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EXHIBITION & EVENTS ARCHIVE
Game Playing Afternoon
20/07/2013 / 2-5pmCome along to join the guys from Manchester GameJam, The Larks and the Manchester Speculative Fiction to try out the brand new games that were created at the recent Spaceship Unbound GameJam that took inspiration from the exhibition and themes around survival in a world turned back to year zero.
Lazarus Pointer workshop
29/06/2013 / 2-5pmBring out your dead – batteries. Inventing new methods for power generation is a good idea, but so is conserving … Read more
Solar Jar Making
22/06/2013 / 2-5pmThe greatest source of renewable energy we have around us is 149,6000,000 km away. Over the millennia the star we … Read more
Spaceship Unbound
21/06/2013Co-curated with MadLab, Spaceship Unbound uses Margaret Atwood’s seminal post apocalyptic novel The Year of the Flood as a starting … Read more
Just After Midsummer: June CG Associates Session
26/06/2013 / 6:30 - 8:30 pmCG Associate Members Only
A chance for members to find out more about what makes a good Launch Pad submission, get feedback on their work, and find out more about each other’s work.
The June CG Associates session features a short session from Castlefield curator Clarissa Corfe on the Launch Pad shows so far and how the submission process has worked, as well a chance for members to show their work in small crit groups.
Gentle Breeze: May CG Associates Session
29/05/2013 / 18:30-20:30For CG Associate Members Only
A chance for members to get their teeth into two meaty discussion topics:
Does art have to have a purpose?
and
How do you critically engage with your own work?
For information on the CG Associates scheme and how to join, see http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/associates/
Sowing Seeds: April CG Associates session
24/04/2013 / 17:45For CG Associates Members Only
Our April CG Associates meeting will focus on ‘Making Your Own Opportunities’ as an artist or curator.
We invite you to join Catharine Braithwaite of Lethal Communications who will be giving a presentation on how to get noticed by the press. Catharine will then be one of four table hosts at a World Cafe session, alongside: Jason Simpson, artist and founder member of Neo Artists, who will be sharing his experience of setting up studios, exhibition spaces and local networks; Paulette Terry Brien of International 3, who will be sharing her expertise on art markets; and artist Hilary Jack, who will be sharing her experience of creating opportunities to exhibit and developing a career as an artist.
Web Presence for Artists
14/04/2013 / 11:30CG Associates Members Only
Two full day practical sessions, delivered by web developers ohdigital.
The course is aimed at people with and without websites; very beginners will be able to set up a blog and/or a simple website which can be added to from home, while artists who already have a web presence can find out how to improve it and spend dedicated time making improvements under expert guidance.
Rogue Project Space Talk
09/04/2013 / 18:30CG Associates Members only
Taneesha Ahmed and Annie Carpenter, artist/curators of Rogue Project Space, talk about their current exhibition Orreries, their curatorial programme as a whole and how CG Associates can get involved with the Project Space. Antony Hall from Godlee Observatory, one of the exhibiting artists, will also be there to talk about his work and experience with the Project Space.