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Straight No Chaser Headz + Swifty Remixes opens on 16th July

Headz!: The Photographic Art of Peter Williams – A Reflection on the Straight No Chaser Years
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The Swifty Remixes

Music photographer Peter Williams’ iconic images for the late-lamented Straight No Chaser magazine will be exhibited at The Sauce Gallery, Custard Factory from July. The images will feature as part of a double-bill exhibition commissioned by Punch Records, including Williams’ original images and remixes by the magazine’s former creative director, Swifty.

Scan through the back issues of the magazine and youll be blown away by the radical combinations of typografix and photography. Swifty has taken these classic spreads one step further and included in Headz are a selection of Peter Williams classics that have been specially remixed for the occasion.

The Exhibition opens on 16^th July at the Sauce Gallery, 5 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AA.

Opening times: 10am – 6pm.

For more information please vist

http://punch-records.co.uk/

At the Edge…

As part of this year’s BASS Festival, we’ve hooked up with fellow ‘weareeastsiders’ Punch to present an exhibition by Bulgarian artist, Raycho Stanev.  ‘The Great Excursion’ is an interactive media exhibit examining a period in recent Bulgarian history when over 300,000 Bulgarian Turks were expelled from the country on what the government called an ‘excursion’ – which normally means you can return – but not in this case.  In a period of time when the BNP have been talking of repatriation policies, and belts are tightening, these issues are very relevant to us as we look for ways to come together, when external forces seem to be forcing us apart.  The Great Excursion launches on Thursday 3rd June at 6pm with a panel discussion looking at issues of identity, race and nationality – a great panel featuring Mukhtar Dar, Ammo Talwar, Paul Murphy, Paradox and more tba, should provide some ‘lively’ discussion. The debate will be followed by Bulgarian food, drink and dancing – our seminars and talks are a lot more fun than you might think!

The Great Excursion by Raycho Stanev

The Great Excursion will be at the Edge from 3rd until 19th June, from 1pm until 7pm.  Please check out some of the other great events happening as part of BASS, full listings here.

Flatpack Festival at Ikon Eastside

Ikon has teamed up with organisers 7 Inch Cinema to present a series of events at Ikon Eastside as part of this year’s Flatpack Festival, which takes place between 23-28 March 2010.

Festival highlights at Ikon Eastside include the UK premier of Redmond Entwistle’s film Monument, showing as part of Build Them in the Mind on Friday 26 March. The film, currently showing in New York, tells the story of post-minimalist artists Dan Graham, Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark, who wander the New Jersey suburbs revisiting the places where they made site-specific works in the late sixties and early seventies. The film’s themes – abandoned buildings, architecture, urban planning – reflect some of the wider concerns of this year’s festival.

Look out also for David Lodge’s As I Was Walking Down Bristol Street (1983), an insight into Birmingham’s cultural scene in the 1930s, Whatever! a doublebill of filth and fantasy including Cody Critcheloe’s first feature-length movie Boy (2009) and a rare screening of John Water’s legendary Pink Flamingos (1972), and Burning (2009), an intense monochrome record of Scottish post-rockers Mogwai in action. The screening will be introduced by Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai.

Full listings for Flatpack Festival at Ikon Eastside can be found here.

Tickets cost £6 each or £20 for four screenings

23–28 March 2010
Ikon Eastside, 183 Fazeley Street
Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5SE