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- Last Month of Current Exhibition at MK Gallery
- MK Gallery Talk: Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels
- Evening Talk on Graphic Novels at MK Gallery
- Scratch Nights at MK Gallery: Film Screening
- Friday Night Film at MK Gallery
- Free Summer Workshops at MK Gallery
- Mini Makers at MK Gallery
- Scribal Gathering Music and Poetry Open Mic
- CreativeNhants: RT @CorbyOpen: The Rooftop Gallery (where the Corby Open was held) needs your help with a questionnaire - go to... http://t.co/tR4EoCFP
- Children create artwork inspired by Pushwagner exhibition
| Last Month of Current Exhibition at MK Gallery Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:31 AM PDT  Last Month of Current Exhibition It's the last month of Pushwagner: Soft City, make sure you see it before it ends on 2 September. The show includes drawings, paintings and prints made over the last forty years by visionary Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner. "Totally recommend the Pushwagner exhibition at MK Gallery. Madness and Genius par excellence" thisistomorrow.com Find out more online |
| MK Gallery Talk: Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:18 AM PDT 
Talk: Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels London-based freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer and broadcaster, Paul Gravett, visits MK Gallery on Wednesday 8 August, for a special evening talk on the world of graphic novels. Gravett has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. He has curated numerous exhibitions of comic art in Britain and in Europe, including 'God Save The Comics!', a survey of British comic art at the National Comics and Image Centre in Angoulême, France and the first exhibit devoted to the writer Alan Moore and his collaborators at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, Belgium. As Project Director of The Cartoon Art Trust in London, he worked on tributes to Carl Giles and Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, and The 100 British Cartoonists of the Century. Since 2003, Paul has been the director of Comica, London's International Comics Festival, and author/editor of several best-selling books about comics, including his latest, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (2011). Paul Gravett www.paulgravett.com Comica Festival www.comicafestival.com |
| Evening Talk on Graphic Novels at MK Gallery Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:04 AM PDT  Talk: Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels Curator, lecturer and editor of 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die, Paul Gravett, visits MK Gallery this Wednesday, to give a special evening talk on the world of graphic novels. Come along on the night and enter our free prize draw to win one of two prizes, either a catalogue to accompany our current Pushwagner exhibition or a pair of tickets to Tate Modern’s Edvard Munch exhibition. Gravett has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. He has curated numerous exhibitions of comic art in Britain and in Europe, including 'God Save The Comics!', a survey of British comic art at the National Comics and Image Centre in Angoulême, France and the first exhibit devoted to the writer Alan Moore and his collaborators at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, Belgium. As Project Director of The Cartoon Art Trust in London, he worked on tributes to Carl Giles and Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, and The 100 British Cartoonists of the Century. Since 2003, Paul has been the director of Comica, London's International Comics Festival, and author/editor of several best-selling books about comics, including his latest, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (2011). |
| Scratch Nights at MK Gallery: Film Screening Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:23 AM PDT 
Film Screening: Alfred Jarry Superfreak 1988, 22 mins Thursday 9 August / 6.30 pm / £5, concs £3 Scripted by highly acclaimed Norwegian writer (and Pushwagner collaborator) Axel Jensen, Alfred Jarry* Superfreak is a 1982 animated short, produced with Swedish animator, Per Ekholms. Part documentary of Jarry’s life in Paris, part fictional representation of characters in Jarry’s writing, this film portrays a hedonistic, surreal race from Paris across Russia and back between a train and five bike riders. *Alfred Jarry was the founder of Pataphysics - a philosophy or pseudo-philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. |
| Friday Night Film at MK Gallery Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:14 AM PDT  Brazil Friday 10 August / 6.30pm / £5 (concessions £3) "Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future." Variety Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger. |
| Free Summer Workshops at MK Gallery Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:22 AM PDT  Free Summer Workshops at MK Gallery Every Friday during the summer holidays, five different artists will introduce their work and invite participants to contribute to a changing collaborative artwork. All of the workshops are free and you can drop-in anytime between 10am - 4pm. The workshops can also count towards Discover, a new national arts award scheme for young people ages 7 and over. Come along this Friday, 10 August, as storyteller John and poet Sam work together for the first time in a session that aims to bring literature alive; poetry and language will transform the space and send words spinning around you as you delve into the world of words. |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2012 06:52 AM PDT 
Mini Makers Big Place, Big Face with Thom Rees Suitable for children aged 4+ Create your own larger than life response to Pushwagners mouth seen on the outside of MK Gallery. Using the materials supplied, design, shape and make each component ready to build your own big face. Cut, stick, glue and paint your way to the perfect smile!! |
| Scribal Gathering Music and Poetry Open Mic Posted: 06 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT  It's summer time, and the living is easy. The festivals are all over and the flood-damage repair is underway, the kids are off school for three months and the soul-replenishing exotic holiday payments are overdue - summer is a great time for civil engineers, childcare providers and loan sharks. Stony Stratford's premier music and poetry open mic night is back on Tuesday 14th August, with another eclectic collection of the finest local singers, songwriters and spoken word performers who aren't away that week. There will be special guest appearances from headline acts Stephen Hobbs and Ryker Sear, plus the open-minded, open-ended open mic, welcoming performers of all kinds to share whatever they choose to bring, and invoke the spirit of gathering. Join us. Or at least send us a postcard from wherever you are, and we'll read out the ones that aren't completely illegible. Where: The Crown, Market Square, Stony Stratford MK11 1BE When: Tuesday 14th August. Always the second Tuesday. It's been two and a half years now, and it has never changed. Doors open at 7.30 for 8.00 start. How: Sign up for open mic on the night - arrive early to avoid disappointment. Or, arrive late and then get funny and leave if you don't get a slot. Either way is fine. |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2012 03:06 AM PDT CreativeNhants: RT @CorbyOpen: The Rooftop Gallery (where the Corby Open was held) needs your help with a questionnaire - go to... http://t.co/tR4EoCFP |
| Children create artwork inspired by Pushwagner exhibition Posted: 06 Aug 2012 03:36 AM PDT Last month, parents and children from Free Range Education, a Milton Keynes home educators group, visited MK Gallery and participated in a workshop inspired by our current exhibition Pushwagner: Soft City. Working with artist Aaron Head, the children learnt basic illustration techniques using coloured paper, pencils and tracing paper; which they then used to make their own graphic novel style portrait poster. Of all the self-portraits produced, gallery staff judged three year old Finbarr's artwork (pictured) the best, winning him a set of three Hervé Tullet children's books from the Gallery Shop as a prize. MK Gallery Shop stocks a range of creative art books and materials suitable for children. |
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