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WE'VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL DIVERSITY AWARDS 2016 - CELEBRATING UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY!
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We’re delighted to have been nominated for The National Diversity Awards! The National Diversity Awards are designed to showcase the efforts of those who have demonstrated an outstanding devotion to enhancing equality, diversity and inclusion within today’s society. Please take a moment to vote for us!!
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OutsiderXchanges is a pioneering collaborative visual arts project that Venture Arts has initiated in partnership with Castlefield Gallery and Baltic centre for Contemporary Arts. Supported by Arts Council England, OutsiderXchanges brings together learning disabled and non-learning disabled artists in a shared art space to explore collaborative practice and create new work.
All the artists are now half way through this experimental arts project and we were delighted to invite members of the public into the space on Saturday 28th May as part of Chorlton Arts Festival at Castlefield Gallery's New Art Spaces, Chorlton. The day was a great success as the public were given the unique opportunity to meet the artists and see the artistic collaborative developments. The day including a live drawing of the event by Leslie Thompson, Horace Lindezey interviewing willing participants about 'School Days' with collaborating artist Juliet Davis. If you would like to hear more about these interviews check out Manifest Arts Podcast from the day here. David James and Matt Girling also shared their artistic practice and collaborative ideas on the day too.
Here is a small video of the studio
Read OutsiderXchangeS Press Release
Keep up with the project via the blog here
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MANCHESTER DAY - JUNE 19TH 12-6PM CITY CENTRE - WALK THE PLANK
Venture Arts artists are busy making costumes for their part in Manchester Day with Leonard Cheshire Disability CanDo project, working with Walk the Plank artists Fi Smith and Jo Foley. Using the theme 'Eureka!' our artists are creating a giant brain for the occasion!
Also featuring on the parade this year, our Outsiderxchanges lead artist Tanya-Raabe-Webber and Sarah Lee are working with Venture Arts artists Sarah Crosby and Sofie Layton, who specialises in large-scale sculpture, performance and installation to make huge wire and textile 'floating bodies' showcasing disability culture and aesthetic. We're really excited and can't wait for the parade. Hope you can make it!
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CITIES OF HOPE - Championing the work of Social Justice Organisations through Street Art
We are so pleased to have been a social justice partner in this amazing project. 9 of the worlds most prominent street artists have worked on this unique project including Axel Void and Phlegm. These renowned artists have addressed a number of social causes within their work; global issues that resonate with them on a personal level. Their work is matched to the work of a local social justice organisation. Coinciding with the project photographic works by some of our artists were exhibited at Artisan Coffee house, Takk Manchester. If you haven't already, we would urge you to take a walk around Ancoats and the Northern Quarter to truly appreciate these amazing works! Dominic Bennett attended one of the street tours and he absolutely loved it. Dominic's own work is also influenced by street culture, as we saw with his graffiti piece included in the Heart and Sold tour, which made this tour all the more special for him!
Many thanks to organiser of the project Raja Miah for selecting us to take part.
Read the Guardian's review of the project here
http://www.citiesofhope.global/
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HEART & SOLD SALFORD EXHIBITION - SALFORD ART GALLERY & MUSEUM
This highly acclaimed exhibition has had an incredible run since it opened in London last year, touring to New York and finishing at Salford art Gallery and Museum. This unique visual arts showcase featured the work of artists with Down Syndrome from all over the world.
As well as profiling 5 of our amazing artists, Venture Arts ran workshops alongside this exhibition working with START in Salford, The Canterbury Centre and Park Lane School in Macclesfield making a ceramic and textiles piece which has been installed alongside the exhibition.
We'd like to give a huge thank you to Susie Moffat for her tireless work leading this amazing project!
Heart & Sold Salford E-Flyer PDF
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HULME IS WHERE THE ART IS 2016. In partnership with Z-arts, Hulme Community Garden Centre, MMU and Venture Arts.
This year we're celebrating Hulme's diverse and vibrant community by running a series of events for Hulme is Where the Arts Is.
Venture Arts will be running workshops as a part of Art in the Garden on 23rd July, at Hulme Garden Centre. Then on Friday the 26th of August we will be hosting Art in the Woods. Our fantastic steering group will be organising all the activities on the day including creating woodland animal masks, an animal treasure trail and a woodland a photo booth.
More info on the Hulme is where the Art Is
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CREATIVE MINDS NORTH CONFERENCE - SPRING 2017
Venture Arts hosted the fourth Creative Minds Steering Group meeting at MMU's Brooks building on 21st April. Learning disabled artists and performers from across the North of England are starting to plan their own Creative Minds event for the North.
The one day conference planned for 2017 will investigate how art, film, dance and performance by learning disabled people is perceived, respected and discussed.
More information about this great initiative here
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RADICAL CRAFT: ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF MAKING - A touring exhibition by CRAFTSPACE and OUTSIDE IN, co-curated by Laura Hamilton
“It stirred me up. My mind is fizzing and my hands are itching to touch and to make!†We love this quote from one of the many visitors to the highly acclaimed touring exhibition. The show features 34 international artists including Venture Arts artists Horace Lindezey, Barry Anthony Finan and Andrew Johnstone, and will continue it's tour at Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys 25.06.16 – 29.08.16.
If you haven't already read the review by AN Magazine then read it here!
Craftspace and Outside In launched at Pallant House Gallery on Friday 11th March 2016
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