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
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
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
Seeing and Being Seen [24 Feb-10 Apr]
Copyright Lee Deaville & Richard Turner
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
Neck of the Woods [12 Feb-11 April]
Rhiannon Hunter | Productofboy | Ima-Abasi Okon | Taneesha Ahmed & Alex Moore | Renee Rhodes | Fivethreefive Project | Branka Vidovic-Butler | Lynne Heller | Ryan Campbell | Edwyn Butler | John Leyland & Annette Cookson
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
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
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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