Creative Midlands South |
- Contemporary Dance and Theatre
- Contemporary Dance and Theatre
- Tattoo culture in MK and beyond
- Performance / Talk
- Contemporary Dance, New Theatre and Participatory performance
- Art Performance and Participatory Event
- MK Calling Artist workshop: Jade Sarson
- MK Calling Artist workshop: Gavin Toye
- MK Calling Artist workshop : Deborah Fielding
- MK Calling Portfolio review sessions
- International Festival Workshop with Rosemary Lee
- MK Calling In conversation
- Arts Gateway Mingle
- Arts Gateway Mingle
| Contemporary Dance and Theatre Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:09 AM PDT Thursday 22.8.2013 Thursday Scratch Nights Helen Parlor and Tamzen Moulding Thursday 22 August / 6.30pm / Free Helen Parlor's work focuses on contact improvisation techniques and dance theatre which is both physically engaging and exciting for the spectator. She has been working in contemporary dance theatre since 1998 and has worked and performed both nationally and internationally with companies such as Motionhouse Dance Theatre (Atomic, Fearless, Volatile and Perfect) and Panta Rei Danseteater in Oslo, making work to tour throughout Norway, India, Tanzania and the United Kingdom. Last year Helen was the Assistant Choreographer for the Opening Ceremony for the London Paralympic Games 2012 and has followed this to nationally tour her own work with her company Parlor Dance with their new work Close Distance-a show about next door. For this event, Helen is creating a new work in direct response to the works on display in MK Calling. Tamzen Moulding is a Circus and Dance Artist based in Milton Keynes. She trained in gymnastics, and studied contemporary dance at London Contemporary Dance School and circus at The Circus Space London. I have experience performing and choreographing in both fields. My passion lies in bringing all my expertise together in a creative way and sharing this with audiences. I have been developing a movement style that incorporates dance, handstands and acrobatics, |
| Contemporary Dance and Theatre Posted: 20 Jun 2013 08:06 AM PDT Thursday 29.8.2013 Thursday Scratch Nights Chris & Sioda and AlleyWay Theatre Thursday 29 August / 6.30pm / Free Having toured and performed extensively over the past decade, Chris and Sioda have now begun working together to produce and tour work of their own creation. Uniting their experience, their interest lies in creating work that is accessible to all and that can be performed in a range of locations, both theatrical and non-theatrical. Very much based in dance theatre, the pair use character and narrative to deliver exciting, dynamic movement that engages audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Chris Bradley and Sioda Martin first worked together in 2010 touring with Mobius Dance Theatre and have subsequently performed and delivered teaching work for KeiraDance, Mercurial Dance Company and MK Fringe. Most recently they have been touring with Parlor Dance, a Milton Keynes based company that rehearsed and performed at a number of venues in the area. Milton Keynes based company, AlleyWay Theatre was founded by Alice Boland-Rhodes in 2010, and they have performed around the area, including at the MK Fringe Festival. For their current piece they have adapted Shakespeare's play The Tempest. The Tempest Within is a tale touching on sexuality, possession and death, exploring modern parent/child relationships, psychological aspects of isolation and how this affects human behaviour. Alleyway Theatre aims to find different ways to challenge traditional perceptions and push boundaries with Shakespeare's work. Alice Boland-Rhodes studied Drama and Creative writing at Buckinghamshire New University. |
| Tattoo culture in MK and beyond Posted: 19 Jun 2013 09:01 AM PDT Thursday 1.8.2013 Thursday Scratch Nights Body Art Event Thursday 1 August / 6.30pm / Free Organised in collaboration with Emma Kent and dedicated to the memory of her husband Joe, this special event is a celebration of the rich and diverse tattoo culture in Milton Keynes. The event will feature displays of designs; live tattoo demonstrations; a talk on tattoo history by London based academic Dr. Matt Lodder and much more. |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2013 08:59 AM PDT Thursday 11.7.2013 Thursday Scratch Nights Richard DeDominici Thursday 11 July / 6.30pm / Free Richard DeDomenici makes work that is social, playful, critical, political and beautiful - although rarely all at the same time. His low-grade acts of anarcho-surrealist civil disobedience cause the kind of uncertainty that leads to possibility. In 2011 his work was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Fellowship, nominated for the Jerwood Trust Moving Image Prize, and was an Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award finalist. Last year he was commissioned to make work in the turbine hall at Tate Modern, and the National Theatre in London. He has performed in 18 countries, and this spring will make new work in Thailand, Japan, Iceland and Belgium. One of his recent lines of enquiry has involved painstakingly remaking chunks of location-specific popular culture such as Bangkok Traffic Love Story: Redux. See more of his work at http://dedomenici.com/ |
| Contemporary Dance, New Theatre and Participatory performance Posted: 19 Jun 2013 08:56 AM PDT Thursday 18.7.2013 Thursday Scratch Nights Sally Annett, Urja Thakore/Pagrav Dance Company and BRAVE NEW WORLD Thursday 18 July / 6.30pm / Free BRAVE NEW WORLD is a collective pioneering performance which is predominantly design-led; putting design at the beginning of the process for performance creation. It is a collaboration between three director-designers, a sound artist and a writer: Valentina Ceschi (Dancing Brick, Associate Artist Opera Up Close), Kate Lane (Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins), Guoda Jaruseviciute (Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2011 finalist), Caroline Devine and Thomas Eccleshare. Their WORLD is exploring the idea of utopia as spaces in our minds, a flat concrete playground, an infinite plane, a seaside town, a total eclipse... and how this space evolves and transforms along with the creatures and costumes we inhabit as we grow up, grow old.
