Category : Events

Grand Union Christmas Party 15.12.11

Oh Come all ye and join us at Grand Union 9:30pm on Thursday 15 December for our Christmas Party (after the Extra Special People Christmas Quiz at Eastside Projects from 6:30pm). Featuring more artist DJs than you can shake a shiny stick at.

FELABRATION with Dele Sosimi Ensemble 14.10.11

Its always time for some Afrobeat, so why not join us for a celebration of Fela Kuti’s birthday on Friday 14th October at the Hare and Hounds.

Punch, leftfoot and Mostly Jazz presents Fela Kuti’s Birthday tribute concert is the annual event to celebrate the originator of Afrobeat. Led by Fela’s Egypt 80 keyboardist and musical director of award winning musical “FELA”, Dele Sosimi who moved to London in 1995 from Nigeria, stands out as one of the most active musicians currently on the Afrobeat scene worldwide. His dedication to Afrobeat has contributed to the development of many musical influences and interests in multi-cultural London. Covering a collection of Fela’s greatest works and tracks from Dele’s critically acclaimed albums “Identity” and “Turbulent Times”.

tickets £10 (ticketsellers)

Eastside Projects Opening: Narrative Show Friday 13 May 6-8pm Free Public Event

Opening: Narrative Show & Poster Club
Friday 13 May
6-8pm
Eastside Projects

FREE PUBLIC EVENT

Helen Brown, Dora Garcia, Nathaniel Mellors, Jonathan Monk,
Heather & Ivan Morison, Raimundas Malasauskas, Apexa Patel,
Sally O’Reilly, John Russell, Henrik Schrat, Jemima Stehli,
Plus: FREEE & William Pope.L.       & …

14 May – 9 July 2011 (Act 2: 15 July – 10 September 2011)

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Eastside Projects: Curators’ Introduction Thursday 12 May 6:30-8pm

Curators’ Introduction: Narrative Show & Poster Club
Thursday 12 May
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects

Free to Members or £4/£2 Concessions

Gavin Wade introduces the new exhibition at Eastside Projects: Narrative Show.

Featuring: Helen Brown, Dora Garcia, Nathanial Mellors, Jonathan Monk, Heather & Ivan Morison, Raimundas Malasauskas, Sally O’Reilly, John Russell, Henrik Schrat & Jemima Stehli,
Plus: FREEE & William Pope.L.

Second Gallery: Poster Club

Extra Special People

Eastside Projects

Eastside Projects: Self Assembly TONIGHT 6:30-8pm

Self Assembly
Thursday 5 May
6.30-8pm
Eastside Projects

ESP members are invited to pitch ideas for Self Assembly Salon events to the rest of the group over a bowl of soup at this informal, social event. Pitches might be for a one-off event or a series of Salons. If your idea is successful you will be supported by ESP and Eastside Projects as you organise and host your event/s, giving you the opportunity to start conversations, make connections, hear about particular aspects of practice or explore ideas that you are interested in.

To book a ‘pitch’ or find out more email info@extraspecialpeople.org

VIVID’ is In Association With… 2011

VIVID is pleased to announce the artists selected for creative support scheme ‘In
Association with…’ Launched in 2009, ‘In Association with…’ is central to artist support at VIVID, and combines access to VIVID expertise and facilities with opportunities to present and test work with the public. The scheme encourages risk taking and supports interdisciplinary practice and emerging projects and partnerships.

In 2011 the scheme will support Eitan Buchalter, Companis, and Ayo & Oni Oshodi.

The inaugural commission of ‘In Association with…’ 2011 is Veer, a new work by live artist Eitan Buchalter. An important aspect of Buchalter’s practice is implicating the audience within the structure of the performance thereby forcing them to perform. This places the response of the audience at the centre of the work. Developed in collaboration with Fierce, Veer is a subtle yet radical public intervention on Saturday 05 March, which sees him
interrupt Birmingham City Football fans en route to St Andrews.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/veer-eitan-buchalter

From July-August 2011, VIVID welcomes Companis, a nomadic practice working between the interstices of artistic and curatorial practice. Companis, meaning to ‘break bread with someone’ was formed in 2009 and comprises Kaye Winwood and Siân Tonkin, who develop participatory artworks and experiences and engage audiences in acts of social or relational participation; specifically exchanges involving gift-giving, gestural or transient acts such as
eating, play and conversation.

