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Calendar of Events: March 2011

Image of a counting mechanism 1A Touching art touching you, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK

Information on Blind Art

"Touching Art Touching You. BlindArt Permanent Collection artistic excellence regardless of visual ability. Banbury Museum. 5th February 2011 – 31st March 2011

 

Touching Art Touching You, a fresh concept in the visual arts, comes to Banbury Museum on 5 February. The exhibition breaks traditional barriers by encouraging visitors to experience and explore the art on display through touch and other senses. The experience challenges the notion that sight is essential for creating and enjoying exceptional art.

 

The inclusive exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and installations drawn from the BlindArt Permanent Collection. BlindArt has gained worldwide recognition for promoting contemporary works by visually impaired and sighted artists, showcasing them side by side and challenging visitors to tell the difference. The collection has been exhibited around the UK and in New York.

 

Cherwell District Council’s portfolio holder for environment, recreation and health, Cllr George Reynolds, said: "Cherwell prides itself on being a district of opportunity and this exhibition certainly proves that. It's an opportunity for local people to experience art in a completely new and thought provoking way. Banbury Museum has, yet again, come up trumps in putting on an interesting and innovative exhibition."     

 

Banbury Museum and the Oxfordshire Association for the Blind are working in partnership to encourage people across our region, including visually impaired people, to experience this unusual art first hand.

 

Younger visitors inspired by the exhibition will also be able to have a go at a sensory Prize Trail, and make a miniature book of sights, textures, sounds and smells. On 25 Feb people of all ages can also experience the tactile books and pictures of award-winning charity ‘Living Paintings

 

Address: Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX16 2PQ

Opening Hours:  Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Saturday 5 February to Thursday 31 March. 

Admission: Free."

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image of counting mechanism 2dash, club row gallery, London, UK

Information on Extant

"Club Row Gallery, Rochelle School, London, E2 7ES... Live Art is truly the avant-garde forum for Disability Art and at the forefront of Disability Art practice, thinking and theory.
 

Dr Paul Darke (DASh) Access All Areas is a two-day public programme reflecting the ways in which the practices of artists who work with Live Art have engaged with, represented, and problematicised issues of disability in innovative and radical ways.

  • Mucus Factory, a durational performance-installation by Martin O’Brien. A Live Art Development Agency commission. (4 March from 19.00 and 5 March from 12.00)

  • Undress/Redress, a durational performance-installation by Noemi Lakmaier. A Live Art Development Agency commission (4 March from 19.00 and 5 March from 12.00) Robots Destroy the Tower of Babble!, a new performance by The Disabled Avant-Garde. With screenings of earlier DAG works (4 March from 19.00

  • A landmark symposium with Tonny A, Jon Adams, Bobby Baker, Caroline Bowditch, Sean Burn, The Disabled Avant Garde (Aaron Williamson & Katherine Araniello), Pete Edwards, Mat Fraser (on film), Tony Heaton, Raimund Hoghe (on film), Brian Lobel, Catherine Long, Rita Marcalo, Tomislav Medak, Kim Noble, Maria Oshodi, Luke Pell, Jenny Sealy, and Rajni Shah. (5 March, 13.00 to 19.00).

  • Screenings of influential performance documentation and works for camera by Katherine Araniello, Back To Back Theatre, Bobby Baker, Mary Duffy, Pete Edwards, Extant, Mat Fraser, Raimund Hoghe, David Hoyle, Alan McLean & Tony Mustoe, Aine Phillips, Juliet Robson, and Aaron Williamson. (4 March from 19.00 and 5 March from 12.00). A bibliotheque of key books and DVDs (4 March from 19.00 and 5 March from 12.00).

  • Plus - Jon Adams’ Dysarticulate 2 (Saturday 5 March, from 12.00, Club Row Gallery surrounds) and Rita Marcalo’s She’s Lost Control (Thursday 3 March at 19.00 and 21.00pm at Rich Mix).

  • Full Access All Areas programme, venue, booking and access details can be found here.
    Tickets —

  • Friday 4 March, from 19.00 – Noemi Lakmaier, Martin O’Brien, The Disabled Avant-Garde, screenings - £12/£10 concessions.

  • Saturday 5 March, from 12.00 - Symposium, Noemi Lakmaier, Martin O’Brien, Jon Adams, screenings - £17/£14 concessions.
    Saturday 5 March, from 19.00 - Noemi Lakmaier, Martin O’Brien, Jon Adams, screenings - £5 on the door (no advance bookings).


*Combination ticket – access all areas of Access All Areas with unlimited entry to all Club Row events for only £25/£20 concessions. Limited availability - must be booked in advance.
 

Bookings open 12noon on Friday 11th February: online through the Events Shelf on Unbound on the phone +44 (0)207 033 0275 Access All Areas is part of Restock, Rethink, Reflect, a series of Live Art Development Agency initiatives for, and about, artists who are exploring issues of identity politics and cultural diversity in innovative and radical ways. Access All Areas is financially assisted by Arts Council England, with additional support from Tower Hamlets Council and British Council, Croatia."

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