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Watato Ugandan Children's Choir back in MK in June

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:39 AM PDT


You may have read in the national newspapers that the choir have recently sang for Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle as part of the Jubilee
celebrations. Lydia, one of the choir children, couldn't contain her excitement and gave the Queen a hug!

We (the come closer foundation team) are working with four local churches to bring things together for the choir to be here. The choir are from Uganda
and the spectacular concert they give is called 'Beautiful Africa'.  All the children in the choir have been orphaned or abandoned as a result of AIDS,
Poverty or War and have been rescued by the Watoto Child Care Ministries.

They now live in family groups in one of four villages established in Uganda. We really want to encourage people to make one of the concerts and
bring a friend. The enthusiasm and energy of the children is unbelievable. The concerts are free. A collection is taken to help with the fantastic work
being done in Uganda.


Please help spread the word and forward on these details to your friends, colleagues and family and invite them along. We have physical posters and flyers if you want us to forward some onto you - just let us know.

Concerts are being held across the MK area. The choirs programme is as follows:

Sunday 24th June @ 10:30am - Christ the Cornerstone, 300 Saxon Gate West, CMK, MK9 2ES (Featured as part of the morning service)

Sunday 24th June @ 6pm - St Marys Bletchley, Church Green Road, Bletchley, MK3 6BJ

Tuesday 26th June @ 6:30pm - Olney Baptist Church, Market Place, Olney, MK46 4EA

If you know anyone who lives in Bedford the choir will be in the area as follows:

Saturday 23rd June @ 1:30am - Bedford Town Centre (near Boots area)

Saturday 23rd June @ 7pm - Bromham Baptist Church, Village Road, Bromham,MK43 8LJ

Thanks for any help you can give

David and Emma (Beaney) and all the Come Closer Foundation Team


info@comecloserfoundation.com or phone 01908 695544.


www.watoto.com

NorthantsArts: Looking forward to seeing @NPtheatre #TheButterflyLion @DerbyTheatre on Thursday! It's the little lion cub. He gets me every time...

Posted: 21 May 2012 02:29 PM PDT

NorthantsArts: Looking forward to seeing @NPtheatre #TheButterflyLion @DerbyTheatre on Thursday! It's the little lion cub. He gets me every time...

Film Screening

Posted: 21 May 2012 11:15 AM PDT

Thursday 23.8.2012
Scratch Nights

Film Screening and Refreshments Living Room Cinema presents: Employment of Time Thursday 23 August / 6.30pm / Free

This Norwegian Season event, curated by Norwegian artist Pernille Leggat Ramfelt, takes as its theme the current exhibitor Hariton Pushwagner's interest in repetition and the imagery of work.

Expect to see film and video work by selected contemporary artists, whose practice deals with work, together with projections of a selection of films from the Living Room Cinema archive, all served up with light refreshments linking in with the theme of work and time.

Living Room Cinema, established in 2010, is the initiative of Pernille Leggat Ramfelt. In the informal setting of her own flat, Pernille invites an artist to make a work for the cinema, or to take the opportunity to premiere a previously unseen film or a video, or a work in progress. These screenings are accompanied by light refreshments related to the theme of the evening. Past themes have included "words" and "naturally", and screenings have also included archival films/ videos that Pernille has collected over the years.  This Scratch Night is Living Room Cinema's first event outside London.

Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (born Oslo, 1976 ), lives and works in London. She graduated from the Slade in 2008 and has had solo and group exhibitions in Oslo and the UK.

CreativeNhants: RT @NptnGraphicShow: @CreativeNhants can we get a RT for our Graphic Design Show at the University of Northampton on the 7th June please ...

Posted: 21 May 2012 09:20 AM PDT

CreativeNhants: RT @NptnGraphicShow: @CreativeNhants can we get a RT for our Graphic Design Show at the University of Northampton on the 7th June please ...

CreativeNhants: Set Designer needed for @NorthamptonShoe display @Vintage_2012 Deadline: Thurs 24 May. More details & full brief at http://t.co/ypSRgK64

Posted: 21 May 2012 08:18 AM PDT

CreativeNhants: Set Designer needed for @NorthamptonShoe display @Vintage_2012 Deadline: Thurs 24 May. More details & full brief at http://t.co/ypSRgK64

CreativeNhants: Latest Blog Entry: a round up of events over the next few weeks. Check it out at http://t.co/qwt6EycH

Posted: 21 May 2012 04:47 AM PDT

CreativeNhants: Latest Blog Entry: a round up of events over the next few weeks. Check it out at http://t.co/qwt6EycH

VOLUNTEERS WANTED for MK Festival Fringe

Posted: 21 May 2012 04:21 AM PDT


 



VOLUNTEERS WANTED!


