Mothers 2009 - a photographic celebration of Hull’s cultural links with twin city Freetown, Sierra Leone, and sister cities, Szczecin, Poland and Reykjavik, Iceland.
At Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LB
22nd July to the 15th August 2009
From there it will tour to each city culminating in a final exhibition in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 2010.
Promoting International Development Through Photography
Download the PDF of Hull's annual twoweekends dance festival 2007 which took place on 9-11 & 16-18 November in various venues across Hull & Just Dance Autumn 2007 programme - both were organised by me!
The Wilberforce Women book of images and messages of Pride, Freedom, Belief and Change by the women of Hull and Freetown, Sierra Leone was launched to coincide with the month-long exhibition at Hull's Ferens Art Gallery last year which ran from Saturday 6th to 28th October.
The book is a strong and moving souvenir of Wilberforce 2007 and the bicentenary year of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade. The book is still on sale from the Ferens bookshop and the Hull Daily Mail reception on Beverley Road. Price £5 (£2 goes directly towards the Wilberforce Women 2008 projects - more details on request). Contact: wilberforcewomen@wtf.karoo.co.uk
Heroes
Eleven and a half tonnes of sand on a partially sprung dance floor...
In November 2007 I ran the twoweekends dance festival in Hull and managed an ambitious commission for a new dance piece called 'Make and Break and make again' organised and choreographed by Y Dance, Far Flung Dance Company and Sand in Your Eye. You can see two videos of the results of this commission which involved putting eleven and a half tonnes of sand onto the dance floor on youtube at:
I am working with errol white dance on projects and company development in contemporary dance. Check out their myspace here: errol white dance
From May - November 2008 I have been co-ordinating a large programme of music opportunities for young people aged 14-19 from Hull. The Youth Music Mentors project is run by Music4U - the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone in partnership with Hull Youth Development Service. Click below to go to Music4U 's youtube page to watch short films about some of the young people who have taken part in the project this year and what they have got out of it:
During Autumn 2008 I co-ordinated a large programme of World Music workshops and performances in the Humber region for Music4U - the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone. The project has been part of their BBC Blast work and tied in with the world music festival Musicport in Bridlington (17th-19th Oct) and with National Youth Music Week (25th Oct-1st Nov). Click below to watch a short film about the Musicport part of the project:
In Summer 2008 I co-ordinated a programme of Rock Music workshops and performances for young people aged 13-19 in the Humber region for Music4U - the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone. The work was part of the Music4U partnership with BBC Blast. Click below to watch a short video which captures the project:
See my blog for occassional bulletins of arts news and opportunities from the Yorkshire & Humber region.
I hope you find all this interesting! Please feel free to post a comment and let me know.
You may like to know I'm editing four other myspace pages for work. I'd be pleased if you'd check them out by clicking on:
Here is a slideshow of a project I worked on in September 2007 to put artworks by local artists in the windows of House of Fraser on Ferensway in Hull as part of their re-launch. If you'd like to do a similar project please contact me.
Who I'd like to meet: Arts people from Yorkshire & Humberside
Thanks for the request. Our new 16 track CD is now available, at a modest £5 per copy (plus P&P). And anyone interested in coming to find their voice or just have some fun harmony singing a variety of material can find us at Quaker Meeting House, Bean St., 7.30 to 9pm on Thursday evenings (in term time). Please come and join us ... Clare (Hull Community Voices)
the first of two special handmade evenings of contemporary music, sound & video art at the new ARTLINK gallery space on Princes Ave, Hull….
A return visit for Dale (who played a great set supporting Colleen earlier in the series), this time with cellist, Ute – they will create a new, unique set using small instruments & objects. Helena is one of the UK’s most promising electronic sound artists & her laptop based pieces have an organic fizz about them. If all that wasn’t enough we also have special permission from Ikue Mori, one of the worlds leading experimental musicians & visual artists, to screen a section of her new video piece which transforms ancient temple paintings….please come along to support seeds & bridges events….
audio extracts are available on the seeds & bridges myspace page & each artist’s own myspace (in our top friends list)….
Sign up for a special ticket offers for future events by sending an email to: tempjez@hotmail.com
do come along Sam.... seeds & bridges 2007 present
Support comes from Hull’s ‘The fifth columnists’ + part 3 of ‘east riding’ by Jez riley French – this time in the shape of a trio for field recordings & strings….
Sign up for a special ticket offer by sending an email to: tempjez@hotmail.com
Hi Sam, great news about the E-Bulletin, and thanks for the plug. The link seems to be broken though (too many www's in the URL I think) for Humber Mouth's Myspace!
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