For the final commission of 2011, VIVID are joined by twin sisters Ayo & Oni Oshodi whose practice centres on observations of behaviour in public and communal spaces while hidden. These observations are often noted and re-distributed in the site they were originally observed. Ayo & Oni usually hide within the environment they are focusing on, converting disused space into an observation outpost. Parallel to their visual arts practice, Ayo & Oni
write film-scripts and are currently working collaboratively on a novel.

To follow the progress of the ‘In Association with…’ artists, please visit www.vivid.org.uk

Graham Ball at Grand Union

The series of Live Acts and Sound continues at Grand Union this week end with Graham Ball, a collaboration between Cara Tolmie and Paul Abbott.

Episode 2 takes place on Saturday 7-9pm, followed by Episode 1 on Sunday afternoon 2-4pm.

Hope to see you there…

For more info see http://www.graham-ball.net and www.grand-union.org.uk

VIVID’s Nightmare Before Christmas

Join VIVID on Saturday 18th December (8.30pm – late) for Nightmare Before Christmas, a Christmas knees up to mark the close of its 2010 programme. 

Nightmare Before Christmas will play host to a warped line up of winter horror, creepy electronica and spectral pop with DJ sets from COLOUR ; Lärmlicht; John Napier and Dan Le Trap  – expect a heady mix of jagged, dark, and drowsy sounds combined with intense, psychedelic, and ethereal footage. To get you in the mood, The Princes of Risborough have compiled ‘Jugend Horror Mix’ – a free playlist available for download.

Tickets cost £5 and are available in advance from theticketsellers.co.uk.

 The party closes VIVID’s LANGUAGE season (03-18 December 2010) which ends with work and performance by artist Aura Satz (http://www.iamanagram.com/index1.html). Satz’s work explores ghostly presence and illusions through performance and sound and is often focussed on unusual sonic devices, early musical instruments and automata.

Nightmare Before Christmas is presented as part of ‘The Garage Presents’, a brand new strand of one off events embracing music, live arts, installation, performance, digital and sonic media. Join VIVID’s mailing list at www.vivid.org.uk to keep up to date with all future events.

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VIVID | 140 HEATH MILL LANE | DIGBETH | BIRMINGHAM | B9 4AR

T: 0121 766 7876 | E: info@vivid.org.uk | www.vivid.org.uk

Exclusive Matthew Barney film

Lichens (aka Rob Lowe) is scarily busy: he was the bassist and vocalist in 90 Day Men, has collaborated with the pretty brilliant Explosions in the Sky, Om and TV on the Radio and, amid all the band hopping, has released two of his own LP’s.  True to form, he’s not content with just playing at Supersonic he is also curating a number of film screenings in the theatre space under the title Outer Limits.

Outer Limits is an exploration of contemporary works dealing with observations and ritual practices in connection with the natural world and the cosmic plane.

Subtle, glacial and turbulent, like the simple seismic shift of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara’s “Earthquakes Agave” , or the deep breathed bliss of Sabrina Ratté’s “Mirages”. These video works provide an open door into the next phases of image capture, while embracing the history of the medium.

With Paul Clipson and Rose Kallal both working in a multiple image16mm film format, it makes for a warm and saturated feel that is properly visceral. You truly understand the intuition and process both attribute to their craft as they immerse themselves in the violence and awe of nature and what is unknown.

The centerpiece of this program is “Guardian of the Veil”. Matthew Barney’s first in a series collaborations with Jonathan Bepler that will be seven performances to convey the stages of Norman Mailer’s novel “Ancient Evenings”. This documentation is a performance at the Manchester Opera House in 2007. With precision of form, Barney gives a nod to the old Gods, while presenting Egyptian ceremonial rites from his own perspective, and a fresh one at that.

