Feb Meeting: Transition Town Hackney
The next meeting will be taking place at 7pm on Monday, 16th February at the Arcola Theatre. All are welcome.
7-9pm, Mon, 16th Feb.
Transition Hackney Meeting
Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street
London
E8 2DJ
Talent Opportunity: Girlcore: 'The Girl Factor'
Are you the next Leona Lewis? London's Kelly Clarkson? Or even 2009's RuPaul...
Girlcore wants to discover the newest of London's talent, the cream of the crop, the best of the rest, the queen of the bean!
So if you think you can face the Girlcore judging panel on January 29 at Catch, you just have to be a girl (or a boy in drag) who wants to take their artistry to the next level and win very juicy prizes!
If this sounds like you, or like someone you know, just to girlcorerules@gmail.com
They will contact you with further details.
YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE!
News: Thinker in Residence Awards
Legacy: Thinker in Residence Awards
Two artists receive Live Art awards of £30,000 each.
The Live Art Development Agency and Tate Research are delighted to announce that Anne Bean and Tim Etchells will receive Legacy: Thinker in Residence awards of £30,000 each.
Wanted: Film / Media Savvy Individual
FROM THE MAKERS OF THE FORTHCOMING FILM:
'AGE OF STUPID'
Directed by FRanny Armstrong and starring Pete Postlethwaite.
We are looking for an immensely hard-working and enormously productive
media whizz to provide a non-stop stream of video, audio, text and photo
content for our websites, mailing lists, press kits and DVD. You will be
working on both the promotion of our new film, "The Age of Stupid", and
on the social action campaign, "Not Stupid", running alongside.
"The Age of Stupid" is the upcoming climate blockbuster from McLibel
String Quartet needed for DOTPOD!
Wanna pluck furiously for the Run-Riot podcast? Patrick and Emre need a string quartet on their latest tune! All contributors get credit and links on the podcast page and a quite often a free lunch. Up for it then please call 07507355018 or email thedotpod@gmail.com xXx
New Cultural Network: Mesh Minds
Harnessing the power of innovative web-based tools, London-based newcomer Mesh is getting ready to change the way organisations connect with their audiences. Mesh is a cultural marketplace connecting the arts and business worlds. Meshers have one thing in common - a passion for culture, arts and creativity. Mesh brings these people together for investment, collaboration and cutting edge experiences. So here's what they do:
Design Commission for 2012 Mascots
A new opportunity has just been advertised on the London2012 website which I wanted to make sure you were aware of. Either for yourself or in very many cases because I know you will have a range of interesting people that you might be able to pass this on to.
The opportunity is that to design the mascots for London 2012. This is a very big deal as you can imagine and working with LOCOG colleagues, I wanted to make sure we get the very best creative talent applying. If you have a look at the weblink below, you will see that people need to log on to compete for to get full details.
Halloween March Of The Dead
'The March of the Dead' was conceived two years ago as a creative collaboration between Passing Clouds and the Strangeworks Collective and involving many local artists, performers and musicians.
For the third year running they will be holding a big Halloween parade on Friday 31st October from the cemetery in Stoke Newington down the Kingsland Road to Gillett Square (by the Vortex) where there will be a performance.
Msg from Tamsin Omond about Climate Rush
Right there Rush-ers -
On Tuesday 28th the Climate and Energy Bill is going through its final stages and we need to go to Parliament to give the mighty Nigel Griffiths MP our support.
He is heading up over 50 MPs who will refuse the bill if it does not include international aviation and shipping. This could be a monumentous occasion of democracy sorta working. And we're well keen on that (even if it would make us a little redundant).