So it’s that time of year again, the Being Human festival is coming to Portsmouth from November 13th -21st 2015 and it is not to be missed.
Being Human is the first UK wide festival of the humanities and it is back for a second year. Portsmouth University has a key role in the event leading the series, Port City: Narratives of Migration . As Yael Friedman says on the Portsmouth University Being Human Facebook page:
“Portsmouth tends to be associated with the history of the Navy, and there is a mistaken perception that the city is mono-cultural. Through its lectures, walk, workshop, exhibition and readings, Port City: Narratives of Migration aims to dispel this notion and encourage people to think a little differently about the city’s history.” Yael Friedman
There are 5 key events associated with the period and although they are all FREE, numbers are limited so early booking is essential:
13 November: Drinking tea to escape the noise of the world
14 November: Portsmouth sailortown walk
17 November: Engaging with the past: Migration memories
18 November: Reviving the crescent: Portsmouth connects with Asia
Being Human is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the British Academy (BA) with additional support from the Wellcome Trust.
For Sticks and Live Art Local CIC’s first exhibition at Fareham’s brilliant theatre, Ferneham Hall, we are featuring the work of Arts University Bournemouth alumni, Christina Evans.
This is Christina’s first solo show since she graduated in 2014 with a 1st in Photography.
Explores an ambiguous common ground of the everyday. Utterly influenced by her surroundings during a trip to several countries in Europe, colour and composition become subject matter.
The camera becomes a tool to engage with the immediate. The experience in taking the picture being most important, the work relates to direct perception; the subtle strangeness in the familiar.
All pieces are available to buy via our “buy art” page. The exhibition runs until the 7th November
We have some exciting news to share with all of you. Live Art Local CIC has added two new spaces to our art spaces: Garbos Exhibition Space and the Southsea Orthodontists Gallery, both previously curated by Island City Art and before them, Just Add Art.
We see this as a brilliant way to break into Portsmouth and increase our reach, showcasing some amazing up and coming artists to an even wider audience.
Live Art Local CIC/ Sticks Gallery now organises exhibitions in 5 venues, including our current gallery space. As we continue to grow I hope you join us as we seek to bring wonderful contemporary art by brilliant up and coming artists, with a few established creatives thrown into the mix to bigger audiences!
Bournemouth Arts and Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe 2015 is on until (Bournemouth Arts) Sunday 18th October and (BEAF) until 1st November.
These two very different, but equally brilliant festivals spend a week crossing over and really do make the most of what the borough has to offer with events spreading from Boscombe all the way to Winton which borders Poole.
As part of the Bournemouth Arts Festival we were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the Museum of Water, a crazy sounding arts piece that traverses art to include science, history and memory, all through that most seemingly simple of elements, water.
Chief curator and creator of the Museum of Water, Amy Sharrocks has spent over two years amassing a collection of different types of water that have been donated by visitors to this travelling museum. What we loved about this exhibition is that every bottle tells a story and even if some of them might not be all they seem, they have non the less been treated as if they are precious (and who know’s in 30 years they may well be precious owing to water shortages). There are numerous vessels of various kinds holding this elixir of life (as a side note some of them even contain bodily fluids) each with a handwritten note from the donator lying beside. My favourite ones had lovely stories attached involving glaciers and teardrops, but there is even containers for spit from a trombone.
So vast is the collection that curatorial decisions have to be made about what to include in each space. If like us you have no donation to leave you can use a sheet of their beautiful letterpressed paper to tell what kind of water you would have brought.
Sunday 18th October is the last donation day although the museum will continue to tour and to collect from other countries.
We were also lucky enough to attend the Stevn Moberly show at The Old School House on the 16th October. I love Steven’s work and first became aware of him as an emerging artist at Platform 21014 in the exhibition at Aspex gallery. It is deeply layered work that seems to transcend meaning; partially realised bodies, suggestions of other worldliness a hint of cheekiness, and so much colour.
I should add I am thinking of stalking Steven and trying to get him to bring his work to Fareham. To see more of his work visit http://www.stevemoberly.co.uk/
We were also lucky enough to attend the opening of Here and There at the Old School House in Boscombe on Saturday evening. A great exhibition reuniting three members of student art collective, The Coal Collective. A photographic exhibition of great contemporary photography by three young women all with a bright future in the industry ahead of them. One of them, Christina Miller we will be showcasing in a solo show in the near future in Fareham.
The Fringe runs until 1st November with a varied program in traditional and non traditional spaces and we suggest you visit Bournemouth during this time if you can. Unlike the Bournemouth Arts Festival which is organised with the help of Bournemouth Council, the Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe is run entirely by a dedicated group of volunteers who are are keen to give a space for new and exciting work to reach the widest audience possible.
10 Days Winchester 2015 — Chalk is a celebration of the arts that takes place in England’s historic capital every 2 years. We were lucky enough to visit during its opening weekend.
