The Poetry of Motion
Improvisation and Partnering Skills with Kirstie Simson and Christian Burns
plus early morning yoga with Julia Baldock.
Abercych, South West Wales
31st May to 7th June
more info below
to book contact Stirling: 01239 841488 or stirling.steward@virgin.net
Volcano Theatre Company presents Unknown Pleasures #1
threshold
directed by Marc Rees
SWANSEA | Taliesin Arts Centre | Thu 29 - Sat 31 May | 7:30pm
NEWPORT | Riverfront Arts Centre | Mon 2 & Tue 3 June | 7:30pm
Featuring Wendy Houstoun and John Rowley
And introducing Stephen Donnelly and Rachel Walsh
Design by Suzi Dorey
UNKNOWN PLEASURES is a series of exciting experiments in theatre by Volcano Theatre Company, Taliesin Arts Centre and Swansea Metropolitan University. This innovative partnership is bringing together Wales’s finest artists and its best emerging talents. Unknown Pleasures is a new wellspring of vitality in contemporary theatre. You saw it here first!
www.volcanotheatre.co.uk
Simon Whitehead: 28 - 30 May, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 10 am - 3.45 pm
Fee: £20
This course will be a three-day exploration in the studio and built
environment surrounding Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Simon will introduce
a place sensitive approach to making movement performance and share
practical methods of documentation. Video documentation, writing,
images will be presented at an informal sharing on Friday 30 May.
To book your place on the course please contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 01970 623232.
Holy Hiatus
Ritual and Community in Public Art
Symposium Saturday 24th May, Small World Theatre 9.30 - 5.30.
The symposium is free, to book contact Ruth Jones info@holyhiatus.co.uk
Lunch provided @£6 per head
Holy Hiatus is a series of temporary public art projects and events curated by Ruth Jones taking place in Cardigan between 21st and 31st May 2008. The project focuses on social ritual and identity, community and public places. Holy Hiatus refers to the crossing of the threshold between outer and inner consciousness and the artworks and events will explore the vital role that ritual plays in social interaction, stressing the importance of ‘liminal’ or in-between spaces and experiences, where personal and social identities may be creatively transformed. There are three strands to the project:
• Five commissioned new works by the artists Alastair MacLennan, Maura Hazelden, Simon Whitehead, Anna Lucas, Yvonne Buchheim
• A symposium organised in collaboration with Dr. Heike Roms from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth and LAND2, University of West England
• A bilingual publication to document and contextualise the project published by Parthian in 2009.
For more information about the project see www.holyhiatus.co.uk
Culture Colony – Y Wladfa Newydd
a new cultural networking experience dedicated to the arts and culture of Wales and Welsh people around the world
www.culturecolony.com
an-Aesthetic
a Hybrid exhibition at tactileBOSCH Cardiff
11th May to 31st May 2008
Private View: Saturday 10th May 6.30 – 9.00pm
Curated by Mandee Gage
with Mandee Gage, Anna Dumitriu, Angela Rumble, David Jane, Myrtle Clark Bremer, Heather Barnett, Andrew Cooper, David Cushway
New Sensations Symposium – Art, Science and Healthcare
31st May 2008 10am – 5pm
tactileBOSCH gallery, Andrews Road, Cardiff CF11 6LH
Tel: 07951 256255 / 02920 384959
www.tactilebosch.org / www.hybrid-art.org
One year anniversary of Framewok Social
For this special Framework Social we are putting together a 'best of' which celebrates the success of the event and gives thanks to those who have contributed over the past year. Featuring performance work, poetry, the ever compulsory Bingo and a special birthday song written by the Social's favourite, Joan Jones. Plus a buffet!
with: Esther Pilkington, Gareth Llyr Evans
Tuesday May 6th, 7.30pm St.James Social Club St.James Crescent, Swansea
£3 entry (to cover the cost of the event)
http://www.axisweb.org/artist/framework
John Court [Finland] ART TRA Sat. 3rd May 2008 duration performance 11.00 - 19.00
ART TRA will be a durational piece of 8 hours that expresses physically the frustration and confusion dyslexia causes for me. It will be a continuation of the body of work I have produced over the last ten years as a performance artist using the materials of traditional image making from the history of art: pencils, erasers, paper and paint.
Instead of a conventional statement, I am submitting an illustration of dyslexia: all and any of these permutations of the word art can appear to be identical to someone who suffers from dyslexia.
4th - 31st May 2008 installation exhibition [call for appointment]
TRACE: Installaction Artspace 26 Moira Place Cardiff CF24 0ET
t: +44 [0] 2920 407338 www.tracegallery.org
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 'Cyber/Stage - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales'
New Platforms :: Convergence, CYFRWNG 2008 CONFERENCE, Aberystwyth University, National Library Of Wales, 2 May 2008 11.45am
Llwyfannau Newydd :: Cydgyfeiriant, CYNHADLEDD CYFRWNG 2008, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 2 Mai 2008 - 11.45am
http://www.cyfrwng.com/e/conference/
Ground: Kathryn Ashill & Owen Griffiths
Oriel Lliw Gallery, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea
Curated by Tim Davies
This exhibition is the first in an ongoing and
evolving project that draws together young and
emerging artists whose work in some way responds to
the natural or built environment.
Private view on Friday 2nd May 7 - 9pm.
The exhibition continues until 31st May.
