Get into SHAPe - News for Southampton s Cultural People

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1 Get into SHAPe - News for Southampton s Cultural People southamptonshape@googl .com Third Edition 7 September 2009 Join the debate: The difficult third album Remember to send any information that you want listed in the SHAPe newsletter to this address (it s a new one): southamptonshape@googl .com If there are any other things you d like to see listed apart from events, activities and news - send them through. The newsletter belongs to you, SHAPe members. And: Make sure you spread this information to anyone you think may be interested. If one of your friends has passed this message on to you and you want to join the SHAPe list, contact: southamptonshape@googl .com. 1) Music in the City - Launches this Saturday (12 September). Saturday 12 th September sees the launch of Music in the City an exciting new project bringing music to the whole of Southampton From amateur to professional and from ancient vault to modern office, the people will be the performers and the city the stage. Working within every level of community Music in the City will inspire hidden talent to pick up and instrument and encourage people to play in public for the first time. Music in the City will promote the health benefits of music, such as the positive effects it can have on mental heath, agility and general wellbeing. From 11am to 3pm, this Saturday an eclectic mix of Southampton artists will perform in these city centre locations: 113 East Street Southampton St St Michael the Archangel Church, Bugle Street, Southampton (11-2pm)

2 Quilter s Vault, High Street, Southampton Holyrood Church ruins, High Street, Southampton Southampton Central Railway Station footbridge Red Funnel Terminal Naomi House Moonlight walk, Southampton Sports Centre (8pm) PERFORMERS Ocean Harmony Central Hall Community Gospel Choir Psalm Drummers ATTO / CoMA Ensemble Love Soul Gospel Choir Botyov 1791 Brian Hooper Nick Tann Rick Tarrant (from Contraband) James Chorey Steve Daniels Jackie Daniels Hosted by Southampton City Council this sample launch will enable the team to plan further events and build towards a much larger Music in the City in the autumn of For more information visit Contact: musicinthecity@southampton.gov.uk 2) Volunteers urgently needed for Southampton s Medieval Heritage Open Days event on 12 and 13 September Find out what goes on behind the scenes at a heritage event and meet the City s museum staff. If you re interested in a career in the Museums and Heritage sector, then volunteering will add to your CV and you may make some useful contacts. Speak to: Esta Mion-Jones Business Development Manager Arts & Heritage, Civic Centre, Southampton, SO14 7LP Tel esta.mion-jones@southampton.gov.uk (please mention you saw the info in the SHAPe newsletter) 3) New programme of courses at Red Hot Press First course: Printmaking for Beginners.

3 A fun and informal introduction to the basics of printmaking. During this 6 week course you will learn the techniques of Etching, Drypoint, Monoprinting and Linocutting - all very different and all very accessible. We will start off with Drypoint - learning how to make a basic line and introducing tone, inking up in one colour and then progressing onto multi coloured plates. Followed by Etching, once again starting with a single line and then moving on to tone. Next, linocuts where you will discover the delights of this wonderfully graphic way of working and you will make a two colour print We ll finish with Monoprinting - learning basic techniques and then using the plates you have made in previous weeks to create accomplished colourful prints. The course starts on Monday 14th September from 10am - 1pm and finishes on 19th October. All materials are provided. The course costs 115 If you are interested in signing up you can visit our website and print off a booking form and send it to us with your cheque. katherine@redhotpress.org.uk Join our Red Hot Press Facebook group and keep up to date with all the news! 4) Useful links for Social Enterprises: 5) Celebratory and Outdoor Performance Online Resource (COPOR) has gone live: As well as being free, the website provides an easy to use and flexible networking and archiving tool for artists, producers and enthusiasts of outdoor and celebratory arts. As well as promoting events, it will provide dynamically linked archives and create a record or the sector's work, networks and artists. There is also an opportunity to advertise up-coming projects. Be one of the first to use the website and get yourself known! g.p.carver@kent.ac.uk if you have any questions or problems setting yourself up on the site. Message from: Gavin Carver, Director of Event and Experience Design, School of Arts, University of Kent.

