ART IS FOR EVERYONE
Red Dot are staging an art project for young disabled people in Liverpool (18-30 years of age).
Titled Art Is For Everyone, it will consist of six workshops, providing participants the opportunity to learn a basic introduction to visual art techniques.
Subjects to be covered include:
animation,
collage,
sculpture,
mosaics,
drawing
jewellery.
The workshops run from Monday 10th May to Wednesday 12th May 2010
There will be two workshops per day 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm.
Monday 10 May 10am to 1pm – Jewellery
Monday 10 May 2pm – 5pm – Collage
Tuesday 11 May 10am to 1pm – Mosaics
Tuesday 11 May 2pm to 5pm – Sculpture
Wednesday 12 May 10am to 1pm – Animation
Wednesday 12 May 2pm to 5pm – Drawing
All workshops are free to attend.
An exhibition will then be held featuring all the artwork created in the workshops.
It will run from Monday 17th May to Friday 21st May.
The workshops and exhibition will be held at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) based on Brownlow Hill. The venue has full access for disabled people.
If you know of anyone who might be interested in taking part in any of the workshops, contact project co-ordinator Colin Serjent colinserjent@hotmail.com or ring 077 5952 5075
Red Dot Exhibitions.
Good to see Red Dot Exhibitions website is kept up to date with news of their artists exhibitions etc. Lots of good artists in this group.
Red Dot Recycling Week 12-14 August 2009
WEDNESDAY 12 August – FRIDAY 14 August 2009 at various venues
Arts organisation Red Dot are staging a recycling week in Liverpool for the second year running. The aim of the recycling week is to raise awareness of how recycling helps to reduce our impact on the environment and encourage individuals to recycle more and recycle better. All the events are free to attend.
Red Dot are running a series of mainly art-related events as part of this year’s recycling week.
FIELD TRIP TO RECYCLING CENTRE
The events will include a field trip to Bidston Materials Recovery Facility ( a top notch recycling centre) on Wednesday 12 August (12-30pm to 2-30pm) - free transport will be provided from Liverpool city centre.
*Please contact Colin to book a place on the mini-bus leaving from outside the Everyman Theatre at 12-30pm.
‘GREEN’ POETRY, MUSIC & FILM EVENT
There is also a poetry, music and film night at the Liverpool Everyman Third Room on Wednesday 12 August (8pm – 11pm) All performances and screenings will relate to a recycling theme or practice.
DEBATE ON RECYCLING
A debate will also be held in the Liverpool Everyman Third Room on Thursday 13 August (8pm – 10pm) , where the topic under debate, with a panel of experts on recycling, will be ‘Why does Liverpool have such a poor track record in regard to recycling?’.
RECYCLING SWAP SHOP!
The final event of the week will be a recycling swap shop on Saturday 15 August (12pm – 5pm) at the International Gallery in Slater Street, in which people can come along and swap their unwanted items with something they really want!
*Please contact Colin if you want to attend any of these events – free tickets will be sent to you.
For further information about these events contact Colin Serjent colinserjent@hotmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
or phone 077 5952 5075
Red dot website: http://www.red-dotexhibitions.co.uk/
Some nice, clever work here. I enjoyed it, take a look
Art is for Everyone – Exhibition at LCAD
15 July – 24 July 2009
Red Dot are staging an exhibition of artwork created by special needs people based throughout Merseyside. The work was produced following a week-long series of art-related workshops staged by Red Dot at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD).
All the work made in the workshops will be shown in the exhibition. They included an introduction to painting, photography, mosaics, drawing, animation, collage, sculpture and jewellery.
Venue:
LCAD (Liverpool Centre for Arts Development)
2a Francey’s Street, Liverpool 3 5YQ (entrance from Brownlow Hill)
Opening hours are Mon-Fri 9.00 – 17.00
Red Dot will be running a new art-related recycling workshop at FACT on Monday 30 March 2009 (10am – 1pm) as part of the Climate For Change event taking place at the centre. It is titled ‘Making Spring Flowers From Recycled Materials’ and will be run by Beccy Williams from CUTS.
It will take place in the Gallery One space on the ground floor.
The workshop is free to attend.
To register a place email colinserjent@hotmail.com or phone him on
077 5952 5075
FREE recycling workshops by Red Dot
Red Dot are staging four FREE recycling workshops in the main gallery space at FACT during March, as part of the Climate For Change project taking place at the centre.
People attending the workshops will be shown how to create art work from waste materials and/or found objects.
The workshops timetable:-
Monday 16 March 10am – 1pm
‘Junk Jewellery and Rag Boas’ – workshop leader Alison Bailey Smith.
Monday 23 March 10am – 1pm
‘Out Of Body’ – workshop leader Sarah Nicholson.
Monday 23 March 2pm – 5pm
‘Say It With Recycled Flowers’ – workshop leader Alice Lenkiewicz.
Wednesday 25 March 2pm – 5pm
‘3-D Model Making’ – workshop leader Jane Fairhurst.
For more information abouit these workshops or to register on a workshop contact Red Dot via Colin Serjent email: colinserjent@hotmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone 077 5952 5075
At the same time the workshops are taking place Red Dot are staging an exhibiiton, titled ‘Waste Into Art‘, at the Liverpool Academy of Arts (16 March – 3 April).
All the artwork shown will hve been created from waste materials.
Further details about this exhibiiton will be posted on the Art In Liverpool website at the end of February.
Work by Carl Fletcher and Ken Bullock
Red Dot and Novas Arts ‘Migration’ exhibition. 12 Dec 2008 – ENDS 11 January 2009
Last chance to see this excellent exhibition by 25 members of Red Dot. Presenting many diverse themes and aspects of migration through painting, photography, multi-media installations, sound and music installations, lighting installations and sculpture. Continue reading ‘Migration at CUC – Extended to 11 January 09′
Red Dot Recycling Workshops
Red Dot Exhibitions are staging a series of workshops dealing with how to recycle waste materials and found objects into art work.
For example, turning discarded bottles and other forms of glass into art; turning used crisp packets into art; metal recycling; and paper and cardboard recycling. More information about the content of each of the six workshops will be announced shortly.
The workshops will take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 26-28 September, and will be held at LCAD (Liverpool Centre for Arts Development and Training) based at Franceys Street off Brownlow Hill.
The workshops leaders are Sarah Nicholson (Kitchen Gallery), Arthur Roberts (Loop Gallery), Becky Williams (The Art Organisation), Alex Corina (Slaughterhouse Gallery), Jane Fairhurst (OK Studios) and Lesley Cunningham and Melanie Jones (Elcie-Mojo).
If you wish to register to take part in a workshop – THEY ARE FREE TO ATTEND – please contact the Red Dot Workshops Project Manager Colin Serjent: colinserjent@hotmail.com or phone 077 5952 5075.
www.red-dotexhibitions.co.uk
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