Waltham Forest Arts Club are organising an exhibition to coincide with the Waltham Forest Literature Festival.
May 23rd to 28th in The Red Room at Ye Olde Rose & Crown, 53 Hoe Street, Walthamstow E17 4SA.

The Long Conversation: Poetry and Painting
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.” – Simonides

Do your written words paint a picture? Are your pictures full of poetry?

Artists are called to interpret the long-standing relationship between the written word and visual art, in the broadest terms.  All mediums are encouraged including: concrete poetry, text-based work, artists’ books, sound installations, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, and poetry readings.  We would especially like to encourage our writers and poets to participate in this exhibition. There will be a long table for display of books to be read so please also bring along your editions and cards.

Artists may submit up to two pieces of work, there may be some selection involved depending on the amount of work received.  Very large work might be a problem. To pay for the space we ask that each participant contribute £5, to be delivered with the work on May 22nd. Please, if you can, sign up for a slot on the invigilation rota at that time. No commission to be charged on any sales of artwork. All work should be delivered ready to hang or display, no clip-frames please.

You must be a member of the Arts Club to participate. Membership is free. Join on-line: http://www.artsclub.org.uk

Register interest by May 8th. Email for registration form: exhibitions@artsclub.org.uk

The fair will give participants the opportunity to share their skills with the general public, and to sell a range of products including illustrators’ magazines and fanzines, handmade books, poetry books and pamphlets, fine art and letterpress prints and posters, stationery, postcards and cards.
PRICES FROM £5.

Cakes from SUZIE’S KITCHEN and MUSIC FROM TONY TUNES of the Shellac Collective, playing vintage 78s.

In association with Forest Poets and E17 Designers
£1 entry includes a drink and the chance to win a goody bag.
Leytonstone Library 6-8 Church Lane, Leytonstone, E11 1HG

As posted on the Arnolfini Gallery website for BABE:
“Lucy May Schofield
Bibliotherapy Artists Book Library (Babl)
Are you broken hearted / need inspiration or your faith restoring in the postal system? Whatever your symptoms Lucy May Schofield invites you to sit down and tell her all. She will diagnose an appropriate artist’s publication to help you find a way through your woes. The Bibliotherapy Artist’s Book Library has a wide selection of books on loan ranging in therapeutic benefit. The fee for this service will be £1, entitling the client to a pair of listening ears, an artist’s book prescription and a letterpress printed philosophical aphorism.”

As the Family Theatre Festival 2011 continues at the Theatre Royal Bath, actors from the Young People’s Theatre are staging BOOK LABYRINTH at the egg theatre in collaboration with Bath Literature Festival. This specially-commissioned production opens on World Book Day, Thursday 3rd March, with matinee and evening performances running until Sunday 6th March.

Directed by Lucy Cassidy and designed by Anna Michaels, this atmospheric performance will conjure up cherished moments from well-loved books featuring stories remembered by every generation, in a production suitable for audiences aged 6 years and over.

The Young People’s Theatre, Bath Festival’s Write Team and director Lucy Cassidy, visited Mr B’s Bookshop and Bath Library to interview members of the public about their favourite moment from a children’s story. The books of Roald Dahl proved to be an extremely popular choice with people of all ages. Inspired by their findings, the young people developed this absorbing production featuring a dream-like set made from disused books. The egg theatre will be transformed into a literary maze that scales the auditorium, balconies and stairways.

In an old bookshop setting, the audience is invited on a magical journey into children’s literature as the Grand High Bookseller and the magical Bookshop Assistants conjure up different moments from a range of favourite children’s books. Within the show, the audience will find themselves in the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Borrowers, Where the Wild Things Are, Alice in Wonderland, Eldest and many more.

The twelve cast members, who all hail from Bath, are aged between 14 to 17 years. Working with a professional team at the egg theatre, the teenagers researched and developed the piece before Christmas, and they have been busy rehearsing since January during evenings and weekends to prepare for the performances during Bath’s Family Theatre Festival.

BOOK LABYRINTH appears in the egg theatre at the Theatre Royal Bath from Thursday 3rd March to Sunday 6th March. Tickets cost £7 / £5.50 children. To book tickets call the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or the egg reception on 01225 823 409.

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

The egg theatre gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council England South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.

For more information on Book Labyrinth, please contact:

Emma McDermott, Press Officer, Theatre Royal Bath,
Tel: 01225 823 453, Email: emma.mcdermott@theatreroyal.org.uk

The Bristol Artist Book Event is held every other year at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.
This year it is the weekend of the Royal Wedding- April 30th and May 1st.
BABE is organised by the lovely Sarah Bodman.

Will you be attending BABE?
As an exhibitor or a visitor?

Text by Victoria Lucas who is the curator of this show.

COLLECT artists:

Louise Atkinson
Julie Caves
Katherine Johnson and Stacey Allen
Steffan Jones- Hughes
Simon Lewandowski
Victoria Lucas
Andy Singleton

Links:
More on the Westgate Studios blog.
On Arts News
There is a Facebook Event page for this show.

He is lovely and I also think his work is grand.  He is a printmaker who makes comics and books.  Go look.

“It makes a summer day complete to hear their pointy beaks go tweet.” Gareth Brookes

It is a photograph of a yellow treetop against a blue sky that I took this autumn in Walthamstow.  She has used images from artists in the Waltham Forest Arts Club to create a set of boards for the classic memory game where you turn over the pieces and match pairs.  Many of the images are of areas in Walthamstow. She has made prints for the backs of the pieces.

You can see and purchase a piece from the edition at the WALTHAM FOREST ARTS CLUB WINTER SHOW.

The exhibition has many paintings and drawings, some sculpture and a video piece as well.  I have a painting from the Twilight series in the show.

Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow E17 9NH. A short walk from the terminus of the Victoria Line at Walthamstow Central.
The exhibition continues 10am till 5 pm, Wednesday to Sunday, up till Christmas.

Yellow Tree Blue Sky No. 1 by Julie Caves

She shares some insight into the process that is interesting as well.  Thanks Amy!

Amy Wilson's book.