LONG NIGHT - Liverpool Biennial Thursday 18th Nov 2010

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Up & Coming - ‘Giz a Touch’
LONG NIGHT of Liverpool Biennial 2010
Thursday 18th Nov 2010

Celebrating 'Long Night' of Liverpool Biennial we have decided that this is the best time to open up a curators talk, an artist performance and local musicians will show off their talents.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS EVENT WILL BE FILMED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

18:00 - 19:00
Curators Talk on 'Giz a Touch'
Artists and public alike are invited to participate in this discussion.

19:00 -20:00
Performance by David Thomas Crawley. Please bring your own passport image for this and make sure you at your best as he will want ALL participants to be involved with this. Further details to be revealed on the evening.

20:00 - 22:00
Music from some of Liverpool’s best acoustic musicians – chill and enjoy. £6 – which includes a glass of wine. Please RSVP to felicityw@gmail.com

Why not come and support us in this event as secret things will be afoot and revealed on the evening.

Will you find any pounds on the night????

SEE LEAFLET FOR FURTHER DETAILS

www.upandcoming.org

The gallery is situated near to the Liverpool Biennial visitors centre.

Up & Coming - Giz a Touch exhibition
Domino Gallery
11 Upper Newington
Liverpool
L1 2SR

Please see PDF documents from previous exhibitions in 2008, 2010 and 2012.

We have now had our 'Own It' logo designed by Faith Carr-Richards from Nottingham.

Well done on winning first prize and your prize will be with you soon.

Further developments with the Own It education programme will be revealed over the coming months as Steph Richards and Dalj Bruce are working hard to make this programme happen.

Liverpool Independents Biennial

CLICK HERE for Liverpool Independents Biennial guide. MAP

Maria Cassidy (UK)
David Thomas Crawley (UK)
Sooim Jeong (S Korea)
Farzad Kohan (USA)
Michael J Mac Gabhann (IRE)
Claire McCarthy (UK)
Chris Pheysey (UK)
Sarah-Leanne Trappe (UK)
Jim Turner (UK)
Outcasting (UK)
*Outcasting is an online moving image gallery

Curated by Crawley & Trappe

Exhibition Dates:
Sat 18th Sept - Sat 27th Nov 2010 (closed Sunday)
Opening times: 11:00 to 17:00

Private View
Saturday 18th September 2010
19:00 - 21:00
Please email upandcomingarts@gmail.com for with subject heading 'Private View'

Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR MAP

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We are working hard on this and this will form a part of the over all curatorial stategy that will be revealed upon our opening. Futher details will be released over the forthcoming days! Up & Coming are getting themselves Up & Running!

We are now friends with Derby QUAD

Up & Coming Exhibition

Up & Coming Exhibition 2008 from Up & Coming Arts on Vimeo.

Up & Coming Exhibition
Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
©2008 Up & Coming
©2008 Martin Lappin

CLICK HERE TO SEE the opening night of 'Up & Coming Exhibition' at Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool in July 2008.

We will be filming our opening of 'Up & Coming - Giz a Touch' on Sat 18th Sept 2010 but hope you can make it along to the exhibition as it runs until Sat 27th Nov 2010.

BBC Radio Merseyside

Up & Coming - Giz a Touch was discussed in more detail today with Roger Phillips on BBC Radio Merseyside. Click here and go to 1:51:00 and happy listening. This will be available for the coming week until Wed 8th Sept 2010.

The Up & Coming - Giz a Touch exhibition kicks off at Domino Gallery, Liverpool on Sat 18th Sept 2010 until Sat 27th Nov 2010 (11:00 – 17:00) CLOSED SUN.

New Art Exchange commission by International Artist Sonia Khurana titled Lying down on the ground as part of Liverpool Biennial. A performance that will take place on Sunday 18th Sept 2010 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm at Liverpool Lime Street Station with Dave Ellwand as the main consultant. David Thomas Crawley is volunteering on this project, assisting him.

Passport images required as part of exhibition

As part of the 'Up & Coming - Giz a Touch' exhibition David Thomas Crawley invites you to leave a passport image as part of an ongoing project. Further details will be revealed at the Private View.

PARTICIPATORY PROJECT - ONGOING PROJECT

I am wanting to collect as many passport photographs that started on my MA Contemporary Fine Art project tilted 'Photo Booth'. These images can be ones that have been refused, rejected, used or recently taken etc. I have collected over 1,000 so far but want to try and make this 10,000!!!

