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BAREFACED THEATRE presents Candidates for Change: The Road to Con-Dem Nation by Stuart Barrow 26th - 31st July 2010

.Directed by Kenny O'Toole

This dry satire of UK politics and London life follows the lives of four women, a man of two dreams, and a mother caught up in the central contradiction of life under the Cameron coaltion: do we look out from the summit and let sunshine rule the day - or keep it real? And what does it mean if we lick the Bunty...?

Over two acts, Barefaced theatre reveals all, introducing you to thrusting 'A list' (and wannabe A list) candidates and the effects of their ambition on themselves and others around them. A play about relationships, dreams and the nature of reality itself, with laughs along the way. A play for now. Innit, though...

Playwright Stuart Barrow is a former adviser and speechwriter to numerous politicians including Michael Portillo, Michael Howard, Francis Maude and Jeremy Hunt. "Candidates for Change" is his first play.

Tickets are available now from http://www.wegottickets.com/evenue/4832

All tickets are £10 apart from Tuesday's Pay What You Can Matinee and the Friday Night Gala Performance with Drinks Reception (£20).

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WORKSHOPS:

Wednesday' 28th July : 12 - 2pm Writing the Spoken Word, a rare insight into the world of top-level political speech writing and an in-depth discussion of the process involved in writing 'Candidates for Change', delving into its prevalent themes.

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86397

£10 a ticket (Will include free tea and coffee plus danishs, free entry into Tuesday matinees performance of Candidates for Change or half price entry into the evenings performance. (40 places)

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Thursday 29th July : 12 - 3pm The Actor and the Space, a physical based workshop which will explore the skills needed by actors to adapt to working in non theatrical spaces, plus character improvisation skills. Hosted by the play's director, Kenny O'Toole and two members of the cast. (20 places)

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86398

£15 a ticket (Will include free tea and coffee plus danishs, free entry into Tuesdays matinee performance or half price entry into that Tuesdays or Wednesday's evenings performance.)

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Friday 30th July:12 - 3pm The Actor and the Text an exploration into how to handle and work text, actors will get a chance work on scenes from a small range plays, the object of the workshop is to explore some of the initial aspects and questions that you as an actor must ask yourself when approaching text. Led by Olivier Award winner Actor/Director Benjamin Davies.

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86399

£15 a ticket (Will include free tea and coffee plus danishs, free entry into Tuesday matinees performance of Candidates for Change or half price entry into Saturdays evening or matinee performance. (20 places)

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.For further details on Barefaced please visit www.barefacedtheatre.com or for ticket enquiries please contact thomas@barefacedtheatre.com

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DANNY FOX - 7th - 12th Sept 2010 Mon-Sat 10-7, late opening, Thurs until 9.30, Sun 10-4.30

A Song For Someone Else is the latest solo exhibition by self taught 24 year old painter, poet and musician Danny Fox.

Originally from Cornwall, Fox left the coastal town of St. Ives at 17 and has since traveled to various places. He currently lives in London.

His last exhibition explored his own personal story of love and the security that it brings, this state commemorated by a shrine like mantle piece of belongings and keepsakes which he used in a installation called Evidence of Love.

A Song For Someone Else explores the flip-side having lost everything, my love, my home, my belongings. States Fox. The exhibition is a collection of new works using a variety of media, exploring the territory of a broken relationship and the intoxicating solitude that remains. In the centre of the exhibition sits a full size tree painted white, stripped bare of its lush foliage, all that clings to the branches are used foil leaves.

The exhibition is supported by Millennium, St. Ives.

Director Joseph Clarke states Fox is an artist with a rare unguarded ability to be truly honest. His work is made because it needs to be made, for Fox this expression is cathartic. When viewing this exhibition how can we not be moved by such sincerity, but also reminded of our own isolation and our own difficulties in making sense of that which is dealt to us.

For more information please contact Joseph Clarke or Sarah Goldbart at Millennium

www.millenniumgallery.co.uk

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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 14th Sept - 3rd Oct 2010

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CEDRIC CARRE 5th - 10th Oct 2010 Mon-Sat 11-7, Thurs late viewing until 9.30, Sun 11-4.30

We are delighted to announce French artist Cédric Carré's first London show. He will exhibit his latest paintings on the theme of 'Urban Landscapes'

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GILES HAYTER 2nd - 7th Nov 2010

an exhibition in art and electronica, at which the audience is guided through the paintings by a synthesised symphony.

