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Creative Midlands West |
| Jason and Zoe in The Milk Bar - Episode 176 Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:28 PM PDT Recorded at Molineux Monday 29th October 2012 This week Jaki Graham joins us to talk about her brand new album 'For Sentimental Reasons', Rachel Davies from Wolverhampton City Council lets us know about a tree planting event in East Park, Carl McGregor is on the phone for a chat about his musical exploits and this weeks featured band are Silent Lights with Bassist Sam Wilkins telling us about the band.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2012 05:25 AM PDT Equally, if there are any events or opportunities you think artists in WM should know about let us know! artistsnewsandoppstpwm@bcu.ac.uk  |
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| Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:02 PM PDT [STREET_TEAM] is a project performed and curated by Alfredo Salazar-Caro where video and .gif works by multiple artists are installed, guerrilla-style in art institutions around the world. www.str33t.net [STREET_TEAM: NYC] Will be performed in New York between November 20th... [[... for more follow link]]   |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2012 08:45 AM PDT 2012 Call For Submissions SONIC GEOGRAPHY: exploring Space & Sound Deadline November 15, 2012 Categories: Transmission Art/Radio Art, Electroacoustic Music/Sound Art, Interactive Installation Art, Locative Media Art New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) invites artists of... [[... for more follow link]]  |
| Art as an investment- Online course Posted: 27 Oct 2012 02:58 AM PDT The cartclab online program was established in Budapest, 2012. The lab aims to provide as much information and experience about contemporary art as possible both for people (who are) employed within this field and for those (who are) interested in it. Due to an online learning... [[... for more follow link]]  |
| Mapping emergence: nomads, nodes, paths, and strings Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:16 PM PDT Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou & Regner Ramos will be running "Mapping emergence: nomads, nodes, paths, and strings" workshop unit as part of the Urban Transcripts 2012 international workshop on London. The Urban Transcripts 2012 international workshop on the city London, 3-9... [[... for more follow link]]  |
| HMK {Full Focus} residency nov-dec 2012, the Netherlands Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:43 AM PDT HMK {Full Focus} Date: 23th November - 21th December 2012 This winter, HMK will be selecting four artists for a short group residency, condensing all the elements that make for a fruitful residency in an intensive four week stay. In this 4-week residency-project, artists are... [[... for more follow link]]  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2012 07:47 AM PDT Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2013 Spring Edition, guest edited by Juliet Davis and Stephanie Tripp and entitled "Tracing New/Media/Feminisms." TIMELINE - November 26, 2012: Deadline for reception of... [[... for more follow link]]  |
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| The Rest is Propaganda: Celebrating Alan Sillitoe Posted: 29 Oct 2012 03:59 AM PDT
Organised by the Alan Sillitoe Committee, the event celebrated the work of the Nottingham-born author, who in 2008 became an Honorary Freeman of the City of Nottingham at a lacklustre ceremony I attended. He forthwith had the right to drive his sheep over Trent Bridge, which he sadly didn't do prior to his death in 2010, aged 82. The day brought together authors, film-makers, academics, bands, poets, rappers and historians to celebrate and share new perspectives about Sillitoe's work and legacy. About Alan SillitoeSillitoe, from a working class Nottingham family whose father worked at the Raleigh Factory, depicted the brutality of working class realism in his numerous books, screenplays and volumes of poetry in his five-decade career. With John Osbourne and others, he was labelled by literary critics as part of the post-war 'Angry Young Man' movement. Sillitoe spent four years working at Raleigh before joining the RAF. He was pensioned off at 21 after he contracted tuberculosis when he started to write – a significant achievement given his educational background. Sillitoe's schoolmates did not believe someone educated at Radford Elementary School could have written a book – they believed it must have been written by his university educated wife, as their education was only fit to progress into manual work. His two best-selling books, whose self-penned screenplays were made into feature films, "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" and "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" depict working-class rebels with a cause. Sillitoe posited the grim streets of Nottingham into an international media. As Dickens novels are a geo-literary aid to London, Sillitoe's Nottingham navigates the reader on a route of seedy pubs, clubs and fairgrounds. Sillitoe TrailSillitoe was fascinated by maps and technologies like short-wave radio from his time as an RAF wireless operator in Malaya. The Sillitoe Trail brings together geo-history with modern day content and technology through a mobile app, navigating sites from Sillitoe's novels. Funded by the Arts Council and the BBC, the Sillitoe Trail is the only project funded outside of London as part of 'The Space' – creating rich media arts content for multiple platforms. The app brings together an impressive array of illustration, music, audio and interactive content produced by artists, authors and students from the city. Content was taken from archives liked the BFI and Media Archive of Central England (MACE). The project was introduced by its digital creator, Paul Fillingham, who came from a mining village and returned to Nottingham after art college to work for Raleigh as a graphic designer. The app tours sites like Goose Fair, the Raleigh Building (now a university outpost), the White Horse pub (now a curry house) and Arthur Seaton's R&R spot for fishing in the canal (now trendy flats and business parks). The Sillitoe Trail app is an evolving work – you can submit your own trail; the producers are in discussion with Nottingham City Council to add QR codes to signs which would allow people to download audio and rich media content like Arthur Seaton speaking to you from Market Square. The Sillitoe Trail app is now available in the Android Store, coming soon to Apple for iPhone and iPad. Read more about the Sillitoe Trail, and get a preview of its content in The Space; nominate the project on Twitter with hashtag: #thespacefaves. I particularly like the project's Twitter feed @thespacelathe (manned by writer James Walker) tweeting lines from Sillitoe's books – a delightful interweaving of micro-literature in the context of kitchen-sink news and chatter on Twitter.
