Creative Egremont Blog
A blog about Creative Egremont and related stuff: a year-long programme of public art with a difference, in Egremont in West Cumbria.
Come to the Folk Fair today
6 exhibitors, home-made refreshments, MacBeth - what more could you ask for on a summer’s day?!
10 - 6 at Egremont Market Hall, Egremont followed by a poetry reading at Lowes Court Gallery across the road at 6.30....
Posted by: Admin
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Watch the webcast here today!
From 12-5 today ‘The New Public Art’ will be the hot topic live from Egremont with Jeremy Deller, Alan Kane, Will Bradley and Clair Bishop with Grizedale Arts’ Alistair Hudson.
Click here to view
You can email us questions for the panel at alistairhudson@creative-egremont.org
Posted by: Admin
Friday, June 16, 2006
EGREMONT 06: The Folk Art Weekender
Phew. A busy week planning the Weekender events - we hope you can make it!
TIMETABLE:
Friday 16th June // 10am - 6pm
THE NEW PUBLIC ART webcast debate in collaboration with Cumbria Institute of the Arts with curators Claire Bishop and Will Bradley with artists Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane
WEBCAST LINK HERE ON FRIDAY!
Friday 16th June // 7.30pm - 8pm
LOCAL FILM PREMIERE
“Face Off” - acclaimed documentary about Egremont’s ‘gurners’ (face-pullers). Free entry & director’s introduction
Egremont Market Hall, Market Street, Egremont
Saturday 17th June // 10am - 6pm
FOLK ART FAIR
An extraordinary exhibition of 8 artists / craftspeople - Egremont and area’s hidden talent. Refreshments & free entry.
Highlights include live craft demonstrations (from fly-tying to rug-making...), home-made local baking and a visit from the Cumbrian MacBeth
Egremont Market Hall, Market Street, Egremont
Saturday 17th June // 6.30pm - 7.30pm
POETRY READING at Lowes Court Gallery, 12 Main Street, Egremont. Free entry
Lowes Court Gallery (2 minutes walk from Market Hall), Main Street, Egremont
Sunday 18th June // 2pm
LIVE THEATRE The Friends of Egremont Castle present The Miner’s Lamp Company’s production ‘Tis Macbeth Marra’
Tickets: £5 Adults, £3 concessions, £1 full time education
For tickets contact Lowes Court Gallery-01946820693
Egremont Castle, Main Street, Egremont (if bad weather Egremont Market Hall, Market Street, Egremont)
Posted by: Admin
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Getting going
Well, now that we are a couple of months into the project, things are shaping up somewhat. We’ve been planning the
Folk Art Fair on June 16 at Egremont Market Hall
and the Public Art Conference the day before - an innovative ‘webinar’ facilitated by the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, where our speakers come to Egremont but the audience don’t: They stay in the comfort of their armchairs / office chairs and watch the proceedings online. We’ll show an archive of the day to the public during the Fair on the Saturday too.
We have also had some great chats with Ralph and Rob Merrett regarding the plans for a permanent Folk Archive in the town, combining some of artist Jeremy Deller’s collection (of the same name), and the vast local archive.....all we need to do is get them onto paper and out to potential funders! We want to highlight the towns ‘now’ scene too though, creating a venue where artists-in-residence can work, and where the young people of the town can be part of an ongoing archive of their culture.
Other good contacts have been made with many local people who want to get involved, with the Friends of Egremont Castle, Wyndham School Gardening Club and the local youth clubs.....
Posted by: Admin
Wednesday, May 10, 2006