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ART AWARDS FOR THE OVER 60's
www.eacartawards.org.uk
There will be prizes of at least £250 in each of the following categories:
Landscape/Seascape, Watercolour, Oil, Portrait (any medium), Still Life (any medium), Drawing, Photography, 3D work.
£9 per entry, reduction for multiple entries.

Approximately 100 finalists'works will be included in the EAC Over 60's Art Awards exhibition at the Bankside Gallery, 48, Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH from 2-6 December 2009.
The Meanwhile Project

MEANWHILE:

in the intervening time; during the interval; while something else happens.

Something is happening on the high street.
Empty shops are spreading as the recession bites hard.
They spoil town centres and destroy social and economic value.
Either we can sit tight and let town centres remain blighted by empty properties until a commercial use reappears. Landlords will bear the cost of an unproductive asset.
Pedestrians will have to put up with shuttered facades and lack of life on the street.
Or, MEANWHILE, we can do something about it, re-animate these spaces with temporary projects that allowlocal people and community groupsto experiment with new projects and enterprises, relieve the burden for landlords of an empty property and support the surviving businesses on the high street by stimulating new footfall and users in the town centre.


The Meanwhile Project has been set up following the launch of 'Looking after our town centres' on 14 April 2009includingthe empty shops revival plan to prevent high street decline.

Development Trusts Association is leading the Meanwhile Project as part of its wider Advancing Assets for Communities programme supported by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)The Meanwhile Project is currently in the first phase of work to explore, develop, and test meanwhile approaches in several towns throughout the country, gathering information about who is already doing what, and developing the meanwhile lease document prior to more formal pilots and wider promotion later this year. Meanwhile Space CIC are providing project support.

We believe that… empty properties spoil town centres, destroy economic and social value. Vibrant community uses will benefit existing shops, as well as the wider town centre, through increased footfall, bringing life back to the high street and making better use of resources overall.

We can make it easier for all involved, through a simplified legal instrument (the ‘meanwhile lease’), to be used either directly between the owner and the community occupier, or via an intermediary, such as a local authority or a local charity.




http://www.meanwhile.org.uk/6.htm

Pop up Galleries
This is an interesting idea for improvised gallery space and to create an 'event' which would generate business for all.

Graphic art lovers, ahoy! There's a new pop-up store in town and it's called KIN. The shop is situated just off London's Carnaby Street in Kingly Court and is set up like a gallery, full of affordable graphic art, sculpture, clothing, homewares and assorted ephemera, created by a host of illustrators, designers and printmakers such as Swifty, Rose Stallard of Print Club, Si Scott, Steven Wilson, RYCA, PhlAsh (Phil Ashcroft) and many more... The gallery/shop space is the fruition of a collaboration between London design agency Start Creative, art collective Scrawl, design consultancy JudgeGill and illustration agency Breed, and as well as a place to find some great gift ideas in the run up to Christmas, KIN will also be hosting a number of events that will include live art activity, light and sound installations, book launches (Scrawl head honcho, Ric Blackshaw and writer Liz Farrelly launch their new book, Street Art: In The Artists' Own Words next Thursday) and even charitable auctions. A similar project in the U.S.
each artist will transform four empty ground-level storefronts into their own temporary art gallery. The impromptu galleries will remain in business for 5 days. An evening art reception party on August 6th will include all of the surrounding Pearl Design Center businesses serving up complimentary food and beverages.

The storefronts have been empty since the downturn. While the recession has brought out the creativity in curators and artists, the pop-up art gallery concept benefits commercial brokers and the community. "We transform a dark and foreboding commercial retail space into an art gallery and swing open the doors for a party. We get to use the space for free. The landlord and surrounding businesses enjoy an evening full of creativity and foot-traffic and the artists make some sales,” says Baglien. Baglien says that the economic downturn was the reason behind the "pop-up" show idea. “We are a rapidly growing regional online art gallery based in Portland, Oregon. The recession has shuttered traditional galleries and opportunities for show venues are shrinking. Many gallery artists are coming our way. We needed physical space for exhibitions and the pop-up gallery is the perfect platform,” says Baglien.

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NEWS UPDATE! Get Creative This Summer We are delighted to announce our busy Summer Programme at The School Creative Centre, an exciting blend of performing and visual arts, some of which are completely FREE! Check out the What's On page for more information on day long life drawing classes, aerialism for adults, free dance taster day, and free workshops for young people on aerialism, street art, weaving and graphic novels.

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." Franklin D Roosevelt The de-commissioned Freda Gardham school in Rye is now home to a dynamic Creative Centre in Rother, bringing together professional artists from across the spectrum to develop, design and make new work on a rotational, residential basis with a core of permanently housed companies and individuals. Visiting and resident artists offer a range of workshops, master-classes, talks and demonstrations.