Culture LAB with Oreet Ashery

Metal devised and hosted the second in our series of Culture LABS in October 2011 with the performance artist, Oreet Ashery.  The week-long, residential LAB held in Southend brought together live artists and stand up comedians to explore humour and the processes of developing work.  The LAB was facilitated by Oreet Ashery and Simon Poulter. Participating artists were Caroline Smith, Mem Morisson, Owen Parry, Scottee and Oriana Fox. Visiting comedians included Simon Munnery, Alex Horne, Shaista Aziz and Markus Birdman.

During the week a number of artists developed ideas for new projects.  These were presented to a number of invited guests at the end of the week and several of the projects have already gone into development.

See what the artists had to say at the end of the week:

Tomorrow, Thursday 27th Ocotber, is the next edition of Future Park artists evenings for meeting and sharing at Chalkwell Hall.

It's free to attend and starts at 8pm. For more information, see Future Park page.

Here are some photos from September's event, where several presenters discussed the role of art education:

We are working with The Academy of St Francis of Assissi to create a permanent artwork and community garden in collaboration with local people and schoolchildren to commemorate the Blitz. Everyone is welcome to get involved with the project. Come along to Edge Hill this Saturday at 10:30am to find out more then pop over to The Academy for a fun filled day and to generate some ideas for the space :-D

But before that. . . like the garden page on Facebook and prepare your green fingers

During our current exhibition STILL: Conflict, Conservation and Contemplation, we have hosted numerous visits from Primary Schools. Each group was given a tour of the exhibition and some took part in a paper marbling workshop. We loved how inquisitive and enthusiastic the children were. Here are some photos from a workshop with pupils from Whitefield Primary School.

Exhibition continues until Saturday 22nd October Tue - Fri 2-6pm Sat 12-4pm