By placing your image on this group you agree for myself (the artist) to use your image for exhibition purposes.

There are two ways in which this can be done:
1. Upload directly to facebook
2. Email: davidtcrawley@yahoo.co.uk OR upandcomingarts@gmail.com Subject Heading: 'Passport Photograph'

Please ensure that if you scan your passport picture that this is at 300dpi (dots per inch)

OR

A digital image of your face using a digital camera against a WHITE background

NB YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED WITH ANY THIRD PARTIES

Some of the images thus far where shown at 'happenstance' as part of my MA Show from 17th - 25th June 2009 at Sylvester Space, Sheffield.

OR

To show that you have been touched by the artwork 'become a part of the artwork'.

Either post to Domino Gallery or simply leave your passport image at the gallery.
Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR

Further details will be revealed at the exhibition opening on Sat 18th Sept 2010

Up & Coming partners with FOUND A POUND

Found a Pound is a creative treasure hunt to find hundreds or maybe thousands of pound coins hidden in art galleries and public spaces during the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.

The Biennial is the largest contemporary visual arts event in the UK, and one of the best attended in the world with 975,000 visits for the last event. Running, this year, from the 18th of September until the 28th November.

Artist and Found a Pound creator Rowan Seddon-Harvey says “The project aims to encourage giving and we will start by giving to YOU, British £1 coins. All you have to do is find them." Register on foundapound.com and be the first to receive a set of clues.

Each coin has a sticker directing finders to foundapound.com where visitors will find imaginative ways on how a simple pound coin can be used to make a real difference. “Don’t know your neighbours? Buy them a pound of sugar!”

Why a pound? Nearly a quarter of the worlds population lives on a pound a day or less. Spend the pound on anything at all, a cup of tea, a bar of chocolate or drop it in the hat of a busker. Although it's just small change, you could use it to make a bigger change.

Lose a few pounds by finding some pounds. "Our Gallery Walking Tour is a fantastic way to lose weight whilst seeing great art and hunting down our pound coins." Register on foundapound.com and receive a free printable guide, including a map with the best route for fitness, clues to help you find the pounds and information on the artists and exhibitions. Fitness gifts will also be hidden along the way to give you an extra boost.

Sign up for a free sticker sheet. Stick them on your own coins and pop to the shops with some art in your pocket, or organise a set of clues to create your own Find a Pound treasure hunt.

Quotes
“Great idea & the sort of quirky thing that can really grab peoples attention.” Ian Jackson, Director, Art in Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial Independents

“A bold and clever project. Go, find your pound!” Miguel Magalhaes, Art Director and Curator, Portugal

BBC Radio Merseyside

Have been on BBC Radio Merseyside today to promote our forthcoming exhibition talking with Andy Ball in Roger Phillips absence. Please click here and go to 1:28mins into the show and you should hear David Thomas Crawley talking about the forthcoming exhibition. This will be available for the forthcoming week.

'Up & Coming' - 'Giz a Touch'

Up & Coming ©2010
© Linacre Lane and Scouse Press

We can now announce the second 'Up & Coming' exhibition entitled Giz a Touch at Domino Gallery, Liverpool as part of the Liverpool Independents Biennial 2010.

'Giz a Touch' is a scouse colloquialism for ‘to give a helping hand.’ Crawley & Trappe (Up & Coming) and Felicity Wren (Domino Gallery) invite you to participate in a dialogue in an alternative space; a meeting place where a butty (sandwich) and a cuppa char (cup of tea) can be enjoyed alongside art. We invite passers by, strangers to the city and art lovers alike to be ‘touched’.

In response to the Liverpool Biennial theme:
“Touched presents artworks that affect the viewer through addressing a total context (mind, body and place: relatedness in space and time); artworks where investment and inscription, in the particular and the personal, affect the general and the social.” Liverpool Biennial

This is the second Up & Coming exhibition building upon the success of the 2008 exhibition held at Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool.

For further details on 'Up & Coming’ – 'Giz a Touch' please see our blog for an ongoing dialogue between artists and curators.

Exhibition contains works photography, video, text and screen printing.

