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The A-Z of Surviving as an Artist
Friday Night Films@MK Gallery
The Imperial Ice Stars: The Sleeping Beauty On Ice - The Show
Pristine in Blue by The Play's The Thing Theatre Co

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Wednesday 3.7.2013
Talks

The A-Z of Surviving as an Artist

3 July 2013 / 6-8pm / Free but booking required

To kick start our Showcase 2013 student Project Space exhibitions this year, MK Gallery has invited Zeitgeist Art Projects to present an event especially designed for new artists and recent graduates.

Literally an A-Z of how to survive as an artist after leaving art school: Tilley & Davis discuss everything from websites, galleries, exhibitions, curators, collectors, teaching, tweeting, networking, funding, marketing, mailing lists, portfolio careers and balancing it all! The talk is packed with information pertinent to all artists/creatives at any stage, including students, ambitious new graduates and those returning after a break. Designed to give practitioners a new burst of energy or a head start in understanding how to create networks, raise profiles and get their work seen.

The A-Z talk was commissioned by Southampton Solent University, and has toured to The Whitstable Biennale, De La Warr Pavillion Bexhill, firstsite Colchester, Matt Roberts Arts London, St Helens HE College Merseyside and a range of other locations.

Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley founded Zeitgeist Arts Projects in 2012 to support ambitious artists with practical ways to sustain their practice. The annual ZAP Show & Tell programme and their innovative talk: The A-Z of Surviving as an Artist are designed to encourage artists to learn from other artists, network, engage and raise their profiles. Tilley and Davis also curate exhibitions of outstanding new and established artists, like Collectible, an exhibition of 68 new, promising and established artists, the ZAP Open Exhibition 2012, and this year's much anticipated: Discernible.

Friday Night Films@MK Gallery

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 03:44 AM PDT

The Good,The Bad and the Ugly, 1966

Dir: Sergio Leone / 161 mins / Cert 18 / 161 mins

Friday 7 June 2013

7pm / £5 (concessions £3) Free complimentary drink for advance bookers

Pre-book on 01908 676 900

In the last installment of the“Dollars” trilogy of Sergio Leonedirected “spaghetti westerns,”Clint Eastwood reprises the roleof a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad(Lee Van Cleef), a bounty hunter,and the Ugly (Eli Wallach), aMexican bandit. Though dubbed“the Good,” Eastwood’s character is not much better than hisopponents - he is just smarter and shoots faster.

http://www.mkgallery.org/events/2013_06_07/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly/

The Imperial Ice Stars: The Sleeping Beauty On Ice - The Show

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 03:41 AM PDT

The Imperial Ice Stars: The Sleeping Beauty On Ice Jun 18-22, 7.30pm, mats Jun 19 & 20, 22, 2.30pm

Milton Keynes Theatre

Prices £10-£32.50

The international ice dance troupe, featuring many Olympic, World, European and national champions, perform the romantic tale, set to Tchaikovsky's score. The artistic director Tony Mercer collaborates with Russian Olympic coach Tatiana Tarasova, for the energetic and graceful choreography.

Milton Keynes Theatre
500 Marlborough Gate
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK9 3NZ
0870 060 6652
imperialicestars.com

Pristine in Blue by The Play's The Thing Theatre Co

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 03:33 AM PDT

The Play's the Thing Theatre Company

Presents

Pristine in Blue

A workshop presentation of scenes from Neil Beardmore's new play led by producer and director Rosemary Hill.

Saturday June 22, Creed St Arts Centre, Creed Street, Wolverton MK12 5LY

1.00   -   4.00 pm

Dwayne's dad was in debt to a bank and took his own life.  Now Dwayne is involved in a group demonstrating against the bank.  Sabeena, his childhood sweetheart, joins him in an illegal squat, and all seems on track until the arrival of Laurie, a busker friend of Dwayne's who he recruited on the street.  Dwayne's values and sense of justice and betrayal are about to be challenged. 

1.00 - 4.00 pm  Scenes from the play will be read and acted off the page by actors to the audience, with time for questions and comments at the end.

Please come and be involved in a play in progress.  A donation of around £3 - or whatever you can afford - to cover costs of hiring the room would be appreciated.

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