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ADRIAN SWINSTEAD 9th - 14th Nov 2010

Ancient Trees/ Current Work

Sculpture, Furniture, Images by Adrian Swinstead

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

COLCHESTER INSTITUTE, School of Art, Design & Media - 6th - 11th July 2010

.Meta Tauta This show represents the culmination of three years of study in fine art: its conventions and techniques; its idioms and styles; its mediums and its craft. These students have not worked collectively or collaboratively, but there is a certain coherence here, echoes and crossovers between each personal project and the artefacts and images displayed. There is a fascination with medium that grounds and regulates artistic production and with materiality, the indexical and the real; a preoccupation with the crafting of styles and the learning of craft: we see tentative but increasingly confident steps within it. These students exhibiting here operate within and against histories and traditions of craft, art and aesthetics. They labour and have laboured to make surfaces: sewn, handmade and laborious, repetitive and overwhelming, delicate and dense, textural and textual, but always compelling. These surfaces can be impassive and bleak: post-Soviet cityscapes or the glamour of the images of fashion juxtaposed and cascading with the appearances of war.

A second exhibition of works from a selection of the artists will be on show at Slack Space, 19-29 Queen Street, Colchester 28th July-7th August 2010 www.iheartslackspace.blogspot.com For information about the B.A. Art and Design: Fine Art programme Email: info@colchester.ac.uk

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JULIA CAPRARA SCHOOL OF TEXTILE ARTS - 24th -27th June 2010

BA Graduate Show. This is an exhibition of 6 graduates in contemporary textile art practice who studied at Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts. This private, independent art school has built an unrivalled reputation for stimulating the creation of innovative, contemporary textile art. In existence since 1998 it offers a unique, distance-learning course which leads to a BA (Hons) in Embroidered Textiles, validated by Middlesex University. For further information see: www.jctextilearts.com or contact E: alix@jctextilearts.com or T: 01787376746 01787376746

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DAVID MARSH - SOME PEOPLE ARE ON THE PITCH - 6th-18th June 2010

'Some People Are On The Pitch' is the first London solo exhibition of artist, David Marsh.' The project traces the movement of the players throughout the 1966 World cup final between England and West Germany to create a 'portrait' of the nation's most treasured sporting victory. Created by mapping archive footage at 1/2 real speed, using the pitch markings and the stripes of the cut grass as a coordinate system, the work follows the movement of each player against time, on and off the ball, as they move across the 'field' of play throughout the full 90 minutes, plus extra time. The recorded information is then coded through a system of line type, weight and colour to allow the narrative of the recorded information to be represented and read graphically, producing a work latent with information, yet seemingly abstract in its aesthetic. The exhibition consists of each player's individual traces, split into playing segments, and culminates in a final piece which combines the full team, stitched from the red fabric of the 1966 shirts, to form a collective 'team portrait.' www.davidmarsh.info email address: contact@davidmarsh.info

.email address: contact@davidmarsh.info

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THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IN A GLASS OF WINE -4th & 5th June 2010 .

THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IN A GLASS OF WINE is a poem by the physicist Richard Feynman. Through the use of ink, print, music, performance and film, this event reacts to his exquisite dissection of the Universe into physics, biology, geology, astronomy and psychology. A show created and curated by Jennifer Crouch, Penelope Klein, Rosanne Eveleigh, Natalie Kay-Thatcher and Raine Allen-Miller Join us and enjoy the metaphor, while examining the artwork and listening to the live music and lectures. The festivities will begin at 6.30pm . Full cosmic soundtrack provided. Live music from Johnny and the Chemists (more to be confirmed) Spoken word from Adrian Holne and Steven Smyth. http://thewholeuniverseinaglassofwine.blogspot.com/

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EBERHARD ROSS -25th 30th May 2010

Four Square Fine Arts are delighted to announce the first London solo exhibition of German artist, Eberhard Ross. Ross (born 1959) has been exploring and researching organic geometry, the rhythms and patterns that occur in nature through painting and drawing for the past twenty years. Calling himself a scientist in art he makes an "attempt to understand the system of nature," by comparing his personal observation and intuition with scientists which he meets at the Max Planck Institute in Northern Germany. The Space Between will focus on a selection of paintings, drawings and photographs depicting organic pattern and non-symmetrical order that we find in nature. A revealing and thought provoking film, commissioned by Four Square Fine Arts, entitled, Organic Geometries, has been released in advance of the exhibition in which Ross talks about his artistic practice and can be viewed at the gallery during the exhibition.

