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CULTURE CLOUD
An open competition for Visual Artists
Voting opens on Monday 4 June 2012.
Thank you to everyone who has made a submission to Culture Cloud. We are now working on selecting the top 100 art works which will be displayed on www.artfinder.com for audience voting. The top 100 artists will be informed by Friday 1 June 2012.
CULTURE CLOUD is a digital space for artists to upload their artwork onto a web portal where both recognised curators and public audiences will vote for the works they like. The most popular and intriguing will be exhibited at New Art Exchange in August 2012 in a unique exhibition. There will be 2 winners - a ‘curators choice’ and the ‘public choice’ based on votes from the final stage of the competition. The overall winners of CULTURE CLOUD will receive a cash prize of up to £2000, a personal iPad app and the possibility of a solo show at New Art Exchange in the future.
For further information please visit www.theculturecloud.com or email culturecloud@nae.org.uk for enquiries.
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Video Comes Home,
with Frank Abbott
Hetain Patel’s performances and exhibitions increasingly lie within a tradition of artists using video in their own domestic environment to create their artworks. In this illustrated talk Frank Abbott, film & video artist, will explore how the camera in the home has been used in the past and how new ideas are being examined in exhibitions today. The talk will be illustrated with examples stretching from the first films shown by the Lumiere Brothers in 1895 to the current sharing of YouTube clips in homes across the world.
Thursday 17 May, 6.30pm - 8pm
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome
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Countryman (1982)
(A Stella Vision Film Screening)
102 minutes.
Dir: Chris Blackwell / Dickie Jobson
Country Man tells the story of a Jamaican fisherman whose solitude is shattered when he rescues two Americans from the wreckage of a plane crash. The fisherman, called Country Man, is hurled into a political plot by the dangerous Colonel Sinclair. Countryman uses his knowledge of the terrain and his innate combat skills to survive.
This iconic film features a soundtrack from some of the greats of Jamaican reggae, including Bob Marley & The Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, and Steel Pulse.
Friday 18 May, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Admission: £4.50 (£3 concessions)
Age range: 12A (contains scenes of nudity)
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Superhero Saturday!
Hetain Patel, our main gallery artist, loved Superheroes when he was growing up. You can see lots of references to his boyhood idols in his artworks. Come along to our Superhero Saturday dressed as your favourite superhero for a whole day of activities for young people and families!
Tuck into superhero themed goodies in our café, get your action-photo taken against a fabulous set, explore your own super powers through free performances, dance, animation and poetry workshops AND watch a special screening of Spider-Man 2 – those in costume get a free cinema goodie bag !
Look out for more detailed information about the activities on the day, or contact us on 0115 9248630. This event is supported by The Mighty Creatives.
Please click here for full programme.
Saturday 19 May, 10am - 4pm
Admission: Free
(Prior booking is required)
Age Range : All are Welcome |
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Gallery walk and talk
with David Stickman
Join David Stickman, Performance Artist and Hetain’s creative collaborator for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Saturday 19 May, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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Spider-Man 2 (2002)
121 minutes.
Dir: Sam Raimi
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
Saturday 19 May, 2.30pm
Admission: Free
Free cinema goodie bags for those in costume.
Age Range: All are welcome (PG) |
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Be Like Theatre,
with Michael Pinchbeck
In recent years Hetain Patel’s visual art practice has moved into the territory of live performance. Michael Pinchbeck, a Nottingham-based writer and theatre maker, has become a long-term artistic collaborator with Patel, supporting his development into performance. Michael has advised on the dramatisation of Ten, and most recently, Be Like Water, which premieres at the Royal Opera House this November.
During this session Michael will place Hetain’s performance practice into a broader context of experimental theatre. He will discuss the use of text, voice, and the practice of using the re-enactment of recorded material as a live act. As a footnote, the talk asks how we might reconfigure the family in performance, as both Michael and Patel have worked with
Thursday 31 May, 6.30pm - 8pm
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome |
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The Arbor (2010)
(Screening with Q&A)
94 minutes.
