Archive for February, 2011
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
We were recently introduced to the site showing Dee Patel’s work and was blown away at his approach to his work – its stunning so felt compelled to share it.
His latest project titled Land Of Hope & Glory tells the stories of immigrantion/immigrants who have settled in Birmingham as a perspective on immigration & diversity
This photographic series is a non-political piece aiming to remind us that immigration is not a 21st century phenomenon, it’s been occurring for hundreds of years, bringing with it opportunity and diversity.
Behind each immigration statistic lies a story and with it, a human being. Throughout the series, Dee photographed and listened to stories from the people in Handsworth communities, where 170 of the world’s countries are represented.
“I sat down with each individual asking questions to get an idea of their roots. I laughed with them and we shared coffee. This opportunity enabled me to look into their lives, into their histories, listen to their hopes and fears and to share a moment at some deeper level”.
‘Land Of Hope & Glory’ is currently on display at Handsworth Library until 18 March. From there it will join Anna Fields in the Creative Leap Exhibition at The Drum , opening 25 March until 14 April.
Handsworth Library is open Mon/Tues/Sat 9am – 5pm; Thursday 12 noon – 7pm.
Image/s all belong to Dee Patel taken from his ‘Land Of Hope & Glory’ series.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
“Top 100 coolest things on the planet” – Arena magazine
“One of the hottest UK live acts” – Songlines magazine
“The best bloody thing i’ve seen in years” – Howard Marks
2011 sees lots of activity from the extraordinary talent that is Nathan “Flutebox” Lee. His debut EP produced by Multi Award Winning Scratch DJ champion DJ Tigerstyle will be released on Monday 28th March 2011. Nathan will also soon be making a film appearance in a Chinese/U.S co-production called ‘Americatown’ and collaborating on the soundtrack of Plan B’s debut film production.
With his trademark live Fluteboxing (beat boxing through the flute while playing it at the same time), Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee’s explosive blend unites Hip Hop, Dubstep and Beatbox beats with Jazz, Funk and Eastern melodies. This former pirate radio Jungle MC is a true 21st Century musical pioneer, taking live acoustic performance to the next level and urban music into uncharted waters with his hi-octane, hyper-percussive show.
Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee worked as a labourer for five years after leaving school before he decided to pick up the flute. Since then he has collaborated live and in the studio with legendary artists including: The Prodigy, Plan B, The Roots, Nitin Sawhney, Beardyman, Asian Dub Foundation, GURU, Foreign Beggars and Ed Rush & Optical.
Nathan has become a massive YouTube hit with millions of views worldwide. The catalyst for this came from a collaborative performance with Beardyman at the London Google offices. The video has now reached over 6 million views.
Nathan has also had many TV and Radio appearances over the last 5 years including Nihal’s Breakfast Show on Radio 1, The Prodigy Maida Vale Session on Radio 1, The 2009 Glastonbury coverage on BBC2 News Review, Channel 4’s Rude Tube & Blue Peter.
Nathan is now established as a festival favourite, appearing at Bestival, Womad, and Glastonbury, as well as touring the world. On the home front, Nathan has just finished his spell as an Emerging Artist In Residence at London’s prestigious Southbank Centre and played a sell-out show to an eager audience at the Purcell Room. This event featured a whole host of talented collaborators including Riz MC, Shri, B.L.O.T (India’s top VJ collective) and was hosted by the irrepressible legend Howard Marks.
The unique live experience of Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee is equally at home in a raw and sweaty club as it is on a heavyweight stadium stage. This live show is complemented with an astounding array of talented musicians known as “The Clinic”, featuring DJ Tigerstyle, human beatboxer WanDan, tabla player Hanif Khan, rapper Skrein, viola player Mike Pagulatos and keyboard player Maquenzie.
UPCOMING DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
So to the all important dates you’re gagging to know:
Download release – 28th March on i-Tunes.
CD release – 25th April via www.flutebox.tv
Cargo launch party – 22nd April.
www.flutebox.tv includes an EP sampler.
For further info go to the WEBSITE where you get treated to an exclusive sampler from the upcoming EP produced by the mighty DJ TIGERSTYLE.
Or you can check out the EP on SOUNDCLOUD.
