November 2009 Blog Posts (7)

Nueva Generacion ART COLLECTIVE - looking for a new space

Hi all,



I am a member of the art collective NUEVA GENERACION, which for the past 15 years has offered free art / dance / drumming / juggling / etc. workshops to the immigrant community in London. We organized this year's Refuge in Films Festival at the BFI Southbank during Refugee Week (http://www.myspace.com/refugeinfilms) and have participated in many art festivals and carnavals.



The Vauxhall Community Centre offered us… Continue

Added by Jaime Gutierrez on November 27, 2009 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Retail Vitality, Keeping Our Town Centres Lively

Hastings Borough Council's Retail Vitality Project is aimed at attracting people to Hastings and St Leonards town centres and supporting local independent retailers. As part of this project, Hastings Borough Council is working with landlords, artists, and social enterprises in the main shopping areas to bring creative and community uses into empty shops and retail spaces. We are doing this in partnership with the Government’s Meanwhile project (Communities & Local Government led by the… Continue

Added by Retail Vitality Project (HBC) on November 25, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments

The Market Estate Project - A creative playgoround in a 1960's pre-demolition housing estate.

Join us from this coming December as we take over a soon-to-be demolished 1960’s housing estate, and begin to transform more than 100 vacant flats, communal spaces and building facades into a creative playground for artists, designers and residents.



The Market Estate Project offers artists and designers free spaces and an opportunity to freely intervene with what was considered to be one of North London's most notorious housing estates. With works starting from mid December 2009, we… Continue

Added by Market Estate Project Team on November 17, 2009 at 12:18pm — 3 Comments

beginspace Cambridge - half way through the pilot service bootstrapping businesses, social enterprises and community projects

It's been an amazing few weeks.

We thought we were plugging a short-term gap - linking people who haven't yet connected, helping join the dots, providing a space for people to work, talk and overcome challenges together.



But it's looking like we're doing something new and valuable, which gives me a dilemma.



What next?



Run on until... when? But we haven't set out to be self-sustaining and part of the unique… Continue

Added by Jeremy on November 14, 2009 at 10:04am — No Comments

Social Enterprise London launch pilot meanwhile programme

I've just heard about a potentially interesting opportunity for getting access to empty space. Infrastructure organisation Social Enterprise London (SEL) has been liaising with LDA, GLA and TfL to negotiate use on vacant units. It is now offering social enterprises and other community and voluntary groups the chance to go through them and get their hands on meanwhile space across the city.



It seems that SEL is essentially acting as a broker between meanwhile users and the various… Continue

Added by Josie on November 13, 2009 at 4:23pm — No Comments

NOMAD - Creative Space presents 'WOOD'

Wood Exhibtion A group exhibition including The Hastings and Bexhill Wood Recycling Project, Lorna Crabbe, James Roseveare, Scott Robertson, Patrick Burton, Barry Dodgson and a selection of artists from the East London Printmakers

WOOD brings together a mixed media exhibition featuring: film, photography, installation, paintings, prints, objects and window drawings.…

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Added by Ali Graham on November 2, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Turning a dead shop in to a performance/discussion space: arty inspiration



For anyone who's looking at turning an empty unit in to a discussion/performance space - and a politically active one too - German artist Joseph Beuys' Bureau for Direct Democracy from way back in 1972 might be inspiring.



Glasstire, a website on visual art in Texas posts on it here saying



Among the four… Continue

Added by David Barrie on November 1, 2009 at 8:09am — 1 Comment

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