Manchester Young Creatives 2 – This Friday

To all Manchester creatives – Want to meet people from music, visual art, theatre, film, photography, dance and general arty-ness? Fancy meeting up for a drink? Of course you do.

For its second outing Manchester Young Creatives wants to bring people who work in the arts in Manchester together to discuss, collaborate and create stunning cross-arts projects.

Manchester Young Creatives wants to be the place where an artist meets a musician and they decide to work together to create something new. (Or a filmmaker and an actor, or an architect and a graphic designer – you get the idea).

So, they’d love it if you’d help start this by bringing and image or recording of your work which can be showcased on the evening. Send submissions to manchesteryoungcreatives@gmail.com

The second MYC will take place in the Picturehouse Cafe Bar of Band on the Wall on 11th March from 5pm-7pm.

Manchester Young Creatives Eventbrite.

Twitter @manccreatives.

Contact Theatre Launches New Season

Big night last at the end of Oxford Road as Contact theatre launched their new Spring Season alongside Queer Contact’s mini festival and welcomed Qasim Riza Shaheen as artist in residence for 2011.

Interview with the artist coming tomorrow about his plans for the year long association with the theatre but in the mean time you can listen to Qasim performing “All the Angles” a poem written by Josh – one of the participants in his Urban Shrines piece on show in the theatre bar, or check out the Spring Season promo trailer below.

FutureEverything volunteer programme accepting applications now

FutureEverything’s 2011 volunteering programme is now accepting applications.

This year’s festival runs from 11th – 14th May when they’ll need people to help deliver the art, music and conference programme as well as helping out at the awards ceremony.

You can sign up as a volunteer covering just the festival events or get involved helping produce the festival right now.

To apply for an exciting volunteer role fill out the FutureEverything application form.

Drawn to the Beat quick gallery

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A few quick pics from tonight’s Drawn to the Beat event.

Incredible atmosphere at Band on the Wall as everyone completely lost themselves in the music.

Not just fantastic to participate but also interesting to watch, whether listening in on the silent disco headphones or just hearing the quiet rhythm of people drawing.

Drawn to the Beat – Free event tonight

Naomi Kendrick’s Drawn to the Beat event opens tonight, for one night only, at Band on the Wall.

Doors at  7pm and entrance is FREE!

If you haven’t already head it listen to the Naomi Kendrick Curated Place interview to find out more about her incredible practice.

Drawn to the Beat – Be part of making art

This week Curated Place had the pleasure of meeting up with artist and participatory specialist Naomi Kendrick in her studio. Surrounded by her vast conceptual works we sat down to discuss her practice, her revolutionary approach to enabling access in the arts and her upcoming project Drawn to the Beat taking place at Band on the Wall on the 27th January where you can take part.

Drawn to the Beat is a participatory music drawing event using Silent Disco technology. The event is a chance for anyone to be part of creating a new piece of work  alongside artist Naomi Kendrick in the Band on The Wall club space, which will become both silent disco and enormous drawing surface for the night.

Tickets are free and you can sign up now, but be quick, the event has already got a strong following following Naomi’s appearance on the BBC’s Culture Show in November.  If tickets run out by the time you get there don’t worry – Curated Place is already helping Naomi prepare for Drawn to the Beat 2 which will be happening in the Autumn.

Drawn to the Beat is at Band on the Wall on the 27th of January

Doors open at 7pm and entrance is FREE provided you’ve signed up in advance.

A slice of Manchester history just in time for Christmas

Still looking for the perfect Christmas gift for that Madchester obsessive in your life?

Well look no further than the work of Peter Walsh, legendary Manchester music photographer, who has just released a series of limited edition prints from his archive including rare and exclusive shots of Tony Wilson, Ian Brown, DJ Sasha, Shaun Ryder, John Squire and Oasis’ first ever session.

Shots are only available from his site in a strictly limited edition of 250 with all numbered and signed by Peter.  You can find them here.

Musical Interlude

It’s been a busy day for Curated Place getting everything ready for production of the exhibition for next week’s launch.  We’re almost there but that means no interview released today.  So instead, having had their name brought up several times by a number of our participants, here’s some sounds from Manchester’s fabulously brash femme-punk outfit Hooker.

Find out more about them (and better quality audio) here.

Killer (Re)Released

Staying on a musical theme there’s great news for all fans of UK hip hop with the revalation that two of the men that shaped the culture from behind the scenes are hooking up to re-release a forgotten classic.

Andy Cowan, the man behind the world’s first rap monthly HHC, and DJ/producer/music manager Greg Wilson, have joined forces to re-release the Killer album, the highly regarded magnum opus of Hulme’s finest – the Ruthless Rap Assassins.  Cowan, formerly editor in chief of the now all digital UK hip hop mag, has stepped away from the magazine publishing world to focus his love for hip hop more directly on keeping the culture alive by starting up specialist music label Original Dope.

An imprint of Cherry Red Records, who have previously helped out Curated Place on the Hacienda exhibition, Original Dope’s raison d’être is a dedication to preserving the legacy of the best hip-hop music on the planet, with a strong emphasis on classic British rap and lost American standards.

20 years on from the original unleashing of the Assassin’s debut album, Killer will be re-issued in all of it’s glory as the first Original Dope release, with the distinct possibility of the crew making a series of rare live appearances to celebrate the occasion.  Definitely a must have album for any fan of UK hip hop, the album also deserves a place in all serious music collector’s racks as the defining work from a crew officially recognised as the UK’s most successful least successful British chart artists ever (charting twice at no.75 for just one week).

The Ruthless Rap Assassins Killer Album 20th anniversary re-issue will be released in September 2o1o on Original Dope records (catalogue number ODOPE1001)

Musical interlude

Great combination of hi-fi acoustics from mancunian musical outfit This Morning Call and touching lo-fi stop motion visuals from up-coming photographer and film-maker Lisa Risbec in their new video.

Haunting tune and loving Lisa’s accompanying visuals that tap into the darkness of European folk-tales and mythology over polished and sweetened US influenced animation that saturates the mainstream.  Nice atmospheric touch to see everything looking like it’s been shot on a hand-cranked camera too.