Pagrav, means 'sound of feet'. The Pagrav Dance Company aims to promote Kathak in its purest form taking it from traditional solo dance and transferring it to an ensemble art form developing movement, language and staging. This approach preserves the cultural heritage of Kathak as an art form, whilst at the same time provoking new thinking, understanding and appreciation of the discipline. By transcending the conventional traditional / contemporary boundaries of this dance form, Pagrav Dance Company adapts this classical style to depict and respond to the modern world. The company was founded in 2005 by its Artistic Director Urja Desai Thakore. |
| Art Performance and Participatory Event Posted: 19 Jun 2013 08:54 AM PDT Thursday 4.7.2013 Thursday Scratch Nights Elena Cologni Thursday 4 July / 6.30pm / Free After a period of interaction with Milton Keynes, its people and architecture, Elena Cologni proposes a site specific performative installation. The public is provided with a set of parameters and props to navigate the space opposite the gallery. Their action in space and interaction with each other will create meanings within the given context. Cologni wants to point the attention to the role of trust within socially engaged practices within our everyday social realm. The body of work is part of the multidisciplinary approach of the project Rockfluid, where site-specific art practice is underpinned by elements of geography, cognitive psychology and philosophy. The exercise creates the physical and psychological conditions to enhance an awareness of the perception the body in space. Elena Cologni is a studio artist at Wysing Art Centre, was Artist in Residence at University of Cambridge, Faculty of Experimental Psychology, and at University of Hertfordshire, School of Art. She studied at Brera Academy of Art, Università Statale in Milan (Italy), University of Leeds, and she has a PhD from Central Saint Martins College, London (1999-2004, Fine Art with Philosophy and Psychology). She was awarded from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her Post Doctoral project at Central Saint Martins addressing issues of memory and liveness (2004-2006), Research Fellow at York Saint John University (2007-2009) when her work became primarily site specific and participatory. |
| MK Calling Artist workshop: Jade Sarson Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:20 AM PDT Wednesday 4.9.2013 Exhibition Events MK Calling Artist workshop with Jade Sarson 4 September 2013 / 6.30pm / An event for anyone 16+ Milton Keynes based graphic novelist and MK Calling exhibiting artist, Jade Sarson who was shortlisted for the MK Community Foundation Arts Bursary 2012 will present an evening workshop focusing on typography. |
| MK Calling Artist workshop: Gavin Toye Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:11 AM PDT Wednesday 28.8.2013 Exhibition Events MK Calling Artist workshop with Gavin Toye, Jack Brindley and Tom Nash 28 August 2013 / 6.30pm / All Welcome Two current students (Jack Brindley and Tom Nash) and one graduate (Gavin Toye) from the Royal College of Art's Painting Department will each present an illustrated talk expanding on their individual practices. |
| MK Calling Artist workshop : Deborah Fielding Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:05 AM PDT Wednesday 21.8.2013 Exhibition Events MK Calling Artist workshop with Deborah Fielding 21 August 2013 / 6.30pm / All Welcome Deborah Fielding will lead a workshop focusing on writing and self publishing short fiction. Deborah Fielding is a writer based in Milton Keynes. 'I am interested in the particular, the details. My work is concerned with the specific - moments of decision, action or stillness. I delight in a sharp line, a perfect curve or a beautiful sequence and have affection for unifying events in community - whether joyful or distressing - they make great stories'. Fielding has completed an MA in Creative writing at the University of East Anglia. |
| MK Calling Portfolio review sessions Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:53 AM PDT Wednesday 31.7.2013 Exhibition Events MK Calling Portfolio review sessions 31 July 2013 / 5 - 7pm / Free Informal drinks and networking from 7pm-8pm. Join the selection panel 20 minutes slots with the selection panel for each artist. This event is open to all artists or students who would benefit from one-on-one feedback and advice. Slots available: 5-5.20pm 5.25-5.45pm 5.50-6.10pm 6.15-6.35pm 6.40pm-7pm Emma Jayne Taylor is Director of Artworks MK. Prior to taking this role she was Director of Learning at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London and senior consultant for learning and participation at the Folkstone Triennale. Prof. Gill Perry joined the Open University in 1977, and was Head of the Art History Department from 2005-08, and Head of Research from 2005-2009. Currently she is Head of External