June Newsletter
Lighthouse News
1. Artists’ talk - Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
2. In My Shoes - Research Project
3. Introduction to Script Development
4. Digital Media Arts MA
Regional News
1. Invite - Digital Media Design Graduate Show
2. The Space with Bonnie Greer & Nitin Sawhney
3. Write, Direct + Shoot Films Weekender - June 20 /21
4. Creative Partnerships Opportunities
5. Last Chance to Apply for £20,000 REAL WORLD Award
6. Short Films Wanted
7. Canterbury Anifest Call for Entries - Grand Prize £1,000
8. Pecha Kucha Brighton - Vol.2
9. Permanent Film Night - Wednesday 3 June
10. Chair of the Board of Trustees - South East Dance - Brighton
11. Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2009
Lighthouse News
1. Artists’ talk - Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt Thursday 11 June 09
Doors: 6:15pm
Artist Talk: 6:30pm
Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: FREE
Semiconductor make moving image works which reveal the physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Since 1999 UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have worked with digital animation to transcend the constraints of time, scale and natural forces to explore the world beyond human experience, questioning our very existence.
Interested in the possibilities of the computer as an artistic tool they have brought a sculptural approach to each work, exploring both the physicality of the medium and the data as material to reflect on the physical world around them.
More recently they have combined these approaches with ideas of natural philosophy to find a place where science and art meet. Their current research interests explore the process of making sense of the physical world through science, and how this process relates to our actual experience of the perceivable world.
More:www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/artisttalk_semiconductor.htm
2. In My Shoes - Research Project
In My Shoes is a research project for the development of 'wearable film', screen-based performance that seemingly places the viewer within someone else's body - the performer's. In the next few weeks Sam Pearson and Clara Garcia Fraile (Parachutes and Puzzles) will be in residence at the studios of Blast Theory exploring this illusion of "body swapping" and its poetic, narrative and choreographic potential. The project aims to prompt reflection on the role of the body in our media-inundated world and on how this mediation affects our definition of 'self' and our relation to our surroundings.
Ultimately, In My Shoes investigates a model of audiovisual media where the separation between live and screen, viewing space and showing space, viewer and spectacle is reduced to create a hybrid situation of mixed reality and fiction.
The outcomes of this research will be presented at Lighthouse in an end of residency talk (date tbc.), where prototypes of the work will be piloted. Please visit the project website for more information and leave your comments and feedback in the project blog: www.parachutesandpuzzles.com
If you would like to participate in a testing session, email: info@parachutesandpuzzles.com
3. Introduction to Script Development
Length: 2 days (Saturdays)
Times: 10am - 5pm
Dates: 27th June & 4th July 09
Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Tutor: Julie Everton
Cost: £130 (full) £100 (concessions)
This course is designed for people who are interested in starting or building their careers as script readers or script developers. It is also suitable for writers, producers or directors interested in learning how to best work with a script to maximise its inherent potential.
More: www.lighthouse.org.uk/opportunity/script_development.htm
4. Digital Media Arts MA
This course is delivered at the University of Brighton and at Lighthouse. Work at Lighthouse bridges the arts, education and industry sectors, bringing together professional and cultural organisations and individuals, not only across the region but internationally. The course has been developed in the context of Brighton’s status as one of the main centres of the media economy. It provides the production skills and develops the individual approaches and bodies of work required for success in this fast-moving competitive industry, as well as exploring the increasingly important areas of education and convergence. Applications for the course starting in September 2009 are being accepted now.
More: www.lighthouse.org.uk/opportunity/digitalmedia.htm
Regional News
1. Invite - Digital Media Design Graduate Show
Students at City College Brighton & Hove / Brighton University would like to invite you to the FdA / BA Top -Up Digital Media Design graduate show. The show provides an ideal opportunity for visitors to discover the next generation of creative designers and developers that the South East has to offer. The show will feature works across the full digital media spectrum and will include moving image, animation, illustration and graphic design. Opening times:
Thursday 4th June 6-9pm (private view)
Friday 5th June 10am-5pm Saturday 6th June 12-4pm
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
2. The Space with Bonnie Greer & Nitin Sawhney
Meet an incredible musician and a major arts figure with some amazing raffle prizes. The Space (Southern Performance and Creative Energies), Brighton's monthly unique arts and media event, will be returning on Tuesday June 2nd when Briggy Smale welcomes one of Britain's most respected and acclaimed musicians, Nitin Sawhney and writer and broadcaster Bonnie Greer. Latest Music Bar, doors open 7:00 for 7:30 start. Admission is £5 / £3.
More:www.thespace.me.uk
3. Write, Direct + Shoot Films Weekender - June 20 /21
Two practical intensive film workshops held over one intensive weekend in a film studio in central Brighton. At the end of the weekend, you will have written and directed a short film script and also directed a scene from a Hollywood movie on camera with professional actors, with the DVD to prove it. Not bad for a weekend's work! The workshops are complimentary but can be booked separately. No previous experience needed just a desire to write and direct great films! Run by the writer director team behind CREDO, an indie feature film recently released by a Hollywood Studio and now on sale in the UK (visit: www.credothemovie.com) Sat 20 June: Write + Direct Day! Cost: £85 Sun 21 June: Direct + Shoot Day! Cost: £100 Only 8 places availanle - to book booth workshops: £175 (£150 with discount!) Location: Brighton Media Centre Film Studio, 15 -17 Middle Street, Brighton BN1 1AL For more information & to book: www.altofilms.com Or email: info@altofilms.com Or telephone Toni Harman on 07770 794233
4. Creative Partnerships Opportunities
Creative Partnerships are seeking Creative Practitioners to work with schools their Creative Partnerships Enquiry Schools projects. Schools include: Cardinal Newman Primary School, Hersham / Christ Church Infant School, Virginia Water / Sythwood Primary School, Woking / The Hythe Community School, Staines / Pond Meadow School, Guildford.
