ideas & Suggestions

Ok heres a list of the many ideas & suggestions Si & I have been logging, take a look & e can talk more on Saturday....

• where the wild things are

just wanted to float this idea while it's in my head...
watched 'where the wild things are' on dvd the other nite, and being a huge fan of the book, i was a little bit concerned that it might not live up to the source material...
but it was great, i loved it. and it struck me that actually it's a story all about 'dreams of home' really.

so a) it'd be a great thing to have on the film programme next year.
and b) as there's a strong VA/lit crossover with the picture book, maybe we could do something in the hub related to it.
designing and making wild things, dressing up as wild things...
maybe the stage could be set up as max's bedroom and, over the course of the weekend, transform as per the book until "the ceiling's hung with vines and the wall become the world all around..."


• someone has emailed in & offered to do life drawing classes

• See http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=26106&searchid=9417&tabview=text - suggestion from a ops person

•Taking a look at the site ( http://www.kennardphillipps.com/category/commissions ) it strikes me this is the kind of thing where it would be good to commission them to create a piece for the culmination of the just Peace Campaign in 2011.

• Wanted to pick your brains a bit... Friend of mine at the Barbican suggested this http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=9963 for GB. Its all about community, and is well up GB's street. I don't think its that much as tickets to it at the Barbican are only £3 tops, and it might be brilliant at the festival...maybe even somewhere near the campsite?
What do you reckon? Do you think we could do it? Where could we put it?


• I like www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk : chip shop.....typography.....2011 ?
Also look at the stuff they have done, would love to comission something printed & bound......


• Willie Williams is pretty much on for bringing lumia domestica, we just need to follow it up with him again.

• Sharon Caton Rose has offered to curate an exhibition of artists from the north 'angels of the north' a mixed exhibition of painting & sculpture - she can explain more on saturday.

• I've said yes to a photographer working in the congo for a banner exhibition & can design it ( it was a trust GB application). I don't think we have ever made the most of these exhibitions. For all my pleas for a better set up & lighting even this year it was left till last thin Friday before they put up the heras fencing & then even though I warned them it needed to be sturdy it blew over & ripped my banner in 2. However I still feel with better planning & lighting this is a good way to exhibit the more justice based photo exhibitions we get offered.

• We've talked about replacing the greenhaus with a scriptorium as it's the 200th anniversary of the king James bible, so we might produce a gb gospel during the festival & could tie this in with an exhibition to do with scriptures....

• Also been talking to Stephen Raw about a participatory lettering type project that lots of people could get involved with. And Jay ( peace cranes ) Gadhia is interested in coming again, we have done hands on projects a couple of years running before moving on so a variation on peace cranes may be something to look at.

• Could do street Art again, but might be time to rest that for a bit

• Xavier Pick couldnt make this year by was interested in 2011

• Unazia Karim, twho did some workshops this year would love to come & do more

• Si Smith has been doing a project all year where he is documenting every bus journey he does with a print which would make a nice exhibition linking to the home theme.

• Photoflashswap was a big success this year - double the entries, it was filmed so you will be able to see the rush & the exhibiton boards nearly falling over !

• Wooly thinking went really well, would be nice to develop that with sarah dean