07 Sep/10

CULTURE COLONY LAUNCH

Culture Colony Y Wladfa Newydd launch with additional events.

Admission and all Culture Colony activities are free of charge.

DISCUSSIONS

(Simultaneous translation will be available)

10:30 - 11:30 Documentation and the cultural record

Dr. Heike Roms (Lecturer in Performance Studies), Eluned Haf (Director, Wales Arts International) and Tom Payne (pioneer of the Payne Full Process - recording a more complete archive).

13:30 - 14:30 Galleries and the professional representation of artists

Kim Fielding (tactileBOSCH), Annabelle Shelton (artist), Rhys Mwyn (music management and promotion). Others TBA

15:30 - 16:30 Funding for the arts in times of austerity

Anders Pleass (Head of Exhibitions, The Mostyn), Others TBA

WORKSHOPS

11:45 - 12:15 How to use the Culture Colony On-Line service

A short practical guide to the functions of the web site. The creative application of the services available through the web site.

14:45 - 15:15 Culture Colony - the future!

Culture Colony will also announce our first collaboration with 'On The Edge' to produce a weekly online arts magazine programme for Wales and open up discussions about how Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd should develop to service the creative sector. We have a number of plans for future development that we will be sharing and ideas that we'll be floating in our workshops on the day.

ART EVENTS

Performance and installation events throughout the day including David Nash - Wooden Boulder (Film), Roger Lougher - The Sublime (installation), Good Cop Bad Cop (film), Jony Easterby (installation and film) Kathryn Ashill - 'Lovebite' (film), Anti Cool - £1 Running Sushi (film documentation of performance), Edward Wright (sound installation), Michelle Collins (installation), Kim Fielding (installation), Louise Bird and Kathryn Campbell (installation), Tom Payne and Sam Christie - The Standing Man (video installation), Elen Bonner (video), Cymdeithas y Rhyfeddod (video), Blaengar (video) Adele Vye (video).

EVENTS

13:00 Culture Colony Y Wladfa Newydd Official Launch

OPEN STUDIOS & OFFICES

Becky Knight, Unit 15 11:00 - 13:00

Catalina Architecture Unit 09

Cleftec Music Unit 04 11:00 - 15:00

Mary Lloyd Jones Unit 10

DISPLAYS

Unlimited - Chris Tally Evans' Cultural Olympics project for 2012, Condry Literature Festival - National Library of Wales, Rhod - the artist run rural art space, Acapela - recording studios, Kissan - record label, g39 - gallery and artists resource, Blown - cultural magazine, Elysium - artist run gallery, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies - Aberystwyth University and BBC Wales will reveal plans for their forthcoming television arts series'.

Also on at ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE

The Dartboard for Witches

Contemporary artworks by 17 artists using textiles including Aberystwyth artists Becky Knight and Mary Lloyd Jones.

Ceramics

Ceramic Collection

The Box

Video installation by Catrin Davies and Lewis Wright

Cinema

Set up 3D (5:45)

Baaria (8:15)

Aberystwyth Arts Centre also has a cafe, a bar, a bookshop and a gift shop.

To attend the Arts Centres activities may incur an admission fee. Food and drink will not be free of charge at the cafe or bar. Parking is in a pay and display car park.

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