England, I've missed you, as always, but I'll be there soon. This time for a few hours in London and a few days in Bristol, West Coast, along Somerset and Gloucestershire...
Bristol, the home of England's coolest university, of Massive Attack and Banksy!
So many tips and ideas and places to discover.
Here a first post with a few elements of introduction...
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Firstly, mid-February start the In Between Time Festival, IBT 15
http://ibt15.co.uk/your_visit_post/welcome/
Meet the impassioned, the virtuosic, the driven, the unheard.
IBT15 is our 6th major biennial, and as we continue to grow, is our first as Bristol International Festival.
In this festival we celebrate Art as a powerful force for change. Over 50 art works from the world’s most exciting artists surge across arts venues, streets, gardens, stately homes and major thoroughfares.
Theatre, dance, live art, activism, songs, clubs, night walks and take-overs reveal the power to make change that lies in each of us.
Join us and become part of the storm.
Helen Cole
Artistic Director, In Between Time
Artistic Director, In Between Time
In Between Time is an international production company creating extraordinary art works, and the biennial In Between Time Festival. We encourage artists and audiences to think, to dream, to do things they have not yet imagined.
The first In Between Time Festival was established in Bristol in 2001 as an international biennial of live art and future performance practices. In Between Time emerged as part of Arnolfini’s live programme, produced by IBT’s Director, Helen Cole between 1997-2009.
‘Go to the brilliantly curated In Between Time Festival’ Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Festival Programme: ibt15.co.uk
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On Bristol 24/7's website:
Previews: Preview: IBT15 - Twenty Looks
Or ‘Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church’, to give it its full title. New York choreographer Trajal Harrell presents this dance triptych, which he has toured worldwide to huge acclaim.
Harrell imagines and interprets what might occur if African-American and Latin LGBT vogue ball performers, and the post-modern dancers who met in New York’s Judson Church in 1963, were to meet.
Voguers would gather at ‘vogue balls’ (referenced by Madonna in 1990’s Vogue) in Harlem, using extravagant dance moves originating from the catwalk to compete for prizes for their groups or ‘houses’. The Judson Church dancers, meanwhile, developed a new language of dance which has resonated through modern dance ever since.
Twenty Looks portrays a thrilling meeting between these two dance styles, where minimalism and flamboyance collide to challenge the divisions of race, class and wealth.
Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church has three different performances at Arnolfini: Fri Feb 13 (M - the largest version), Sat 14 Feb (S - solo performance) and Sun 15 Feb (XS - the most intimate version). For more info and to book tickets, visit http://ibt15.co.uk/programme/
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Pithay Studios + Phoenix cafe Bristol launch
Heart of arts hub created thanks to Bristol recycle groups
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On BBC Bristol :
29 January 2015 Last updated at 15:44 GMT
Banksy prints fetch £435,000 at auction
The piece Christ with Shopping Bags was the second highest selling lot at £22,500 against an estimate of £12,000
A collection of prints by Bristol street artist Banksy has fetched nearly £435,000 at auction.
The 32 Banksy pieces, which were sold in London at auction house Bonhams, belonged to art gallery owner Steve Lazarides.
Bonhams said the works "performed extremely well" with 30 selling above their high estimates.
The most expensive lot was Rude Copper, depicting a policeman raising a middle finger, which sold for £32,500.
The next most expensive work, Christ with Shopping Bags, raised £22,500.
Flower Thrower sold for £20,625
Flower Thrower sold for £20,625, and Laugh Now and Festival each made £20,000.
The Banksy works were included in a "contemporary lifestyle" auction which also saw pieces by Damien Hirst and Conor Harrington sell above their high estimates.
In total, the auction fetched more than £1m.
Bonhams said it was "delighted" with the success of the auction and said it was a "clear demonstration of Banksy's importance as a figure at the heart of contemporary art with a thriving market and pan-global interest".
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At Arnolfini Gallery :
JOSEPHINE PRYDE: THESE ARE JUST THINGS I SAY, THEY ARE NOT MY OPINIONS.
Friday 21 November 2014 to Sunday 22 February 2015, 11:00 to 18:00
Free →
A major exhibition that examines touch sensitivity in a new photographic series, installed alongside a miniature train that will travel through the first floor galleries.
These Are Just Things I Say, They Are Not My Opinions is a new exhibition of British artist Josephine Pryde, an artist known primarily for her work with photography, though she often presents work with sculptural elements. Pryde plays with different photographic conventions, for example publicity or advertising images, where seductive and highly staged, high resolution images evoke and respond to desire. She draws on this visual language, responding to ideas and larger conceptual frameworks such as the history of photography and the moving image, through details, references, or the juxtaposition of different works.
Pryde's works embrace moments of beauty – the shimmering surfaces of fabric, portraits of staged personas, or frozen images of splashing liquids. On first glance, the conventions of commercial and artistic photography seem to apply to these images, but on closer viewing, there are cues that subtly question the very visual language that she uses and references.
For Arnolfini, Pryde presents an installation that combines a new series of photographs and a three dimensional work – a miniature train that can be ridden through the galleries. The disclaimer in the exhibition title highlights questions around speech: what might be the difference between what is said and what is held as an opinion? Why distinguish between the two? And what is being said?
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Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
Box Office +44 (0)117 917 2300
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
Box Office +44 (0)117 917 2300
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M-Shed Museum
Moved by Conflict
The First World War had a profound effect on Bristol and its people. Through hundreds of original objects and archives Moved by Conflict explores the physical, social and personal changes made by war.
In association with Bristol Old Vic, people’s stories reveal how local lives have been altered by the turmoil of war. This moving and informative exhibition will take you from Bristol in the early 1900s and its position in the British Empire, through 1914–1918, to people in the city today affected by current global conflicts.
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Black and Asian perspectives on WW1
At a glance
14 February 2015
11:00am—4:00pm
Free. Drop-in.
Over a million men from the Empire died alongside Europeans in the First World War, yet their stories are little known. Black and Asian perspectives on WW1 will explore this hidden loss through a day of pop talks and creative responses.
Join us for an informal day of pop up talks and creative responses to this hidden loss. There will be talks, film screenings and performance going on throughout the day.
Each will last from between 10 and 30 minutes – all exploring the non-white contribution to the First World War. Come along for as long as you want.
Free entry to Moved by Conflict exhibition, when you attend this event.
Part of a programme of events to accompany the Moved by Conflict exhibition.
>> M Shed
See amazing film and photographs, listen to moving personal stories, encounter rare and quirky objects and add your own memories of Bristol through the interactive displays. From prehistoric times to the present day, M Shed tells the story of the city and its unique place in the world. Entry to the Museum is free.
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This is already amazing. But Bristol has much more to offer, including the street art tour and a warm atmosphere from what all my people told me.
Very much looking forward!!
See you soon Bristolians.
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