Dir: Clio Barnard
A unique opportunity to watch this critically acclaimed film and meet the lead actor, Manjinder Virk (Channel 4 Britz and ITV Monroe) and her brother, Creative producer/promoter, Hardish Virk.
As a portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, this innovative film uses lip-synching techniques to give life to audio interviews telling the story of the tragic playwright (who was best known for her work on Rita, Sue and Bob Too). The Arbor was nominated for a BAFTA award for Outstanding Debut by a British Director, and won the Sutherland Trophy at the 2010 London Film Festival Awards. Manjinder Virk was also nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress and Best Newcomer for her role as Lorraine.
Friday 1 June, 7pm - 9pm
Admission: £5 (£4 concessions)
Age range: 15 |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Eva Martinez
Join Eva Martinez, independent performing arts Curator, artistic collaborator and wife of Hetain Patel for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work with the lady in the art works herself.
Saturday 2 June, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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Local Reality
(Half Term Holiday Workshop)
In this session you will discover, through movement and soundscape, your local area as you have never seen it before! The workshop will highlight our diverse multicultural neighbourhood and the vibrant communities within it. If you could describe it, how would it look? How would it sound? How would it move?
Wednesday 6 June, 10am - 1pm
Admission: FREE (advanced booking is essential)
Age range: 11 - 16, however older participants are welcome to join in |
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@Home@?
(Half Term Holiday Workshop)
What makes us feel ‘at home’ and what makes us feel less than ‘at home’? Inspired by the work of Hetain Patel, these are the sorts of questions young people will be asking as they explore various art forms with cross-media artist, Chris Lewis-Jones.
Thursday 7 June, 10am - 12pm
Admission: FREE (advanced booking is essential)
Age range: 11 - 16, however older participants are welcome to join in |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Holly Stanton
Join Holly Stanton, Photographer and member of NAE's Young Perosn's Panel for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Thursday 7 June, 1.30pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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Blackdrop
(Spoken Word)
Hear vibrant spoken word performances by local artists. June’s event is the BlackDrop Olympic Slam competition. If you wish to take part in the Slam competition, arrive before 8pm.
Thursday 7 June, 8pm - 10pm
Admission: £3 (£3 concessions)
Age range: 18+ |
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Me, Myself and I
(Half Term Holiday Workshop)
Inspired by Hetain Patel’s exhibition, this workshop is about exploring your own identity. Working with photographer, Sian Stammers you will create striking self-portraits of yourself and the things that mean something to you. Bring along anything you feel represents your personality - jewellery, objects, clothes, a photo of your favourite place or even some text on your phone!
Friday 8 June, 10am -12pm
Admission: FREE (advanced booking is essential)
Age range: 11 - 16, however older participants are welcome to join in |
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Leah Gordon in conversation
with Sean O’Hagan
To mark the opening of Leah Gordon’s celebrated photography project, Kanaval, she will be joined by Sean O’Hagan, regular writer of Leah’s practice and photography and feature writer for the Guardian and Observer. This session will provide a detailed introduction to Leah’s vibrant practice from the perspective of this acclaimed critic.
Sean O’Hagan was named interviewer of the year in the British press awards in 2003. He is the winner of the 2011 J Dudley Johnston award from the Royal Photographic Society “for major achievement in the field of photographic criticism” for his writing in the Observer and the Guardian.
Join us for Leah Gordon’s launch party after the event, 7:30pm-10pm
Friday 15 June, 6.15pm - 7.30pm
(followed by launch party)
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome
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Leah Gordon: Kanaval
Vodou, Politics and revolution on the streets of Haiti
(Launch Event)
Leah Gordon’s practice explores the representational boundaries between art, religion, anthropology, colonialism and folk history. The photographs in this exhibition document the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festivities in Jacmel, a coastal town in Southern Haiti. Her photographs register Haiti’s juncture between its history, its cosmology and the present.