This is a SWARAJ MUSIC project.
Management and Rest of World Bookings: ash.chandola@gmail.com
A&R: sanj@triumphantsound.net
UK & Europe Bookings: james@elasticartists.net
Press: corin@grindstonepromo.com
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
The Women’s Art Library/Make and Feminist Review £1000 research bursary
Living with Make: Art in the Archive.
Call for proposals based in the Women’s Art Library/Make at Goldsmiths, University of London
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2011
Bursary period: May-July 2011
Public launch at South London Gallery: Autumn 2011
Women’s Art Library/Make and Feminist Review are inviting writers and artists
working with text to propose an original engagement with this special collection. Proposals should not only approach the archive’s holdings creatively but also excavate them as a feminist resource that records women’s lives and activities. The proposed outcome encompasses a broad register of writing, realised in any number of formats, i.e. as an article or a gallery handout, online blog, performed script or radio broadcast. The final work will be presented in the Open Space pages of a forthcoming issue of Feminist Review and feature in a public launch event in the South London Gallery.
The £1000 bursary will support the successful applicant’s research time in the
collection.
This call is open to all, including students. This year the bursary is in collaboration with South London Gallery.
The Women’s Art Library/Make is a collection of art documentation that began as a collective archive by UK-based women artists in the late 1970s. It has since developed into a research resource featuring a wide range of media that include emerging artists active internationally as well as historical archives of individuals and organisations. The Make collection is particularly rich in images and features a unique slide collection, poster collection, videos and photographs as well as audiotapes and ephemera.
Feminist Review provides an accessible site for creative debate in the form of writing and/or visual works that relate to and expand issues in gender scholarship.
The panel consisting of representatives from Feminist Review and Goldsmiths would look for proposals that engage the creative as well as academic sector. A proposal for development and a CV would be required, including good visual documentation if relevant.
For more info contact: Althea Greenan, e-mail: make@gold.ac.uk
Tel. 020 7717 2295
Special Collections, Library, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.
Here’s a document with further information:
WAL
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi is to be honoured at this year’s Brighton Festival with a series of arts commissions inspired by and intended to reflect her “extraordinary spirit”.
Burma’s opposition leader was named as this year’s guest director, following Brian Eno last year and Anish Kapoor in 2009. For obvious reasons – Aung San Suu Kyi was only released from house arrest last November and has to remain in Burma – she will not be director in the strictly conventional sense.
But her presence will be deeply felt at the festival, from 7-29 May. Organisers were in close contact with the Burma Campaign and members of her family, and her tastes and passions will be reflected during the festival. “It is a great honour to build a festival around Aung San Suu Kyi and to take our inspiration from her,” said Andrew Comben, chief executive of the festival. “I hope this programme reflects some of her extraordinary spirit.”
Aung San Suu Kyi sent the festival this statement: “It is especially pleasing for me to see, albeit remotely, Brighton festival taking shape this year, and to think that so many people will come together in May to celebrate great art and experience the inner peace it brings.
“It is wonderful too to know that there is such support for the effort to bring democracy and freedom to Burma, for which the Burmese people have been diligently working for so long. I wish everyone involved in Brighton festival this year – the artists and the audience – the happiest of times. Please continue to use your liberty to promote ours.”
Events include Kutlug Ataman’s Mesopotamian Dramaturgies, a collection of artworks and films conceived in response to modernism, and Asian Dub Foundation in a performance inspired by the struggle in Burma.
Article from the Guardian Online and written by Arts Correspondence Mark Brown.
Image by: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters.
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Sikh fortress turban
Unravel the stories of this warrior’s turban and discover how and why turbans symbolise Sikh faith and identity.
Sikhism is one of the youngest world religions, founded in India over 500 years ago. Many Sikhs, including some women, wrap cloth around their uncut hair, making a turban, and this is an important symbol of their faith.
The magnificent turban on display in Room 3 is a rare example of a distinct type known as a dastaar boonga, literally meaning a ‘towering fortress’. This style of turban was worn by a group of Sikhs called Akali Nihangs. These skilled warriors used this type of turban to hold their weapons, including daggers, swords and deadly throwing discs. Some Akali Nihangs still wear this type of turban today as a symbolic representation of this tradition.
