Creative Midlands South |
- Wide Open a photographic exhibition by Zoë Petersen
- LADIES ONLY - desperate 2 dance ??
- Artworks Family Fun Weekend - 12th-13th May
- Arts & Heritage Open Places starts this Friday! 11 - 20th May
- CreativeNhants: 1 week until this months Creative Cafe. More details here http://t.co/xI5EWYJQ
- Code breakers put their stamp on fashion.
- Scratch Nights at MK Gallery
- Friday Night Films at MK Gallery
- Penkat Studio's Open Days...11th - 12th May
- Mini Makers at MK Gallery
- Scriptwriting course for Beginners - 19th May
- Stony Paint Jam Fundraiser!
- Merrie England
| Wide Open a photographic exhibition by Zoë Petersen Posted: 09 May 2012 05:26 AM PDT  Wide Open
Zoë Petersen engages with social and architectural spaces using photography, sound and dialogue. Wide Open is an installation of cyanotype prints made for Project Space 2 using open windows in domestic spaces, heritage sites and studio spaces around Milton Keynes. Cyanotype is a nineteenth-century printing method once widely used to make copies - or blueprints - of architectural plans. This series is made with large sheets of paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, without the intervention of a camera. They are in effect contact prints in which all images are one-to-one in scale. They form a diary of light and weather, built up over ten days, framed and filtered through the various windows. The work was created over a ten-day residency at Westbury Farm Studios with the collaboration of artists and students. Petersen's previous works include Articles for the Blind (2001), which used hand-built pinhole cameras to make 48-hour colour exposures of the Queen Mother public swimming baths in London, and something happened, a sequence of long exposures made simultaneously with sound recordings before, during and after 9/11 in New York. Between 2009 and 2011, she worked with St Mark's Housing Co-op in West London to make Landing Site, a series of cyanotype wallpaper installations and social events, which was part of the transformation of a run-down building for use by a co-operative community. Wide Open was conceived as a result of that experience. | ||||||||||||||
| LADIES ONLY - desperate 2 dance ?? Posted: 09 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT  LADIES ONLY - desperate 2 dance ?? | ||||||||||||||
| Artworks Family Fun Weekend - 12th-13th May Posted: 09 May 2012 05:40 AM PDT  --- Our Family Fun weekend starts on Saturday 12 May with 2 workshops: Japanese Woodblock Printing and Stained Glass WIndows. We have a few places left on these workshops, but we advise you to book as soon as possible. On Sunday 13th -Enjoy demonstrations, open studios, artist talks, an exhibition by Studio Artist Deb Wilkinson, or join in on one of our Skillshare sessions in either Ceramics or Experimental Textiles, have a go at throwing a pot, or try your hand at weaving (sessions are time limited as these are very popular). There will be a lace making demonstration. When you are worn out come to the Cafe to enjoy a traditional cream tea for two, all for just �8 in the thatched barn. Access to Barn Gallery is via 3 internal steps, or an external ramp. Entry is free Artworks-mk Parklands Great Linford Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK14 5DZ | ||||||||||||||
| Arts & Heritage Open Places starts this Friday! 11 - 20th May Posted: 09 May 2012 05:15 AM PDT  The Summer of Culture kicks off in style this month with a number of events celebrating culture in and around Milton Keynes.
