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Coming Up: Walking the Art of the Land :
PRESS RELEASE - WALKING WITH ARTISTS
May and June 2010 - What’s on at MOCA Cymru’s Summer Festival 2010
A season of walks and events to celebrate the summer and investigating new public arts in rural Mid Powys. Ending with one-off festival event weekend including Rural Reels films of the walks: Blue MacAskill curates . . .
Featuring the artists: Blue MacAskill, Brad Birch, Nicola Drew, Chris Kinsey, Aimee Corbett, Antonia Spowers, Geraint Roberts, Jane Dards and Sally Russell. Exploring, live arts, performance, sculpture, drawing, dance, creative writing and poetry.
INTERACTIVE WALKING & MAKING
The walk with be feed live back to the website and gallery through tweeter. Walkers will be encourage to update any images and works to Facebook, and my space on http://www.mocacumru.org.uk. The Walks will experiment with film documentation and live recording that we will recall and re-develop for the end show on the 25th-27th June 2010. This is contemporary public art for the 21st century.
EVENTS: Walk with Artists
This summer take advantage of this great opportunity to not only walk in the stunning landscape of the Wye Valley but join artists exploring landscape and environment in their artworks and make a piece of sculpture or poetry inspired by your group and your walk.
DATES:
22nd May 2010
Newbridge on Wye Walk £5/£3, no dogs, all ages. Moderate / 3-4 hours
This is a stunning quiet walk through National Trust land, with views of the hills and valleys around, then up into fields and woodlands, before descending to join the Wye Valley Walk. A circular walk. It is easy to park and leave your car safely in Newbridge on Wye.
30th May 2010
Llandrindod Wells Walk £5/£3, no dogs, all ages. Moderate / 3-4 hours
This is a 5 mile moderate walk starting near Llandrindod Lake and passing through attractive areas of woodland and fields with hill views, and walking through an attractive wetland area.
with Sally Russell: Dancedrama involving music & imagination, anatomical warm up, story brought to life in movement, simple soft props. Adapted by facilitator to suit age group/educational topic, etc Jane Dards: - I have been writing poetry, on and off, since I was a child. Having been distracted by various occupations (a PhD in pussycats, careers in computing and as a technical author, not to mention raising two children) I am now concentrating on my poetry. My work includes a wide range of subjects and styles, including structured and free verse, serious and humourous, word pictures and witticisms. I have had poetry published in various print and online magazines, including Orbis, Iota, nthposition, Envoi, Seam, and even The Oldie magazine. and gearing Roberts: Player of Welsh, Galician and English Bagpipes; pibgorn; tarota; bodhran; whistles, and a touch of mandolin. I play a lot of Welsh stuff, and a fair bit from other traditions. Available for sessions weddings, birthdays, funerals, bat mitvahs... I've also written and published on Castles and current affairs, in Welsh and English.
19th June 2010 - World Sauntering Day!
Builth Wells Walk £5/£3, no dogs, all ages. Moderate / 3-4 hours
with Brad Birch: A 21 year old playwright and poet based in deepest, darkest Mid Wales. Have been writing for almost two years now. First commissioned by Theatr Powys to co-write the 2008 MPYT Autumn show - a modern, existentialist adaptation of The Snow Queen. I am concerned with the world in which we live, bothered by the zeitgeist and frustrated with the times... At the age where you're meant to take the world, this generation just simply can't afford it. I intend to write for and document the feelings and frustrations of the times.
and Nicola Drew: - I am an actor and contemporary dancer. I have been working as a performer professionally since leaving university and thoroughly enjoy creating exciting, thought provoking and fun work. I have recently become involved with Theatre in Education. I believe that this is such a powerful tool to enrich and capture the imaginations of young children on nearly any subject or matter. I have been working for a Theatre in Education company called Vxii which operates in the Yorkshire area. It is a very successful company and has been booked constantly throughout the past 10 years. We often work in primary schools, tackling such matters as recycling, drugs, bullying and the environment, but we can also adapt for secondary schools. I have recently moved back to the Brecon area and am about to expand the company. and Blue MacAskill:- who graduated from Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing and continued her studies with an MA in Film and Sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art. She has recently finished a residency at The National Library of Wales where she was nominated for a Lottery Exhibition and Education Award. In 2006 Blue was the Artist for the Swansea Eisteddfod based at The National Waterfront Museum. Blue works in the medium of film, photography and print. She lives and works in Newbridge on Wye, Powys; improving access to high quality contemporary visual art in Powys is a priority for her continued community work in the county.
An Event to celebrate the work of these walks and the artists involved.
Open Weekend Films, Artworks, Stories & Live Arts
25th June 2010 6pm-9pm / 26th-27th June 12pm-6pm
Join us to explore art in the powys landscape and art for all audiences.
SPECIAL FESTIVAL of CLAY: Clay on Wye with resident ceramic artist: Alex Allpress & friends / Join us to play, invent, mould and design.
3rd July and 4th July 2010 11am-5pm (clay play: £3)
PRESS Blue MacAskill: mail@bluemacaskill.com / 01597 860 127
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