Rhythm and Muse
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Literature, Live Music on July 26th, 2010
Several years ago, Rhythm and Muse toured 8 festivals and 5 arts centres over a period of one year. They have been asked to get back together again and will be appearing at St Mary De Lode church, Gloucester, for the Three Choirs Festival on Friday 13th August at 10.15pm.
An exciting and unusual evening combining the awesome talents of international guitarist Rick Payne with the relevant and irreverent verse of the star of the roaring boy world of performance poetry, Peter Wyton.
Slide guitar maestro Rick Payne’s performances have taken him to prime time TV, to festivals and theatres throughout UK and on tour to Europe, USA, Scandinavia and the Greek Islands.
Reviewers have described his sound as: heart wrenching and passionate, delicate and scorching, seriously brilliant, totally absorbing and spellbindingly evocative with raw and fiery vocals to match.
Peter Wyton has twice been nominated for the Forward Book Of Poetry, appearing in it in 1997 alongside Seamus Heaney, U. A. Fanthorpe and Ruth Padel. He has appeared at events as diverse as Cheltenham Literature Festival and Glastonbury, Radio 4 and Oxford TV delighting everyone from formalists to the avant-garde. Reviewed as; ready with irony, riddled with word play, acute with enquiry and a real writer with something to say; often something uniquely skewed. He writes with economy and wit.
Each is widely known as a solo artist. As the duo Rhythm And Muse they mix their solo work with collaborations of both arts. The music encompasses Celtic, traditional American folk, mediaeval, Spanish and of course blues and ragtime. The poetry ranges from the reflective to the hilariously funny and always has a cutting edge.
‘Just brilliant – nicely put together, lots of laughter with honest and well thought out perceptions of life intertwined with some great music. This partnership is destined for much higher things. ‘The Lowdown’
www.myspace.com/peterwytonpoet
Tickets available from the Three Choirs Festival Office – 0845 652 1823
Get creative in Campden
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events, Poetry on July 7th, 2010
Creative Campden presents a rich diversity of creative talent for you to visit and enjoy. Artists, writers, jewellers, photographers and musicians are amongst the many to whom Chipping Campden is home. The second Discover Creative Campden Weekend will be held from 17th – 19th September 2010, with plenty to see and do and events to attend. More activities are being planned so do keep a close eye on our website – www.creativecampden.co.uk.
Some of the events will be free to enter at any time; others will be by ticket only. The suggested starting point for your Discover Creative Campden Weekend is the exhibition of works by members in the Upper Town Hall. Here you will get a glimpse of the creativity which exists in Chipping Campden. But this is just a taster; to really appreciate both the weekend and the creativity visit the open studios and other events and to be announced in a creative trail around Chipping Campden. On Saturday you can enjoy teas, coffees and light lunches, together with some crafts in action by Chipping Campden’s Country Markets, in the Lower Town Hall.
Events include Abstract Art is Rubbish, Creative Cows, Chocolate Workshop, Made in Campden, Throw Your Own Pot, Painting in Action, and many more.
Painted Quartets Exhibition
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Classical Music, Events on July 2nd, 2010
The Painted Quartets exhibition — specially commissioned to mark the bi-centenary year of composer Joseph Haydn’s birth, and so well received at last year’s HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival — is being auctioned between July 2nd and 17th. It is a rare opportunity to purchase some exceptional and collectable pieces, from artists such as PJ Crook, Mila Judge-Furstova, Ana Bianchi, Gillian Lever, Lincoln Seligman and the designer Cath Kidston. Beneficiaries of the sale of the painted violins, violas and cellos are principally the National Star College in Cheltenham, together with Cheltenham Festival’s education programme.
The silent auction will run for the duration of the exhibition, which will be showing for the last time at the Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, during this year’s music festival.
Opportunities to view the work before bidding will be on Parabola performance days (30 minutes before and after each concert starts and ends). Private views can be arranged on concert days, if you are unable to attend during these times and have a serious intent in one or more of the instruments.
Bidding forms will be available at the Parabola Arts Centre or online. For further information and regular, highest-bidder updates, go to: cheltenhamfestivals.com/paintedquartets .
Wear your art on your sleeve
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on June 21st, 2010
This August Painswick is holding its second Arts Festival, which will coincide with the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen’s annual summer exhibition which has been a feature in Painswick for some decades.
As a way of launching the Festival the village streets will be closed for a parade of extraordinary creations designed to excite our imagination, and the event starting at 12pm will be compeered by well known actor Keith Allen. The models will be twirling to music by local composer Jacqueline Kroft, and the creations judged by celebrities in the world of art and fashion Dan Chadwick and Selina Blow.
The winning entries will be displayed in shop windows in Painswick throughout the month of August. During August there will be exhibitions and open studios throughout Painswick.
What on earth is wearable art you may ask? It is the interpretation of one of the 3 chosen themes to create an extravagant, imaginative, bizarre, and maybe humorous but yet wearable creation with a real show stopping quality.
The themes for this year are:-
LAMB TO LOOM
QUEEN OF THE COTSWOLDS
POWER DRESSING (to reflect sustainable energy)
There will be categories for Primary schools, Secondary schools, College/Fashion/art students, Individual artists & Veterans.
There will be some very generous prizes to entice participants in the various categories, including work placements for art/fashion students, designer fabric, and some sizeable cash prizes, to name only a few.
Entry free if registered before June 1st; £10 between June 1st & July 2nd (entries close July 2nd).