Are you 18 or over?


Fancy helping out at this year's Milton Keynes Festival Fringe?


We have lots of opportunities for volunteers so if you'd like to get involved....


please email:anita@mkfestivalfringe.com to register


and come along to our Volunteers afternoon at


CentricMK, Linford Wood, MK14 6GE


on Sunday 10 June at 2 - 5pm to find out more.


 


www.mkfestivalfringe.com


www.facebook.com/MkFestivalFringe


www.twitter.com/MK_FF


www.fringemkatwestbury.com



 

In Conversation

Posted: 21 May 2012 03:34 AM PDT

Saturday 9.6.2012
Exhibition Events

In Conversation

Olivia Plender

Saturday 9 June / 3pm / Free

MK Gallery's current exhibitor, artist Olivia Plender, returns to Milton Keynes on Saturday 9 June, to discuss her work and exhibition with Robert Leckie, Exhibitions Curator at Gasworks.

Plender's exhibition explores how attitudes towards mass education have evolved over time, and includes a replica TV studio from the 1970s and a Google style workplace.

Robert Leckie is currently exhibitions curator at Gasworks. He studied Performance and Visual Arts at the University of Brighton and Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London. He has recently (co-) curated the following exhibitions and events: Human Capital at Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2012), Eric Baudelaire's solo exhibition The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu and 27 Years Without Images (2012) and All I Can See is the Management (2011), both at Gasworks.

Find out more about the exhibitionWatch a video introduction to the exhibition

FringeMK:Westbury Photographic Exhibitions

Posted: 17 May 2012 06:07 AM PDT



 



 



Hello from FringeMK:Westbury!


The Milton Keynes Summer of Culture has now been officially launched and we begin the build up to Milton Keynes Festival Fringe...


FringeMK:Westbury begins the summer season with a photographic focus. We present three exhibitions, which are currently on display throughout May and June.


 


 


Long Exposure Circus


by Julie Carpenter


14th May – 13th June 2012


Project Space 1


Midsummer Place


 


“One of my favourite things in life is to go to see a circus spectacular, so I decided to document my trips as photographs. My camera & I have collected these pictures over the past five years. My Olympus gathers the light as colour and motion. Occasionally something magical happens and we have documented a magic moment of circus.”


 


 


 


Wide Open a photographic project


by Zoë Petersen


13th May - 24th June 2012


Project Space 2


(next to TGI Friday, Milton Keynes Theatre District)


 


Zoë Petersen engages with social and architectural spaces using photography, sound and dialogue.


Wide Open is an installation of cyanotype prints (a nineteenth-century printing method once widely used to make copies – or blueprints – of architectural plans) made for Project Space 2 using open windows in domestic spaces, heritage sites and studio spaces around Milton Keynes during a weeks residency at Westbury Studios.


 


 


Exhibition of Personal Photographic Images


by selected photographers


12th May to 1st June 2012


The Barn and Garage Galleries at Westbury Studios.


 


The exhibition is open 10am – 4pm weekdays and 10am – 5pm weekends and presents the work of several photographers who have selected up to six of their most personal works which have the most intimate and important meaning to them and that are not normally shown to the public.


The photographers are a mix of press and fine art photographers all of whom live or are based in the Milton Keynes area, but whose work takes them all over the world.




For more information on any of these exhibitions, please see our website


www.fringemkatwestbury.com


Diamond Memories

Posted: 21 May 2012 02:36 AM PDT


An exhibition of art and memorabilia to celebrate the past sixty years at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton and to give a platform to showcase the work of local artists and students. The exhibition has been organised by a small group of volunteers who are students at the University of Northampton. The Mayor of Northampton will open the event at 5pm on Friday 1st June 2012.

Opening Night: 1st June 2012 5- 10pm
General View: 2nd- 8th June 2012 10am- 4pm

Refreshments will be provided for throughout the duration of the exhibition.

In honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the charity that the exhibition will be supporting is COMBAT STRESS. The Holy Sepulchre Church has a reputation for being 'the Soldiers Church' with regular services throughout the year that are dedicated to troops that fought in many different battles. This charity helps former soldiers with the emotional, physical and psychological stress that is a result from wars and combat. 
Many Soldiers have to suffer with the stress with out any help or guidance. We aim to help them out any way we can.

Charity no: 206002

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Sheep Street, Northampton NN1 3NL 

http://www.stseps.org/welcome.htm

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