Events

Invitation to Play and Display Your Art

Region : Various Regions . Type : opportunity Date : 14 Mar 2008 - 13 Mar 2010

iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses generative art as re-generative force, art as medicine, polyphonic narrative. An Online Exhibition Curated and Engendered by Ajaykumar. iPak is open to all. You do not have to be ‘mad’, 'disabled', or have experienced racism to submit a work. You just need to be interested, playful and responding to the themes. Just go to the website and see how simple it is to upload your work. Together with its playful inter-activity, and generative processes, iPak facilitates a space of immersion and contemplation. iPak involves three inter-connecting works – chaos, jukebox, and platform: chaos and jukebox involve random generation of images, texts, and sounds, to create an entirely new composition each time you view it. jukebox also allows you to select and play with combinations of material: creating your own private chaos: unique and different with each play. platform is an online gallery where you can exhibit your art in response to the themes - upload still

Contact : A Turbulence New Media Gallery Commission.
Email : ajaykumar[at]ajaykumar.com
Website : turbulence.org/Works/iPak

Heart n Soul launches new YouTube channel

Region : London . Type : news Date : 19 Jun 2008 - 31 Dec 2008

Heart n Soul is delighted to announce its new YouTube site – www.youtube.com/heartandsoulart. Launched in March this year, the website showcases a huge range of the organisation’s work including highlights from the legendary Beautiful Octopus Club and Squidz Club. It also features documentaries and our first film ‘Celebrity Shotgun’. The site has already proved to be a great success and a hugely useful resource allowing people to find out more about what we do. It’s highly accessible and allows our artists to showcase their unique work. It’s also one of the first YouTube channels in the UK to focus on disability arts. Heart n Soul has also recently launched a Myspace page for the Beautiful Octopus Club and a Heart n Soul Facebook page. More Myspace pages for our artists are being lined up for later this year. More details: www.myspace.com/beautifuloctopusclub, www.facebook.com - Heart n Soul

Contact : Clare Thomas - Communications Manager - 020 8694 1632
Email : info[at]heartnsoul.co.uk
Website : www.heartnsoul.co.uk

BlindArt: Touching Art Touching You

Region : South West . Type : event Date : 26 Jul 2008 - 04 Oct 2008

Touching Art Touching You, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. BlindArt Permanent Collection and interactive exhibition. The exhibition breaks through traditional hierarchies & barriers in the arts by actively encouraging all works to be explored through touch. By shifting the established rules of art appreciation to the sense of touch, the gallery experience instantly becomes an intimate, fresh and liberating art experience.

Contact : Please contact Jane Pitts
Email : newsdesk[at]blindart.net
Website : www.blindart.net

Touching Art Touching You

Region : South West . Type : event Date : 26 Jul 2008 - 04 Oct 2008

Royal Cornwall Museum present a BlindArt exhibition which aims to break through traditional hierarchies & barriers in the arts by actively encouraging all works to be explored through touch. By shifting the established rules of art appreciation from sight (look) to the sense of touch (feel) the gallery experience instantly becomes an intimate, fresh and liberating art experience. All works in the exhibition feature audio-visual descriptive guide and large print & Braille labels, making them accessible to a diverse audience. The exhibition design considers a broad range of physical access adjustments.

Contact : Royal Cornwall Museum, River Street, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2SJ. Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday: 10am - 4.45pm. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays. Admission: Free Tel: 01872 272205
Email : enquiries[at]royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
Website : www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk

Marat Sade

Region : Scotland . Type : opportunity Date : 01 Sep 2008 - 30 Nov 2008

Theatre Workshop Edinburgh invites applications from professional actors and rock musicians for Peter Weiss's Marat Sade. Rehearsing in Edinburgh in September and touring to large scale venues, we will be offering three month contracts. An inclusive producing theatre, we employ professional disabled actors alongside professional non-disabled actors in all productions. At this time, we are only recruiting professional disabled actors. We are also specifically seeking for a signing singer and a signing narrator. A large scale, innovative and exciting show with live music and high production values that aims to build on the success of Threepenny Opera.

Contact : Please send information, photo and CV to: The Producer, Marat Sade Theatre Workshop 34 Hamilton Place Edinburgh EH3 5AX.
Email : afleming[at]twe.org.uk
Website : www.theatre-workshop.com

Launch of new LEVEL centre

Region : East Midlands . Type : event Date : 01 Nov 2008 - 30 Nov 2008

First Movement is an arts organisation dedicated to developing high quality arts projects with learning disabled people. It operates long-term projects in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland with occasional work across the region. It creates opportunities for adults with severe and profound learning disabilities to work together to develop and promote their creativity through the arts. First Movement has received over £1.8m to develop a new 'LEVEL' centre utilising digital arts technology. The building will be launched in November 2008 and will provide a new home for First Movement, as well as performance space, technology studio, creative industry studios and support facilities. LEVEL is a radical, live arts collaboration between learning disabled people living miles apart. Using video conferencing, large-scale projection and new technologies it creates a single, virtual arts space in which participants create and perform with people they would otherwise never meet.

Contact : Tiina Taatila, Marketing Advisor, tiinataatila@hotmail.com
Email : fmt[at]first-movement.org.uk
Website : www.first-movement.org.uk