Saturday, 3 October 2009

24 hour gallery

Would like to really get this right next year, 3 4ft x 30ft banner exhibitions in triangle on the centre course & well lit so they can be viewed late into the night.

ONE : Sad & Beautiful Place a beautiful & moving book of images by Gordon Ashbridge & words by Steve Stockman
TWO : tbc
THREE : tbc

considering :


from ICHAD :
As Greenbelt has adopted the Just Peace campaign, two photographic exhibitions come to mind. The first is by award-winning photojournalist, Judah Passow. Please visit his website at www.judahpassow.com. He has prepared an exhibition based on his book entitled, 'Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians', which is a record of conflict and turmoil over 25 years.

The second idea is the exhibition entitled, 'Jerusalem Dispossessed', by ActiveStills, a cooperative of young Israelis and Palestinians. You can view the exhibition on the website for the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, http://icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=487




the hub - things to build on & new ideas

something participative like self portrait

photoflashswap

(shhh!)

gb comic - we got really excited after seeing the gb newspaper on site & are talking with people about producing a comic over the weekend.

wooly thinking - an hour of craft-y knitting-related stuff in the hub - discussing this with sarah dean at the mo...

talks

oliver west

typography we think something on typography would fit nicely with the theme and are talking to some typographers & also thinking of the helvetica film

artist forums

performance

new leads

proost

Ideas & Suggestions

comment here with any new ideas or suggestions.
Can't promise we will be able to do everything but it will be considered.

2010 possible exhibitions we are looking at

holly yoon - piano

jay - gadhia - peace cranes

shareon caton rose - mirror

willie williams - lumia domestica : he couldn't make it in 2009 but said to keep asking

bobby baker's diary drawings


Friday, 2 October 2009

mike radcliffe's gb videoblog things...

mike radcliffe made some great little live feed video/blog/tweet things at the festival this year, and covered a lot of our visual arts stuff [including the visionaries show, greenhaus, street art, self portrait, billy childish, david shillinglaw etc...]

here he is interviewing boo - go have a browse of his other festival videos...

self portrait 09




















All the self portraits are now on our flickr page

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Some notes & ideas from Jane Gresham about greenhaus - the gb school of art

GREENHAUS NOTES FOR NEXT YEAR 2010

Start on a positive note – much improved from 2008. Better venue. A sense of a team beginning to emerge. Better variety of classes on offer.

Really good to have assistants


What could make it better:

• Finalising the teachers and the programme in good time so that we can get it in to the programme.

• Be very clear how to sign up for the classes (in the programme and online), how many in each class and what age groups apply.

• We need to work out how the sign up is going to be. ½ in the Hub the day before and ½ on the door was what we thought would work so long as people knew that in advance.

• Better naming of classes so that it is clear what the classes are about, maybe label them studio A, B, C

• Improved signage - sandwich boards around the venue

flyers and stickers to advertise the Greenhaus around the site.

• What we call the classes – we had workshop 1 and 2 on the floor above us so we need to come up with the right naming of classes.

• Scheduling – some classes need more time to end and clear up, so we need to schedule these at the end of the day or before lunch.

• It would be good to have a blacked out area.

• If we had another room detached from Cottage Rake, we could do quiet activities like Ian Long’s drawing and prayer or Talks which are difficult in a multi use space.

• We need resources for clearing up – bin bags, kitchen roll etc.

• Also need blutac and masking tape.

• Re the exhibition in the hub at the end of the sessions. It happened on the first day but we failed after that as we were so tired by the end of the day. Not good, so maybe it requires an effort or expectation from all involved in the teaching/volunteering.

• We need a way of identifying the teachers – could be a clip on badge.