Events
Canterbury Scratch Orchestra
Thursday 31 January, 28 February and 25 April 2013
Doors open 6pm, performance 6.30 – 7.30pm Free event
The Canterbury Scratch Orchestra is a student collective interested in an open approach to improvising music. The orchestra’s previous performances have involved responding to drawings, working with film-makers and poets and collaborating with a diverse collection of musicians including singer-song writers, Indian classical musicians and laptop artists. The ensemble’s work centres around people and play and at its heart lies John Steven’s belief that music-making involves ‘practising an alternate society’.
Reading Series
Ma Creative Writing
Wednesday 5 June 2013 6 - 7pm Free Event
Join us for these public readings which celebrate and encourage creativity in writing. Doors open at 5.30 pm. Come and enjoy the gallery's current exhibition before the event begins.
Gallery Talk
The Photographer as Collector
20 June 2013, 6 - 7pm
(plus Q&A) Free Event, booking essentialIn On Photography Susan Sontag writes:
“ To collect photography is to collect the world.”
This illustrated talk shall consider the imaginative practice of collecting as a means of communication. Photographer and Lecturer Sam Vale will illustrate this concept through outlining his own practice, which investigates the motivation and satisfactions of collecting. In addition to discussing his own work, Sam will examine how photographers and artists such as Martin Parr, Erik Kessels and Richard Wentworth have used collecting to inform their own creative practices. The lecture shall consider how collecting and photography are inventive processes that rely on selection and arrangement to express ideas about the world in which we live.
Past Events
Reading Series
Stav Sherez
Wednesday 17 April 2013 6 - 7pm
Free event
Gallery Talk
Tuesday 16 April 5.30 pm
Magnum Photographer Mark Power will be giving a talk about his practice at the gallery.
Reading Series
Amanda Smyth
Wednesday 6 March 2013 6 - 7pm Free event
Canterbury Scratch Orchestra
February 28th Performance
Listening
by Sam Bailey and Canterbury Scratch Orchestra
Sam Bailey
is an improvising musician and teacher. He runs a weekly series
of concerts called Free Range, leads the Canterbury Scratch
Orchestra and has recently finished a practice-led PhD in
improvised music.
The performers in
Listening are:
Christabel Allen
soprano saxophone
Adam Byard
clarinet
Eleanore Hodge
voice
Oren Gurney
alto saxophone
Lucy Roth
flute
Flo Wilson
clarinet
Gallery Talk
Disgrac’d Knowledge’s – Art and Magical Thinking by Bryan Hawkins
Friday 1 February 2013, 6 - 8pm
Free event, booking essential.‘Magical Thinking’ as thinking beyond the known, the given and the everyday can be considered as having links with the artistic imagination and its products. The exhibition ‘From Grimm to Reality’ will be considered in relation to connections between fairytale, magic and the arts. Connections will be made between works in the exhibition and art’s tendency to ‘magical thinking’ defined in relation to the arcane and the mystical and in relation to antiquarianism, folklore, the antinomian tradition and prelapsarian, antediluvian and even anti-hegemonic sympathies.
One day Print Workshops
Sat 19 January, Sat 26 January and Sat 2 February 2013
Workshops are held in the University’s print studios, Augustine Art Centre, Canterbury | 10am – 4pm
Saturday 19 January – Workshop 1
Etching and looking at fairy tales, drawing and illustration
Saturday 26 January – Workshop 2
Aquatint etching looking at works by Goya, Paula Rego, Elizabeth Frink and Ana Maria Pacheco
Saturday 2 February – Workshop 3
Carborundum and chine colle, looking at the work of Hughie O’Donoghue
Led by Printmaking Tutor Euphemia MacTavish, these informative and inspirational workshops give an introduction to etching, collagraph and carborundum printmaking techniques. Suitable for advanced or beginner level participants, each workshop will be introduced with examples of work, from which possible creations can be executed, with each person going home with at least two or even three prints in that particular technique.
Workshop costs £40 each (materials are included).
Places can be booked in the Gallery at the Front Desk or click here.
Canterbury Scratch Orchestra
Thursday 6 December 2012
Doors open 6pm, performance 6.30 – 7.30pm Free event
The Canterbury Scratch Orchestra is a student collective interested in an open approach to improvising music. The orchestra’s previous performances have involved responding to drawings, working with film-makers and poets and collaborating with a diverse collection of musicians including singer-song writers, Indian classical musicians and laptop artists. The ensemble’s work centres around people and play and at its heart lies John Steven’s belief that music-making involves ‘practising an alternate society’.
Reading Series
Roma Tearne chaired by Andrew Palmer
Wednesday 12 December 2012 6.30 - 7.30 pm Free event
Join us for these public readings which celebrate and encourage creativity in writing. Doors open at 5.30 pm. Come and enjoy the gallery's current exhibition before the event begins.