The principle is simple:
We strive to link all sections of the community through exhibitions and other participatory events. 10 days has a core commitment to the visual arts and welcomes participation from all forms of practice. We embrace collaboration, interdisciplinary practices and multiculturalism, and foster partnership between business, education, local government and other sectors.
There is so much happening between 10th October until 7th November and most of it is FREE (yes I know that’s longer than 10 days) ! Highlights include live art in multiple venues, this includes performances, drawing and more.
The variety of things happening over the festivities spans all artistic disciplines. There are one off events and longer running exhibitions in venues such as The Winchester Gallery and Winchester Discovery Centre
To find out more about this brilliant arts event that engages the entire community please visit http://www.10dayswinchester.org/
The Surveillance Exhibition at Cafe Ethos Fareham will run from Monday 12th October until 12th December. Live Art Local artists William Phillips, Ailsa Brims and Live Art Local Director, Beth Davis-Hofbauer will be exhibiting pieces that explore the concept.
Ailsa Brims
William Phillips
This exhibition looks at the concept of surveillance, we’ve all had that feeling that we are being watched and with a plethora of cameras out there we are probably being secretly recorded; but who is watching us and what and who are we watching?
Beth Davis-Hofbauer
Pieces from the exhibition are available to purchase.
THIS SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER!!!
Live Art Local have teamed up with Ferneham Hall to run a number of exhibitions over the next year. Each of these exhibitions is between 2 weeks and 1 month in length and will take place in the Meon Room, meaning that artwork will be visible to all those who are going to see shows (as the pass through the Meon Room on their way to the auditorium).
The first of these exhibitions runs from October 25th (Sunday) to November 7th.
For this call out we are seeking 2D work that interprets the theme “Suspense”. How you interpret the theme is up to you, we welcome work that is experimental.
This is FREE for Live Art Local members to submit to. To find out more about becoming a member and to join, click here
For non-members it is £3:50 to enter work to cover admin costs. All selected work will be featured on the STICKS Gallery website and, if for sale, work will be available to be sold via Ferneham Hall and Sticks Gallery. The commission taken for sold work is 20% to Ferneham Hall and 5% to Live Art Local.
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Submissions close on Sunday 11th October with selected artists being contacted by Friday 16th October. Work is to be dropped off at Sticks the weekend 17-18th October, time will be updated in due course. The exhibition runs from the 25th October – 7th November in the Meon Room
Join us this Saturday in Fareham for Fun Palaces weekend. This is a great International event aimed at getting everyone involved in arts and science. The motto, “Everyone an Artist, Everyone a Scientist” is at the forefront of each event taking place around the world.
Fareham Fun Palace is the only event happening in this part of Hampshire and we are very proud to be a part of such a great thing…. afterall the arts and sciences are dependent on one another (despite what the current Government believes). It is that creative spark that creates new ideas, ways of doing things, makes beautiful images, ground breaking computer animation and ultimately, changes the world.
The whole idea behind Fun Palaces is to break down the barriers to arts and sciences, so that science isn’t so scary and art isn’t held up as something only a certain few can do. You do not need to know the theory of relativity or the rule of thirds, each of us, everyone is capable to great creativity.
We believe it is important to harness in children and young people this desire to learn and to create. We want everyone to have the same feeling of awe as children do, this is why our fun palace in Fareham is aimed at families with children between 2 and 13.
We open on Saturday 3rd October at 11am and then for the next 4 hours you are welcome to drop in and get creative. For four hours we will be running fun and educational activities tied to the science of crystals: how they are formed; how to grow your own at home and we’ll also be making fake geodes. There are other activities to get involved in too.
All you have to do is turn up at Sticks (opposites Millets in Fareham Shopping Centre) from 11am on Saturday and join in. The whole thing is free but we do welcome donations.
Early Notice: Artikinesis presents… The Basingstoke Project:
We have recently had word from one of our artist members about a brilliant exhibition opening in the next couple of months in Basingstoke.
The Basingstoke Project is an active, reactive, artistic response to the people, places, buildings and character of Basingstoke,described as a project to inspire and surprise, it is the brainchild of Artikinesis, a recently formed group of artists based around Basingstoke and Deane.
You can visit this exhibition of new artworks at Proteus Creation Space in Basingstoke from mid November.
Running from 16 – 26 November, the exhibition is open to the public from 10 am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. All are welcome and entry is free.
To find our more about Artikinesis visit http://www.artikinesis.org.uk
So September will soon be over and we’ll be way into Autumn with October’s arrival. Which is good news in many ways as that means it’s time for Created in Portsmouth Art Trail, that annual celebration of the finest arts in Portsmouth.
Created in Portsmouth is an Open studios Style Art Trail based in Portsmouth and running from 16-18th October generally between 10am and 5pm although times do vary between venues. Trail guides will be available from the beginning of October.
This takes place throughout the island of Portsmouth, currently mainly in the south but the brilliant team behind it are keen to make it even bigger!
It is FREE to visit these great exhibitions and studio spaces