4 6) Youth Music's Open Programme is now open for ONLINE applications Youth Music's Open Programme provides grants of between 5,000 and 30,000. It aims to increase the number of children and young people with access to high quality, sustainable music making activities across England. We are keen to fund projects which clearly progress the musical skills of children and young people and/or provide them with pathways for further progression. We are also interested in projects which are particularly distinctive or innovative in their approach. Our Open Programme targets nearly 2m of Youth Music's funding towards projects that support our goals of: Early Years - advancing the learning and development of all children in their early years (0-5) by aiming to ensure universal access to high quality music making in England Challenging Circumstances - improving the life chances of children and young people in the most challenging circumstances by supporting them to achieve their full potential through engagement and progression in music making Encouraging Talent and Potential - realising the musical talent and potential of children and young people by ensuring opportunity for all to develop their talent regardless of background or chosen genre Workforce Development - enabling the highest quality music making by developing a diverse, highly skilled and inspirational workforce If you would like to know more about the programme or to take a look at our marvellous new online application form, please take a look at the Open Programme page on our website: tml Christina McQuaid Regional Executive Officer for the South East, East (Kent, Medway, Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex, Surrey) Tel: ) Black History Month Southampton October 09 Black History Month Guide 2009 will be published in September free of charge and will available from libraries and other venues. Black History Month 2009 is dedicated to the concept of Heroes and many of the events and activities relate to that theme The aim of Black History Month is: To promote knowledge of black history and experience. To disseminate information on positive black contributions

5 To heighten confidence and awareness of black people in their cultural heritage Positive Message Limited are the main sponsors, together with Southampton Solent University, Western Challenge Housing Association and Swaythling Housing Society. Other Southampton organizations have been very generous in their support. For further details please contact: Jayanti Shah-Positive Message Limited Don John-Southampton City Council ) Curate a Hayward Touring Exhibition Hayward Touring invites proposals for an exhibition to be shown in four UK galleries in 2010/11. You don't have to be a professional exhibition maker to propose an idea. We welcome innovative proposals from artists, writers and imaginative thinkers of all kinds, as well as from people working in galleries and museums. It may be a show you have never seen but would like to; there may be a theme or tendency in contemporary art and visual culture that you think deserves to be explored in new ways. Simply describe your project in no more than 600 words, and accompany it with an initial list of artists and a selection of images. The exhibition will tour to: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; QUAD, Derby; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno; Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum. The successful applicant will receive an honorarium of 3,000 plus 1,000 for research and travel expenses. S/he will work in collaboration with Hayward Touring and the participating galleries on an exhibition of around square metres, to open in July The exhibition budget will allow for some international loans and a modest publication. The selection panel will include the Director, Hayward Gallery, Senior Curator, Hayward Touring, an artist (to be announced) and representatives of the participating galleries. Application deadline: 5pm, Monday 21 September 2009 Short-listing: late September 2009 Interviews: mid October 2009 Download the application form and guidelines from the website or contact curatorialopen@southbankcentre.co.uk for details.

6 Please visit our website for details of the first Hayward Touring: Curatorial Open exhibition, Quiet Revolution curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak, which opened at Milton Keynes Gallery in July 2009 and will tour to Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston and Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham. 9) Cultural Choice of the week # 1 (from Edward Chaney): The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards (Hamish-Hamilton, 1981) Part of an article written by Edward Chaney about G B Edwards: When in March 1981, almost five years after the death of its author, Hamish Hamilton published the first edition of The Book of Ebenezer le Page, scarcely a punctuation mark needed altering. As with Lampedusa, who likewise wrote a retrospective novel set in the island of his birth but based on a lifetime s reading and experience of the world, when in his old age Gerald Edwards concluded his magnum opus he made sure that the completeness and quality of his work justified the unsatisfactory nature of his life. Both men thereby more than justified George Eliot s dictum: It is never too late to be what you might have been. Both men had published a few articles in the 1920s and 30s. Then, towards the ends of their lives both men completed a single great novel. It was rejected by the major publishers they admired: in Lampedusa s case: Mondadori and Einaudi; in Gerald s: Fabers, Capes, Cassells and Calder and Boyars, and then they died. After their death, forgotten by almost all but their adoptive heirs, their novels were published to great acclaim: Lampedusa s Gattopardo (or The Leopard) in 1957; The Book of Ebenezer le Page, 24 years later 10) Cultural Choice of the week # 2 (from Esta Mion-Jones) Laura Vane and the Vipertones - new album out now! Send your Cultural Choice to southamptonshape@googl .com 11) Thought for the week # 3 "There are two motives to action: self-interest and fear" - Napoleon.