Creative Midlands West

A taste of Italy comes to Leamington tonight
<b>Cheltenham</b> singer Vince Freeman angry at The Voice rejection
Creative digital agency wins Commonwealth Games deal
@ATTA_grrl You did not imagine they are indeed - I have a feeling they may be the sound of my Summer
writingwestmids: RT @NaomiAlsop: Wish I'd gone to the school I'll be working with this term. They have forestry days - the kids go to a forest to learn. ...
@pipmck plonker
@ATTA_grrl re last week- did not know there was a band called THE Pins - they suck! Pins - all female group output due in May fabulous
International Garden Photographer of the Year show to tour to Jackfield Tile Museum
Research Café - Academic Craft Circles
writingwestmids: "An Evening of Persian Poetry, Birmingham" http://t.co/XBGEEN8n #storify
writingwestmids: Just over 2 weeks until we welcome the @PoetryTranslate Persian Poets' Tour! Tickets still available: http://t.co/nU8YMWuk

A taste of Italy comes to Leamington tonight

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:50 AM PDT

Tim Ellis, director of Old Town arts organisation Hybrid Arts, is leading the exchange project with his band Jackdaw With Crowbar, alongside other Warwickshire and Italian musicians and artists. The venture began when Jackdaw With Crowbar started ...
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<b>Cheltenham</b> singer Vince Freeman angry at The Voice rejection

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:41 AM PDT

The judges on the contest, including music legend Sir Tom Jones and American producer will.i.am, decided which singers should go through to the next round. Bo was chosen in favour of Vince, who is originally from Cheltenham.
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Creative digital agency wins Commonwealth Games deal

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:31 AM PDT

A CHELTENHAM company has beaten off national competition to win the contract to bring to life the mascot for the 2014 Commonweath Games in Glasgow. The digital design agency nerv will create the mascot's signature pose and show the character ...
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@ATTA_grrl You did not imagine they are indeed - I have a feeling they may be the sound of my Summer

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 01:19 AM PDT

@ATTA_grrl You did not imagine they are indeed - I have a feeling they may be the sound of my Summer

writingwestmids: RT @NaomiAlsop: Wish I'd gone to the school I'll be working with this term. They have forestry days - the kids go to a forest to learn. ...

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:30 PM PDT

writingwestmids: RT @NaomiAlsop: Wish I'd gone to the school I'll be working with this term. They have forestry days - the kids go to a forest to learn. ...

@pipmck plonker

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:52 AM PDT

@pipmck plonker

@ATTA_grrl re last week- did not know there was a band called THE Pins - they suck! Pins - all female group output due in May fabulous

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:19 AM PDT

@ATTA_grrl re last week- did not know there was a band called THE Pins - they suck! Pins - all female group output due in May fabulous

International Garden Photographer of the Year show to tour to Jackfield Tile Museum

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The annual exhibition from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew will tour to the Ironbridge Gorge site in Shropshire this summer.

Research Café - Academic Craft Circles

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Research Café - Academic Craft Circles

Research Café - Multi-Disciplinary Approaches

Research-Knowledge-Practice Lab: an art and design research event

Category: 25/05/2012 - 10:30:00City North Campus, Speaker: Dr Mick Wilson

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RKP Lab is a new platform where exchange can take place. An alternative conference format, which aims to prioritise discourse, dialogue and debate relevant to practice- based/practice-led research students in art and design.

Open to all post-graduate students and research staff, who are invited to a day of interaction, to initiate dialogue, foster connections and reflexive critique around our key themes of: research-knowledge-practice.

As research in the creative and practice-based disciplines has grown and developed in recent years, so traditional hierarchies of knowledge have come into question; no longer is it possible to think in terms of a single pathway leading from pure research through to practical application. PhD students in art and design have therefore found themselves at the forefront of complex debates around the relationship between research, knowledge and practice.

What is the place of practical and situated forms of knowledge in the research process? How does one configure a research practice that answers to the demands of the academy to build subject knowledge at the same time as responding to the needs and desires that motivate creative practice? We hope to surface these issues in this event through interaction and dialogue amongst arts and design researchers.

'[Philosophers] must no longer accept concepts as a gift, nor merely purify and polish them, but first make and create them, present them and make them convincing.' 1

This topic will be explored during the day in activities including:

Keynote

Mick Wilson (BA, MA, MSc, PhD) is an artist, writer and educator with eclectic research and professional interests. He has lectured internationally on art research, public culture, creative education and urbanism and is the principal investigator for 'SHARE (2010–2013)', a major European research network for doctoral studies across the creative arts with participants from 29 different countries.

Speed dating

All participants will take an active role in this session to briefly introduce their current topic of study or future research interests in face-to-face discussions. We offer you an opportunity to seduce, amuse, fascinate and create potential collaborations!

Dialogues

Speakers, working in pairs, will present a 'live' dialogue on the themes of the conference to audience members with time given before the event to prepare a conversational approach to the conference themes.

If you would like to be a speaker in the dialogue sessions, please submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) outlining your own approach to research, knowledge and practice by 13 April 2012. Selected speakers will be notified by 27 April 2012.

All participants are encouraged to submit a short written statement (maximum 100 words) or A3 poster (to be displayed at the event) outlining their research interests and how they relate to the key themes, by 11 May 2012.

All submitted abstracts, statements and posters will be collated and disseminated to those who attend.

RKP Lab is organised by BIAD PhD students with support from BIAD Research.

1. Nietzsche, F (1968 [1901]) The Will to Power Vintage Books p409

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