Maria Cassidy (UK)
David Thomas Crawley (UK)
Sooim Jeong (S Korea)
Farzad Kohan (USA)
Michael J Mac Gabhann (IRE)
Claire McCarthy (UK)
Chris Pheysey (UK)
Sarah-Leanne Trappe (UK)
Jim Turner (UK)
Outcasting (UK)
*Outcasting is an online moving image gallery

Curated by Crawley & Trappe

Exhibition Dates:
Sat 18th Sept - Sat 27th Nov 2010 (closed Sunday)
Opening times: 11:00 to 17:00

Private View
Saturday 18th September 2010
19:00 - 21:00
Please email upandcomingarts@gmail.com for with subject heading 'Private View'

Domino Gallery, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool, L1 2SR MAP

Up & Coming Arts Launch Invite

Please email for guaranteed entry
email: upandcomingarts@gmail.com
subject: LIVERPOOL LAUNCH

Launch Night of Up & Coming Arts - Liverpool

LAUNCH NIGHT AND FUNDRAISER

3345 Parr Street,
Liverpool,
L1 4JN
Google Map

8:00pm - 3:00am

Musicians
MARK MAYHEM
ANNA ROGALA
ROB ROPER
JODY COOPER

DJs
DEEDOT
ORGE
Plus others

SATURDAY 1st MAY 2010
Email for flyer an invite: upandcomingarts@gmail.com
subject title LIVERPOOL LAUNCH NIGHT INVITE
FREE GUEST LIST WILL APPLY ON THE DOOR AS FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.

THE EVENT IS LIMITED TO 150 PLACES. There will be a guestlist with secret bands and DJs playing. The event will be free but director David Thomas Crawley is asking all to make a online contribution to help set up this exciting venture.

Up & Coming is in the process of setting up Up & Coming Arts as a social enterprise and its new website will launch in August 2010 ready for Liverpool Biennial 2010. Felicity Wren has kindly offered Domino Gallery, Liverpool as the venue of this exhibition for September-November 2010 and David is also working on other venues. CUC Liverpool at this stage will be hosting our Up & Coming Exhibition in December 2010 and January 2011 subject to contract.

Own It educational programme will run as a pilot programme in Nottingham NG1 and later in Liverpool L1.

2010 here we come. Keep up to date by joining our facebook page while we get our show on the road!!!!

BBC Radio Merseyside

Up & Coming Arts here we come!!!!

Talk with Roger Phillips at BBC Radio Merseyside listen in at 1h17mins!!!!!

This will be available until Wednesday 7th April 2010

Click here to listen

Own It and further developments during our setting up period

Own It and Up & Coming Arts will work in partnership as they get themselves Up & Running!

Own It Education Programme will be based solely in Nottingham NG1 and Liverpool L1 area of the cities. Steph Richards and Daljit Bruce are working on a programme for this and is talking to all concerned parties to get this off the ground. Our interests here are learners that fall out of the education system all together working within the creative industries for an accredited course! Further news to follow!

Up & Coming Arts will be based in Nottingham and Liverpool to begin with. David Thomas Crawley is working with 'the hatchery' at Sheffield Hallam University and various people in getting this idea up and running. With special thanks to Lewis Biggs at Liverpool Biennial for help and advice. David is contacting various other arts organisations in making this work for the North!

James Argyle is working on the new concept website as we speak. This is a task in itself and may take a little bit of time. Our 2008 website is still live so you may want to take a look as we update this. Please be patient as we are all working for free at this time!

SPONSORS, VOLUNTEERS, CURATORS, ADMINISTRATION, AND TO BE A PART OF UP & COMING ARTS

If you wish to be involved in some way for our coming events over the next few months please contact either David Thomas Crawley - Director or Steph Richards - Education Director on upandcomingarts@gmail.com

Further developments

We are in the process of setting up Up & Coming Arts to be based in Nottingham's NG1 area of the city.

We will be building links with CUC Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, New Art Exchange and various other organisations within the Nottingham city boundary. The north is the place to be!!!!

David Thomas Crawley is in the process of setting this venture with 'the hatchery' (part of Sheffield Hallam University setting up scheme).

Steph Richards and Daljit Bruce are helping making the educational remit of the company - offering Introductory and Level 1 Learners a way into the Arts as part of the overall scheme of Up & Coming Arts. We intend to build links with local schools, colleges, PRU etc. as part of our remit.

We will be running a PILOT scheme called Own It as part of our new Educational Programme in the NG1 area of Nottingham area of the city and L1 area of Liverpool.

Watch this space for further developments.....

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