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ART EXHIBITION at the Trafalgar Rowing Centre 11-13 Crane Street SE10 9NP  PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROL KENNA PAINTINGS BY STEVE LOBB  also open on JUNE 11th, 17th & 18th june FROM 2 TO 6PM  on SATURDAY JUNE 17 2017 FROM 6 TO 9 PM  at the Trafalgar Rowing Centre 11-13 Crane Street SE10 9NP  PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROL KENNA PAINTINGS BY STEVE LOBB also open on JUNE 11th, 17th & 18th june FROM 2 TO 6PM PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROL KENNA  PAINTINGS BY STEVE LOBB

Champagne Reception: Pink Bliss Sofia Cacciapaglia View this email in your browser THIS FRIDAY, CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION: 21st April from 6 - 9pm The Palm Tree Gallery  is pleased to present  PINK BLISS , a solo exhibition by Italian artist  Sofia Cacciapaglia . Influenced by 20th Century painters Sofia has created a new body of work for the exhibition that combines the Apollonian and Dionysian: the passionate culture of Sicily, ancient Greece and Mediterranean civilisations. For this show the artist has used strong tones of reds and pinks reinforcing her profound poetic sensibility. Sofia’s oil paintings depict female forms and flowers in a ‘figurative-symbolic’ style. Her use of diptychs and triptychs and the negative space around her confident brush strokes create an elegant and ethereal feeling. ‘The forms are imposing yet light, they inhabit an unreal, timeless space’. The classic figures suspended in the space compliment each other and soft...

Alexandra Harley MRBS www.alexandraharley.co.uk Currently My sculpture Bitan has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy summer exhibition Esclise has just finished being on show at the Chilli Gallery in Athens. This  sculpture won the Tassis prize and was cast by the Tassis Foundry in Greece    I am undertaking the AA2A fellowship at Chelmsford College until July 2017 Forthcoming I shall be showing with the Brancaster Chronicle Artists at the Heritage Gallery, Greenwich, London April 2017 https://brancasterchronicles. wordpress.com/ I shall be showing in Holborn Old Library, London in October 2017. I am returning to Anguilla in December to create a sculpture commemorating the 50th anniversary of independence.

C Comrade The inaugural Liberating Arts conference and arts festival will take place on the  3rd -5th November 2017 , at the University of Exeter. The 3-day event aims to connect the trade union movement with public educators, cultural workers and creative activists and explore the role of the arts and culture in the ongoing struggle for equality and social justice. We invite interested trade unionists, cultural workers, activists and educators, to propose workshops, performances, media screenings, exhibitions, discussions, lectures and networking events that they would like to host at the event. If you are a trade unionist, cultural worker or creative activist and would like to propose a session for Liberating Arts 2017 then please email the event Producer, Chris Jury, on   chris.jury@btinternet.com I f you wish to present an academic paper or other research-based event please email Dr Rebecca Hillman   r.a.hillman@exeter.ac. uk Please share far and...

DODO MODERN POETS   LIVE at the  KING &QUEEN        NATALIE KATSOU        Dodo debut for fine Athenian poet and theatre director       LISA KELLY             Welcome return from gifted performer and Torriano organiser         FRANCES WHITE            Reading from much lauded new collection,  Swiftscape          PATRIC CUNNANE   New and used verse from Folkestone's finest     OPEN-MIC SPOTS  sign up by 7.30                   Thursday 23 March 2017,  8pm The King & Queen, 1 Foley St, London, W1W 6DL £   7 &6 concessions - open-mic spots £4 Info: 01303 243868 ;  patric.poet@zen.co.uk Goodge Street t...

News from Grunwick 40 View this email in your browser A message from Grunwick 40 and mural artist Anna Ferrie Hello, especially to those who came to our mural workshops in Willesden last year. We wanted to let you know about progress with the Grunwick 40 commemorative mural as many of you have been asking for an update. We had hoped to have the mural up by now but issues with site permissions and bureaucracy have meant that we can't yet move forward to install the panels. However, the mural composite designs are done and incorporate all of the artwork that was produced in the workshops. We are working hard to speed up the process to ensure the mural can be installed and unveiled within the next few months and we hope be able to bring you a firm date soon. In the meantime, you may be interested in  The  Art of Protest event  later this month where we'll be discussing the different ways that art can be used to remember radical ...

Dear Friend, (A) Show Culture Some Love Conference We are pleased to be able to announce the provisional programme of speakers for the Show Culture Some Love Conference - which is taking place on  Saturday 25 March  in TUC Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS. To register for the conference, please email  sertuc@tuc.org.uk Conference Registration Registration on the day will  take place between  12 noon to 1.00pm . Free sandwiches and refreshments will be provided in Room 1. Conference Programme Megan Dobney, (SERTUC Regional Secretary) will open the conference. (a)  Main Session  ( 1.00-2.30pm ) Chair : Clara Paillard (President, PCS Culture Sector) Speakers : ·           Julie Ward, MEP Alan Gibbons (The Library Campaign) Hamida Ali (Equalities Officer, Equity) Hannah Bagua Lawson (National Museums Wales), BECTU Picturehouse campaign and Tate campaign (from the flo...