extra special people

Links for 23 September 2011

Chris Unitt — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:19:42 +0000

Dance blogs in the West Midlands
If you like dance, these are the blogs to follow
Tindal Street Press’s summer ebook success | Tindal St Press
“This summer the clear genre appeal of a regional crime novel and a summer beach romance have reached more readers than we could have expected”. Nicely done.
Iona Waite awarded BBC Dance Fellowship « ACE dance and music
Congrats to Iona
Home is where the Art is: Progressive Birmingham
“‘Birmingham Faces and Places’ is a late nineteenth century publication celebrating the great and the good in Birmingham, people and places. I talked to Dr Andy Green about ‘Faces and Places’ and Birmingham in the late nineteenth century, when it was granted city status, and attempting to define itself as a modern, progressive city.”
(All) Night at The Museum: 24 hour usage – it could make sense « Museum Network Warwickshire
BMAG “are opening their Collections Centre for a ‘led’ overnight creative writing session”
Dramaturgy in Dialogue: James Yarker | Outside Eye
Michael Pinchbeck is researching the role of the dramaturg for a PhD. Here he interviews Stan’s Cafe’s James Yarker
THE COMMENTATORS | and
Speaking of. “The Commentators are delighted to be invited to report on all the action at Egremont Crab and Sports Fair. See them in the flesh or tune in via the widget below for the latest manifestation of this occasional project by theatre company Stan’s Café”
Self Assembly 2: Pitching Event Thursday 29 September 6.30-8pm Eastside Projects « We Are Eastside | Birmingham
“If your idea is successful you will be supported by ESP and Eastside Projects as you organise and host your event/s, giving you the opportunity to start conversations, make connections, hear about particular aspects of practice or explore ideas that you are interested in.”
Winterbourne Call for Artists
“We are now seeking new artists to exhibit their work in the Edwardian visitor attraction during 2012.” Which is nice. As impressive though is the mention of the £3m redevelopment of the Arts and Crafts house in 2010

Ort.

Chris Unitt — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:27:11 +0000

Ridhi Kalaria, Josephine Reichert and Noemi, three artists and philosophers are planning to open ORT on the 11/11/11, an artist and community café and bar space in Balsall Heath

Ort will be opening at the Make It Zone on 11 November (that’s 11/11/11 – a date of significant interest to the Corduroy Club) with Juneau Brothers playing. If you want updates, Ort is/are on Twitter and Facebook.

(Via Extra Special People)

ESP Members Activity

Chris Unitt — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:14:08 +0000

Extra Special People is Eastside Projects’ Associates Programme. All these people are members. They have a blog for posting information about what their members are doing. That’s good.

anticurate

Chris Unitt — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:08:55 +0000

I’ve not really had a very good look at this yet but there are some good people involved and there’s an interesting open aspect to it. I’ll do a quote-y thing here and leave you to investigate the rest:

anticurate is imagined as mac birmingham’s version of an open exhibition. In association with mac birmingham, artist Trevor Pitt has devised the anticurate project as a platform to explore democratic and collective approaches to exhibition curating

Submitted artworks will be exhibited in the main gallery using a flexible exhibition structure and space that has been designed by Juneau Projects.

Each exhibition will be individually organised by invited groups that we are calling ‘anticurators’, including:

young people from Project Platform and Ikon Youth programme

a group of older people from Young at Heart

members of the Extra Special People professional development programme at Eastside Projects

a selection of mac birmingham staff

Carli Frances and Rosie Carmichael of No Aloha arts collective

Extra Special People

Alex Jones — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:51:41 +0000

So if you haven’t already heard of this programme, read on, because artists this sounds Amazing (yes, it deserves a capital).

Extra Special People (ESP) is a membership programme run by Eastside Projects, for anyone who would benefit from engaging with a dynamic, ambitious, artist-led environment.

ESP members are offered a range of opportunities to develop their practice and career through critical group discussions, practical support and guidance, exhibition and residency opportunities, networking events and one-to-one support from established arts professionals and ESP staff. Dialogue between members is generated through a weekly programme of informal and formal event including seminars, talks, film screenings and visits to projects, exhibitions and events in other UK cities.

There are a number of opportunities currently available, visit the website to read more and apply, along with a rundown of this months programme of events.

For more information on attending events and joining ESP, contact info@extraspecialpeople.org.