Pink House Programme

New generation Arts Festival Birmingham 2006

http://newgenerationarts.co.uk

A range of exhibits, installations, performances and seminars demonstrating the breadth and depth of Birmingham artists' work.

8 June Joanna Shallow’s ‘How Does Your Garden Grow’. Explore your own wild designs with this pioneering interactive equipment.
1400-1700
Visitors: 173.

Classical Music–Slow Death.
World Famous musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim warns of the inevitable demise of Classical Music. A live debate.
1830 – 2030
Visitors: 122.

9 June Lester Babbington’s ‘Tower Block Flat’ come and take this spooky interactive tour.
1230-1330
Visitors: 57.

9 June ‘After the 18th Storey’ Artists Arlene Burnett & Paul Newman lead a presentation and discussion on their Haddon Tower Project. It was strange for the artists; how was it for the residents?
1830 – 2030
Visitors: 91.

10 June Conservatoire ensemble performance: JUNIOR SCHOOL STRING QUARTET (TBC)
1230-1330
Visitors: 200+.

10 June ‘Villanelle: Redeemed Promises’ Creative Writing/Conservatoire Composition.
Joanna Lee: A set of three new works for solo voice (performed by Suzie Purkiss). Poems are "Ambivalently Yours" by Jamie Leedlam, "An ode to Geoffrey Chaucer" by Sarah Fisher and "Villanelle: Redeemed Promises" by Geraldine Hawkins. Then we have electro-acoustic pieces which are a response to the poems (in any way the composer wishes!) Stephen Shaw: Response to "Haiku - Maple Leaf" by Deepak Ganger and also pieces by Jun Lee and Johan Eriksson. A series of audio broadcasts.
1230-1330
Visitors: 79.

11 June BONESHAKERS TROMBONE QUARTET
1230-1330
Visitors: 309.

11 June TalkingHead A Giant projected head intones a passage on ‘the artists’ double lives, and the creative journey between the two. Featuring world famous author Jim Crace reading from his book ‘the Gift of Stones’
1400-1700
Visitors: 273.

11 June. a.a.s. presents a www.richardpeel.com production: Wizard Wars  with Ana Benlloch, Richard Peel, Stuart Tait and (Captain) Ed Wakefield. The performance will take the form of a live interpretation of a Richard Peel comic and will feature: Miming to pre-recorded dialogue, dancing, shouting, ridiculous costumes and headgear, animated comic strips, and strange ‘music’ and sound effects. The play will be written by Richard Peel and will feature mythical creatures, bizarre adventures in time and space.
1830 – 2030
Visitors: 178.

12 June PERCUSSION QUARTET African Drumming
1230-1330
Visitors: 140.

12 June Joanna Shallow’s ‘How Does Your Garden Grow’. Explore your own wild designs with this pioneering interactive equipment.
1400-1700
Visitors: 120.

12 June Organised Belief, the Digital Age, and the growth of Secularism.
Birmingham artist Kate Pemberton’s new commission for the Festival in St Philips Cathedral, explores parallels between computer game imagery and religious iconography. It will stimulate a wider debate on technologically-driven secularism and its effects on organised belief. We would like to invite members of Birmingham’s leading Faith Communities to engage with us in an exploration of this theme. A live debate chaired by Birmingham-born writer and former Director on Cybernetics at the University of Warwick, Sadie Plant.
18.30 – 2030.
Visitors: 120.

13 June Sam Wooster Jazz Quartet performing.
12:30pm-1:30pm.
Visitors: 78.

13 June  Reactor presents: DRUMS DRONES & VIDEO CUTS
an audiovisual collaboration between Phillip Henderson and Daniel Williamson. Familiar melody in heavy objects on keyboards, multi- cloned TV and home video footage zooming onto screens. Sublime and riotous!
18.30 – 2030
Visitors: 111.

By “New Generation Arts”