Free Creative Media Workshops – Silicon Coast Project Bridport

http://www.siliconcoast-uk.net

are you aged 15 – 21?

do you live in or near Sherborne, Beaminster, Dorchester, Lyme Regis
or Bridport?

are you a creative person with great ideas?

would you like to learn new skills or use your existing knowledge to
create a new project for the web?

PVA MediaLab is looking for for people with creativity and enthusiasm
to work with artists making new video, audio and animation work for
the web.

for more information email your details to mailto:info@siliconcoast-uk.net
or text 07806 710661

workshops are FREE so you need to sign up SOON! visit
http://www.siliconcoast-uk.net for more information.

Invitation to Private View at Persistence Works

Please join us for the Private View of Sight/site Seeing
Friday 6th October, 6pm-8pm

Sight/ site Seeing

Mel Booth

An exhibition of photo-digital work at Persistence Works.
26th- 18th October

Mel Booth takes the photographic memories of the sights visited during a
trip to Rome as his starting point, and builds them up into glorious
fragmentary and multi-layered images.
Many of the most famous landmarks of the “eternal city” are transformed into
overlapping, colourful and intriguing iconic sites.
The exhibition is part of the city-wide Illuminate Festival celebrations.

Vessel

Roger Gibson and Richard Bolam

A Light Night installation at Persistence Works on Friday 6th October 2006
8.30pm – 10.30pm

Yorkshire ArtSpace Society is celebrating Illuminate Festival’s “Light
Night” with a specially commissioned light installation by Roger Gibson and
Richard Bolam.
Their creative collaboration, Vessel, will be shown on Light Night only from
8.30pm to 10.30pm and forms part of the region and city-wide festivities.

Bolam and Gibson use a nautical analogy when describing their installation:
“Persistence Works viewed from the front resembles an ocean liner with its
curved ‘bow’ and row of porthole-like windows.
Our light installation seeks to convey both the individual creative journeys
of the inhabitants and the idea that they are sharing in a collective voyage
of discovery”

For further information on Light Night and Illuminate Festival activities
please visit their website at: http://www.illuminatefestival.com

Viv Mager
Yorkshire ArtSpace Society Ltd
Persistence Works
21 Brown Street
Sheffield
S1 2BS
0114 276 1769
mailto:viv@artspace.org.uk
http://www.artspace.org.uk

North East artists embrace Christian Aid

Several high profile artists from the North East have joined forces with Christian
Aid to hold an exhibition in Newcastle that will raise awareness and funds for
people living with HIV.

ArtAid: Embrace at The Art Works Galleries in the Ouseburn on 24-25 November 2006
will feature around 65 works by North East artists including Mary Ann Rogers,
Peter Flanagan and Enrique Azocar. There will be a public auction on the evening
of the 25th to raise money for Christian Aid’s HIV partner organisations in
Africa. Also on show, and for auction, will be the four sculptures made from
decommissioned guns for the BBC Ground Force Africa Garden and several works by
Matt Forster of The Art Works Galleries.

This is a very exciting event for Christian Aid in the North East’, said Kerry
Crellin, regional co-ordinator, who was inspired to set up the exhibition when
Chilean artist Enrique Azocar was her Spanish teacher at the Hexham campus of
Newcastle College.

“We hope to develop the project into next year with creative spin-offs in youth
and schools work and artists’ exchange visits between southern Africa and North
East England.”

Enrique created a new piece of work especially for the exhibition which he
described as much brighter than his usual work.

“I used bold colours and tried to create a lighter image than normal, because
Christian Aid is bringing light where there is not any. Being involved with
Christian Aid is important to me as they support those in need regardless of
creed. It is fascinating to make links with another culture while helping people
living with HIV in Africa through my art.”

For an invitation or further details please call 0191 228 0115 or email
mailto:kcrellin@christian-aid.org