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Nathan Pendlebury now has a limited number of calendars available. Wall calendars are just £9.99, and desk calendars are just £4.99. They can each be viewed at his website with the following link.
http://www.erpenstudios.co.uk/shop.htm

Delighted to see Birgit is the artist of the month (Nov 08) on the Axisweb website for her 'Dungbeetle and Sisyphus' video which was on show earlier in the Independents.
Part two can be seen tonight as part of the 'Slowness' show at Red Wire.

Good idea if he doesn't get charged with littering or something. Anyone want to try this in Liverpool?

ONE thousand artworks worth an estimated £1million will be scattered across the streets of London tonight for the public to take free.

In one of the biggest street art exhibitions the capital has seen, Adam Neate will distribute the paintings from 8pm across all 33 local authorities.

The 31-year-old artist said the A3 size works will be left at landmarks as well as in "nooks and crannies" and he does not expect them to be found until tomorrow morning.

Neate, from West Ham, has been involved in similar projects before. "In the past I've given away around 1,000 of my paintings each year so 1,000 on one night is a big task," he said. "This has always been a dream of mine to do an exhibition across London."

Neate will join a team of 20 in distributing the autographed printed works, which all feature the same image but have a different combination of printing and stamping.

In recent years his work has featured in Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in the West End where his pieces have fetched up to £43,000 each.

But his roots lie in creating paintings and sculptures designed for towns and cities. Neate said: "I first began giving away my artwork when I lived in Ipswich eight years ago. I painted quite a lot and had so many in my flat I just decided to put them out on the street for people to take.

"When I moved to London, I did the same thing on a bigger scale. It's like a surreal gallery."

The former internet designer, who now paints full-time, added: "Art should be a gift, free and fun for people to enjoy. That's what this project aims to achieve. I hope people take them home, but whatever they want to do with the works is their own business."

Neate's street art pieces are selling at auctions for between £2,000 and £15,000. His paintings use recycled cardboard boxes as canvases and have been acclaimed for their complex layering and bold use of paint.

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The Arts Council NW art08 awards this evening was good fun and all went well at the Novas CUC venue. There was music from DJ Dave Haslam and aerial dance from Wired Aerial Theatre (I missed that though) then the awards ceremony was hosted by Dave Spikey who was very funny. Sense of Sound also performed before and after the ceremony.

The big prize of £10,000 went to Paul Hartley who develops and delivers inspirational, sustainable and creative young people's engagement programmes, raising aspiration and a true youth voice.

Paul also won the prize in the 'Unsung Heroes' category.
Other prizewinners were the Bluecoat with Yorkshire Bank for its Shine project winning the Creative Sparks Award which celebrates innovative partnerships between the business and arts sectors.
Conceptual artist Naomi Kashiwagi from Manchester won the Artist Award.
Manchester International Festival got the 'Putting the North West on the Map' category for its opera 'Monkey - Journey to the West'
and Lancaster's Nuffield Theatre scooped the Inside Outside Online Award for its experiment in programming.

www.artscouncil.org.uk/art08

HURRY!!! LIMITED TICKETS AND OPPORTUNITY!!!

Dollman's Hairy Abigail's Party
and Shaun Duggan's Drama Queen After Show Party

Saturday 15th November 2008, 8.30 pm - 2.00 am.

Upper Space
Static
Roscoe Lane
Off Berry Street
Liverpool

Tickets: £5.00
To book tickets email dollmandisco@hotmail.com
www.garysollars.co.uk

Graphic design by Sean Kenny.

I was only saying just the other day that I hadn't heard of any of these courses at FACT for a very long time. They must have heard me. The courses are always very popular so BOOK NOW!

New Tools 2008
-- MITES launch arts training and development courses for artists
taught by experts -- beginning in December 2008 --

New Tools 2008 offers a series of exciting courses aimed at creative types - focusing on up to date
New Media technologies…with more courses to be announced in 2009.

Aftereffects
Tutor: Gina Czarnecki / 05 December 2008 / £50 (+ VAT)
Produce creative visual effects and motion graphics at a high industry
standard…Artist Gina Czarnecki leads this one day introduction to Aftereffects for artists and
creative professionals. Incorporating demonstrations of the creative possibilities offered by this
powerful software tool.

Arduino
Tutor: Spencer Roberts / 06 & 07 December 2008 / £100 (+ VAT)
This Arduino workshop is intended for artists, designers or anyone
interested in creating interactive objects or environments…The two day course
is intended as a primer for using the Arduino development board. It focuses upon reading output
from sensors and making use of this information in an installation arts context. The theme of
communication is then developed further - information is passed between computers to
choreograph/synchronise images displayed on multiple computer screens.

openFrameworks
Tutor: Steve Symons / 15 & 16 December 2008 / £100 (+ VAT)
Enables artists, designers and hackers alike to easily create complex
onscreen and physical real space interactions…openFrameworks is a crossplatform
C++ library for creative coding which offers a free and very powerful alternative to
existing software such as Flash, Director, Processing or even MAX/MSP. This two day practice
based workshop is designed for creative practitioners who have some knowledge of programming and want to take this to the next level.