For more details on participating, contact libbygraesser@clara.co.uk
Sotheby’s at Sudeley
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on June 18th, 2010
Sotheby’s is delighted to announce a new and exciting collaboration with Sudeley Castle with an inaugural selling exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary design to be staged in the spectacular grounds of the estate. The Sotheby’s selling exhibition, arranged in association with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, will showcase a series of one-off and limited edition pieces by leading contemporary artists and designers including Marc Quinn, Lionel Scoccimaro, Pablo Reinoso, Marcel Wanders, Jurgen Bey, Wendell Castle, Robert Stadler, Vincent Dubourg and Ingrid Donat, as well as the design ateliers Studio Job, Demakersvan and Atelier Van Lieshout.
Our personal favourite is the Wellness Skull by Atelier Van Lieshout. The human skull - a universal symbol for knowledge & wisdom – is transformed into a centre for indulgence & relaxation, housing a sauna, bath & shower, delivering a dramatic haze of steam from the eye sockets on the outside.
The exhibition runs until 1st August 2010 www.sudeleycastle.co.uk
Summer in Gloucester
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Film, Food, Live Music, Theatre on June 18th, 2010
With over 30 great events happening this summer in Gloucester you can experience fireworks, live music, carnival, open air cinema and theatre, sport, family fun days, exhibitions, motorcycle and car shows, choral and blues festivals and even a real beach all bringing the city to life by day and by night.
July sees Open Air Theatre, Gloucester Carnival & the World Together Festival, whilst August includes Volleyball, Witches & Wizards, Seaside Fun and a celebration of Jamaican Independence Day.
Find out more at www.thecityofgloucester.co.uk/site/whats-on/summer-in-gloucester
Stroud Pharma’s Market
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events on June 16th, 2010
Pharma’s Market is a flower and produce show by Cleo Mussi at The Museum in the Park Gallery, Stroud. The culmination of a two-year research project exploring the contrasting imagery of historical and contemporary farming, the exhibition connects traditional ideas about food, agriculture and animal husbandry with modern developments in stem cell research and genetic modification.
‘Pharma’s Market’ is a mosaic installation exploring the contrasting imagery of historical and contemporary farming. Although the setting of the exhibition is a traditional agricultural fair, visitors will experience an exhibition with a distinctly contemporary twist. Cleo Mussi has an engaging story to tell, and her characters, from life-sized ‘robo-rabbits’ to ‘space scientists’ and ‘bucolic farmers’, all jostle for their part in the plot. Her mosaics are made from recycled china, and her stories are derived from the real world of science and medicine, albeit reconstructed through the process of her own particular visual imagination and surreal sense of humour.
Illustrated Talk by Cleo Mussi - Saturday 10th July at 2.30pm – tickets £4
‘Meet the Artist’ (Cleo Mussi) drop in event for families on Sunday 11th July, 2pm – 4pm
To book call: 01453 763394 www.museuminthepark.org.uk
Between 2 shores
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events on June 1st, 2010
The spaces along the two shores of Britain’s longest river provide the subject for the ‘Between 2 shores’ exhibition, hosted at the Old Passage Inn from 1st to 31th July. Included are works by photographers, painters, sculptors, ceramacists and printmakers who respond to the area’s landscape and the communities who make their living in this beautiful, fragile and volatile area.
River Severn ‘Art Walk’ - guided, creative walks with Walking the Land – Friday 11th June & Saturday 19th June.
As you photograph and sketch, our Walking the Land artists will offer creative guidance about subject choice, technique and process.
As I Walked Out…
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events on May 25th, 2010
‘As I Walked Out’ is an eight week journey with four donkeys, chickens, carts, children, young people and nationally commissioned artists and writers travelling on foot across the six districts of Gloucestershire.
Along the way there will be six public weekend events, one in each district. At each site there will be art workshops, guided walks, donkey grooming, and opportunities to camp.
We’d love you to join us for one or more of these activities or go the whole hog and volunteer to walk a leg of the journey with us.
Weekend Dates:
Stroud
Westley Farm, Chalford GL6 8HP. 26th – 27th June 2010
Cotswolds
Cotswold Forest School, Spine Road East, Cotswold Water Park. 3rd – 4th July 2010
Cheltenham
Cheltenham Race Course GL50 4SH. 17th – 18th July 2010
(Priority Booking for disabled young people and their families)
Tewkesbury
Nature in Art, Twigworth GL2 9PA. 23rd – 24th July 2010
Gloucester
Over Farm, Gloucester GL2 8DB. 30th – 31st July 2010
Forest of Dean
Millers Farm, Blakeney GL15 4AP. 14th – 15th August 2010
‘As I Walked Out’ is part of Gloucestershire’s cultural Olympiad programme of events, sponsored by Gloucestershire County and District Councils. For more details see www.asiwalkedout.com.
Portraits in the Cotswolds
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Events on May 20th, 2010
3 day painting workshop with Mike Skidmore in Fairford, Gloucestershire – Portraits in oils using glaze and impasto techniques.
New to portraits or simply wanting to explore fresh techniques, this three day, step by step workshop is right for you. Conducted in a positive, fun and non-judgemental way, you will gain confidence and be enthused by what you can achieve with a little help and encouragement.
Day 1: Discuss your work and ambitions followed by a demonstration showing preparation, drawing techniques and fixing. You will then prepare your canvas and produce a drawing ready for the next stage in the process.
Day 2: Slide show, talk and discussion on portrait techniques followed by a demonstration showing glazing methods. You will then work on your own painting to produce a tonal picture, using glazes, in readiness for colour.
Day 3: Interactive session to explore painting styles followed by a demonstration showing colour mixing and impasto techniques. You will then complete your portrait!
Worskhops are running on May 26th – 28th, June 23rd – 25th and July 28th – 30th.
For more information contact Cathy Shaw on: 01367 252 206 or email: cathy@mike-skidmore.com.