Upcoming Recommended Events
Friday 12th February 2010 - Sunday 11th April 2010
Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester
Neck of the Woods is an innovative and exciting group exhibition curated by Blank Media Collective investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving. Artists and practitioners join from throughout the UK and Internationally to challenge the audience’s preconceptions of community and how this can be explored within their own personal artistic practice.
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Saturday 6th March 2010 - Friday 19th March 2010
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
The exhibition, Mine the Mountain, draws upon the artist’s personal experience at sites of historic trauma, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Majdane; Ypres and Verdun, to engage in themes of the past, the present, family history, memory and the anonymous individual in history. This sits alongside an exploration of the notion of the ‘dark tourist’ (the tourist who visits sites of trauma) and the idea of tourism of the self.
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Friday May 07
The cell is becoming stronger, more powerful, more useful, and more detrimental. It is with you at all times. It is in your pocket, it is in your very make up and it surrounds you. For 24 hours at BLANKSPACE you can begin to understand the cell. Learn more about it and you can learn how to control it, but you must also be prepared to discover how it controls you.
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Sunday August 01
blankpages is half way to 50! All you mental arithmetic skillsters will know that means we’re on issue 25. Quite amazing really. And we keep growing and changing. Keep your eyes peeled for new opportunities within the blankpages team to be announced soon.
Returning to our fold this month is Kevin Bradshaw, after his excellent cover feature last month, he’s our guest illustrator for August!
This month we have an excellent how-to feature from Stuart Douglas of Obverse Books about starting your own small press, and we’re featuring the music of Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear, who will be performing at Kro Bar for BlankSounds, Blank Media Collective’s new quarterly live music night.
Alongside this, we’re pleased to be publishing work created at the first Imploding Acoustic Inevitable Festival in the Lake District back in June. It’s an Exquisite Corpse-style piece straight from the minds of the festival’s audience… Make of it what you will…
This is of course on top of the usual high quality poetry, fiction and visual art spotlight we tirelessly present for your digestion.
So take a minute out and relax among the clouds with blankpages...
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Thursday August 19
WritingLAB is for aspiring writers who love theatre and writing but may not be quite sure where to start. Run by award winning playwright, Billy Cowan, WritingLAB will help you generate workable ideas, teach you how to structure a play, create three dimensional characters, and write dynamic dialogue.
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Wednesday 27 October 2010 - Saturday 18 December 2010
greenroom, Manchester
From the award winning to the untrained, Blank Media Collective are pioneering the best creative talents from across the Pennines. Ambience of Play showcases three contemporary practitioners who are helping to keep the art scene in the North-West fresh and exciting. What makes these artists innovative is their playful approach to art practice as they set their own challenges to create their work.
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Monday November 01
It’s getting to that time of year again when we start looking back. But there’s so much just around the corner for Blank Media Collective that we just can’t help looking ahead.
November’s blankpages is all about introductions. Our new editorial team have each contributed this month. Abigail Ledger-Lomas and Kevin Bradshaw treat us to some of their own work, and our new Editorial Assistant, Matt Hull, highlights Pavement’s current window display of several Lawrence Weiner pieces here in Manchester. As ever we’re presenting the sterling work of emerging practitioners - in the shape of clare makes films and Jude Macpherson - talking about Japanese creative revelations and the infinite patterns of cosmic abstraction respectively.
This month’s mp3 from Old House Playground is a taster for our blankpages Presents… gig at Kro Bar on 12th November (part of BlankWeekend), where not only will there be music, but poetry, improvisation and performance.
Plenty to look forward to!
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Saturday January 01
It doesn’t seem that long ago we were introducing the first blankpages of 2010. Now it’s the new year once again. Inside this month’s ‘pages the excellent Ross Sutherland captures something of the modern ego with his contemporary poetic leanings, and blankpages Visual Designer Henry Roberts talks to William Tombs about his ‘logomorphs’, in a challenging interview (albeit presented in words) which above all highlights the humanity and (sometimes forgotten) intent behind the creation of symbols.
blankpicks continues roaming the world of blogs, talking to last month’s recommendation, Benjamin Judge, and musical accompaniment this month comes from With That Knife.
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Wednesday 16 February 2010 - Saturday 16 April 2010
greenroom, Manchester
Blank Media Collective launches their new season of exhibitions at Susan Laughton.
Still Here is an exploration of marks, signs and symbols, searching for order, balance and control in a chaotic visual world. Landscape is the starting point, not as a picturesque or nostalgic view, but as a space travelled through and experienced often on the edges of the urban and the rural. It is a source of manmade and natural structures, surfaces and colour that allows the artist to construct her own pared-down responses.
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Thursday 27 January 2011, 6pm - Sunday 13 February 2011
BLANKSPACE, Manchester
After four years of championing emerging artists, Blank Media Collective is now introducing BLANKSPACE, a new creative hub in Manchester. Blank Media Collective’s inaugural exhibition at BLANKSPACE, BlankExpression 2011 is the perfect start to a New Year and the exciting opportunities that it brings to artists and audiences spread far and wide.
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