Gordon’s images document troupes of ‘performers’ acting out mythological and political tales in a whorish theatre of the absurd that course the streets unshackled by traditional parade. Light years away from the sanitised, corporate-sponsored tourist parades of carnival throughout the world, the images reveal an event that is a potent vessel for transmitting, telling, retelling and reinterpreting Haitian history.
Friday 15 June, 7.30pm - 10pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Frank Abbott
Join Frank Abbott, film / video Artist and past NTU tutor of Hetain Patel for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Saturday 16 June, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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Indian dance-theatre and storytelling workshop with
Shane Shambhu
In this session, especially designed for young people to learn with their parent/guardian, participants will connect with Indian dance and experience using the human body as a tool for communication. Using Indian dance and theatre techniques, participants will delve into Indian mythological stories and experiment with the use of their own bodies to tell stories through mime.
Saturday 16 June, 4pm - 5pm
Admission: £5 per dance couple
Age Range: Suitable for young people aged 11 plus with an adult dance partner.
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Pokunilla: An evening of performance with Shane Shambhu
A classical Bharatanatyam work portrayed within a contemporary idiom.
During this intimate session Shane Shambhu will perform a traditional Indian dance work (classical Bharatanatyam), presented alongside an artist-in-conversation and ending with a performance of ‘Dr Jagad and Mr Haridas’ - a fresh, comical and imaginative take on the late 19th Century story reflecting on modern science and identity.
The performance will be followed by a Q&A led by Dance 4.
Saturday 16 June, 6.30pm - 8pm
Admission: £6 (£5 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome |
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Haitian Art at
Night of Festivals 2012
This event celebrates the arrival of Night of Festivals 2012, which will take over Nottingham’s Old Market Square from 21-23 June in an explosion of colour, music, dance and vibrant arts.
Many extraordinary artists will be contributing to Night of Festivals 2012, including Haitian sculptors André Eugène and Jean Hérard Celeur. This event will provide a rare opportunity to hear the artists discuss their practice and their newly commissioned sculpture created during a residency at City Arts, alongside Kanaval curator Leah Gordon and ArtReach Director David Hill.
Night of Festivals has been developed as a concept and produced by ArtReach with artistic direction from David Hill. ArtReach particularly values its working partnerships with City Arts, Nottingham Contemporary and the New Art Exchange.
Tuesday 19 June, 6.30pm - 8pm
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome
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Kanaval Masks
First Floor Theatre helps you create your own weird and crazy masks! Participants will take inspiration from the Haitian Mardi Gras costumes and masks seen within Leah Gordon’s photography exhibition, Kanaval.
Saturday 23 June, 2pm - 4pm
Admission: £3 for one adult with one child, £2 for additional participants thereafter. Includes light refreshments.
Age: All are welcome |
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VOCAL: The Art
of Tetsudo
(Demonstration and workshop)
Martial arts are referenced throughout Hetain Patel’s exhibition, At Home. Citing Bruce Lee as a boyhood hero, Patel also takes inspiration from the graceful kung-fu choreography depicted in Ang Lee’s film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
During this session we aim to raise public awareness of the Tetsudo martial art, and to provide our visitors with a free and interactive opportunity to learn about the benefits of such an activity.
Tetsudo master Balbinder Dhaliwal and five other senior instructors will provide a detailed introduction and demonstration to this martial art which they describe as the ‘complete self defence’.
Thursday 28 June, 6pm - 8pm
Admission:FREE
(advance booking advised)
Age range: All ages and abilities welcome |
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Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games
Artist Leah Gordon juxtaposes Haitian and British folk culture in her exhibition, Kanaval. During this session we explore these gloriously eccentric ‘folk’ happenings in more detail, and investigate how and why these ancient traditions still exist.