Suki
Chan Still Point
©Suki Chan
Artists talk
Wednesday 24 October 2012, 5:30pm
Suki Chan in conversation with Andy Birtwhistle, Principle Lecturer in Film and Video at Canterbury Christ Church university.
Free event, booking essential.
Archive Film Screening 2012
Tuesday 30th October 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Wednesday 31st October 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Tickets are free, booking is essential
Tim Jones, Senior Lecturer from the Department of Media, Art and Design, will be screening his third selection of archive films of the Canterbury area. Much of the footage has not been shown in public for at least 60 years and highlights will include; film of Count Zborowski on his private railway across the Higham Park estate in 1924, Canterbury in colour in 1937, and ‘lost’ film of the Crab and Winkle line between Canterbury and Whitstable.
Reading Series 2012
Now in
its second year, this series of public readings celebrates and
encourages creativity in writing.
5.30pm-7.30pm.
Liz Jensen
Wednesday, 21st November
Liz Jensen Chaired by Tibor Fischer
Entrance is free. Doors open at 6pm: enjoy the Gallery’s
current exhibition with a glass of wine before the event begins.
Scratch Orchestra
6 December
Doors Open 6pm, performance 6:30 - 7:30 pm Free event, please book. 2011
The Canterbury Scratch Orchestra is a student collective interested in an open approach to improvising music.
The orchestra's previous performances have involved responding to drawings, working with film-makers and poets and collaboratin with a diverse collection of musicians including singer-songwriters, Indian classical musicians and laptop artists. the ensemble's work centers around people and play and at its heart lays John Steven's belief that music-making involves 'practising an laternate society'.
Reading Series 2011
Now in
its second year, this series of public readings celebrates and
encourages creativity in writing.
6.00pm-7.00pm.
Roma
Tearne
Wednesday, 12th December
Roma
Tearne
Chaired
by Andrew Palmer
Roma Tearne is an artist and novelist. She is the author of four works of fiction: The Swimmer (longlisted for the Orange Prize 2010), Brixton Beach (selected for The TV Book Club), Mosquito (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize 2007) and Bone China. Born in Sri Lanka, she arrived with her parents in Britain at the age of ten. For nearly twenty years her work as a painter, installation artist, filmmaker and novelist has dealt with traces of history and memory in public and private spaces. http://romatearne.blogspot.com/
2011
Tibor Fischer and Carolyn Oulton
Friday 27 January
6pm-7pm 2011
The first in a new series of monthly public readings to celebrate and encourage creativity in writing.
Tibor Fischer’s first novel, Under the Frog was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is the author of four other novels, the latest of which is Good to be God, from which he will read at this event.
Carolyn Oulton’s most recent poetry collection, A Child, a Death and the Making of the Fairytale Woman, registers her interest in Victorian and modern mythmaking as well as the landscape of East Kent.
Chaired by Andrew Palmer
Entrance is free. Doors open at 5.30pm: enjoy the Gallery’s current exhibition with a glass of wine before the event begins.
Matt Thorne
Friday 24 February 2011
6pm-7pm at the Sidney Cooper Gallery
The second in a series of monthly public readings to celebrate and encourage creativity in writing.
Matt Thorne is the author of six novels including the award-winning Eight Minutes Idle, which won an Encore Award, and Cherry, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He is also the author of three books for children and has co-edited two anthologies, including All Hail the New Puritans.
Chaired by Tibor Fischer
© Charlie Hopkinson
Sadie Jones
Friday 30 March 2011
6pm-7pm at the Sidney Cooper Gallery
The third in a series of monthly public readings to celebrate and encourage creativity in writing.
Sadie Jones’s first novel, The Outcast ('Riveting', Lionel Shriver; 'Devastatingly good', Daily Mail) was the winner of the Costa First Novel Award and was a Richard and Judy Summer Reads Number One bestseller. Her second novel, Small Wars (‘One of the best books about the English at war ever’, Joel Morris) was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her new novel, The Uninvited Guests, is published in March 2012.
Chaired by Andrew Palmer
Lawrence Norfolk
Friday 27 April 2011
6pm-7pm at the Sidney Cooper Gallery
The fourth in a series of monthly public readings to celebrate and encourage creativity in writing.
Lawrence Norfolk’s first novel, Lemprière’s Dictionary, won the Somerset Maugham Award. This was followed by The Pope’s Rhinoceros, short-listed for the Impac Prize, and In the Shape of a Boar. His fourth novel, John Saturnall’s Feast, is the story of a 17th century orphan who lives through the English Civil Wars to become the greatest cook of his age; it will be published in 2012.
Chaired by Tibor Fischer
Friday 1 June 2011
6pm-7pm at the Sidney Cooper Gallery
The fifth in a series of monthly public readings to celebrate and encourage creativity in writing.
Up and coming Writers
Students from Canterbury Christ Church University showcase their writing.
Chaired by Carolyn Oulton
Jake Arnott
Wednesday,
10th October 2012
Jake Arnott
Chaired by Andrew Palmer