Collaborations and chair of the Open Arts Archive, a major website and archive which stores collaborative events and art projects organized by the Open University and fifteen collaborating museums and galleries across the UK. Anthony Spira worked at the Jeu de Paume in Paris from 1994-96, where his exhibitions included 'A Century of British Sculpture'. He was subsequently curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London from 1999-2009 where he worked on numerous exhibitions on artists from Hans Bellmer to Mark Wallinger and Robert Crumb to Paul McCarthy as well as large group exhibitions on subjects ranging from the history of Indian photography to Outsider art. He has collaborated with many international institutions and published numerous texts, most recently contributing an essay, 'Franz West: Pangaea', for the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, MADRE, Naples and Kunsthaus Graz. He joined Milton Keynes Gallery as Director in 2009, programming exhibitions by Nasreen Mohamedi, Marcus Coates, Andrew Lord, Gareth Jones and Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey, amongst others. He is also a Trustee of the Leeds based commissioning organisation, Pavillion.
Prof. David Rayson was appointed professor and head of Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2006. He is a practising artist, tutor and curator and his work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. His work is included in major collections including the Tate, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Council, Deutsche Bank, Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Art Society. Claire Corrin is Exhibitions Organiser at MK Gallery. Before taking this role, she was Exhibition Officer at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston working on the Contemporary Art programme. and Assistant Exhibitions Officer for Bradford Museums. She holds an MA in Arts and Museum Management from the University of Salford. Simon Wright is the Events Manager at MK Gallery, programming the weekly Scratch Nights, Friday Night Film, Saturday Night Music and Video Space programmes. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University. |
| International Festival Workshop with Rosemary Lee Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:49 AM PDT Wednesday 24.7.2013 Exhibition Events International Festival Workshop with Rosemary Lee 24 July 2013 / 6.30pm / All Welcome Come and hear about an exciting new dance project that will involve local people as performers, see her work and take part in a movement workshop. This event is open for anyone over 16 years old with or without dance training. This is an opportunity for all ages to perform in an unusual outdoor dance performance by internationally renowned dance artist Rosemary Lee who is artist in residence for IF:Milton Keynes International Festival 2014. The event will take place in the Cathedral of Trees, Newlands, near Willen Lake and will involve 100 local people of all ages. Rosemary is looking for enthusiastic committed young people and adults interested in movement and performance. There will be open groups after school and evening for adults and young people and she may also work within a primary school with a class or two of children as performers. Rosemary will hold taster workshops in the Autumn and Winter 2013 and begin to work regularly with participants from Easter 2014 to the performances from Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th July. |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:46 AM PDT Wednesday 17.7.2013 Exhibition Events MK Calling In Conversation 17 July 2013 / 6.30 / All Welcome Join the selection panel of MK Calling (Anthony Spira, Emma Jayne Taylor, David Rayson and Gill Perry) for an informal discussion on the thought process behind the exhibition. |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:37 AM PDT Wednesday 10.7.2013 Exhibition Events Arts Gateway MK mingle 10 July 2013 / 6.30-9pm / Free Network with likeminded creatives who are either involved in the arts or just have a general interest and what to make new contacts and collaborations, whilst finding out more about what's going on in the artworld in MK. This event will feature some presentations/performances from Artists involved in MK calling and be followed by light refreshments. |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:37 AM PDT Wednesday 10.7.2013 Exhibition Events Arts Gateway MK mingle 10 July 2013 / 6.30-9pm / Free Network with likeminded creatives who are either involved in the arts or just have a general interest and what to make new contacts and collaborations, whilst finding out more about what's going on in the artworld in MK. This event will feature some presentations/performances from Artists involved in MK calling and be followed by light refreshments. |
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