Spring or is it summer already!

It feels like Summer has finally arrived, well the last few days have been glorious and sitting on my south facing balcony I could almost imagine I was some where exotic! well until the intermittent sirens passing just to jog me back to reality.

Unfortunately the flash player on the site is not longer functioning and alas it cannot be fixed, so for those of you who wish to check out the latest music, please head to my MYspace page. I have uploaded new tracks from the new album, which I am still searching for a new home so if any of you have any ideas of folk that may be interested please feel free to mail me.

I have just completed my first collaborative film piece with artists Maslen & Mehra funny enough not related, well we are looking into that due to there not being that many Maslen's with the same spelling..who incidentally happen to be my new neighbours..
The film will get its preview on 6th June at The Nunnery Gallery in East London. So please come along or check the Bow Arts Website for gallery times.

Currently listening to Lindstrom, Dusty Springfield,Deerhunter.

Live gig in London on 8th July with my all female line up so please keep checking back for details.

Pecha Kucha 20X20 Nights

I’m so sorry I’ve had to cancel the party.

I’m so sorry I’ve had to cancel the party.

I will hopefully sort one out in the future! Sorry to do it at such sort notice I was looking forward to it.

Love and apologies

Josie

x

posted by alex onbehalf of Josie

3 lamps

I have three table lamps that are up for grabs if anyone is interested. light wooden base steel rod and light lime green shade.

Gabrielle

Hi all,

Gabrielle from flat 12 has had an accident and very badly damaged her foot.

It would be great if those of us in passing were able to check on her once in a while as we come and go.

;-)

BOUQUET

Hello All and many thanks to all those taking part in BOUQUET project …

I am trying to establish were all plants have gone, as I understand some kind

soles took in some rejects that needed watering … thanks and please can you let

me know, if you took in any additional plants, which doorways you took them from

as I am mapping activity/interest and need to catalogue which flats are not participating …

Hope the sun keeps shining on you and your flowers!

Party

Hi Folks!

We are having a flat party on SATURDAY MAY 16th!

Bring a bottle!

Flat 42 Tenth floor

See you then hopefully!

Josie and Joe

x

I'm having a gig Sunday 26th 8pm

Hi I'm having a gig on Sunday at the Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper St, Islington. everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there..

(click here to see the facebook page)

Lisa (Flat 1)

BBQ Sunday

Hi All,

It seems that most people who have responded to the invite are going to BYO food. As I haven't had any money from anyone I think it's easier for everyone to BYO food

hope thats all good

sorry for any confusion

tim

BBQ for live work Artists of BAT

Hi all,

BBQ this Sunday in the courtyard at BAT from 2pm.

£4 contribution by Friday night left to Tim in envelope at BAT office or 183 stairwell post boxes

or BYO food

BYO drinks

hope to see you there!

Beaconsfield Gallery - Talk

FlatScreen Talks: Home

Saturday 25 April at 2pm
Gallery 2
Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY

Monica Ross in conversation with Ann Bodkin and Naomi Siderfin on housing, shifting communities and social power.

Architecture and urban planning - be it at macro or micro level, a private villa or an office block - must not only be a showpiece of design and technology, but also give expression to those democratic ideals of respect for human dignity, equality and freedom that are fostered in our society.
Ralph Erkskine, Times Online, 2005.

Fallen idyll - the end of a perspective is "a home movie" made by Monica Ross over two years: in 2003 while living in a council flat on Erskine's 1970s Byker estate (which had become a 'no-go' area in Newcastle upon Tyne) and then in 2005, as a document of its demolition.

Rather than presenting usual images of "failed" social housing, the video presents only the idyllic views afforded it from spring - winter, selectively presenting an aspect of the design whose utopian intent continued to survive the processes of social and physical decay. The demolition was the last step in economic and social policies that achieved the reconfiguring of this undesirable worker's housing as desirable riverside real estate.

Taking this single unit of social housing as a metaphor for the changed ideals and values about housing in the UK since the 1970s, the talk on Saturday will focus on the transformation of the Home into a primary commodity of financial markets. What implications might the post-war obsession with house-prices have for social equality, freedom and creativity?

Ann Bodkin is a sustainability consultant and architect based in Kennington.