The session will be set against selected excerpts from the BFI’s Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games. From the sexy, savage Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax’s Oss Oss Wee Oss, to Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s footage of ferociously fought traditional football; this collection of documentaries, television reports and rare silent film footage reveals just how powerful and enduring the folk traditions of Great Britain have always been.
Joining Leah Gordon on our discussion panel will be Haitian artist Andre Eugene; William Fowler, curator of the film; and John Nicol who has appeared as ‘The Burryman’, in the annual Burryman Parade (a folk custom widely believed to have originated in the 17th century) for the last 13 years.
Thursday 30 June, Midday - 2pm
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome |
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YARD Young Actors present: #FaceMe
Ppart of Contacting the World)
YARD Young Actors have been twinned with Moradokmai Theatre Community in Thailand as part of Contacting the World 2012, a pioneering international theatre festival for young people involving five cities from around the globe that is taking place at Contact, Manchester, 9-15 July 2012.
The festival aims to create mutual understanding and respect between young people from different backgrounds whilst producing new performance work which reflects cultural and creative diversity.
This performance is the product of YARD’s international exchange with Moradokmai Theatre Community in Thailand and their creative journey with Contacting the World.
contactmcr.com/contactingtheworld
Saturday 30 June, 7pm - 8pm
Admission: £5 (£3 concession)
Age Range: All are welcome
Also showing on
Thursday 12 July, 7:30pm
Contact Theatre, Manchester.
Please visit the website below for further information.
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Nubian Spirit:
The African Legacy of the Nile Valley (2008)
(A Stella Vision Film Screening)
72 minutes
Dir: Louis Buckley
A beautifully shot documentary that unravels the fascinating and often magical legacy of ancient Sudan shining light onto the ancient African culture, history and spiritual mythology of the people from the Nile Valley. It draws out the reality of disciplines such as astronomy, architecture, science, and much more that the ancient Africans used to make sense of their world. The film features dynamic interviews with leading scholars. The revelations and information they contribute help the viewer to fully understand this important time period.
Join us in the bar after the film for music by Good Times DJ Jeremy Prince until 11pm!
Friday 6 July, 7.30pm - 9pm
Admission: £4.50 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome
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Print Techniques Workshop
A chance for children and families to experiment with simple printing techniques using a selection of different objects. Create beautiful prints using anything you choose: from a vegetable to a toy car or just your own fingerprint! The chance to explore as far as your imagination takes you. How about transferring your ideas to create a summer
t-shirt?
Saturday 7 July, 2pm - 4pm
Admission: £3 for one adult with one child, £2 for additional participants thereafter. Includes light refreshments.
Age: All are welcome |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Paul Gladston
Join NAE Academic in Residence, Paul Gladston for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Saturday 14 July, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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MELA FEST 2012
Mela Fest 2012 appears across three
events bringing a feast of art, culture,
games and cuisine to Nottingham!
We launch Mela here at New Art Exchange
on the 13th and 14th July with a programme
of film, debate, live music, dance, theatre
and arts workshops. Mela will then present
South Asian acts, featuring Punjabi By Nature across the Riverside Festival from 3rd to 5th August.
Mela Fest 2012 culminates at the World
Event for Young Artists opening weekend
with MANDALA, a 3D digital projection and
performance, produced by Sampad, Seeper
and New Art Exchange. MANDALA is an
extraordinary event which will see the façade
of Nottingham Council House transformed
by a breathtaking display of colour, light and
moving image. Real-time tracking facilities
will project 3D interactive moving images of
live South Asian dance and music onto the
building, and there will be performances
by world class artists including Anoushka
Shankar and Talvin Singh.
Please see below for dates and times for all three events.
Mela Fest 2012 Launch Night at NAE
Friday 13 July, 7pm - 11pm
Mela Fest 2012 at NAE
Saturday 14 July, 11am - 6pm
MELA featuring at Riverside Festival
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 August
MANDALA featuring at World Event For Young Artists Opening Weekend
Sunday 9 September
Admission: FREE
Age Range: All are welcome
melafest@nae.org.uk
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An audience with
Sura Susso
Back by popular demand, New Art Exchange presents Sura Susso. A virtuoso kora player, percussionist and singer songwriter,
Sura is known to captivate his audience with his infectious music.
