Community History Making
20 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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Strike a Light will be staffing a stall for Queenspark Books for the Community History Making lecture at the University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton. Stella Cardus from Queenspark Books will be making a presentation about the organisation’s history.
The event is free and open to all. 5.30-7.30pm Wednesday 22nd February 2012
20 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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Nicola Benge from Strike a Light was on the radio recently representing the ALT-Brighton Graphic Novel project from Queenspark Books. Listen to the Radio Reverb interview with radio presenter Melita Dennett here:
Hope Springs Eternal re-visited
13 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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The 15 minute film ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ which Strike a Light created in collaboration with filmmaker Si Mitchell in October 2011 continues to receive positive responses. It was shown at White Night 2011 in Brighton as part of a wider event organised by Strike a Light also called ‘Hope Springs Eternal’, and again in December at Fabrica gallery as part of the ‘Relativity’ event.
‘Taking part in the ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ film was an interesting experience. I so hope that such a film will help to inspire similar events’.
Creative Archives
13 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Strike a Light attended a really interesting Arts Council funded Artist in the Archive day at the BBC Archive building store in Perivale, North West London in February.
This was organised by Archives for Creativity and invited artists from around the South East to look at new ways to contextualise and explore archives. It was a wonderful opportunity to see a working archive, as well as accessing a venue which is not usually open to the public. We had a grand tour and saw a variety of processes relating to archival, restoration and digitisation.
The artist Chris Dorley-Brown spoke about a previous project he’d worked on in collaboration with the BBC Archive which was fascinating and informative, and it was also a good chance to see what other artists are working on, relating to archives in the area.
The BBC is exploring the idea of a creative archive plan further to allow greater usage of its images, photos, radio and TV.
Further examples of archives can be found here: http://www.archive.org/
Relativity update
13 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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Strike a Light’s events at Fabrica Gallery in Brighton in December 2011 went well and were well received, involving local artists and groups attending a variety of curated activities at the centrally located contemporary visual arts venue.
The film showing of Mid August Lunch was especially popular, although this may have been the free mulled wine and cosy beanbags to accompany the viewing which went down very well indeed!
Following meetings in 2012, Strike a Light will be organising two further events in 2012. The first on the subject of laughter on Thursday June 14th from 11-4pm. You can keep up to date with information about this here or on Twitter @strikerlight
The second event to be curated will be on Thursday 6th September also from 11-4pm, which will form part of the national Heritage Open Days programme of free events. Keep an eye out for information and activities around these events!
You can also check Fabrica Gallery’s webpage for more information and join their mailing list: http://fabrica.org.uk/
2011 in review
02 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 42 trips to carry that many people.
Intergenerational Arts
15 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
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Strike a Light attended a really interesting and useful session about Intergenerational arts earlier this month at the cultural venue Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London. It was organised by Audiences London in collaboration with Magic Me, a commendable London based organisation specialising in intergenerational arts. The Magic Me Director, Susan Langford MBE gave an inspirational talk followed by a sort of networking speed dating event between participants, and some much needed refreshments to conclude.