Ralph Erskine became a member of Team X, founded in 1956, with people like Giancarlo De Carlo and Aldo Van Eyck, to counter the increasing bureaucratization of the Modern Movement, and to make human values the universal concept that preserves and enhances Homo Sapiens as a species. This applies to every human being and anything against these values brings the consequence of a Self Species Extermination Event (SSEE) like hate, racism or war...

In the last ten years council estates have been demolished or sold off to be replaced by 'so called' affordable housing- which, given house inflation, no one can afford. Major and Blair alike have honoured Margaret Thatcher's mission to privatise the remains of the welfare state commons and impose 'consumer choice' on an increasingly impoverished majority too poor to exercise the inalienable 'right to buy' when it comes to the basic need for shelter. Benedict Seymour. Shoreditch and the creative destruction of the inner city. Variant 34 Spring 2009

To book, please email info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk

The Ragged Canteen will be open throughout the talk.

Also exhibiting:
Gallery 1 - Bob and Roberta Smith, Factory: artist in residence
Gallery 3 - 15mm, The Way Out.
Galleries 2 and 3 are accessible to wheelchair users.

Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
London SE11 6AY

www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk
info@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
+44 (0)20 7582 6465
Please call in advance for wheelchair access.

Free venetian blinds

I have 4 secondhand blinds that will go into the bin next weekend if no-one wants them,
Sizes(width) 220cm, 218cm, 226cm and 205cm
colour - cream/magnolia

A King-size (single mattress )....

Thats what i am told .. so its in-between a double and a single mattress…

its A top of the line mattress costing £a fair bit…. it’s been used just for two months by a friend who has moved to Switzerland…. so any takers…. you’re welcome to acquire this … I have it here at warren house….

living at 37 warren house by the name of ALex

hey

Marcel Beattig
Bow Arts Trust


Dear Marcel,

We the artists at Warren House would like to propose to take on flat number 38, which has been voided and is held by Poplar Harca, in order to facilitate a multitude of activities.

Whilst we are aware that there are several logistical constraints that would need to be overcome we would like to open a dialogue in order to find out what is possible.

The Live/work artists at Warren House had a meeting where different ideas were put forward and possible hurdles identified. The proposed management system was a 12 month rota system for proposing and booking approved projects.

Amongst the most popular ideas suggested were;

A ‘clubhouse’ for the artists to meet and develop ideas to collaborate and interact
Gallery
Photo studio
Workshop venue
Library
Community activities venue
Swap shop
Workshop space for actors and non-actors

The Hurdles that were identified were;

Electricity
Water and ablutions (toilet)
Insurance (public liability) and CRB Certification to work with kids
Budget for ‘basic’ making good of space


We feel that the ‘clubhouse’ would firstly help the artists in Warren House to formalise a creative community through a shared multi-use space. Furthermore It provides a space to help all of the residents become involved on equal terms in a designated space.
Whilst we are enthusiastic and willing to do most of the work we look to Bow Arts Trust for possible administrative support and advice, and help for raising funds or support-in-kind for the above mentioned hurdles.
We would like to propose a meeting with BAT as soon as possible to discuss what course of action is required in order to facilitate our ambitions. We were hoping to be able to have something ready for the Open studios event this year.
We look forward to hearing back from you.
Tim Maslen and Niels Nielsen

Face Book live/work artist group

live/work facebook group

This is the link to the group on facebook. You can add an event if you like, sometimes we meet up at the pub or something.

warrenhouse.tumblr.com

Here is the Link for the Tumblr blog (above)

Hi all I was hoping to get peoples resonses to the minutes of the meeting that I sent to all via mail so we can get the proposal in to BAT? So far there has been 4 replies

tumblr

Hi everone in my enthusiasm to find a quick and easy solution i have jumped the gun a bit. Alex has spent some time and has set up something that is much better but just as simple to use. I have encluded the link to the site to log into and think that it is a much more versatile and visually pleasing site for us to use. Sorry for the confusion :-)

http://warrenhouse.tumblr.com/post/94643340/life-is-over-in-warren-house

Hi all

Hi Everyone! This is a blogspace that we can use to keep up to date. It is easy and free.