This will be an exclusive screening, as this has not been shown in a format larger than a video monitor as of yet.
Taking place on Sunday 24th October in the Theatre Space as part of Supersonic Festival
Tickets are available HERE

New additions to Supersonic Festival

DAY TICKETS RELEASED FOR
SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL 2010

FINAL ACTS ADDED TO LINE-UP

KING MIDAS SOUND / ZENI GEVA / CLOAKS (exclusive solo DJ set) /
FACTORY FLOOR / NISENNENMONDAI / MUGSTAR /  DEVILMAN / PETER BRODERICK PIERRE BASTIEN + MALE INSTRUMENTY / FUKPIG  / LASH FRENZY vs KK NULL /
KHYAM ALLAMI AND MASTER MUSICIANS OF UKKAKE PRESENT: BOSPHOREAN  / MONARCH/ DEAD FADER / STINKY WIZZLETEAT

Joining confirmed acts including:
NAPALM DEATH / GODFLESH / SWANS
HALLOGALLO – Michael Rother + Friends present the music of NEU!

PEOPLE LIKE US / DEMONS (W/SICK LLAMA) / OvO / PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES / DOSH / TWEAK BIRD / DRUMCORPS / CAVE / PCM / JAILBREAK FEAT. CHRIS CORSANO + HEATHER LEIGH / MELT BANANA / JAMES BLACKSHAW / LICHENS / BONG / GNOD / VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS / NECRO DEATHMORT / GNAW / EAGLE TWIN / BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI

Tickets on sale now from:
www.theticketsellers.co.uk
www.seetickets.com

Friday: £20, Sat/Sun: £35, Weekend: £75

Following the news that the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival will be headlined by NAPALM DEATH, SWANS, GODFLESH and HALLOGALLO, Capsule are pleased to announce that a limited number of individual day tickets are now on sale, priced £20 (Friday) and £35 (Saturday/Sunday), with weekend tickets on sale at £75.

Friday night will be headlined by Birmingham extreme metallers Napalm Death, Saturday by Godflesh, for their first UK appearance in over 10 years, and Sunday by two equally unmissable acts, Swans and Hallogallo 2010 – Michael Rother + friends play the music of NEU!

Supersonic are also excited to reveal the final round of incredible artists who will be appearing at this year’s festival. From Doom to dun step and folk, Supersonic 2010 is set to cement the festival’s reputation as one of the most original and eclectic music festivals in the UK.

Regarded as pioneers of experimental music by the likes of Sonic Youth and Merzbow, KK Null’s incredible collective Zeni Geva will be bringing their prog-hardcore to the Supersonic stage, and KK will also be appearing alongside Birmingham sound artist, Lash Frenzy, in a truly unmissable performance. Also confirmed, Kevin Martin, creator of experimental dancehall project The Bug, with his incredible, critically acclaimed new project, King Midas Sound.

Aggressive, noisy and hailed by many as the successor to Napalm Death, Fukpig will be playing their new breed of Birmingham grindcore, along with heavy, heavy dub from Devilman aka DJ Scotch Egg and Dokkebi Q. Also confirmed, Monarch, with the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum.
Following a knock-out 2009 performance, Nisennenmondai return, bringing their driving rhythm section and metallic guitar sound, along with Mugstar, who will be playing their unique underground mix of psychedelia and krautrock.  Also confirmed, the most exciting new band to come out of London, Factory Floor, who will also be putting in one of their legendary brutal, live performances, and there will be an unmissable Cloaks DJ set from Steve Cloaks, who will be playing strictly Cloaks material only, in an exclusive performance for Supersonic 2010. There will also be heaviness, good times and volume a-plenty from Birmingham’s very own Stinky Weezleteet and distorto-death groves from Brighton’s Dead Fader.
World music meets psychedelic rock in a unique performance from Khyam Allami and Master Musicians of Bukkake, combining the sublime Oud playing of Iraqi musician Khyam Allami with the 7-piece out rock unit, Master Musicians of Bukkake. French composer and surrealist inventor Pierre Bastien will also be bringing his musical machinery, which he has been making since the 1970s, and will share the bill with Male Instrumenty, the fantastic five-piece orchestra of toys and small instruments from Poland. Also, the “painfully young and unnervingly talented” American multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, who will be exploring minimalism and instrumentalism with tinges of folk.

For further details check out our website www.supersonicfestival.com