – using the arts with young people. You can start the course at a date of your choice and prices range from £65 to £95 dependent on circumstances.

The distance learning version of this popular one-day workshop is the perfect opportunity for those with financial and time related barriers. No compromise is made on course quality with one-on-one mentoring and extensive supporting material provided.

For further details on Artsplan courses or to make a booking, please contact Jay Barron, Artsplan Development Manager on 02380 630960 or email artsplan@artswork.org.uk www.artswork.org.uk/artsplan

Tags: professional development, training
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Hip Hop exhibition at Urbis

: Free exhibition at Urbis

on until March 2010

HomeGrown: The Story of UK Hip Hop is the first major exhibition to chronicle, in depth, the development of the UK Hip Hop scene.

Looking back over three decades, the exhibition tells the story of how a generation of youth took the spirit of the Bronx block party and fused it with their own uniquely British influences. In doing so it shows how a US subculture featuring art, politics, rhyme, dance and music was adopted, adapted and embraced to create a powerful, complex, cultural force, this side of the Atlantic.

Working with the UK’s most influential figures in Hip Hop the exhibition brings together the rare, remarkable and irreplaceable in Hip Hop photography, music, film and fashion from the best private collections.

Visit www.urbis.org.uk for more information on the exhibition and events programme.

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