Nottingham Independent Creative Community All Day Event. 13th Ocotber 2012
MIMM PRESENTS A FREE EVENT SHOWCASING LIVE ART, MUSIC, SCREEN PRINTING, CLOTHING AND FASHION SHOWAfter 4 previous successful events Mimm brings you the 5th installment of Nottingham Independent Creative Community @ The Nottingham Contemporary showcasing over 30 different independent artists and creative businesses.New Like Page > https://www.facebook.com/NottinghamIndependentCreativeCommunity < All are welcome- Free Entry – 2pm – 12am @ The Nottingham Contemporary – more info below• STALLS •AOYAGI...
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Wednesday 12th September 5:00 – 6:30pm Julia Enriquez / Chella Quint / Steve Larder Fanzine Forum is a chance to meet Julia Enriquez, who produces a poetry fanzine in Argentina, Chella Quint a comedy writer, performer and old school zine girl from Brooklyn, New York (who now lives in Sheffield), Steve Larder of LeftLion, and other Nottingham fanzine fans and makers to discuss all things photocopied, handmade, and stapled. Free event no booking required. Refreshments will be provided. Bring your fanzines. 5:00pm –...
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Visual Artist’s at Backlit 7TH – 16th SEPTEMBER 2012 Launch event Friday 7th September, 6:00pm till late Open every day till the 16th September 12:00 – 5:00pm Backlit Gallery Katie Aggett – Sculpture – UK Katie’s work explores a visual language for changing systems of urban space. It links the choreography of changes in space and time with the fleeting growth and movement found in cities. It explores a depiction of not just one event, but many simultaneously, changing intensities of events which define our experience of a...
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Backlit Gallery is pleased to be part of WEYA Hosting – In the Country of Last things Friday 7th, September 2012, 6pm – 9pm Exhibition runs daily from 8th – 16th September, 12pm – 5pm Come and join the party with us at a very special opening celebrating the launch of the World Event for Young Artists 2012. Taking inspiration from the Paul Auster novel, In the Country of Last Things, the latest exhibition at Backlit explores notions of catastrophe theory, the sublime, chance, the real, and the unsayable. The WEYA...
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Live Music at Backlit Friday 7th September 8pm onwards Backlit Gallery Gonzalo de Lizarza (Uruguay) 20.00 Uruguayan instrumentalist proficient in Spanish guitar, jazz and bosanova. His uniquely captivating performance transports the listener to exotic South American lands, a journey that weaves multiple indigenous tones into its rich cultural tapestry. Federico Cimini (Italy) 21.00 Italian troubadour Federico is a masterful satirist telling cautionary tales of those who seek excess. “L’importanza di chiamarsi...
read more2 Days until the WEYA Festival…
Visual Artist’s at Backlit 7TH – 16th SEPTEMBER 2012 Launch event Friday 7th September, 6:00pm till late Open every day till the 16th September 12:00 – 5:00pm Backlit Gallery Katie Aggett – Sculpture – UK Katie’s work explores a visual language for changing systems of urban space. It links the choreography of changes in space and time with the fleeting growth and movement found in cities. It explores a depiction of not just one event, but many simultaneously, changing intensities of events which...
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Literature in Performance at Backlit Mateus Domingos – Nighthawks -UK Camilo Baráibar - Mirador – Uraquay Reuben da Cunha - Nailbox - Brazil José Trigueiros - Dust Of Nothing - Portugal Francesco Cozzolino - The Date – Italy Viccy Adams – QR Codes – UK FRIDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2012 Backlit – 6:00pm – 7:30pm Four writers from Europe and South America bring their work to Backlit gallery using video, spotlight, T-shirts and darkness. Camilo Baráibar’s (Uruguay)...
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The WEYA Festival kick starts this Friday (7th September 2012) and there is a definite buzz in the air around Nottingham. If you havent already heard about it, all we can say is hold onto your hats! We are very excited and proud to be one of the venues chosen to host a few of the 1000 artists picked to exhibit for WEYA. We have decided to give you a little taste of who Backlit will be showcasing. So, everyday this week we will be posting a selection of the artists until the festival launches this Friday. First up a few of...
read moreThe Art of Conversation
Backlit Gallery is pleased to present: The Art of Conversation. Private View: Friday 22nd June 7pm – 9pm By appointment only: 29th June + 4th July The Art of Conversation is the latest dialogical and socially engaged practice by Nottingham based artist Rhiannon Slade. The Artist started collecting human scar stories in 2005 and formed an invisible community of individuals, participating in conversation with the artist. During conversation, objects were described in the retelling of their story. The exhibition at Backlit...
read moreCrop up Gallery Present “Illuminate”
The University of Nottingham’s Crop-Up Gallery invites you to our debut exhibition, ILLUMINATE. Private View: Friday 15th June, 7pm- 9pm In-house bar and music from dj Franclin General Admission: 16th-22nd June, 12- 5pm (Closed Monday and Tuesday) By appointment only: 23rd- 29th June Exhibiting Artists Include: Sara Gaynor Sean Coupe Joanna Hooper Bella Millroy Gill Turner Crop-Up Gallery is an entirely student-run curatorial group, founded by The University of Nottingham Art History Students. Creating art exhibitions in a...
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