*** South East Open Studios “Taster”***, 5 – 12 May
Dates for your diary…
Fri 30 Apr @ 6.30. Private view for Jack-in-the-Green. Mike Williams will give a demo of his work( suitably related). Mark Byrom will also exhibit his Moroccan crafts with mint tea.
Sat 1 May @5 pm. Poetry Group meets in AF2. Jack-in-the-Green weekend suggests English folk poetry and customs. May Day – left-wing poems !!
6 May @7 for 7.45.St Leonards Film Soc. “Precious” (15). 110 mins. Clareece “Precious” Jones’s story tells of torment, pain and cruelty turning to light, love and self-determination. Note. The fault in the projection of last week’s film has been identified as a broken lead, which has been replaced and we look forward to normal running.
Fri 7 May. 6.30 – 8.30. Private view for South East Open Studios.
Fri 14 May. 6.30. Private view for the Project Art Workshop exhibition.
Stop Press…
AGM – Reminder. The AGM is to be held on Tuesday25 May at 7 pm in the Azur. We need a good attendance to ensure a quorum, currently 47 members. Detailed instructions regarding the AGM to follow. Nominations for the committee and the office-bearers, Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, proposed and seconded must be received in the Forum by 5 pm, Friday 14 May.
South East Open Studios. This is an appeal for images to publicise SEOS Taster exhibition, 5-12 May. Please email images with title and name of artist.
Poetry Group will next meet on Sat 5 Jun at the earlier time of 4 pm in AF2.
The Group is pleased to announce it is taking part in the Rosetti concert at Clements Church during the last week of May. Details to follow.
Bruce Williams is lending five new “religious” paintings to the exhibition at St Clements Church to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Rosetti’s marriage to Lizzie Sidall.
Members’ Show.
Surnames A-L, 8 – 16 June.
Surnames M-Z, 15 – 22 June.
Each year the Forum hosts a members’ show. Members are entitled to submit one work free of charge. We do, however, ask for a donation towards the cost of the private view. We are preparing instructions on how to prepare work for hanging, which will be posted shortly on the website.
Showing Now….
Jack-in-the-Green in AF1 and 2, 28 April – 5 May. See http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/category/events/
Kim Thrower in AF4. (ONE sandwich bar at No1, London Road )
Art Exhibitions at One Café, One London Road, St Leonards On Sea
See http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/category/events/
Coming up…
South East Taster in AF1 and AF2, 5 – 12 May . This exhibition is in two parts. AF1 hosts the “taster” for SE Open Studios (where artists in the South East open their studios to visitors on the first two weekends of June). see http://www.seos-art.org/ . In AF2 you can find artists, not participating in the official SEOS programme but who welcome visits by arrangement and at other times of the year.
Project Art Workshop (PAW) in AF1 and AF2, 12 – 26 May. This promises to be a really interesting show. PAW has mentored six artists with special learning difficulties and complex needs over 18 months. The six artists are young adults who never thought of themselves as artists, but have constantly surprised themselves under the careful mentoring of Tony Colley. PAW is producing a catalogue of the exhibition. As an example of the care and detail of the mentoring, PAW has built a scale model of both AF1 and 2 with scale models of the exhibits in their planned location s on the walls.
For further info on PAW see http://www.projectartworks.org/index.htm
Katherine Reekie in AF1 26 May – 9 Jun
“From this point on” (Photography, Hastings College) in AF2, 26 May – 2J.
Elaine Short and Robin Muckle in AF2, 2 – 9 Jun.
Members Show ( Surnames A-L) in AF 1/2, 9 – 16 Jun
Members Show (Surnames M – Z) in AF1 and AF2, 16 – 23 Jun
Max Irwin in AF1, 23 – 30 Jun.
Sue Jones in AF2. 23 – 30 Jun.
Members’ Annnouncements…
Transport of art objects. We have received a mailshot from Cadogan Tate advertising affordable rates, including rates for small packages within the UK. Email s.fanning@cadfogantate.com
Elli Angel posts I am dealing with a very ugly plan to Concrete the Convent opposite where I live in Magdalen Road.
We have a small group called M.A.R.A and we have been encouraged by STAG to get all the support we can to stop this, so I am asking for help in any way The Arts Forum might be able to offer to highlight the terrible plans.
We are a Conservation Area and they want to put hundreds of houses and flats on a playing field that had been promised to the small school at the top of the site.
The info on all the plans and the planning department contact address and e mail site for complaints are included in this e mail and are pretty thorough, and we have a dead line of 14th May, so if this is something The Forum could help with, I hope to hear from you soon.
See the plans at http://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/view_applications.aspx
Hastings Council is to make a decision soon. If you disagree with the proposals, PLEASE WRITE to: dcenquiries@hastings.gov.uk
Vanessa Fowler posts. I have six light boxes for sale. Size 48 x 18ins. Contact Vanessa on 0773298763.
uliette Dodd is running a summer school on “Portraits in oils” . Sessions will be held on Tuesdays over six weeks beginning 8 June until 13 July. Two live models. Cost £70. Tel ; (01424) 424010 or 07900 466709.
Anna Casson posts : I am a Life and portrait model. Tel; 07791794103
Models Sought Juliette Dodd wants models to pose for portraits. Models who can keep still may be paid. Further info (01424 424010)
FILM
St Leonards Film Society. Future Screenings.( All in AF1 @7.30)
Future screenings are on Thursdays at 7.45 pm (doors open at 7 pm – to meet and socialize).
6 May. “Precious” (15). 110 mins. Clareece “Precious” Jones’s story tells of torment, pain and cruelty turning to light, love and self-determination.
20 May. “The Headless Woman / La Mujer Sin Cabeza” (12A) 89 mins. Incredible mysteryfrom Director Lucretia Martel. Definitely not one to miss! Spanish with English subtitles.
Tickets are £3.50 and £2.50 (members). Annual membership is £15.00 and £25.00 (a couple living at the same address).
