Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival 2011

"Artist Jamila Walker is one of our Gallery Bridgnorth artists and will also be holding an arts workshop for you to join in at Bridgnorth Library, Listley Street, 01746 763358 on Thursday September 1st from 2.00pm. Mark Making to Music - creating abstract drawings in response to changing beats, tempos and rhymes from percussion interest and other music. An opportunity to take a very 'loose' approach to drawing, as well as a chance to create your own simple musical instruments."

www.bridgnorthmusicfest.com

“After The Last Sky” by Urban Angel

Performances of

“After The Last Sky” by Urban Angel

in The Space at Nottingham Contemporary

on 25^th and 26^th August 2011 2pm and 7pm

This month experimental multimedia performance company Urban Angel bring brand new performance “After The Last Sky” to Nottingham Contemporary. This original piece of work directed by Dominic Shaw has been devised with a group of emerging artists from Nottingham. The piece is inspired by the writings of French artist Jean Genet and ties in with programmed events in the gallery between July and October this year.

After the last sky is devised performance piece which uses Jean Genet’s ‘The Maids’ and ‘Deathwatch’ and the exiled Palestinian writer Muhmoud Darwish’s poem ‘The Earth is Closing on us’ as the starting point. It investigates concepts of cross gender sexual and political power play, exile and class division. It has been devised over five weeks with a group of emerging theatre practitioners.

"After the Last Sky" is being performed in public for the first time at 2pm and 7pm on the 25^th and 26^th August in the Space at Nottingham Contemporary. The performance is free to all although not suitable for anyone under 16 years old. To ensure a seat please pre-book by contacting Steve McLaren at Oberon@ntlworld.com or by phoning 07970 94697.

'London Art Box' (LAB):

Some of the UK's most exciting emerging artists are invited to LA to represent London

Some of the UK’s most ambitious emerging artists are packing up a small and exciting piece of the London art scene to captivate Los Angeles - 'London Art Box' (LAB):

It is a London ‘micro-gallery’ in which the artists have been invited to prepare a special exhibition for the LA major art event, FLAG STOP. It will be interactive and performative, with impromptu discussions, an interactive dialogue about contemporary art, and we will be exploring the premise that art is a social experiment....

We are also following this up with a unique VIP event in the UK when we return from LA which i would like to invite you to (or if you want the LA one!) as we are having a special VIP event and press screening and we will have quite a few intrigued journalists joining us on 28 Sept.

For more information contact Nicola Anthony via www.nicolaanthony.co.uk

audio/video on the site gallery

For those artists who want to have their spoken word/audio/video work on the site, please be patient - that is the next step, but it needs to be incorporated carefully within the site design - however I am working on it!

Tim

New site online - please send your posts!

This blog is not only for my own news, events and suchlike, but it is for YOU!

I mean everyone - artists in the applecart.org network and beyond, and also for the general public - I would like to publish YOUR STUFF!!! If you have an event or exhibition you'd like to publicize, or an opportunity that is available, or anything else you think may interest people then please email tim@applecart.org, stating it is for the blog...

I would also love to feature reviews of shows etc you have seen and publish them here - anything from installations to concerts, exhibitions to films... Anything remotely creative! Just remember to add the worf BLOG to the subject line... Don't forget the pics too!!!

So get sending!