EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
All events are bookable via http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/ unless otherwise stated.
Gallery members receive a 10% discount on charged-for ticketed events
SPECIAL EVENTS
Art Week12th - 18th August 2013
Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange,and Penlee House Gallery and Museum are once again staging a summer holiday art week. The event this year will run from Monday 12th - Sunday 18th August and includes a week of fun art-based workshops for children, families and adults.
The Big Bop Golowan Ball
The Exchange, Friday 28th June 7.30pm – 12am
Dance the night away! Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange are hosting this year’s Golowan Ball, a fundraising event inspired by Patrick Lowry’s exhibition American Dream at The Exchange. Swing to 1950s live jazz from The Five Degrees, guest DJ Richard Ballinger then rock’n’roll bands Better than Nothing, Ledger Lines and Shoal. Chill out in the Hawaiian-style bar with a cocktail, and impromptu live performances. Come dressed to impress in 1950’s style. Prize for the coolest outfit.
Age 16 plus. Advance tickets only £13 from The Exchange Cafe or call 01736 363715
The Big Bop is a charitable event and is supported by several local businesses and colleges including Truro College, dbs music, Jive Club PZ, Mount Hawke and Headland Printers. It takes place during the Golowan Festival in Penzance.
In the lead up to The Big Bop Golowan Ball, The Exchange hosts the following workshops:
The Big Bop goes Hawaii: The Engine Room, The Exchange, Saturday 22nd June, 12-3pm. Drop-in workshop to transform The Exchange Café into a Hawaiian bar, create exotic flora with Ann Haycock. Free.
Jive workshop: The Exchange, Monday 24th June, 2-4pm and 7-9pm.
Dance workshops led by Jive PZ. Get a taste for rock’n’roll and swing and pick up some basic dance moves of the American 1950’s. No previous experience needed. Age 16 plus. £4, booking essential via eventbrite
Get the 1950’s Look!: The Engine Room, The Exchange, Wednesday 26th June, 2-5pm.
Drop-in fashion styling session with Ilker Cinarel, who worked in the fashion houses of Vivienne Westwood and Giorgio Armani. Have fun trying on outfits from local vintage and retro shops, and get your 1950s styling tips. This is an opportunity to get your outfit just in time for the ball. Free.
Cassical Concerts: The Exchange, Tues 25th, Wed 26th, Thurs 27th June, 8pm (doors open 7.15pm).
For Golowan, Tim Boulton presents a series of classical music concerts in aid of Cornwall Music Therapy Trust. £6/£3, tickets available from The Exchange Cafe.
Shostakovich 8th Quartet Uncovered: The Exchange, Friday 12th July, 7.30pm (doors open 6.45pm). The award-winning Penzance Youth String Orchestra explores the background of Shostakovich’s 8th string quartet. The performance includes spoken word, film, musical example, using the players’ own arrangement for string orchestra.
£8/£4, booking essential, via eventbrite
Arts Day: The Exchange, Saturday 13th July, 11am - 4pm.
A day of arts events given by young people in Penwith, including music recitals and open rehearsals. Free.
EXHIBITION EVENTS
PATRICK LOWRY - AMERICAN DREAM
A POSTCARD TO PENZANCE
Accompanying American Dream, A Postcard To Penzance is a fond love-letter to our town. Penzance residents are invited to contribute to a positive conversation and submit a postcard with ideas, dreams, wishes and ambitions for Penzance’s future, for exhibition and for the attention of policy makers.
Fascinating ‘50s: The Exchange, Saturday 1st June, 1 - 5pm.
A rare opportunity to treat yourself to a 1950s-style fascinator with hat-maker Holly Young. £25 for the session, all materials provided, booking essential via eventbrite
Movie Double Bill in a café-style setting:The Exchange, Thursday 6th June, 7pm.
Enjoy a glass of wine at your table watching Rebel Without A Cause (1955, PG) and Diner (1982, 15). Instead of a £5 ticket price, we invite visitors to bring the equivalent in groceries for Penzance Food Bank, who will distribute it to local families. Penzance Food Bank will be present to talk about its work.
Booking essential via eventbrite
The Wormery Literary Group: The Cafe, The Exchange, Friday 7th June, 3 - 5pm.
With special guest, author Jessica Mann. Join us as we draw back the lace curtain of 1950s suburbia - both here and across the Atlantic. Our objects of interest for this session will be: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates: the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. The Fifties Mystique by Jessica Mann: Mann discusses the period’s very different attitudes to sex, childbirth, motherhood and work.
Booking essential via eventbrite
ANDY HARPER - ARCHAEOLOGY IN REVERSE
Artist’s Talk - Members’ Event: Newlyn Art Gallery, Friday 5th July, 6.30pm.
Gallery Members are invited to join Harper for a walk through the exhibition before it opens to the public. Free to Gallery Members. Free to Gallery Members.
In Conversation: Newlyn Art Gallery, Thursday 18th July, 7pm.
Andy Harper in conversation with Robin MacKay, philosopher and director of Falmouth-based arts organisation Urbanomic. Free, booking essential via eventbrite
JOHN NEWLING - ECOLOGIES OF VALUE
Artist’s Talk - Members’ Event: The Exchange, Friday 19th July,
6.30pm. Gallery Members are invited for a glass of wine and then to join
John Newling for a walk through the exhibition before it opens to the
public. Free to Gallery Members.
REGULAR ART CLASSES
Weekly art classes at The Exchange in term-time, led by experienced local artists.
Saturdays, 10am - 12pm, £4 per session
Lab is a creative space for young people with an interest in visual art.
Artist in residence is Emma Saffy Wilson, a practicing artist whose work often starts out as a story or ends up as one. Her natural instinct is to respond in a three-dimensional way, playing with objects and creating a narrative. Sometimes the story gets lost in the making or it takes on a new meaning.
Interested? Contact Cat Gibbard for an application form: cat.gibbard@newlynartgallery.co.uk