All events were FREE and took place at The Old Fire Station, 84 Mayton Street, London N7 6QT
Exhibitions and Films on Saturday 16 July (10am - 8pm)
Philip Firsov
Venue: Garden
Woman-Cello (2007) Carved mahogany, joined pine 2 by 3 inch pieces in dovetail style.
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Urban Craft Club
Venue: Various locations around the building
Summer Inspired (detail)
A wall hanging created by the whole club, using wool and recycling textiles to combine various processes of knitting, sewing, tying and knotting.
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I Love Islington
Venue: Garden Room
A selection of photographs taken by 1st year students on the Foundation Photography course in City & Islington College.
Foundation Degree Photography Graduate Exhibition 2011
Venue: Main Hall
A selection of work from final year students from City & Islington College which ran alongside a charity print auction on behalf on the Teenage Cancer Trust.
See examples of the work at http://tsgf.co.uk/cifye/home.html
Film Screenings
Venue: Side Room
Short film works by filmmakers working within the visual arts arena were screened in the Old Fire Station Side Room all day from 10am. Included works by Patricia Shrigley, Sam Nightingale, Jake Narang, Matthew Jones, Cradeaux Alexander, Sally-Anne Kelly & Kevin Gaffney, Grilby Productions, Carla Easton, James Paul White, Marta Kotlarska & Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Sam Newhouse, Alex Hetherington, Steven Dorrington, Laith Sami and Mark J. Blackman.
Performances & Workshops (1 - 8pm)
FREE except where stated
Altered Book Workshop
Time: 1 - 2.30pm
Venue: Garden Room
Rowan Arts Artist-in-Residence, Thomas Mitchell created a catalogue of different altered books inspired by the artwork of legendary local inhabitants Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell.
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Children's Creative Collage
Time: 2.30-4pm
Venue: Garden Room
Working with artist Sean Michael, children made their own fantasy landscape collages, exploring their own ideas whilst learning about perspective, colour and the techniques of collage.
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Sh!t Theatre
Time: 2.30 - 3pm
Venue: Main Hall
With backgrounds in Long-form Improv, Performance Art and Music, Rebecca Fuller and Louise Mothersole (Booise) have joined forces as SH!T THEATRE to explore the Political, the Personal and the down-right Perverted.
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Dunja Ka
Time: 3.15 - 3.25pm
Venue: Main Hall
Dunja presented Hawaiian Blood - a surreal Hawaiian dance ritual under a coconut blood shower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N4BmScEmc
Monika Pomeroy
Time: 3.25 - 3.30pm
Venue: Main Hall
Monika presented Girls and Dolls - a girl finds there's more delight than disgust in her living doll fantasy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzUFYQqTB0
Sara Debevec
Time: 3.30 - 3.35pm
Venue: Main Hall
Sara presented Dali's Eye - a surreal dream monologue where Dali’s eye reflects on the insignificance of life, realising that the only way its life would have meaning is if Dali painted it…
Calligraphy
Time: 4 - 5.30pm
Venue: Side Room
Yukiko Ayres was trained in calligraphy by a descendant of Meikaku Kusakabe, a founder of modern Japanese calligraphy, and is a member of the Nihon Shodouin Calligraphy Association.
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Haiku Kamishibai Workshop (Illustrated Haiku Poetry)
Time: 5.30 - 7pm
Venue: Side Room
Presented by Helen McCarthy and mu:arts. This workshop approached traditional Japanese poetry in a new way – using the Japanese storytelling technique of kamishibai (paper theatre).
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Literary Life Drawing Class
Time: 6.30 - 8pm
Venue: Garden Room
For this unique life drawing class, a classical narrative was read, during which, costumed actors came in with soliloquies or impressions that brought the tableux vivant to life.
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