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| CreativeNhants: 1 week until this months Creative Cafe. More details here http://t.co/xI5EWYJQ Posted: 09 May 2012 03:12 AM PDT CreativeNhants: 1 week until this months Creative Cafe. More details here http://t.co/xI5EWYJQ | ||||||||||||||
| Code breakers put their stamp on fashion. Posted: 09 May 2012 04:44 AM PDT For the "Great British Fashion" stamp issue on 15th May Bletchley Park Post Office has taken a 1940's theme. The first day cover that will carry the new stamps takes inspiration from the work of iconic fashion illustrator, René Gruau. A familiar figure to the fashion designers featured on the stamps and Bletchley Park's wartime code breakers reading the fashion magazines of the day. The double sided cover has the ten stamps set over the Union Flag with a fashionable code breaker providing the design theme for the first day of issue postmark. The well dressed code breaker on the rear reflects the combination of glamour and sensuality with humour that was such a feature of Gruau's work. The cover will be issued as a numbered limited edition of 500 and is only available from Bletchley Park Post Office. Price is £15 plus post & packing. It can be previewed on the web site at bletchleycovers.com. Further information is available from BPPO, The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes MK3 6EB, Tel: 01908 363489 Ends Note to editors. Jpegs of the cover available as required. The cover design is by Sam Tickner and Rebecca Peacock of Firecatcher Design. Bletchley Park Post Office was once the undercover mailroom for the Enigma code breakers. Royal Mail's predecessor the "GPO" set it up as a sub post office around 1947. The first of is collectable first day covers was issued in 1994. It is currently an attraction for visitors to Bletchley Park where they can post mail using the period post box depicted in the cover design. 1940's fashion shown by re-enactors at the Bletchley Park Forties Weekend on 26th 27th May. René Gruau born in 1909 was Italian/French and took his French mother's maiden name. He produced illustrations for the major fashion houses of the day, notably Dior. He died in 2004 and his illustrations can cost upwards of £25,000 GBP. Bletchley Park Post Office limited edition first day covers also tend to rise in value. Media contact: Terry Mitchell. terry@ltmp.co.uk. +44 (0)1604 781440. 07850 068674 | ||||||||||||||
| Posted: 08 May 2012 06:09 AM PDT  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. | ||||||||||||||
| Friday Night Films at MK Gallery Posted: 08 May 2012 06:22 AM PDT  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.” | ||||||||||||||
| Penkat Studio's Open Days...11th - 12th May Posted: 09 May 2012 02:37 AM PDT  Penkat Studio, an independent Film and Broadcast studio in Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes, has moved to larger premises (6,500 sq. feet studio) and will be opening the doors to interested parties to view the space and facilities on Friday 11th of May from 9am to 9pm and Saturday 12th May from 10am to 5pm. The previous studio hosted feature films including an American cinema release, the BBC and a variety of UK and European music and corporate clients and building upon this success, Penkat Studio decided to expand. Now having a larger, more flexible film space, Penkat Studio is looking forward to facilitating large productions including Ben Holmes' upcoming production, Mercs, and giving production companies the opportunity to reach even higher production values. Penkat Studio's central position is 30 minutes by train from Euston, London, with motorway links from the M1 and M6. Penkat Studio welcomes you and your guests to visit them during the open days. For further information including address, please visit www.penkatstudio.com. Tel: 01908 317886 | ||||||||||||||
| Posted: 08 May 2012 06:19 AM PDT  Mini Makers Secret Surfaces with Emma Wilde Saturday 12 May / 1 - 3pm / Free Suitable for children aged 4+ All of our Mini Maker workshops in May are inspired by Station X, our latest Project Space exhibition, which offers a multi-sensory insight into the derelict buildings of Bletchley Park. For this week's workshop we'll be taking inspiration from the work of current Project Space artist Maya Ramsay, who uses a unique technique to lift the top layer of surfaces off walls in the built environment. In this workshop we'll be capturing textures of our own, making rubbings and textures using materials such as wax crayon, charcoal, pencil and printing ink. | ||||||||||||||
| Scriptwriting course for Beginners - 19th May Posted: 08 May 2012 03:40 PM PDT MK Film Network have an exciting new Scriptwriting Course for beginners starting on the 19th May. Course Dates: 19th May, 2nd June, 16th June and 7th July. Course Time: 11am - 3pm Location: MK Gallery Project Space, 900 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA The cost of the course is £65. The course is for anyone wishing to write for TV, film, short film or comedy. If you want to develop ideas, build strong characters, gain a basic understanding of story narrative and structure and learn how to write authentic dialogue – then this is the course for you. For further information, please email: contact@mkfilmnetwork.com or check out our website: www.mkfilmnetwork.com or join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/filmnetworkmk | ||||||||||||||
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| Posted: 08 May 2012 04:47 PM PDT  Wolverton Gilbert & Sullivan Society St George's Church, Church Street, Merrie England is an English comic opera that concerns love and rivalries at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. The Queen is jealous of Sir Walter Raleigh’s affection for Bessie Throckmorton, her lady in waiting, whilst Essex has his own romantic designs on the Queen. Songs from the opera include "O Peaceful England", “God Bless Elizabeth” and "The Yeomen of England”. |
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