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UNTAPPED 18th -23rd May 2010

'Untapped' is an exhibition on photography by 15 graduates from the University Centre at Blackburn College (UCBC). The exhibition will depict different types of photographic media, ranging from photojournalism to fashion and everything in-between. You can actually trace people's development, both artistically and emotionally, as you follow their work along the wall. Each student uses photography in a different way and for a different reason; the work is a snapshot of their progress over 3 years and showcases the wide range of ideas, interests and ways of working that give each person a special identity. Each person will be using their creative potential by undertaking a final integrated project. This practical body of work is supported by writing which will help critically inform those viewing. The work shows diverse images that have been taken in areas very different to London and will provide an interesting contrast. The ideal outcome for the end-of-year show is to create some professional opportunities for those involved. The capital city, at the centre of creativity and new talent, creates contacts and as, new graduates, enables each student to find creative and important roles within the wider art community. The students involved are Alicia Maughan, Alistair Francis, Arifa Patel, Emma Sudall, Giovanni Ruggieri, Grace Tatlow, James Brown, Joe Walsh, Matthew Osgood, Megan Goodwin, Penny Willcox, Richard Forsdick, Josh Vosper, Sam Kenworthy, and Ryan Peacock. Opening night of the show is Tuesday 18th May 2010, 18:00pm start. For more information email: untapped2010@hotmail.com or ring 07773688936 07773688936.

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Kicks n Canvas - 9th- 18th April 2010 Soleheaven.com and Zero Cool Gallery present Kicks n Canvas. 21 artists including Goldie, Ben Frost, Anthony Lister, Copyright, Inkie, Dan Baldwin, and Meggs will be decorating a nice new pair of all white Nike kicks as well as having a matching 50cm X 50cm canvas piece on show. The official line is: "We've locked down a scorching line-up of 21 artists primed and ready to paint. The concept of the show is to confront traditional graffiti writers and artists with a new canvas, and that's a pair of pristine all-white Nike kicks. We are throwing down the sneaker gauntlet to see them transfer their styles from the metal shutters, concrete bridges and underpasses on to a pair of trainers. Every artist will be hand painting and customizing a pair of kicks and teaming it up with a 50x50cm piece"

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BRICK 12th-21st March 2010 The Gallery chose 9 artists from over a 100 creative types working from studios in The Chocolate Factory, the former Rowntree sweet factory, now a thriving centre for creative industries known as Haringeys Cultural Quarter. The Exhibition BRICK consists of Sadie Lee, Robert Goldstein, Mark Entwisle, Sandra Turnbull, Roni Sarraf, Mark Oliver, Bernard Swift, Mark Longworth and Hilary Barry. Between them, they have clocked up shows at the National Portrait Gallery, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Cork Street, MOMA NY, Barbican Festival Hall, and the gentlemans toilet at Arnos Grove. Thenine have also featured in magazines including Vanity Fair, I.D. Harpers Bazaar and Italian Vogue; and in Fine Art books Art Today and Erotica The Best Modern Erotic Art. BRICK employs traditional disciplines of painting, drawing, photography and sculpture but with an emphasis on a clash between high and low culture. Sculptures of classic nudes rest uneasily alongside bravura pole-dancing strippers: traditional family snapshot groups grin proudly at New York drag queens. In BRICK, the real world jostles for position with the imagined world of fantasy and sensual desire - jarring pieces that together make a coherent whole. BRICK artists are: Sadie Lee , Robert Goldstein, Mark Entwisle, Sandra Turnbull, Roni Sarraf, Mark Oliver, Bernard Swift, Mark Longworth and Hillary Barry.

Epoh Beech The Marriage of the Thames and the Rhine- The Masque of the Inner Temple and Grays Inn 2nd -7th March 2010 A hand drawn animation and charcoal drawings. Epoh Beechs solo show consists of a hand drawn animation and 40 charcoal drawings depicting the relationship between the Thames and Rhine. The images are influenced by the mythology and music that surrounds the rivers and explores that they were once one single river. The work is inspired by the etchings of Samuel Palmer, the animations by William Kentridge, the music of Wagner and a 17th Century play by Francis Beaumont. For more information see www.epohbeech.co.uk or contact lee@watch-this-space.org

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GUYS N DOLLS 10- 21 February 2010 Linked by a mutual fascination with dolls, artists Cathy Watkins and Daniel Barnard explore the sexualisation of childhood and beyond through a series of 2D and 3D constructions featuring Barbie and some of her less celebrated imitators. Playful subversions of gender stereotypes combine with explorations of the perils of consumer culture. For more information see: www.cathywatkins.co.ukor contact dollymixes@hotmail.co.uk Tel: 07981716367 07981716367 GUYS N DOLLS 10- 21 February 2010

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AN ADVENTURE IN BEADS by Lebeado 12th January - 5th February 2010

The quiet contemplation of an East London art gallery is about to be shattered these weeks by one of the countrys fastest growing jewellery retailers, Lebeado. With their full range of stock at theexhibition, everything from the simplest make-it-yourself kits totheir top-of-the-range designers like Jackie Brazil, Sorrelli and Swarovski.Also on hand will be the Lebeado BeadArtists ready to help you design and make your very own jewellery.

For More information: www.lebeado.co.uk , Email: info@lebeado.co.uk Tel: 07766165544