What you will need: all courses are suitable for beginners or those who already have some
experience with these technologies and please bring some of your own artworks as examples.
For further information call Claudia Lastra on (0151) 707 4433 or email: mites@fact.co.uk

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ www.fact.co.uk

SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR CHAMBER ARTS AWARD

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce today announced the shortlist for its first Arts Award. The award is designed to reward the company or organisation who funded the best publicly available art in Liverpool in the last five years.

After several hours of intense discussion and visits the judges; Lewis Biggs Director of Liverpool Biennial, Brenda Parkerson, Business Development Manager of Arts & Business, John Entwistle, sponsor and Christoph Grunenberg Director of Tate Gallery Liverpool short-listed four pieces that have been sited in public areas of the city in the past few years. The finalists are;

Beetham Organisation for Face of the City a collaborative art and landscape project, situated in Old Hall Street. The judges liked the ambitious nature of the project.

Beetham Organisation for Skyline by Oliver Barratt positioned on the Strand. The judges admired the company’s desire to commission this piece of art after admiring the artist’s work.

Liverpool Cathedral for For You by Tracy Emin, RA. located within the cathedral. The neon work was the outcome of a courageous collaboration, producing a very bold artwork.

Liverpool Echo for Warlock Sheppard Memorial on Hope Street by Stephen Broadbent paid for in part by public subscription, it features subject matter is very close to the collective heart of the city.

The award sponsor, John Entwistle commented: “I’m very keen that this competition encourages the tradition of patronage of the arts in Liverpool .I hope it will take place every two years and the judging panel will continue to see work of the quality that they have seen today.”

The overall winner will be announced at Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner on 20th November.

Liverpool artwork of the week 43 - 'Ubuntu' by Donna Berry in Liverpool International Artists exhibition at Novas CUC. 20 September to 15 November 2008

An interesting intallation made from tobacco leaves. This exhibition ends on Saturday 15 November - don't miss it.

Donna's work utilises the commonplace, mass materials and manipulates volume, form, construction and location to re-enforce the parallels between the material and context as they serve to substantiate one another.

This installation is a masquerade mask and mythical Sankofa bird constructed in tobacco leaves highlighting an historical anomaly: tobacco once being considered a more precious commodity than that of human life itself.

Liverpool International Artists at Novas CUC

From Culturepool...

As promised, here are the exciting details of our event on Sunday 16th November 2008!!! Our autumn days have been a bit chilly of late but we think we’ve got just the thing to warm the cockles of your culturepool hearts & minds….. and it’s all FREE

culturepool will be presenting music, theatre and discussion at the Atelier Bow Wow – Rockscape from 12pm. The Rockscape is an open air amphitheatre built as part of the Biennial in the heart of the city on the corner of Renshaw/Leece and Berry St

Mellowtone (who many of you will be familiar with from our birthday party) have organised for some of the best acoustic music in the city to play from 12pm.

Then at 1pm L.A.X. Theatre Company will perform their production of the modern classic The Zoo Story, a one act play by one of America’s pre-eminent playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf) about the confrontation between two characters on a park bench in Central Park.

We’ll then follow the play with a discussion with actor and director Paul Fred Kelly and actor Reg Edwards. After that there’ll be more music and we’ll finish off with a philosophical discussion about Public Art organised by Liverpool’s own Philosophy In Pubs.

We hope you’ll all join us throughout the day to enjoy the melting pot of talent that will be bubbling in the city!

As always, if you’re not sure were of details or have any questions drop us an email or give us a call 0151 236 0796. Full details can be found at www.culturepool.org.uk/20081116 Bow Bow.htm

Vinny & Luan

www.culturepool.org.uk

0151 236 0796

Despite the noise Pt 2

David Goldenberg, a London based independent artist is organising a two day event at A foundation in the Artist anonymous installation.

Between Friday 21st November and Saturday 22nd November 2008.

Please see A foundation and http://www.postautonomy.co.uk websites for further details + attachments.

A request for assistants and participants

key to the project is that there are no longer artists and audiences only participants - Nor are there group or single exhibitions or obvious places for art.

To test out this proposition it is necessary to find people to help out with the project.

1) To assist or co-ordinate Future forum a project in parallel with art venues in Zurich
2) To co-ordinate a series of interventions around Liverpool in collaboration with the Swedish artist Per Huttner
3) To co-ordinate a series of on-line debates with Basekamp + friends in the United States, United Arab Emirates and Romania - to discuss different possible models of the art world + art in relationship to Globalisation.
4. Assist in filming the event

5) People to take part or take over the shaping of the project.

The event/activities is seen as a fluid scenario that will use artists anonymous installation as a backdrop. The scenario will be in the form of a script that can be used to shape an idea of activities that take place during the 2 days. Everyone who comes along will have a role in shaping this scenario/script and taking part in staging the scenario/script.

If you are interested in taking part please call A foundation on 07966690763 or email David Goldenberg on dged03@hotmail.com