Al Needham: 21 Pubs
Needham believes the Arthur Seaton of 2012, since the city's industrial decline, no longer works in a factory but still spends his Saturday night propping up a bar – working behind it. This gives him access to his two many passions: to rise above the herd and get ready access to women who know what they want. Al Needham: Life Through 21 Pubs (video on YouTube) Sam Derby-Cooper: MimicSillitoe's work translate well to film; Sam Derby-Cooper's short film 'Mimic', based on Sillitoe's, acclaimed short story: Sillitoe on filmSillitoe was celebrated by acclaimed local screenwriter Michael Eaton – contrasted his and Sillitoe's lives coming from the 'east' and 'west' (of Nottingham) where Eaton's Carlton-based parents worked at Plessey and Players and referred to folks as 'duck' and even 'sausage', compared to the tougher west city lads from Radford and Raleigh and Home brewery. TVscreenwriter Billy Ivory was encouraged to pursue his writing after mentoring by Sillitoe. He introduced Sillitoe's work as a screenplay writer and the opening scene of Saturday Night Sunday Morning film – a perfect set up of the character's universe and the repetition of toiling every day at a factory lathe. Film-maker Frank Abbott showed a work-in-progress of his remix of "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"- juxtaposing contemporary images to 'mash up' and remixes the film. See an interview with Frank about the film on Left Lion. The live film event will be shown at Lakeside Arts Centre, Jan 26th 2013. Seaton RiflesSillitoe Day's evening event brought together a collective of diverse Notts musicians who all epitomised the spirit of Sillitoe. It was great to hear singers, rappers and poets proud to speak in broad Notts accents, particularly young beatboxer and rapper Motormouf whose rap contrasted Arthur Seaton's fishing relaxation with how we can switch off in a post-Facebook digital age. 1970s post-punk band Gaffa reformed to relive hits such as 'Goose Fair Girls' and a less 'angry young man' more 'pipe and slippers' song about hanging out in their allotment.  Sleaford Mods at Sillitoe Day, Nottingham Contemporary But the highlight of the evening was the man who is as close to a modern day Arthur Seaton as there can be, Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods. His new album 'Wank' includes catchy numbers like 'The Wage Don't Fit' . Williamson and his producer Andrew Fearn create a potent combination of atonal and classic R&B loops juxtaposed with vile, vitriolic rants doused in ten buckets of filth, on subjects including job-seeking, working in Little Chef and the dark side of East Midlands urban life. As part of The Space project, Jason Williamson takes the role of Arthur Seaton, narrating a commentary on the writers interpretations of the project – a ghost of the past critiquing our technological present, bringing present and past pioneers together. Sillitoe Day was a fantastic celebration of literature re-invented for the digital age, and a positive celebration of Notts culture and history from a literary perspective. I hope next year's event will take the committee closer to their goal of establishing a permanent memorial to Sillitoe. In the words of Arthur Seaton: I'm out for a good time – all the rest is propaganda! Find out more about Sillitoe day on TV: Inside Out: East Midlands BBC One, Monday 29th October Find out more about Alan Sillitoe's legacy and dig deep to donate towards the Sillitoe Memorial Fund.  |
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Creative Midlands Articles General |
| Applications are now open to three new funds which will address resilience, sust... Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:30 AM PDT Applications are now open to three new funds which will address resilience, sustainability and diversity in the arts and cultural sector. Read more:... [[... for more follow link]]  |
| Bristol-based arts centre, Watershed, has launched a major new£30,000 'Playable... Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:06 AM PDT Bristol-based arts centre, Watershed, has launched a major new£30,000 'Playable City' award. Applications are open to national and international... [[... for more follow link]]  |
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| Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:06 PM PDT BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER (trae tu propio proyector) es un movimiento cultural basado en intervenciones colectivas y efímeras de video arte. Esta iniciativa fue creada por el artista Rafaël Rozendaal en Berlín y hasta el momento se ha celebrado en más de 70 ciudades en el mundo. En... [[... for more follow link]]  |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2012 01:45 PM PDT BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER is a cultural movement based on collective interventions and ephemeral of Video Art. This initiative was created by the artist Rafaël Rozendaal in Berlin and so far has been held in over 70 cities around the world. This time Producción Aleatoria brings BYOB... [[... for more follow link]]  |
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| Posted: 28 Oct 2012 04:30 AM PDT  Image credit: Future Factory On 14 November, Nottingham Trent University will be hosting an event to showcase the work of designers and inventors involved in the Future Factory project. The project, started in 2009, aims to help SMEs in the East Midlands do business in a more efficient and sustainable way, by providing a place to share ideas on sustainable design and helping them "design out" wasteful materials and practices. Since its launch, it has helped more than 500 businesses, facilitated almost 100 collaborations between SMEs and NTU staff, and supported 107 placements for graduates. It is 40% funded by the European Regional Development Fund, and 60% by NTU, and is a finalist for both a Green Gowns Award, and a Midlands Business Award. This year's event, taking place from 4.30-6.30 pm at the Old Chemistry Theatre, Nottingham Conference Centre, will showcase designs from Future Factory's inventors, such as the Wind Harvester turbine (pictured, by local designer Heath Evdemon), the Charbecue (a fuel efficient barbecue) and lighting made from used Coca-Cola bottles. There will also be an opportunity to take part in a complimentary Fair Trade food and drink taster session, where you can also enter a prize draw to win a Fair Trade food hamper, and a green Christmas market, where current and past Future Factory collaborators will be selling their products. SMEs can also find out more about how Future Factory might be able to help their businesses. You can find out more information about Future Factory and its aims at the Future Factory website. If you would like to book a place at the event, you can do so by emailing futurefactory@ntu.ac.uk .  |
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