Nunhead Arts

Thank you to everyone who made Nunhead Arts Week 2009 successful. From the opening preview night to the Nunhead Walk today, people came out to support us, enjoy themselves and they did it without breaking the bank as most events were FREE. So thank you again, and Nunhead Arts Week 2009 is over. But if you feel inspired, 2010 is your year to do an event.

Don’t forget events are still going on this weekend:

Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th 12-6pm
Artist Sarah Sparkes and guests C.O.T.H (cult of the Harvester) Derek Jordan, Simon Neville, Ricarda Vidal, Julian Wakeling respond to the absence of community at the Nunhead community Centre.

I hope you can join us at Nunhead Community Centre this coming weekend. I’ve been artist in residence there for the past week and have been making work on site along with several other artists whom I’ve invited to collaborate with me on the project.
The centre was closed down because of an alleged contamination with legionnaires’ disease and there is a feeling of sudden abandonment in the building, with the ghosts of the old community still very much in residence. The work, made on site, is a direct response to this feeling and much of it incorporates objects found at the abandoned centre.

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NUNHEAD WALK with our local historian, Ron Woollacott. Meet at 11.30 outside the Old Nun’s Head for a wonderful historic walk. Who knows what delights will be discovered. Enjoy.

No, Arts Week isn’t going crazy - it’s film Night! Comedy Night, Celebration Day and Baby Rhyme time.

Just a small note: FILM NIGHT IS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE

The Graceful Travellers, Pia Randall Goddard, Anne-Marie Glasheen and Joan Byrne, our South London writers and photographers, performed some of their poetry and prose to a full audience. The pieces were moving, intense, poignant and blatantly hilarious! And we only have until Sunday to enjoy our cultural fest, so get down to another event this week!

The opening weekend of Nunhead Arts Week has been so well supported. The children’s show, The Dream Tree, was a success and Tam Tam Theatre brought their magic back to Nunhead. Also, Beer Poems took place at the Restaurant, Lunch time jazz and V.G Lee, with her dry wit, entertained many at the Old Nun’s Head. Phew… now Monday night is Quiz night with Phil Nice at The Telegraph, but we don’t forget the little ones - baby and toddler activities from 10.30am - noon at Nunhead Library.

Day Two of Nunhead Arts Week and it’s still brilliant. The community came out to celebrate Nunhead in style, with great food, music, printmaking, blacksmithing (not sure if that’s a word) and stylish arts and crafts.

Tomorrow is the children’s show ‘The Dream Tree’ which will impress us again, so come down at 3pm. And for those of us without little ones, VJ Lee (the lesbian comic writer) will be doing her Cupcakes and Tea performance at 4pm. How can anyone complain that there’s nothing to do in Nunhead! They can’t because at 1pm there’s also lunchtime jazz at the Old Nuns Head and Beer and Poems at the Restaurant. Nunhead Rocks!

Nunhead Arts Week 2009 has officially started. The preview night was well attended, and many of the artists have already got a red dot by their piece. The windows project and Nicky Hodge’s exhibitons were also part of the amazing night!

Green Day today - let’s see what delights today brings us.

Oh, and before I forget, listen to Joan Byrne chat about Arts Week on Peckham radio:
radiohttp://www.southcityradio.org/shows.php

Nunhead community Centre
Nunhead Open 6 Exhibition 56 Nunhead Lane SE15 - Tel: 07906 206 166

19 – 27 September
Open: Friday – Sunday 12-6pm
Preview: Friday 18 September, 6-9pm, All Welcome
‘Having discovered a stack of records in the Community Centre, Disk Jockeys Hannah and Daniel play tunes from the 50’s to the 80’s. Lucky dip a record to dedicate to your nearest and dearest on the preview night’. Presented by Hannah Simons and Daniel Lehan.

The Nunhead open exhibition now in its sixth year is an open exhibition in the truest sense. The range of work submitted is a vibrant collection of art from artist’s who are residents of Nunhead and Peckham and the surrounding area. Over eighty artists both amateur and professional and of all ages have submitted work in various mediums but what brings this show together is a commitment and passion for images and ideas that is evident in all the work regardless of art training and age.

Nunhead Windows Project (windows can be viewed until 4th October) maps and text available from the community centre.
18 September- 4th October
Five artists have been invited to make work for five Nunhead shop windows.

Jenna Collins’ poster series provides an absurd take on the eclectic and exotic locations – such as the Caribbean, the Grand Canyon and a Buddhist temple – depicted in the laminated images on the walls of the Baja Spice takeaway restaurant. ‘Mummy Superior’ Sarah Doyle’s window in the textile shop Mummy J Fashions works with the patterns on West African Hollandais cloth and is inspired by local folklore – the story of a nun beheaded on Nunhead Green. sarahdoyle.blogspot.com/2009/09/nunhead-arts-week.html -

Miyuki Kasahara’s ‘A home for 100 Tufts’ in the florist AG Flowers’s window is an installation of 100 tufts that resemble giant dandelion seeds but which are all made from artificial materials. Miyuki will give away the tufts to visitors at the preview , each contains mystery flower seeds. People who receive the work will be asked to leave their contact details, so Miyuki can discover where the seeds were planted and what kind of flower they became. The tufts journey will be shown at the blog: http://ahomefor100tufts.blogspot.com

Daniel Lehan presents ‘Butchers Boy’ in the window of the butchers P and J Baker. A photograph of the artist with the various cuts and joints of meat - Brisket, Thin Flank and Sirloin transferred to his own body, ‘Butchers Boy’ is a reminder of our corporeal and mortal existence. In the Na Pura Portuguese café, inspired by a global trade established between Portugal and China & Japan 500 years ago, Charlotte Squire has reconstructed traditional motifs from Jingdezhen ceramics and Japanese laquerware from recycled aluminium drink cans.

Saturday 19th September
This Happy Band
Perform 3pm at the Nunhead Open Exhibition

Follow THIS HAPPY BAND a collection of Artists, Musicians, Poets, and Wordsmiths, Elaine Arkell, Daren Callow, the Reverend Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Tim Flitcroft, Paul Good, Calum F. Kerr, Daniel Lehan, Janine Marsh, Frog Morris, Mr Solo, Kirsty Wood and more as they perform around Nunhead.

Saturday 26th September
2-5pm /Materials Provided/ All Welcome

Lady Lucy brings The Drawing Exchange to The Nunhead Open Exhibition where she will be setting drawing exercises in response to the works in The Nunhead Open exhibition. www.irational.org/drawing_exchange/

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Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th 12-6pm

Artist Sarah Sparkes and guests C.O.T.H (cult of the Harvester) Derek Jordan, Simon Neville, Ricarda Vidal, Julian Wakeling respond to the absence of community at the Nunhead community Centre with sound, film, situated constructed objects, paintings and photography

There is alot of amazing work being hung at this very moment - so thank you all for submitting. The preview night is going to be awesome. Don’t forget the window projects will be previewed then too. Nunhead Arts Week 2009 is going to be absolutely fabulous!

Keep checking the blog for Arts Week updates!

Dynamo Cabaret 2007, before Green Day kicked off!

IT’S ALMOST HERE - So get ready to kick off Arts Week 09 by submitting your work of art to the Nunhead Community Centre, by this Friday, inorder to rub shoulders with everyone on the Preview Night (18 September).