His debut album ‘Sila Kang’ has received critical acclaim in the arenas of both classical and world music. In this concert he will be joined by his sister, the phenomenal vocalist Binta Suso, plus Ousman Beyai on guitar, and Njega Sohna on percussion.
Sura has toured worldwide, performing at events such as the Hay Festival, Glastonbury Festival and WOMAD International Music Festival.
Thursday 19 July, 7.30pm - 9pm
Admission: £9 (£8 concessions)
Age Range: All are welcome |
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Clay Summer Workshop
Work your magic with air-drying clay - mould, sculpt, and decorate your creations using various tools and hand techniques. A messy but fun session that is suitable for children accompanied by adults.
Saturday 21 July, 2pm - 4pm
Admission: £3 for one adult with one child, £2 for additional participants thereafter. Includes light refreshments.
Age: All are welcome |
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Summer Game Jam
Over two days participants will explore the world of pervasive gaming with design group Larkin’ About. Pervasive gaming is a fastgrowing movement which uses game structures to explore the world around us. Games familiar and unknown will be explored and an original game made.
Come, get creative, and play!
Tuesday 24 - Wednesday 25 July
10am - 4pm
Admission: FREE (advanced booking is essential)
Age range: 11 - 16, however older participants are welcome to join in |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Armindokht Shoosthtari
Join Armindokht Shoosthtari, NAE researcher for the Culture Cloud for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Saturday 28 July, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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CAPTURE!
Capture is a two day film workshop where you will create a short film, animation or live action film including planning, filming and editing of your piece. Led by local artist Graham Elstone, see your creative ideas come to life over the two days and leave with your film on a DVD.
Monday 30 - Tuesday 31 July
10am - 4pm
Admission: FREE (advanced booking is essential)
Age range: 11 - 16, however older participants are welcome to join in |
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Blackdrop
(spoken word)
Hear vibrant spoken word performances by local artists. June’s event is the BlackDrop Olympic Slam competition. If you wish to take part in the Slam competition, arrive before 8pm.
Thursday 2 August, 8pm - 10pm
Admission: £3 (£2 concessions)
Age range: 18+ |
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Tell me a story...
First Floor Theatre presents a fun and imaginative theatre making workshop over two days, culminating in a performance created by the participants. The group will explore story telling through objects, images, sounds, movement and drama to create their own unique performance. A free sharing of the work made in the workshop will take place at on the final day at 3pm. All are welcome!
Monday 6 - Tuesday 7 August
10am - 4pm
Admission: £3 for one adult with one child, £2 for additional participants thereafter. Includes light refreshments.
Age: All are welcome |
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The Nottingham Carnival Past and Present: The Community Extravaganza
(Screening with Q&A and café event)
(A Stella Vision and The Invisible
Man screening)
60 minutes.
Dir: The Invisible Man
The Caribbean Carnival in Nottingham began in the 1970s. A group of Caribbeans, mainly from the island of St Kitts, held a carnival parade in the Meadows. Today, Nottingham Caribbean Carnival is a truly multicultural event, attracting thousands of people from all walks of life.
This documentary (work in progress) charts the development of the Carnival over the past 20 years. It features original footage captured by The Invisible Man, interviews and live performances.
Carnival themed live music, entertainment, food and drink follows in the café-bar!
Friday 10 August, 7pm - 11.30pm
Admission:FREE
Age range: All are welcome |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Alice Thickett
Join Alice Thickett, Editor of the NAE blog and Project Manager of No Official Name for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Saturday 11 August, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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Textile Installations
A free family-friendly drop-in activity with City Arts. Come and help us construct colourful textile creations to help dress the city
for the World Event Young Artists – an exciting festival of events in Nottingham celebrating and showcasing a thousand young artists from across the globe in September 2012. See www.worldeventyoungartists.com for details.