For further details contact: Kristina Sekyere, Programme Coordinator, Creative Partnerships, Sussex and Surrey 12 Claremont Hastings TN34 1HA T: 01424 719634 E: kristina.sekyere@cceengland.org
www.creative-partnerships.com
5. Last Chance to Apply for £20,000 REAL WORLD Award
Friday 5 June is the last chance to apply for the £20,000 Real World award to create a 20-minute short documentary film, along with a three minute and a thirty second film. The award will be given to an innovative documentary filmmaker from the Screen South region (the South East of England) to make a film aimed at a global audience and based on the themes of rights, power and change in women’s and men’s lives. The award is sponsored by Screen South and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Real World is a unique collaboration between IDS’ Pathways of Women’s Empowerment research programme and Screen South. The project will support the talent and skills of the region’s new and existing filmmaking talent, to influence the next generation of documentary filmmakers and give them access to new research that explores what it is that brings about positive social change in favour of greater equality and justice for all.
Guidelines and application forms are available from the Screen South (www.screensouth.org) and IDS (www.ids.ac.uk) websites.
6. Short Films Wanted
On June 18th Brighton filmmaker Peter Booth has a preview screening of his feature 'Brighton Born & Dead', cert 18. This will be screening at the Sallis Benney Theatre in Brighton from 8pm. He has 30 minutes of screen time to fill before the feature and is looking for content. There is no charge for the screen time and all that is asked in return is that you buy a ticket or two and support the event.
Please contact Gavin for more information: gomr007@btinternet.com
7. Canterbury Anifest Call for Entries - Grand Prize £1,000
For the first time Canterbury Anifest will be bringing you the best new animation from across the nation in their competitive shorts screening . They will also be exploring new technologies and will be joined by a host of industry professionals to share their experiences and discuss what's hot and what’s not in 2009. To enter your film or for more information please visit: www.canterburyanifest.com Don't forget about the Smallfilms Competeition too (Entrants for Smallfilms must be 17 years of age or under) Canterbury Animation Festival 7-8 November 2009 Competition Closes 30 September 2009
Terms and Conditions apply please see website for details or contact: michelle.moubarak@canterbury.gov.uk
8. Pecha Kucha Brighton - Vol.2
Follwoing the succes of the first Pecha Kucha night in Brighton the 2nd Pecha Kucha night Vol.2 is announced and will take place on Thursday 25th June at The Redroaster Coffee House, 1d St James’s Street, Brighton, Doors open 7.45pm, Start 8.20pm, £3 entry door sales, Bar available. Come early as the first event sold out. Info for presenters and audience visit: www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/brighton or email pknbrighton@gmail.com
9. Permanent Film Night - Wednesday 3 June
8pm (Doors 7.30pm)
£4/£3 concessions (students and NVT members)
At: New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place
‘Modern Times’ (1936, 87 mins), by Charlie Chaplin and ‘One Week’ (1920, 19 mins) by Buster Keaton. Modern Times is a comedic portrayal of the industrialised work place as experienced by Charlie Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp character. Chaplin plays an assembly line worker who undergoes a breakdown after being subjected to a number of adverse situations involving being force-fed by a “modern” feeding machine and an ever accelerating assembly line. The film follows his struggle to keep up with the absurdities and pressures of modern working life. One Week is a short comedy directed by and staring Buster Keaton in which he experiences calamitous set-backs while attempting to build a flat-pack house for his new bride, Sybil Seely. This films in this screening were selected by Ocean Mims to accompany his current exhibition at Permanent Gallery, Things for Here, Now and There, 2 May-7 June 2009. In association with cinematheque.
www.permanentgallery.com
10. Chair of the Board of Trustees - South East Dance - Brighton
Dynamic Chair sought to work with new CEO to lead SED through its next exciting stage of development.
Voluntary role (expenses paid).
More information at:
www.southeastdance.org.uk/jobvacancies.htm / 01273 696844.
Deadline: 12pm, Tuesday 30 June
11. Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2009
28 Aug - 30 Sept 2009
Get involved! - Coastal Currents celebtrates its 10th anniversary this year and is focusing on visual arts and moving image work from artists in Hastings and across the South East. Calling all artists proposals for temporary interventions in empty commercial spaces and work within the public realm across Hastings and Rother. This year’s theme is ‘Hidden Hastings’ which aims to peel back the layers of creativity and the unique spaces in the town to make the hidden Hastings visible and vibrant. We are open to discuss proposals for visual art, live arts/ music, performance and interactive public events. If you run a gallery space, project space or are an individual that has a suitable event scheduled for Sept 2009 please get in touch and we can discuss it's possible integration into the Coastal Currents Festival 2009. The Open Studios programme will run throughout September: 5/6 & 12/13 Sept - Hastings & St Leonards 12/13 & 19/ 20 Sept - Rother
For details on participating and volunteering or to receive an application form for Open Studios, please email Creative Coast at mail@thecreativecoast.co.uk Deadline for receipt of proposals and application forms: Saturday 6 June.
www.coastalcurrents.org.uk
www.thecreativecoast.co.uk
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