Creative Midlands South |
- Live Music
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- Former <b>Northampton</b> amateur dramatics company president dies
- Film Screening and Talk
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Sylvia Pankhurst, Everything is Possible
- The Play House / The Electric House
| Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:22 AM PDT Thursday 31.5.2012 Scratch Nights Live Music: Longmeg Thursday 31 May / 6.45pm, first performance 7.15pm / Free
The slightly incomprehensible ramblings of Longmeg, a band seemingly made up of people who met on the tube last night and haven't made it home yet. Longmeg have previously performed at Tate Modern, Wysing Art Centre, Focal Point Gallery, Architecture Foundation, Hayward Project Space, The Peckham Hotel, Haus der Kunst, Vilma Gold Gallery and ICA. | ||
| Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:19 AM PDT Thursday 17.5.2012 Scratch Nights Fishmarket Collaboration: Joe Brown and Josh Ryan Thursday 17 May / 6.30pm / Free
As part of the Fishmarket at... offsite season, Northampton-based musicians Joe Brown and Josh Ryan are reinterpreting their 2011 performance Interference Interference at MK Gallery Project Space. Using sound, light and projections to create and disrupt environments, they have taken elements of the soon-to-be-demolished Fishmarket building to both transform and be transformed by the Project space. This event is part of a continuing collaboration between MK Gallery Scratch Nights and Fishmarket. | ||
| Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:07 AM PDT Thursday 10.5.2012 Scratch Nights Temporary Sites (A Proposal) Thursday 10 May / 6.30pm / Free Open File is a curatorial project, existing as an ongoing series of events, cumulative publications and an online archive. This May and June Open File will present two Scratch Night events, which will include a screening programme and a publication in three parts, all alongside Olivia Plender's current exhibition at MK Gallery. Staged in Olivia Plender's 1970s style TV studio installation Open Forum, Temporary Sites (A Proposal) will explore the idea of exhibition making as a temporal space as well as a physical space. The event is a device to explore ideas of impermanence and specificity through a selection of performances, screenings and sculptures. What does it mean to establish a context within an existing context? What happens to the relationships forged between these parts when they become dispersed as printed material and online resources? Temporary Sites Artists include: Mark Essen, Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas, Joanne Masding, Luke McCreadie, Alia Pathan and Rachel Pimm. Event curated by Jack Brindley and Tim Dixon. | ||
| Former <b>Northampton</b> amateur dramatics company president dies Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:11 PM PDT
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| Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:43 AM PDT Wednesday 25.4.2012 Scratch Nights Film Screening and Talk Thursday 26 April / 6.30pm / Free Film Screening Life in the Woods by Olivia Plender and Patrick Staff, introduced by Patrick Staff Talk Paganism: not a spiritual path but a sitting among the trees by Dr. Graham Harvey
In the spring of 2011 artists Olivia Plender and Patrick Staff invited a small group of participants to live together for a week in John's Lee Wood, Leicestershire, in a critical exploration of folk revivalism, communal living and collaborative film-making. Borrowing a format from radical outdoor educational programmes started in the early twentieth century, such as the Kibbo Kift, Woodcraft Folk and Forest School Camps, this temporary intentional community explored how group identities are constructed in relation to histories, traditions and ideologies. Through workshops, discussion and the collaborative film-making process the participants address the history of the counter culture in relation to queer politics in the British context. The resulting film, rather than telling the story of their experience in the woods, reflects on whether living experiments such as this have the potential to produce new forms of collectivity. Life in the Woods (2011) a film by Olivia Plender and Patrick Staff, in collaboration with Daniel Bower, Red Chidgey, Ade Clarke, William Clarke, Jesse Darling, Richard Dowling, Zia Dowling-Haigh, June Gillert, Amy James, Michael Mertens, Jamie Partridge, Natalie Raven, Hester Reeve, Yerang Seong, Sofia Törnblad. The screening will be followed by a talk on Paganism by Dr. Graham Harvey, a Reader in Religious Studies at the Open University. He has researched among Jews, Pagans and indigenous peoples. His publications include Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism (Hurst 2008, 2nd edition) and Animism: Respecting the Living World (Hurst 2005). Brought up near Stonehenge, he really got to understand Paganism in a wood in Northumberland. | ||
| Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:04 AM PDT Friday 18.5.2012 Friday Night Films Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 / 107 mins / Cert. 15 Director: Werner Herzog Friday 18 May / 6.30pm / £5 (concessions £3) Pre-book on 01908 676 900 Nosferatu the Vampyre is a 1979 West German vampire horror film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The film is set primarily in 19th century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, Romania, and was conceived as a stylistic remake of the 1922 German Dracula adaptation, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Varna, where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Varna, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die. Written by Yepok | ||
| Sylvia Pankhurst, Everything is Possible Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:19 AM PDT Friday 11.5.2012 Friday Night Films Sylvia Pankhurst, Everything is Possible 2011 / 90 mins Director: Ceri Dingle & Viv Regan Selected by current exhibitor Olivia Plender, introduced by director Ceri Dingle. Friday 11 May / 6.30pm / £5 (concessions £3) Pre-book on 01908 676 900 This feature length documentary chronicles the life of suffragette and revolutionary Sylvia Pankhurst, tracing her ideas, campaigns and political life. The film is packed with facts from primary sources, rare images from museums and archives, interviews with historians and compelling testimony from Sylvia's son Richard Pankhurst and his wife Rita. "This well-researched documentary crams in a wealth of information in such a short space. It's about time that this fascinating woman's life was paid this small but significant tribute."Indianna Purcell, The Socialist | ||
| The Play House / The Electric House Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:43 AM PDT Friday 4.5.2012 Friday Night Films A double bill screening of two classics by Buster Keaton, The Play House and The Electric House, both screened with a live music score. Friday 4 May / 6.30pm / £5 (concs £3) Pre-book on 01908 676 900 The Play House 1921 / 18 mins / Cert. U Director: Buster Keaton The opening scene of this short, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously. He is the band leader, all its members, the dancers on the stage and everyone in the audience. "Amazing! A cast of dozens...and they're all Buster Keaton. This is simply astounding work by Keaton and is absolutely hysterical even by today's standards." Review: Matthew Younker The Electric House 1922 / 19 mins / Cert. U Director: Buster Keaton Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home. He installs lots of fanciful gadgets. The one who should have received the degree gets even by rewiring all the gadgets to wreak havoc. Written by Ed Stephan |
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