BRISTOL SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: EXHIBITION IN JUNE

Great news from Bristol!!



SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: BRISTOL – official launch of
 a new photographic exhibition

Saturday, June 13 at 2:00pm in UTC+01

Colston Hall in Bristol, United Kingdom

SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: BRISTOL

Exhibition launch event
13 June, 2–4pm

Exhibition and sound installation
8 June–17 July 2015
Opening times: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 2pm–4pm
Free admission

Colston Hall is proud to present Sound System Culture: Bristol, an exhibition documenting Bristol’s rich history of reggae sound systems through photographs, audio recordings, archive film footage and other memorabilia. As part of the display, visitors will have an opportunity to interact with Heritage HiFi, a vintage-style sound system custom-built for the project, consisting of a record deck, amps and speaker boxes. 

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More soon.

Bristolian Nick Walker show in Paris

 Graffiti on canevas are not as powerful as on walls, but come on, Nick Walker is a legend.
His paintings are to be seen in Paris, 40 rue Volta, 75003.

Preview, pictures by myself:

More, closer

Impressive "Choice":

My favourite: "Haunted Love"

Se mettre en scène...

More, again:

"Double Trouble"

Speaks for itself:

The gallery

Iconic: "Silver Heart"

"Bow Ties":

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Vicious Beauty, du 19 mars au 4 avril
Signature du livre The Art Of Nick Walker le samedi 21 mars à 16h
Galerie Brugier – Rigail, 40 rue Volta 75003 Paris

Nick Walker's website:

http://www.theartofnickwalker.com/

Bristol in Paris: Nick Walker's exhibition opening

‪#‎NickWalker‬ ‪#‎streetart‬ from ‪#‎Bristol‬ in Paris, ‪#‎GalleryOpening‬ ‪#‎Art‬‪#‎UK

Bristol in memories. Bristol in dreams.

"Write hard and clear about what hurts", Hemingway on the board of Café Kino, Bristol, on Feb. 17, my winter paradise

 — in Stokes Croft.

Interview with Daher Ahmed Farah, Djibouti's main opposition leader

DJIBOUTI IN THE NEWS


Interview with Daher Ahmed Farah,

 Djibouti's main opposition leader

On RFI English

Djibouti opposition leader is in Europe to raise attention about the tense political and social situation in the strategic Horn of Africa country.

Daher Ahmed Farah has been leading demonstration in Djibouti since the last parliamentary elections two years ago, where the opposition claims it's been rigged of MP seats.

An agreement has been signe last December to settle a compromise but has never been finalised.

In the meantime the country remains at the heart of security strategy for Western power in the Horn of Africa, in the fight against piracy, terrorists and against instabilities inside neighbouring countries as Eritrea and Sudan / South Sudan.

France has for instance thousands of troops as well as warships, aircraft and armoured vehicles and the US has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.

But Daher Ahmed Farah told RFI's Melissa Chemam security cannot come without democratisation and good governance.

Listen on RFI English' webpage today:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/broadcasts

And anytime here: 

https://soundcloud.com/melissa-chemam/interview-with-daher-ahmed-farah-djiboutis-main-opposition-leader

England calling again: More of 3D's artwork

Well kown...

1994

2013

112 cm x 91 cm

Screen print and silver leaf on paper

Red Attack

2013

93 cm x 82 cm

Red and black glitter screen print on hand painted paper

Old or new

Protection 1

2013

92 cm x 65 cm

White glitter screenprint on cardboard with red glitter hands

Safe From Harm

2013

89 cm x 68 cm

Gun metal and black screen print on cardboard

How to Sneak a Bomb into a Gallery

2008

120 cm x 120 cm

Mixed media on canvas

Insecurity Guard

2013

122 cm x 76 cm

Pink, blue, green and orange glitter screenprint on paper

But also unbelievably beautiful...

Unbelievable

2008

79 cm x 110 cm

Hand-finished archival pigment print on canvas

Glossheart

2013

86 cm x 87 cm

Screen print, aerosol and acrylic on paper

Cherry Coke

2013

91 cm x 61 cm

Ink jet, aerosol and acrylic on hand painted paper.

Burroughs

2013

123 cm x 95 cm

Ink jet, aerosol and acrylic on hand painted paper

4 Noble Truths - Fire Sale

2013

124 cm x 95 cm

Screen print, aerosol and acrylic on paper

Bristol Round 3 - Theatre and Music and More

 I look forward to another week in my newly found, inspiring, full of talent home, Bristol.

Always interested in new bands and music, I'm open to suggestions and will probably head to The Exchange, on Old Market, iconic music venue I only visited in the daytime for now, for an interview with its adorable and funny owner.

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Bristol's Old Vic Theatre is also on my list, with: 

The Accordion Shop

by Cush Jumbo

Mister Ellody has quietly kept his accordion shop going on his local high street for generations.
One day, he steps out of his door and witnesses an extraordinary incident: hundreds of young people are surging onto the street, and they've all received the same text message on their phones which simply says "RIOT. THE ROAD. 7pm TONIGHT."

Tue 24 Mar, 8.30pm
Performed by Cheltenham Youth Theatre

Thu 26 Mar, 8.30pm
Performed by JCG youth theatre

more here: 

http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/ntconnections15.html

Remote

by Stef Smith

A girl called Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone on the ground. She stamps on it. She then climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not by anyone. Seven teenagers' lives all intertwine over the course of a single evening as they make their way through the park on a seemingly normal Autumn's night.

Remote is a play about protest, power and protecting yourself.

