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FIRST WEDNESDAY:WITH POETS: SUE JOHNS DAVID FLOYD +SUSANNAH HART

SOUTH BANK POETS PRESENTS: FIRST  WEDNESDAY Wednesday 6 April 2016, 7:30 pm  –  9:30 pm SOUTH BANK POETS PRESENTS: FIRST  WEDNESDAY WITH POETS: SUE JOHNS DAVID FLOYD +SUSANNAH HART + OPEN MIC SLOTS  SIGN UP between 7-7.15 WITH A  7.30pm  START Hosted by Katherine Lockton

“Ann Kopka: Moving On Up Down Escalators”

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Art Exhibition Title:  “Ann Kopka: Moving On Up Down Escalators” Artist: Ann Kopka      Curator: Ann Kopka Venue: Cavendish Conference Centre 22 Duchess Mews London W1G 9DT Dates: 1 February – 27 May 2016 Viewing by appointment only. To view contact Jenny Hullock 020 7706 7700 Free admission Nearest underground station: Oxford Circus, Great Portland Street   Website: www.artcontemporary.co.uk Email: Ann@artcontemporary.co.uk         A solo art exhibition of more than twenty vibrant acrylic paintings, at the award winning Cavendish Conference Centre in central London, informed by Ann Kopka’s fascination with the interaction of geometry, design and architecture in the urban environment. Ann Kopka’s paintings in essence lean towards abstraction although deliberately hover between the representation of recognisable images and the non-traditional formal repetition of shapes and structures prevalent in abstract art.  There is

DODO MODERN POETS APRIL SAYERS

DODO MODERN POETS  APRIL SAYERS       Join us  on Friday 15th April  for a sparkling show at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden. Expect stellar performance poetry from a strong and varied bill.   SUE JOHNS        Cornish roots meet urban edge in finely crafted verse      TED SMITH-ORR          Croydon bard from 'Poets Anonymous'  steps into the limelight    LISA KELLY           Passionate & original work from dynamic Torriano organiser             PATRIC CUNNANE     Fab favourites and new gems from Folkestone's finest                  Friday 15th April  2016  8pm The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, WC2H 9BX £ 8 &7 concessions. Info: 01303 243868 ; patric.poet@zen.co.uk Covent Garden/Leicester Square tube. https://dodomodernpoets. wordpress.com dodo modern poets letting fly with words

Lucia Gomez studio party

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Disenchanted Forest, 2015, oil on canvas, 30x25cm Hello everyone! I will be moving to Dundee next month. For the occasion, I am organizing a studio party and everybody is invited to come to my studio in NW10 on the  1st of April at 6:30pm Other reasons to celebrate are that I am finalist for the Lynn Painter - Stainers Prize 2016 (for the ones that missed the exhibition at the Mall Galleries, there will be another one from the prize in Guildford next June -  for details click here ) and two of my paintings have been shortlisted for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Please confirm your assistance to:  info@luciagomez.net   Lucia www.luciagomez.net

art problem for Brent?

Former teacher calls for valuable art to be returned for pupils Paintings by Mary Fedden, worth up to £40,000, were removed by council during financial scandal and handed to a gallery see full story at  http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/12/teacher-valuable-art-returned-to-school-children and http://wembleymatters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/observer-reopens-mystery-of-mary-fedden.html

Gallery 106 is delighted to announce the exhibition CLOSE UP: Towards Midnight of Cary & Webb

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Caroline Cary, Concerto I, acrylic on canvas, 220x125cm Where: Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi Address: Cannaregio 4132, 30121 Venice Private View: Tuesday 22 March 2016 from 18:30 – 21:30 When: Wednesday 23 March – Saturday 2 April 2016 Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 12:00-18:00 also by appointment  Gallery 106 is delighted to announce the exhibition CLOSE UP: Towards Midnight of Cary & Webb organised in collaboration with Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi in Venice, Italy. CLOSE UP: Towards Midnight hints at the conflict between the hope of a dawning day and the darkness of night and impossibility of not to be aware of the suffering of the world we live in. This, as Caroline Cary expresses “emerges regardless, from the subconscious, in the form of pictures expressing a certain conflict between the joy of life and the shadow of pain”. A good example of this is picture “After Paris” Cary painted just after attack on Paris in November 2015. This exhibition is an

*Show Culture Some Love conference* *Saturday 12 March 2016*

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/ e/show-culture-some-love-no- to-austerity-arts-budget-cuts- tickets-21203096031 *Show Culture Some Love conference* * Saturday 12 March 2016 * *Venue: Trade Union Congress (TUC)* *Congress House, 23-28 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3LS* This is an event organised under the banner of the Show Culture Some Love campaign by the Southern & Eastern Region of the TUC’s Creative & Leisure Industries Committee (CLIC) and the PCS union Culture Group. Accessibility details can be found here: http://congresscentre.co.uk/ facilitydetails/3/7/35/ accessibility.aspx If you have other access requirements, can you please email SVolunteer@TUC.ORG.UK  and will try to plan accordingly. Note that unfortunately we are unable to provide signlanguage interpretor due to the lack of budget. Draft Programme *(1) **Opening Session – 11.30-13.00* It’s been claimed that George Osborne’s recent budget has “solved all our problems” in the arts & cu