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ArtWash

ArtWash is an Oxford based artist led platform in a working laundrette. The non-conventional space of a launderette provides a site-specific venue for contemporary arts. ArtWash was developed in 2003, offering an opportunity for artists to show work to an audience and giving a platform for completed work and work in progress. On a non-profit basis. ArtWash [ READ MORE ]

PHOTOMONTH 09

PHOTOMONTH 09 is a photographic feast. Discover over 150 exhibitions and events in more than 85 galleries and spaces across East London and the City. Major artists exhibiting this year include Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Jenny Matthews, Nadav Kander, Terry O’Neill, Tom Hunter and Sophie Calle, with many exciting emerging artists who have chosen to [ READ MORE ]

The Free Art Fair

50 acclaimed artists give away their works for free in the last ever Free Art Fair Returning for the third and final time during Frieze week, The Free Art Fair promises to be bigger, better and more fun than ever. Staged at the Barbican Centre, The Free Art Fair will use the format of a curated [ READ MORE ]

Call for artists to exhibit: Ropetackle Art Fair 09

Call for artists to exhibit: Ropetackle Art Fair 09 This exciting exhibition gives artists the opportunity to show and sell their work. This is an ideal occasion for artists to promote themselves, meet the public, new audiences, and make contacts with potential customers, art collectors, exhibitors, and commissioners. We welcome work of any medium including painting, photography, [ READ MORE ]

SUSPENSE London Puppetry Festival

SUSPENSE London Puppetry Festival 30 October – 8 November 2009 SUSPENSE London Puppetry Festival ‘09 is the first festival of puppetry to take place across London for over 25 years.  All the work programmed is for adults.  Over 10 days a range of performances, masterclasses and symposia will take place at 7 venues across the capital. SUSPENSE will explode [ READ MORE ]

“The Jerusalem Syndrome”

Jerusalem, Palestine The Jerusalem Show 09: “The Jerusalem Syndrome” Location: Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, New Gate, Old City, Jerusalem Dates: October 11th – 20th, 2009 Info: www.almamalfoundation.org Between fifty and two hundred travelers, pilgrims, and tourists, every year are affected by the “syndrome”, believing they are Virgin Mary or the Messiah. They are walking around the city, trying to [ READ MORE ]

The last week gallery opening show

The last week gallery is a project initiated to offer artists at the beginning of their carrier the opportunity to present their work in spaces whose original purpose was outside of presenting art works. The opening show “Cotall 61” features the work of ten artists in a squatted flat in East London that is currently in [ READ MORE ]

GRAEME MILLER Bassline: London

Bassline is a major video and audio installation created for specific spaces, in which a series of projections reveal the immediate landscape as seen by a chain of 15 walkers. See and hear the recorded testimonies of 15 local participants based on their journey around the Barbican complex with a double-bassist. These moving and intimate accounts [ READ MORE ]

STATION HOUSE OPERA Dominoes

STATION HOUSE OPERA Dominoes East London 26 Jul 2009 Station House Opera’s commission for CREATE09 links the five ‘host’ boroughs of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, taking as its starting point the simplest of ideas… a line of dominoes. On Sunday 26th July, thousands of concrete blocks will be used to create a moving sculpture along a 15-kilometre [ READ MORE ]

WHY I DON’T HATE WHITE PEOPLE

LEMN SISSAY WHY I DON’T HATE WHITE PEOPLE 2009 He didn’t know a black person until he was eighteen. It wasn’t his fault. They just thought it was better that way. He spent most of his adult life searching for his family who were black like him. It’s a story explored in his previous award winning play Something [ READ MORE ]