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Designers Marketplace
July 1st, 2010 | 
Author: Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt on Saturday 10th July, 11am – 4pm
We will be presenting over 40 stalls selling:
+ FASHION // ART : PHOTOGRAPHY [ PRINTS . CERAMICS ++ TEXTILES / GRAPHICS ^ ACCESSORIES : INTERIOR PRODUCTS ++ JEWELLERY . VINTAGE # ZINES //
LOUNGE AREA, NETWORKING POINT, TEA, COFFEE…CAKE!
£1 entry…Come down, spend a few hours and tell everyone you know!
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FOR MORE INFO OR IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN RESERVING A STALL GO TO:
WWW.DESIGNERSMARKETPLACE.ORG.UK
or join us on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210052434713#!/group.php?gid=52653224552
A specialised networking event and showcase of some of the best creative talent in the north (& south!). Design led products on sale from both emerging and established artists and designers from all around the country, selling directly to the public minus gallery shop and boutique mark-ups!!
The first event and concept of its type in the area, Designers Marketplace has been successfully running for nearly two years and now supports over 90 creative businesses from around the country, primarily the north. Providing a support system of networks and a platform in which to launch new businesses, ranges and collections. Read the rest of this entry »
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Vocal Technique Workshop at Teesside University
Throughout the Summer Teesside University’s School of Arts & Media is offering a series of highly subsidised workshops and courses to those working in the region’s creative industries.
Learn how the voice works and how to apply these techniques to your professional practices:
Understanding Vocal Technique is a one day workshop which explores how the human voice works and how an understanding of these principles can be applied to vocal performance and teaching.
Singing teacher, performer and workshop leader Rebecca Pedlow will demonstrate the different capabilities of the voice, exploring such subjects as it’s physiology, different voices and what happens when a voice breaks. These theories will be applied through a series of practical sessions throughout the day.
Rebecca will focus on essential breathing and posture exercises and demonstrate how vocal warm ups relate to vocal technique. Variances in different styles of singing will be investigated as she demonstrates the different approaches to the likes of folk, pop, opera and musical theatre.
Find out about further training opportunities and how you can earn money from your skills:
The workshop will culminate in a careers and personal development session where delegates will be signposted to further training and potential job opportunities. Understanding Vocal Technique delegates will leave with an awareness of the skills they need to develop to become a better performer or teacher. The workshop is ideal for performers, singing teachers, instrumentalists, community musicians, school teachers/assistants or anyone wishing to be introduced to, or have more understanding of, how the voice works.
One-off Highly subsidised cost – Book your place now:
The Understanding Vocal Technique workshop takes place in Teesside University’s Phoenix Building on Saturday 21st August from 9.30am – 4.30pm. It is being subsidised by ECIF and Talent Solutions funding and is therefore offered at an introductory price of £49.99 (usually £170.00) to North East based SME businesses, freelancers and sole traders. Please call for eligibility information.
To book your place please contact James McDermott on 01642 738 089 or Email: j.mcdermott@tees.ac.uk
An Open University Study Day At Baltic
Art, Music & Chance
Study day at BALTIC on Saturday 19 June with the Open University about John Cage and the next season’s shows. This focuses on the John Cage exhibition, Every Day is a Good Day, Cornelia Parker, Doubtful Sound, and the group show Cage Mix.
Tickets are £20.00 (£15.00 concession for unwaged/students) which includes a light lunch.
For more information visit: Art Music and Chance
Tickets can be booked online at www.wegottickets.com
Life Drawing classes
Graham Canwell, a student from Teesside University’s MA Future Arts course is looking to put on some casual life drawing classes in the Athena Building on Teesside University Campus. These sessions will probably be Tuesday evenings, 5pm – 7pm but is dependant on numbers attending.
Model fee is £30 for 2 hours and Graham is hoping to get around 10 sign ups, if not more to attend the sessions to keep the costs to attendees at a minimum.
If you would like to attend or would like more information please email Graham at J9091872@live.tees.ac.uk
New ‘Zine on Teesside
Hi, I’m James. I’m a writer and filmmaker based on Teesside, and me and my friend Gus Hughes, artist, illustrator and all-round lovely man, have made a zine called The Story of Grass.
It’s an A5 photocopied collision of art, comedy and bewilderment which grew out of a desire to make a physical product, something nice you can hold, and read, then roll up and stick in your back pocket for later.
We’re really pleased with the way it turned out, and we’re already busy working on issue 3 (we started with #2 as we didn’t want the pressure of making a really good issue one).
