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Touch of Pink: Close Up

Posted: 21 Nov 2012 02:44 AM PST


Touch of Pink: Close Up


MK Arts for Health are pleased to be collaborating with Healthcare Charity : MK to create the Touch of Pink: Close Up. MK Arts for Health invited artists Wendy Grant and Elizabeth Beston to work with 8 people who have had breast cancer, creating photographs which tell the story of their cancer and recovery.


The photographs will be previewed at the Touch of Pink: Close Up event on Friday 30 Nov @ the Cruck Barn, Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes. Tickets are £20 in advance only and proceeds will to the Touch of Pink appeal which is raising money for a digital x-ray machine, benefitting local breast cancer patients. Email: fundraising@mkhospital.nhs.uk or call 01908 826690 for tickets.


The photographs will then tour Milton Keynes throughout 2013 to help raise awareness of breast cancer, and create an honest dialogue around the emotions and challenges patients experience during and after treatment. If you have a venue or know of a venue that would like to exhibit the photographs, please get in touch with MK Arts for Health on 01908 243284


This work has been assisted by funding from the Milton Keynes Community Foundation.


 

FILM: In a Better world @ Open Film Society

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 07:31 AM PST


On 21st November at 18.30 hrs. the Open Film Society is screening "In a better world" (Denmark, 2010).


You can watch a trailer of the film and further details at http://www.openfilmsociety.co.uk/index.php/in-a-better-world/



  • - Guests: Everyone welcome. Tickets on sale at the door 15 minutes before each performance. £6.00 per film (£5.00 concessions with proof of status).


We are very sorry but NO ONE UNDER THE AGE of 16 can be admitted.
Drinks and snacks can be bought in the Hub Bar from 5.30 pm. 



 

MK Community Foundation Arts Bursary Award 2012

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 08:05 AM PST










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    Meet six local artists and crafts people from the arts bursary shortlist at a special drinks reception. MK Community Foundation Arts Bursary award celebrates the wealth of talent in our community and supports artists in taking the next step in their ambition to pursue professional careers in the arts.

    The three bursaries are MK Community Foundation Arts Bursary, the Adams Traditional Crafts Bursary and The Christopher Hopkinson Music Bursary.


    The Shortlisted Artists are:

    Aaron Head
    Is a Measurement. Was a Patient. Is a User. Was a Resident. Is a Contributor. Was a student. Is a Collector. Was a Subscriber. Is a Reader. Was a Performer. Is a Citizen. Was a worker. Was a Traveller. Is a Walker. Was a Drunk. Was a Writer of Letters. Is a Writer. Is a Phone Owner. Was a Viewer. Was a Health and Safety Assistant. Is a Consumer. Was a Help. Was a Majority. Is a Minority. Is a Majority. Is a Runner. Is a Participant. Is a Name. Was a Part.

    Dave Ronalds was born in Middlesex 1972, I was first of all a painter, then a musician, then a sculptor, then a writer and then an installation artist…. Music and text stuck, but objects and images just seemed to get in between myself and other people. I now produce situations, interventions and publications that I assess against social criteria and which morph in form from context to context. I also specialise in DIY culture and collaborative practices, such as the Black Dogs collective which I founded in Leeds in 2003. I am also currently completing a PhD in philosophy based around the topic of artists’ manifestoes. www.black-dogs.org

    Jade Sarson is a Bletchley based illustrator, writer and comic artist who likes tea and old books. She graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2011 with a first class honours degree in Illustration. Her work is a fusion of British and Japanese influences, and combines digital and traditional techniques – it has been featured in Neo Magazine, Electric Bloom Webzine, and in anthologies such as Leek and Sushi and Parallel Lives. In 2012 she won 3rd place in the Japanese embassy’s Manga Jiman competition. Her current projects include the popular tea-inspired webcomic Cafe Suada, and her graphic novel Siddown!"

    Hannah Gaunt is an emerging visual artist who was born in Milton Keynes and returned after graduating from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Hannah’s artistic practice incorporates many mediums including; performance, sculpture, drawing, new media and sound-based work, which Hannah uses as a means of researching the human sense of self in relation to the idea of Otherness. She uses cheap everyday materials and crude improvised processes to create installations or performances - conveying a sense of the futility and absurdity of attempting to capture the intangible ‘thing’ that makes human beings more than just flesh and bones.

    Mark Niel is a performance poet with a gift of communicating with audiences of all ages. Starting out on the open mic circuit, he quickly became established as a funny and inventive writer, proving that poetry can be entertainment as well as art. In 2011 Mark was appointed as the first official Poet Laureate of Milton Keynes. As well as performing in schools, art spaces, comedy clubs and festivals, Mark runs workshops for companies and individuals with a desire to improve their written and spoken communication.