Wed 25 Mar, 8.30pm
Performed by Springs Youth Company

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More of Bristol cultural scene next week:


Bristol Premiere screening of the documentary film "Atomised Mothers"


The Bristol Premiere screening of the documentary film Atomised Mothers, a film about Isolation, Austerity and the Politics of Parenthood; and an evening of short talks and discussion. With Professor Harriet Bradley (UWE, author of many publications on women and work), Anna Mapson (Bristol Fawcett Society), Helen Mott (UWE and Bristol Fawcett Society), Michal Nahman (anthropologist,film director, UWE), Anthony Killick (co-writer, editor, Liverpool).

Co-hosted by: The Social Science Research Group,UWE, Bristol Radical Film Festival, Single Parents Action Network (SPAN)

FREE TEA AND COFFEE!
https://atomisedmothers.wordpress.com/

This event is part of UWE's International Women's Month:

http://info.uwe.ac.uk/events/eventlisting.aspx?categoryID=129

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Isabelle CornaroTémoins oculaires

Spike Isl and and the South London Gallery join forces for a two-pa rt solo exhibition by the French artist Is abelle Corn aro, the winner of the prestigious Prix Ric ard in 2010. The presenta tion in Bristol, Témoins ocula ires (mea ning ‘eye witnesses’), focuses on new a nd recent work and runs from 24 January to 29 March 2015.

Isa belle Corna ro works with pa inting, sculpture, film a nd insta lla tion to explore the influence of history a nd culture on our perception of rea lity. A tra ined art historia n, specia lising in sixteenth-century Europea n M annerism, her visua l la nguage dra ws on a wide a rr ay of references, from the Ba roque to modernist abstr action. Corna ro uses found objects imbued with emotiona l va lue or symbolic potentia l such a s h air, jewellery, mea suring tools, coins or rugs, which she presents in different media a nd types of displa y to revea l the subtle shifts of mea ning induced by processes of reproduction a nd tra nsla tion.

At Spike Island, Cornaro presents a series of specially commissioned installations in which she continues her investigation into composition, visual perception and interpretation. These tableaux, which could be described as physical representations of the act of watching, activate specific viewpoints reminiscent of cinematic and editing techniques (framing, focus, close-up, wide angle, tracking, sequence shot etc.). Each tableau creates a self-contained space with varying perspectives, in which the objects are returned to their ‘destiny of fetishes, which is to shine from a distance’, in the words of the French film critic Serge Daney.

Paysage avec poussin (South London Gallery) and Témoins oculaires(Spike Island) is the first collaboration of its kind between two leading public British galleries.

Download the exhibition guide

Preview: Friday 23 January, 6–9pm

Isabelle Cornaro

Isabelle Cornaro (born 1974, France) lives and works in Paris and Zurich. She studied at the École du Louvre and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in 1996 and 2002 respectively.

She has exhibited extensively across France as well as internationally, including solo exhibitions at M – Museum (cur. Valerie Verhack), Leuven; Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles; Balice Hertling, Paris; Kunsthalle Bern (cur. Fabrice Stroun), Bern; Le Magasin (cur. Yves Aupetitallot), Grenoble; Frac Aquitaine (cur. Claire Jacquet), Bordeaux; Collège des Bernardins (cur. Jean de Loisy and Alain Berland), Paris; and 1m3 (cur. Jeanne Graff), Lausanne. 

Recent group exhibitions include Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Palazzo Cavour, Turin; Public Fiction, Los Angeles; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mercer Union, Toronto; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and SculptureCenter, New-York.  Her work can be found in a number of collections including those of Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Île-de-France, Paris; and Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Aquitaine, Bordeaux.

Isabelle Cornaro Scenes # 4 (2015) (detail). Photograph by Stuart Whipps

Date

24 January to 29 March 2015

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Thinking of beloved Tunisian friends and Tunis and Tunisia

More in RFI English news bulletin tomorrow morning, but for now, just this:


Tunisia: Deadly Attack on Museum-goers 
Response of Authorities Will Test Commitment to Rights

(Tunis, March 18, 2015) – The despicable attack in the Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 18, 2015, killing at least 19 Tunisians and foreign tourists, will test efforts by the Tunisian authorities to build a rights-respecting society, Human Rights Watch said today. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the assault at the museum, much visited by tourists because of its rich archaeological collection.

“Today’s murderous assault targeted not only tourists and Tunisians, but also the tolerant and rights-respecting society that Tunisians have been struggling to build over the last four years,” said Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Tunisian authorities should show through their response that their commitment to the rule of law is unshaken.” 

The assault on the Bardo Museum, adjacent to Tunisia’s parliament, was the first mass attack on civilians in Tunisia since gunmen killed people in the Ghriba Synagogue on the island of Jerba on April 11, 2002. Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the 2002 attack.

Islamist armed groups have targeted security forces in numerous attacks since 2011, killing a total of more than 40 people. Two leftist politicians were killed in separate incidents in 2013. 

News reports of the March 18 attack, based on accounts from witnesses, said that between two and five armed men opened fire on tourists in the parking lot of the museum at about noon. The gunmen then entered the museum and took hostages. At about 3 p.m., the Interior Ministry announced that security forces had killed the gunmen. At least 19 people were killed in all, officials said, including six people killed inside the museum in addition to the gunmen. At least 17 people were wounded. The casualties included mostly foreign tourists and two Tunisians.

“Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones, and with the Tunisian people,” Goldstein said. “Tunisian authorities should ensure that all those responsible for this attack are brought to justice.”

For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Tunisia, please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/tunisia