We’ve been selling it for £3 at gigs, comic shops, galleries and events around the region, and the response so far has been amazing.
We’d love it if more people made their own magazines – all you need is paper, pens, ideas, access to a photocopier and a stapler and presto! Your own little slab of culture and a testament to your own obsessions which you can distribute in any way you see fit.
If you’d like a copy of our zine, visit this most excellent online shop: http://thestoryofgrass.bigcartel.com/product/the-story-of-grass-2
And if our zine doesn’t sound like your thing, you can try Estelle by AJ Garrett and Alyson Agar, an underground-style comic about an elderly New York cartoonist and the demon she befriends:
And if neither sound like your thing: make your own thing!
April at the Peg Powler Gallery
This month at Peg Powler Gallery @ Green Dragon Studios, Stockton on Tees – The Peg Powler Preview show.
A chance to see what kind of things are in store at the Gallery over the coming months, find out what Peg Powler Gallery is about and, as always, meet people, be creative and relax.
Art by – Shaun Elliot, AJ Garrett, Harris + Hughes, Rebecca Little, Audrey Newhouse and the music videos of Detective Instinct
This April, 6pm-9pm, Tuesday 13th, Tuesday 20th and Tuesday 27th. Free entry, open to everyone .
Visit here for more information:
Psyche Gallery
Alison Nelson works as a consultant for Middlesbrough borough council. At present Nicola is working with business development as a part of the ‘We Are Open’ project the primary aim is to animate vacant property and spaces in the town using creative enterprise.
Psyche department store has kindly offered the project the use of a concession space within the store to use as a commercial gallery space. The aim is to use the project to test the market and if the gallery has potential to run as a part of the business (to make money for Psyche) it will become a permanent fixture within the store.
Nicola’s job is to facilitate the set up of the gallery on behalf of the local authority.
If you are interested in being a part of the project could you please forward a recent CV and selection of images to the following:
Also CC alison.nelson@hotmail.co.uk
‘Dwelling’ Photography exhibition
‘Dwelling’ is a series of photographs by Newcastle based photographer Dee Chaneva. 
The images were shot in her native Bulgaria, at her grandparent’s house, following her grandfather’s death.
‘Dwelling’ is a beautifully rendered mediation on grief, loss and memory. The images document Dee’s grandmother’s desperate need to hold on to the memory of her husband by the objects and space they shared, for fear of losing the memory of him all together. These are possessions not just as precious things, but as necessary things. Read the rest of this entry »
Culture on Campus – Historic steelmaking images come to Middlesbrough
Artist Viva Talbot (1900-1983)
As the last blast furnace on Teesside ceases production, a new exhibition of previously unseen steelmaking images can be seen at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough.
Over 40 woodblock prints have been brought together for this unique exhibition, including 15 depicting the process of making steel. Read the rest of this entry »
Writers’ Block – ‘Script Frenzy’
Writers’ Block members are about to embark on the worldwide ‘Script Frenzy’ to take us through April – where we’ll be setting up camp in various locations around the region – from galleries, to club basements, theatre spaces and empty buildings – to try our hand at writing a feature film script in a month. Only three and a third pages a day…are you game? Read the rest of this entry »
ScMART Exhibition
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A unique exhibition will run at Middlesbrough’s Python Gallery from Feb 18th to March 12th featuring the work of staff at Teesside University’s School of Computing
School of Computing staff at Teesside University work in a variety of fields, meaning they are able to teach drawing and computing skills which combine traditional 2d drawing and painting skills to create conceptual computer created imagery, mostly based on and for the computer game industry.
Staff continue their art-practice as part of their on-going research and they have produced, for this exhibition, a collection of eclectic work, including photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and animation.
Featured in the exhibition is what is believed to be the world’s first 3D print of a ‘Mandelbulb’ and also Maggie Parker’s seminal works, ‘Infinity’ and ‘Torus’. These pieces are impossible to make in the ‘real world’ due to their complexity of shape, only being able to be manifested in the ‘real world’ by recreating them using a 3d printer.
The retiring Dean of the school, Derek Simpson says “This exhibition, to be held at the Python Gallery, Middlesbrough, is an excellent opportunity for both academic and ancillary staff to consolidate their status as artists in both the public’s and students’ eyes and disseminate this work into the larger community”.
Python Gallery, Royal Middlehaven House, Gosford Street, Middlesbrough, TS2 1BB, Telephone: 01642 247745