    Urja Desai Thakore was born in Ahmedabad, India and studied for over 20 years with India’s internationally acclaimed Kathak guru and choreographer Kumudini Lakhia, from whom she has gained an extensive traditional vocabulary with which to explore the narratives of modern society.  Urja is a dancer renowned for her love of Abhinay (Facial Expression), clear but subtle movements and technical strength. Her energetic choreographic style is highly regarded by both traditionalists and modernists alike. Urja has been teaching extensively for 8 years and has travelled all over the country leading workshops in Kathak to people young and old. She is pursuing a Masters degree in South Asian Dance and Choreography at Roehampton University. Urja is the Artistic Director of Pagrav Dance Company, which she established in 1997.

    To attend please visit the Milton Keynes community Foundation website or find them or MK Gallery on Facebook.

Milton Keynes Film Makers Network Shorts

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 08:10 AM PST


23 November 2012 / Starts at 6.30pm

Are you a local film maker? Looking to get feedback from others in the same position? Then send us your short film.

In conjunction with the MK Film Network, we will be showing a selection of short films by local filmmakers - perhaps you would like to be one of them, or know someone with a film worth screening? It's a great opportunity to see what filmmakers in MK have been up to.


We can't guarantee to screen your film as there may be quite a lot of films coming in, but we will get in touch to let you know if we are to screen your film. There will be further screening events in the future.


How to Submit a Film...
We're asking people to submit films for consideration to Independent Cinema MK, Town Hall, Creed Street, Wolverton, MK12 5LY.The films may be up to 15minutes long.

Any questions, please contact: ursula@ic-mk.org

DANCE WORKSHOP Old-school hip-hop!

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 06:15 AM PST


B-Boy Arty Sens Unic bringing you power moves, hip-hop rhythms and urban funk delight!  SUNDAY 25th NOV @ Stantonbury Leisure Centre Dance Studio.  Tickets £16 in advance, £20 on the door.  Limited places due to space.  Call for more info on 07752 901010.  Facebook: desperate to dance.  E & Twitter: desperate2dance@me.com.  www.desperate2dance.com

Premiere of Anti-Bullying Movie - 23 Nov

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 03:55 AM PST


Frank Scaritu of Luca Design has just completed a feature length musical anti bullying movie which is premiering at the Venue, Walton High on 23 Novermber 2012. There will be a number of live performances of songs from the movie.

Website and trailer at http://www.onceuponalifemovie.co

Trailer 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esZYfc4VPZk&feature=plcp

Trailer 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ABgwVbOEQ&feature=plcp

Song from the heart of a bullying Victim - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GdZAJuh6q4&feature=plcp


Anti bullying protest song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyRh9arIsBo&feature=plcp

www.onceuponabully.com

Frank Scarito
Creative Director
Tel: 01908 370444
Mob: 0790 33 88088
frank@luca-design.co.uk
www.luca-design.co.uk



Urban Statement- Artists

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 12:06 PM PST


We are looking for local youth artists.


Are you a local artist from Milton Keynes? Do you enjoy creating urban art?


Who are we?


Urban Statement is a clothing label that promotes local urban artists from Milton Keynes, printing artwork onto a range of fashionable items such as T-shirts and posters.


Our platform.


Our products promote your profile. Our range of printed T-shirts and posters feature attribution alongside your artwork. Each artist will feature on our website, with dedicated portfolio pages and social space to get involved with our blog.


To find out more visit our website: www.urbanstatement.co.uk/artists


Contact us at artists@urbanstatement.co.uk

Secret Anarchy Garden 2012

Posted: 20 Nov 2012 03:57 AM PST

Saturday 8.12.2012
Saturday Live Music

My Dance The Skull, in association with Classwar Karaoke, presents

Secret Anarchy Garden 2012

Saturday 8 December 2012 / 5pm - 10pm / £5 entry

Hosted by the MK Gallery, this year's edition is inspired by the dynamics between a 'mental garden' and the various levels of reality. The event will feature the following artists:

Bryan Lewis Saunders / Anthony Donovan:

The duo will present a play of unequal halves - re-staged half-conscious prose extracted from verbatim recordings of sleep-talk, against bleary, feral electronica, ending in tinnitus fizzle and flickering light.

http://murmurists.blogspot.co.uk

Blood Stereo:

Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance will transport a bit of their day-to-day reality of living in Brighton to MK Gallery. Putting to use recordings of the sounds of their home (recorded on various types of audio equipment), household objects and assorted detritus, in an attempt to try and fashion something affecting from the day-to-day mundanity of domestic existence. In addition, Dylan Nyoukis will perform Action MK 1212. In his own words: "Deprive your visual cortex of their preferred stimuli. Come open your ears to the sound of the room."