Saturday 11 August, 1pm – 4pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
 
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Lego Wonderland 2!
Back by popular demand, this workshop is aimed at our youngest audience; we encourage children and families to take part in a sprawling Lego building extravaganza. Use the Lego pieces to construct interesting designs bringing your imagination to life.
Saturday 18 August, 2pm - 4pm
Admission: FREE (advance booking is essential)
Age: All are welcome |
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Gallery walk and talk
with Oliver Scutt
Join Writer Oliver Scutt, for a Gallery Walk and Talk. Learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.
Saturday 25 August, 12pm
Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome
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Stella Vision Open Call in association with New Art Exchange Community Films Screening
Stella Vision Open Call is a unique opportunity for local filmmakers to showcase their films to a public audience in the setting of NAE’s screening space. Stella Vision and New Art Exchange are passionate about supporting new filmmakers from a variety of backgrounds and furthering their practice. This programme provides a platform for emerging film makers to present their work in a cinema setting and gather critical but supportive reflection from
other film enthusiasts.
If you are a Nottingham based filmmaker and you would like to get involved in this programme please email Stella Vision Films for further information:
opencall@stellavisionfilms.com
Friday 31 August, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
(subjest to change)**
Admission:£3 (£2 concession)
Age range: All are welcome |
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YARD Young Actors
(15- 25 years)
Workshops
YARD Young Actors is a peer-led theatre
group offering intensive training for young
people aged 15 - 25. These sessions are
designed to help you develop you skills
in voice, movement, script work and
characterisation. The group work together
to create original dynamic performances.
Entry to the company is by audition only.
The next round of auditions will take place on Wednesday 29 August, 11-1pm. Please contact info@nae.org.uk for further information.
Every Tuesday
5pm - 8pm
Admission: Free
For further information contact yard@nae.org.uk Tel: 0115 924 8630 or drop in! Please click here to see our full YARD programme. |
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YARD Youth Theatre
(11- 14 years)
Workshops
YARD Youth Theatre is for anyone aged 11
-14 with an interest in drama. The sessions
build self-esteem, self-confidence and
self-expression. Come along to join in with
weekly drama classes, learn new skills,
meet new friends and take part in exciting
performances. No auditions necessary.
Every Wednesday until 18 July
5pm - 7pm
Admission: Free
For further information contact yard@nae.org.uk Tel: 0115 924 8630 or drop in! Please click here to see our full YARD programme. |
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Young People's Panel
Made up of 15-25 year olds who are
passionate about visual and performing arts,
these sessions provide insight and experience
of working within a creative organisation. The
panel meets monthly to vision and shape the
Youth Programme at NAE. Admission : FREE
Tuesdays: 1 May, 5 June, 3 July
5pm - 7pm
Admission : FREE |
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Kathak Dance
Dance workshop
In these interactive dance workshops, Vina Ladwa of Manushi Dance will work with individuals to gain a taste of the Indian classical dance form - Kathak. The workshops will begin to break down this classical style to create a language of movement with the participants, representing an identity rooted in two cultures. There will also be story-telling which explores Indian mythology and history using facial, hands, body and eye movements. Participants are advised to wear comfortable clothing for the workshops. All ages are welcome; intermediate to advanced level dancers.
Every Saturday, 28 April - 7 July
(19 May is a holiday)
12pm - 1pm: adults
1pm - 2pm: advance adults
2pm - 3pm: 6 - 14 year olds
Admission: £40 for the 10 week course or £5 per class |
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RISING by Aakash Odedra @ Curve Theatre, Leicester
Commissioned by New Art Exchange
Zineb Sedira's multi-screen installation Floating Coffins (2009), commissioned by New Art Exchange and produced by Arts Admin is on display as part of a major historical group exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Migrations.
Floating Coffinswas filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics -the habour city of Nouadhibou, whichhas become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.
