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23rd & 24th April 2011
SPILL National Platform
Call for entries
Are you an artist who has been showing performance work publicly for up to three years or have performed two works in an independent public forum? Well then here's your chance to be part of SPILL Festival of Performance 2011.
In 2010, in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, art activists staged a dramatic series of performances in cultural institutions to protest against oil companies like BP and Shell sponsoring gallery spaces like the Tate. Gushing from floral skirts, spilling elegantly from giant white eggs, jetting from paint tubes across the floor of the iconic Tate Turbine Hall, the flood of oily resistance that followed has generated a fierce debate in the art world around oil, ethics and sponsorship.
Our friends at Cure Studio have created another excellent website.
About Cure Studio
Founded by James Hurst, Cure Studio is a multidisciplinary design agency who work with clients to bring a fresh creative perspective married with solid commercial understanding. Their tools are images and words and the results are both functional and beautiful.
www.curestudio.com
Donate here: www.thebiggive.org.uk/donate/lift
Starting this week, The Big Give Christmas Challenge begins. This is a unique opportunity to really make a difference - every £1 you give to LIFT this week will be doubled!
WIN UPTO £10K - HOW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CHANGED MY LIFE
Win up to £10k with Digital Revolutions, the biggest short film competition around - and you don’t need to be a professional to enter! With a professional and amateur category this competition is open to all.
Set to open early next year, W London are searching for the key position for the hotel - the W Insider (uber concierge) - their calling card - Whatever, Whenever, As Long as it's Legal!
Could you order a helicopter for a day trip to France, get front row tickets at a London Fashion Week show or get a table for dinner at the Ivy?! If so, the W Insider is the perfect job for you!
J Alexander, David Waddington, Libby Sellers and Jonny Woo are all on board to put the entrants through their paces to see if they have what it takes!!
Through their philanthropic department, The Hospital Club supports a diverse group of exceptionally talented emerging creatives, who each year combine to form their Creatives in Residence (CiR) programme. Over the course of a year the scheme actively contributes to the participants’ career progression and personal development. The aim is to inspire but also ground each individual within the creative industries at large.
Love Hackney? We do and we know you do to. So grab your camera and get snapping...
Those ever inventive souls at Shoot Experience have teamed up with Hackney Museum and Archives to produce a photography project inviting Londoners to submit photos that 'Capture Hackney' as it changes in the lead up to 2012. So get down to Broadway Market catch those trendy Shoreditch t**ts or find inspiration from the spandex leggings on Ridley Road. They want you to snap up the area, capturing a genuine sense of the Hackney zeitgeist.
Whats in it for you?