Sharon Gal:  

Her performance will present the inter-relations between voice and body, speech and abstract sound. It will explore notions of "breaking of" and "break in" by employing and disrupting the natural breath cycle. The voice, coming from within the body, carrying with it the depth and power of hidden and internal emotions would be "breaking out" into the world, allowing the subconscious to surface. This is a journey and an exchange between "inside" and "outside", dealing with the transgression of limitations.

http://sharongal.bandcamp.com/

http://saatchionline.com/sharongal

David Blamey

His piece is a looped composition of environmental sounds recorded in a garden between dawn and darkness on a single day: the chatter of swallows darting between fig trees and telephone cables; a zinc gutter expanding in the sun's rays; toads bleeping; the drone of different species of bees; cicadas flicking between on and off transmission; and the clarion call of a garden gate. Listening deeply to these kinds of background noises and waiting for them coalesce into a readymade form of music has something to do with what Spalding Grey referred to as encountering a 'perfect moment', or what Eastern philosophy says about great power existing in small things.  

Adam Bohman / Adrian Northover

Angels On A Pin sounds refer to a long-standing partnership of shared cultural signifiers, ranging from Science Fiction novels, cheap TV from the 70's, various works of fiction, the music of Anthony Braxton, and the writings of Robert Fludd.

http://www.stalk.net/paradigm/pd09.html

http://www.adriannorthover.co.uk/

Tom White

Exposures aims to present contrasting therapy techniques offered to sufferers of social anxiety, specifically that of spatial fears: claustrophobia and agoraphobia. The piece offers an insight into these disorders through unflinching documentation; sufferers try to conquer their fear by taking part in exposure therapy sessions by confronting the phobia head on. The installation will also present moving image projections of virtual reality exposure sessions as a contrasting technique that references a hyperrealist science fiction. The work highlights, in a sensitive enlightening way, the often overlooked phobia that many people suffer from and questions whether modern society has brought on such issues itself.

http://www.mydancetheskull.com/catalogue/voice-studies/vs-02-tom-white/ http://www.mydancetheskull.com/catalogue/mdts/mdts-03-tom-white/

Daniel Spicer

Daniel will perform Tiles and Fragments, using randomly generated letters to provoke spontaneous vocal improvisations, augmented by reference to the written works of Philip K. Dick. Dick's novels largely deal with the theme of disjunction between 'objective' reality and perceived reality. As a starting point, Daniel will use a sentence from Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, spoken by the typically disorientated main character as part of a biometric identity test to find out if he is who he thinks he is - and used because it contains every combination of vowel sounds in the English language. It is the perfect launchpad for a theoretically limitless vocal improvisation. Moreover, by incorporating Dick's existentially unsettling fictions into a performance of Tiles and Fragments, Daniel hopes to unearth some surprising discoveries.

http://www.mydancetheskull.com/catalogue/vs-10-daniel-spicer/ 

Mark Peter Wright

Inanimate Life is an investigation into the ephemeral nature of wind and its sonic reliance interaction upon inanimate physical objects. The recordings feature some of natures most complex and vibrant audial world; including the creaking roots of wind blasted heather, the playful gusts that animate giant oak trees and the wailing drones that resonate along wired fencing.

http://soundcloud.com/mark-peter-wright

Hip Hop Owes Me Money part 3

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 02:22 AM PST

Saturday 1.12.2012
Saturday Live Music

Most Excellent Music & Milton Keynes B-Boy Historical Society presents 'Hip Hop Owes Me Money Part 3'

Saturday 1 December / 7pm - Midnight / £4 entry / Licensed Bar

MK Gallery Project Space

Live in the main room:

Dirty Showbiz – The Brighton/Norwich connection.

Suspekt UK – Legendary rap veterans from Derby.

J4SON - The head man at Itoldyousoradio.

DJ backup from Kraze One (True Element), Jerome Hill (Fat Hop) and Tones (Drunken Eejits)

Upstairs in Room 2:

Si, Snowman, Andy Browne and The Dub Lions will be playing Reggae, Ska and Funk.

During the day, MK Paint Jam will be heading up a live graffiti session outside the venue.

Further Info: 07979 065451

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