Lovers of Crime fiction will not want to miss this great event at Fareham Library on Wednesday 30th September.
The Criminal Conclusion is a great evening event where a panel of local crime authors including:
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will draw you in to their dark and twisted world of murder, mystery and suspense. Find out more about the writers by clicking on their names to be take to their websites.
This is a ticketed event priced at £3. As with all evening events at the library the panel begins at 7pm
Meet the Author Lucy Cruickshanks as she visits Waterlooville Library this September to talk about her novels.
Join Lucy as she talks about her novels. Trader of Saigon and Road to Rangoon and how her travels have inspired her writing.
Lucy’s first novel, trader of Saigon was well received when it was published in 2013 with the Guardian describing it as having “a pacy plot” and a good debut.
If you would like to know more about her process then book your tickets for Thursday 10 September 2015. The event has a 7.30pm start and tickets are priced at £3
To book visit hants.gov.uk/library
Talented and long established artist, Chris Wood is offering these classes at the Omega Centre this coming autumn: BOOK your place TODAY on one (or both) of these very popular courses !
EXPERIMENTAL LIFE DRAWING workshop
TERM 1 : BEGINS : TUESDAY 8.9.15 7-9 PM.
TERM 1 : AUTUMN : MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
TERM 2 : SPRING : FORM & SCALE, STRUCTURE & DEFINITION
TERM 3 : SUMMER : MIXED MEDIA
SIGN UP FOR ONE TERM OR MORE !
Chriswoodartist gives a tutorial in Anne Shaw’s ArtSpace Portsmouth Studio
GROUNDCOURSE : TRADITIONAL DRAWING & painting SKILLS of the masters
TERM 1 : BEGINS : THURSDAY 10.9.15 7-9 PM.
TERM 1 : AUTUMN. STILL-LIFE
TERM 2 : SPRING PORTRAIT
TERM 3 : SUMMER CLOTHED FIGURE & COMPOSITION
WHO :Both classes are aimed at mixed ability students.
DAY/TIME : LIFE DRAWING TUES 7-9pm : GROUNDCOURSE THURS 7-9pm
VENUE The Omega Centre Omega Street Portsmouth, PO5 4LP
PRICE: £150 full price £125 concession (over 65)
NB only 5 cons places available (first come first served)
This is an independent course
The course is run with 10 students but numbers are capped to 14 students to make sure there is plenty of one to one tuition.
“Double Cephalopod” Copyright Chris N Wood All Rights reserved 2015 charcoal and pastel Made during chriswoodartist’s EXPERIMENTAL LIFE DRAWING WORKSHOP at the OMEGA CENTRE, PORTSMOUTH
TUTOR : Christopher N Wood is a British artist, designer, illustrator, printmaker, sculptor & lecturer.
He currently divides his time between fine art and lecturing. His work explores two traditional themes, maritime painting and the human form.
In the past, he has worked in advertising, retail, publishing and education. He has taught art and design for over 20 years and been an academic leader both in Further and Higher Education.
He is a highly skilled creative artist and observational drawing is central to his practice. Wood exhibits in the UK and is a regular contributor to solo and group exhibitions. Chris Wood has paintings in numerous private collections across the world
FOR FURTHER DETAILS www.chriswoodartist.com
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE contact chriswoodartist@aol.com
This Wednesday 16th September Fareham Library would like to invite you to celebrate 125 years of the Queen of Crime for an evening of mystery and intrigue.
So join the team at Fareham Library for the Agatha Christie Festival: Murder Mystery Night
This starts at 7pm and tickets only cost £3
For more details visit www.hants.gov.uk/library
We are very excited to announce this new exhibition from the renowned John Hansard Gallery in Southampton.
From Situationism to Beat to Punk, Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges unites a group of remarkable radical artists, poets, writers and activists who initiated, perpetrated and influenced a range of seminal post-war alternative movements.
Presenting rarely exhibited material – including cut-ups, paintings, film, video and sound, as well as self-published books, pamphlets, anarchist propaganda, punk ephemera and graphics – the exhibition examines the creative interplay between William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Alexander Trocchi and King Mob, and their collective influence on Malcolm McLaren in his endeavours to disrupt the cultural and social status quo from the 1960s to his premature death in 2010.
Malcolm McLaren co-opted the intellectual vigour of this powerful and difficult group of individuals to make insurrectionary statements from his days as a Situationist art student in the 1960s, to the end of his life in groundbreaking artistic forays expressed through pop culture (fashion, music, environment, performance, film). Having repudiated painting as a bourgeois form of expression like Jorn before him, McLaren’s lifelong work was inspired by such Situationist techniques as détournement (the juxtaposition of pre-existing elements), Burroughs’ ‘cut-ups’, and Debord’s emphasis on the staging of situations “that bring a revolutionary reordering of life, politics and art”.
Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges will present the so-called “defiguration” paintings exhibited by Jorn in the early 1960s, alongside the detourned comic strips of the Situationist International’s literature and Debord’s cinematic masterpiece, The Society Of The Spectacle. McLaren resurrected slogans associated with radical group King Mob, and their commentary on the banalisation of everyday life by the consumer society in the late 1960s. He also lifted text from the porn novels Alexander Trocchi wrote for the Olympia Press in the preceding decade. Original volumes of the revolutionary group’s King Mob Echo will be on display at the exhibition, which will also highlight the links between Trocchi’s book Helen And Desire and McLaren’s t-shirts design entitled ‘I Groaned With Pain’
We at Live Art Local are very excited about this exhibition and cannot wait to visit. If you want to find out more then visit www.hansardgallery.org.uk
John Hansard Gallery University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton, so17 1bj
Free Admission Open Tuesday to Friday 11– 5 Saturday 11 – 4 / T: 023 8059 2158
Live Art Local artist, Debbi Hyde will be exhibiting at the Southern Nature Art Exhibition this weekend.
The exhibition runs from Friday 28th – Monday 31st August at the Grade II listed Rookesbury Manor, which is set in fantastic grounds near Wickham, Hampshire.
Entry and parking for the exhibition is FREE,
The Exhibition will be opening its doors to the General Public from 10am till 5pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday.
There will be Paintings and Sculptures in various mediums on the theme of Nature, complementing this will be an Art Market, where you will be able to purchase some of their Prints, Cards and Merchandise.
Artists and Sculptors will also be demonstrating their skill as well as being available to discuss their creations.
A Tea room will be selling Hot and Cold Drinks, Cakes and Light Snacks to complement your day.
Disabled Access available.
We can’t wait to see more of Debbie’s work, we hope some of you can make it to.
To find out more about the exhibition please visit the website: http://southernnatureart.com/visitors/
This Thursday see’s the private view of Fareham Art Open Winner, Jenny Tipton’s solo show: Projecting Nature’s Image at Sticks Nomadic Gallery in Fareham Shopping Centre.
Jenny’s work is based around video projections and photographic pieces that examine how we relate to the image and how its meaning is as transient as the snapshot in time it represents. She is most interested in images that are accessed by a large audience, be they a scenic view that is repeatedly shot by people’s cameras, or a piece of stock footage that can be taken by anyone to express a generic moment within a sequence. These images’ status are changed dependant on the way they are seen. The more photos of one scene you see, the more the photos become less about the image and more about a recording of time. The more you see different versions of footage of the same thing, the more the ability to grasp precisely what you are looking at escapes you.
All are welcome to attend the private view, Jenny will be giving a short artists talk about her work and we will also be presenting her with her trophy for winning the Fareham Art Open. This runs from 5:30pm – 7:30pm and there will be food and drink available
So lovely people the inaugural Fareham Arts FEstival is here!!!!
There is so much going on over 9 days in Fareham that your eyes will melt. We have exhibitions in 19 venues featuring some amazing talent from as far afield as Spain. You can come and pick up free art magnets from Sticks Gallery too. From textiles to painting, installation to print there is something for everyone!
The Art Market. We can possibly fit a couple more in but you must let us know soon as this is the first one we do not want it overcrowded and give our amazing artists and artisans room to shine. This is going to be amazing. The quality of work coming in is massive, I am very excited about this one!!!
We also have free music, including today’s Choir Showcase at Locks Heath Shopping Village and very cheap gigs that are only £5 a ticket
Plus Free Theatre
Writing Workshops, book signings, performances and poetry (with the exception of Apples & Snakes this is all free to attend)
Art Workshops: on Monday we have bookmaking and next Saturday a Children’s Mixed Media workshop
Film with the brilliant screening of The Lego Movie at Bursledon Brickworks with free museum entry included in the ticket.
The screening for the Fareham Shorts: International Short Film Competition. This will be an amazing night with red carpet, awards and Q&A session with the filmmakers
We’d love as many of you to come down as possible and help us build on this in future years to create a massive arts festival that celebrates all the brilliance and diversity that exists in this our chosen field!!
Web: farehamartsfestival.co.uk
Tickets: farehamartsfestival.co.uk/tickets
Email: enquire@farehamartsfestival.co.il
Another great thing happening this weekend is DIY Southampton. Held at Planet Sounds Rehearsal & Recording StudiosThe Arches, 40 Terminus Terrace, SO14 3FE Southampton between 1 – 6pm.
This free event is a celebration of DIY culture and as well as music there will be a vast number of zines on display and for sale as well as free workshops on zine and book making.
Find out more here