The installation is presented on a complex arrangement of 14 screens with layered sound compiled by Mikhail Karikis. The work lingers with surreal ease on figures removing scrap, birds arriving, and the extraordinary landscape where desert, sea and man's struggle to survive, all combine.
20 - 21 MARCH 2012
STUDIO PERFORMANCE
Rising is a new evening of work performed by Aakash Odedra, exploring different processes and aesthetics to create a new personal language.
“Single-minded passion is never quite enough. Innovation is a collective performance.” Unknown
Aakash performs solos choreographed by Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan, and featuring lighting by Michael Hulls.
All use Aakash’s background in Kathak and Bharatanatyam to create a new flavour of contemporary dance. Aakash also presents a contemporary Kathak solo choreographed by himself. |
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Floating Coffins @ 'Migrations' - Tate Britain
Zineb Sedira's multi-screen installation Floating Coffins (2009), commissioned by New Art Exchange and produced by Arts Admin is on display as part of a major historical group exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Migrations.
Floating Coffinswas filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics -the habour city of Nouadhibou, whichhas become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.
The installation is presented on a complex arrangement of 14 screens with layered sound compiled by Mikhail Karikis. The work lingers with surreal ease on figures removing scrap, birds arriving, and the extraordinary landscape where desert, sea and man's struggle to survive, all combine.
Zineb Sedira's multi-screen installation Floating Coffins (2009), commissioned by New Art Exchange and produced by Arts Admin is on display as part of a major historical group exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Migrations.
Floating Coffinswas filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics -the habour city of Nouadhibou, whichhas become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.
The installation is presented on a complex arrangement of 14 screens with layered sound compiled by Mikhail Karikis. The work lingers with surreal ease on figures removing scrap, birds arriving, and the extraordinary landscape where desert, sea and man's struggle to survive, all combine.
‘'Floating Coffinsis a space where life, death, loss, escape, abandoned and shipwrecked journeys meet.It's both a toxic graveyard and a source for survival and hope.''
Zineb Sedira
Floating Coffins was purchased by Tate Britain 2011
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31 Jan - 12 Aug 2012
Tickets £6.60 / £5.50concessions (bought from Tate Britain)
For further information, click on the link below
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/migrations/default.shtm
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Spirit Nottingham
This is a new initiative that has been developed as a result of an innovative cross-sectoral cultural partnership involving arts venues, museums, galleries together with city centre restaurants, pubs and bars. Through this special website, you can see what's on offer in Nottingham and plan a night offer through the best of the region's cultural offers!
It is has been enabled by funding from Greater Nottingham Partnership, Arts Council England East Midlands, with match funding secured from the originating partners who are: Broadway Media Centre, Dance4, Galleries of Justice, Lakeside, New Art Exchange, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Playhouse, The Royal Centre, Capital FM Arena and We Are Nottingham.
You can access the best of Nottingham's cultural offer at www.spiritnottingham.com
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Primary Studios now open
Primary Studios, Nottingham are seeking applications from contemporary visual artists to join our exciting new venue.PRIMARY is a new and important feature on the visual arts landscape andis the first dedicated, permanent artist studios in Nottingham, which supports the development and production of contemporary visualart, its mission is to operate high quality, secure and affordable studios with associated exhibition and events space. New Art Exchange is proud to be a Corporate Director of Primary and we are working with them to develop their commitment to ensure that the building develops a strong public interface. This will be achieved through the delivery of a growing, varied public programme, which will expand and evolve as the building develops.
For further details and an application form please email admin@weareprimary.org |
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2012 Spring Training and networking events
Mainstream Partnership invites Artists, Practitioners and Organisations across the East Midlands to take part in our 2012 Spring Training & Networking Events. If you are looking to set up as a creative enterprise, broaden the scope of your networks and collaborations, increase your knowledge and contribute to regional conversations that impact you, book today:
www.mainstreampartnership.eventbrite.com
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Past Events
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