Arts: AIYF
July 26, 2010
Wednesday 28 July-Saturday 7 August | Various venues, times & prices
You can’t have failed to notice it’s almost youth festival time again. As per usual there’s so much going on, that to list it all here would break the internet.
So, here’s the official AIYF listings site,
Their Twitter,
and their Facebook Page
There you go. All bases covered. If we come across something truly fantastic however, we’ll be sure to give you a shout. Meanwhile, the Festival Parade on Saturday 31 July (11am, Union Street) is usually a good place to start…
Arts: Mobile Creative Village
July 21, 2010
Friday 23 July | Schoolhill | 3-6pm | Free
Saturday 24 July | Union Terrace Gardens | 1-6pm | Free
Sunday 25 July | Outside St Nicholas Centre | 1-6pm | Free
See? Told you there was more on this weekend…
Artist Craig Barrowman and friends have created an all-singing, all-dancing mobile creative hub as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend (which we mentioned yesterday) where sculpture, printmaking, animation, skateboarding (on a lovely mini-ramp), film-making, poetry and all sorts of stuff will be available for yer members of the general public to try out. For free. Nice. There’s a sneak preview of some of the stalls below, and just look at them! You can practically hear the naysayers and curmudgeons complaining about ‘just bits of wood nailed together’ already. On the other hand, we think they look fantastic. Kind of like shonky newspaper kiosks*, and if anyone knows a good shonky kiosk when they see one, it’s us…
It’s also worth noting that on Saturday the village will be stationed in Union Terrace Gardens. Yup, that place that ‘never gets used’ is getting used. Again.
*It feels really strange spelling it this way again, it looks wrong.
Arts: Tea Cosy
July 20, 2010
Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 July | The Academy, Belmont Street | Free
The latest Tea Cosy art, craft and design fair to be held in the old Pier shop on Belmont Street. Featuring high-quality, erm, stuff from some of the country’s best creative talents, this is part of the London 2012 Open Weekend (more of which soon, we’re drip-feeding you here)…
Arts: Musa Re-launch
July 8, 2010
Monday 12 July | Musa (Exchange Street) | 6pm | Free
Woah, does this sound good or what? Monday 12 July sees the re-launch of Musa; you know the place, that restaurant/café in Exchange Street, the old banana warehouse. Big deal you say. Well, erm, it is actually…
Here’s why: It’s now under the guidance of James Watt from maverick local brewers/feather-rufflers BrewDog who promises to transform the place ‘from a shrinking violet into a cultural blunderbuss – offering food, art and entertainment that change the face of Aberdeen’s art scene.’
He’s off to a good start anyway; Monday’s event has various different strands which should tie together quite nicely and make for a very interesting evening indeed. Here’s what’s going down:
The launch of an exhibition by local artists Rachel Yates, Adeline Scott and Emma Hamilton
Another exhibition curated by superb online-portal-for-creatives Central Station
Live music
Tastes from the new menu
Special-edition BrewDog beers
and
The first-ever Aberdeen event from Twitter meet-up types #themeet140
Cool. Let’s hope it’s how they mean to go on…
Links:
Arts: Aberdeen Art Gallery 125th Birthday
July 6, 2010
Wednesday 7 July | Aberdeen Art Gallery | 10am-4pm | Free
If you’re free during the day on Wednesday 7 July, Aberdeen Art Gallery are celebrating their 125th birthday with a party. All sorts of activities and stuff are promised… and free cake. Boom! There’s the clincher…
Arts: Project Slogan 3rd Birthday/Cafe
July 2, 2010
Project Slogan Gallery, Langstane Place | Free
Two reasons to visit the ace wee Project Slogan Gallery; first up is their third birthday party on Saturday 3rd July at 8pm with music, visuals, cake, dancing and all that jazz. The party also launches their new opening hours which kick in on Tuesday 6 July alongside an equally new ‘pay what you want’ cafe. Coffee! Food! Free Wi-Fi! Zines to read! Why am I using all these exclamation marks! I’ve no idea! It makes me look mental! More details on the cafe here. So, aye and, erm “!”
Arts: New Peacock Exhibitions
June 28, 2010
Friday 2 July-Saturday 14 August | Peacock Visual Arts | Free
Two new exhibitions, which means double the usual opening night shenanigans on Friday 2 July at 6pm. You’ve got until mid-August to check them out otherwise though…
Plein Air : The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse
Reiko Goto and Tim Collins‘ tree-based project featuring ‘a box easel for the 21st Century’ (image below left)
and…
Insight
A new series of prints by Agata Dymus-Kazmierczak produced during a one-year residency in the printmaking department at Gray’s School of Art (image below right)
More info is available on the Peacock website
Arts/Film: Mobile Cinema
June 21, 2010
Wednesday 23 June | Peacock Visual Arts | 6pm | Free
Romana Schmalisch presents a lecture/screening using a reconstruction of a film prop from Alexander Medvedkin’s film “The New Moscow” (1938).
The performance reflects on change in urban space using a film archive developed for the machine and has previously been shown in Zurich, Moscow, Rome, Bucharest, Kaliningrad, Vilnius, Kaunas, Warsaw, Berlin, Kiev, London, Paris and Yerevan. Looks cool:
Mobile Cinema
Arts: Gray’s School of Art Degree Show
June 16, 2010
Friday 18 June-Saturday 26 June | Gray’s School of Art | Free
It’s that time of year again; time for the culmination of years of work, time for proud parents and friends, time for the curious and critical visitor and, come opening night, time for the art-loving bevvy-merchant to get their swerve on.
It goes without saying that it’s always worth a visit. Let’s just hope that sponsors BP can still afford to hand out their prizes in light of recent events…
Arts: Union Terrace Gardens Picnic
June 11, 2010
Saturday 12 June | Union Terrace Gardens | 2pm | Free
I’d imagine a lot of you have heard about this already. If not, the idea is a basic one; head down to Union Terrace Gardens, have a picnic, listen to some music and show just how important the place is to the city…
Links:
Routemaster promotes Picnic in the Park protest (P&J)
Mass protest picnic to be held over Union Terrace Gardens plans (STV)