It is unclear how long this turban has been in the Museum’s collection, but it originally dates from the late 19th century and had come to London by the early 1900s. The turban displayed weapons, including two double-edged swords, six throwing discs, and one dagger, and a badge of the 45th Rattray’s Sikh Battalion, which eventually became the 3rd Battalion Sikh Regiment of the present-day Indian Army.
The cloth in the original turban is now so fragile that Museum experts have had to use new fabric to display the weapons and badge. Members of the Sikh community, working closely with the Museum’s experts, have reconstructed how it would have looked using traditional tying techniques and 37 metres of cloth.
Come to this display to encounter a unique symbol of faith, and hear members of the Sikh community explain why the turban remains important to them today.
Check The British Museum website for further info.
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Heritage Lottery Fund’s, Skills for the Future programme is supporting heritage organisations across the UK to create new training places. Grants range from £100,000 to £1million for a number of traineeships with an emphasis on high-quality work-based training. The programme will help equip organisations to engage with
the widest possible range of people and inspire them to get involved with heritage.
Located in the LB of Tower Hamlets, the Whitechapel Gallery will run a 2 year project offering training and work placements to 12 local young people using a dedicated grant. Trainees will learn a range of accredited cultural heritage skills within the gallery itself including conservation and research skills, digital technology training and community engagement. The Gallery which first opened its doors in 1901 presents a wealth of modern and contemporary art giving the trainees excellent hands-on experience in the museums and arts sector.
Heritage is a major part of the Gallery’s structure, programming and history and is incorporated into each departments daily activities, such as project specific areas identified by Development, Education and Exhibitions and more general areas that relate to the sector overall. These are identified as conservation and sustainability within the Operations team, marketing of the organisation’s heritage as part of the Communications department and access awareness through Visitor Services. The Gallery is therefore looking to recruit 6 full-time paid positions starting in March 2011. Trainees will be spread across 6 different departments: Exhibitions Trainee, Education Trainee, Communications Trainee, Development Trainee, Operations Trainee and Visitor Services Trainee.
The Trainee will gain valuable departmental skills, in their chosen department combined with workshops and training, as a cohort, for specialist heritage skills. This training will complement the work of the department and allow each trainee to gain an insight into how heritage and conservation is relevant across the Gallery by
undertaking training in project management, research into local history, collection conservation, digital technology, customer care and communications.
SALARY: £13,000 per annum, for each traineeship (salary includes annual national insurance and tax contributions).
CONTRACT: Fixed term contract for 12 months.
INDIVIDUAL JOB DESCRIPTIONS, APPLICATION PACKS AND FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED BY EMAILING:
Visit www.whitechapelgallery.org
Email traineeship@whitechapelgallery.org
Candidates can apply for more than one traineeship, but a separate Application Form must be filled out for each departmental traineeship that candidates wish to apply for DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 4 March 2011
OPEN DAYS AT THE GALLERY:
22nd February 10am-1pm & 24th February 5pm-8pm
Two open days at the Gallery will provide interested candidates the opportunity to come along and speak with members of staff, visit the exhibitions and attend small workshops in “How to Fill out Application Forms”.
A maximum of 20 individuals for each daily workshop so turn up early to avoid disappointment.
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FIRST ROUND RECRUITMENT DAY: 16-17 March 2011
SECOND ROUND INTERVIEWS: w/c 21 March 2011
START DATE: 4 April 2011
The Whitechapel Gallery strives to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Charity number: 312162 Company number: 4093862
Sophie Hayles
External Relations Officer
Whitechapel Gallery
Direct Line: +44 (0)20 7522 7851
Mobile: +44 (0)7808 579228
Fax: +44 (0)20 7522 7887
Email: sophiehayles@whitechapelgallery.org
Web: www.whitechapelgallery.org
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
London 2012 are pleased to announce a new commissioning opportunity for south east Deaf and disabled artists and arts organisations.
Funded by Accentuate, 2 new commissions of outdoor work for summer 2012 will align with the Paralympic Games time.
Further information and an application form are attached.
Deadline for returned applications: 4 March 2011.
New Commission Application form FINAL
New commissions for 2012 – FINAL
Background Information for commissions FINAL
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