Hand In Glove Call-Out

The Bristol collective Hand In Glove say:

"Hand in Glove are delighted to announce our support of Stapleton Road Tavern, and to inform you of the exciting opportunities they have on offer.

Opportunities include:
- Stapleton Road Tavern Window Commission
- Stapleton Road Tavern Residency
- Use of Space for your Creative Activity, Free of Charge!
- Volunteering
- Visit Stapleton Road Tavern Open House

Stapleton Road Tavern is a temporary creative project space situated in a disused public house on the border of Old Market and Easton in Bristol. Stapleton Road Tavern will present a series of modest commissions and events, whilst also inviting local artists and community groups to make use of the space free of charge.

Stapleton Road Tavern is striving to become a unique hub for the community where people from all walks of life can come together to engage with each other in creative activity. Delivering a range of arts activities throughout Spring 2012, the intention is to create a space where individuals and groups can raise the profile and visibility of their activity and contribute to the regeneration of the Stapleton Road area.

Visit Stapleton Road Tavern's blog for full details here:
stapletonroadtavern.blogspot.com"

You can contact Hand In Glove directly via contact.glove @ gmail.com

Thanks to Jamie Thomas and Chris Ward for showing and discussing their work last week! Here's some links to things that cropped up in conversation...

Future Music Lab
Jamie Thomas's The Karman Objects
Chris Young's No Place Like Home
Creative Sound and Music at University of Wales, Newport
Salon

January - Sound

Photo taken from a Chris Young performance at Canolfan Porthceri.

The first Forum of 2012 will be held on 19th January at Turner House from 6.30pm. Sound artists Murray Ward and Chris Young will be showing some works in progress and discussing their practice. If you have any work you'd like to show please contact emma @ ffotogallery.org.

Source Magazine Publication Opportunity

Ffotogallery, Chapter, Sunday 26th February 2012

Deadline Friday 10 February 2012

As part of their research for future issues, Source Magazine are organising a series of meetings across the UK with photographers and artists to look at new photographic projects for consideration for publication. Source publishes a wide range of material, an archive of which can be seen online.

To tie in with the weekend of Ffotogallery’s Book Arts Fayre, Ffotogallery will be hosting a day of meetings at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff on Sunday 26th February for emerging and established photographers and artists in the Wales region.

Source will select photographers from initial emailed submissions — details of how to apply for a chance to meet with John Duncan (Editor of Source) can be found on their website here.

You can read more about what happens on the day here.

Call for participants: developing critical writing on the contemporary visual arts

In 2012, Axis will be running a year-long programme of writing workshops and publication support.
We are seeking three emerging writers based in Wales who are interested in developing their critical writing on the contemporary visual arts.

Find out more online at www.axisweb.org/critical-writing.

Deadline for applications: 9 December 2011.

Market Research

Come and join in the debate on Saturday 3rd December, between 12.00 and 15.00 upstairs in Buffalo Bar, Cardiff. Meet artists and curators who make work in the public realm and hear discussions aimed at answering questions around working within these spaces, the gentrification of markets within an art context and what projects work within these settings.

Please email openemptyspaces@hotmail.com to book a place on this free seminar.

Behind The Curtains

This friday at 7pm, Third Floor Gallery is proud to present the opening of TomasVan Houtryve: Behind The Curtains.
Charting the social adaptation of the old communist states to the contemporary westernised present. The images we've seen so far are pretty interesting and the opening night hosts beer from Otley Brewery. Get involved!