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DNA - International Art Residency
Participants biographiesDuring the period 1-15th July 2008, 35 artists from UK, Ireland, China, Australia, Peru, Morocco, USA, Tunisia, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq have taken part in the creation of artworks that will be used as building blocks of an art installation dubbed Zygote. The artists have been asked to use the building blocks of life- DNA. The DNA code GATC is used to create a personal message. Participating artists - Tamara Nouri-Iraq,Mary Fitzpatrick-UK, Richard Ashworth-UK; Hamid Bouhioui-Moro -
Oceans Apart
'Oceans Apart' - Arabic & Liverpool Artists at The International and Tito's Art galleries at Slater St. The visiting artists come from Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan and the UAE. Including Muhanna EL Durra from Jordan, Dr. Nada Shabout, professor of Art History at MIT, USA and President of AMCA, the Association of Modern Art from the Arab world, Turkey and Iran Features artwork from visiting Arabian artists and Liverpool-based artists, mainly drawn from the artist collective Red Dot. -
The Art of Peace
A brand new exhibition opening at The Courtyard Gallery housed in The Courtyard Theatre will take place from Jan 8th, 2009. The Art of Trauma and Peace’ will draw together for the first time, 25 artists from 7 countries with works created between 78 and 08 to explore the trauma of loss in all its aspects and the transition to peace. This process has to be one of healing, the real ‘witnessing presence’ created in The Art of Trauma and Peace’ by the varying artists, brings home the intensity of th -
Planet Art eXchange Incorporation
Planet Art eXchange or PAX has been registered in England and Wales as a not for profit Organisation. It's based in 1 Great George Street, Liverpool L1 5EW.
It's aim is to explore new horizons that bring art and communities together. Our mission is to use art not for the art per se but as an instrument to help us reflecting on the problems faced by our communities, locally or transnationally. To pursue our objectives, we don't shy away from exploring uncharted waters -
Iraqi Brain Drain
Thursday 8th January 2009 6pm til midnite
Gallery Address :
40 Pitfield St
London
N1 8EU This panel discussion will elaborate on the major theme explored in the exhibition Art of Trauma being held concurrently at the Courtyard Gallery from December 15, 2008 – January 30, 2009. Conference panelists will examine the targeting of Iraqi scholars and academics addressed by an art installation exhibited in ‘The Art of Trauma’ exhibition. The conference will explore the contexts of the assassinati -
Pax Festival 2009
Pax Festival of conscious music featured- Urban Strawberry Lunch
- The hypercomposer Virgil Sharkya will accompany students from Hope University Dance Department led by Sarah Blacke The magic harp of Stan Ambose will create a magic atmostphere where recital of poetry will flow
- Drum Planet worksops
- Sense of Sound choir, a collective of exceptional individuals, who under the musical direction of Perri Alleyne-Hughes delivers soulful, rhythmic, organic, sensitive, experimental, alternative a
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Urban Manifesto of Faith
Urban Manifesto of Faith ( Liverpool)
Statement of Aims
Workshop, 7 April 2009
The Rev’d Dr Shannon Ledbetter Aims:
To develop an Urban Faith Manifesto, which will look at how we can help to improve the quality of life for people in our own city. The Manifesto will use the eight Millennium Development Goals, which are based around issues of poverty, education and health to make positive contributions to the communities of Liverpool. Hopefully, this will be repeated in the subsequent PAX Republ -
Interculturalism - Conference
The objective of the discussions is to start thinking transnationally and interculturally, assess the existent practices and policies, imagine new collaborative ways of tackling those issues and make recommendations and actions proposals. Members of the public from all disciplines and backgrounds are are invited to join the discussions and participate in laying down the foundations of PAX REPUBLIC. The Conference will be co-chaired by Terry Phillips, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Hope Univer -
Deprivation in Liverpool (Conference)
The objective of the discussions is to start thinking transnationally and interculturally, assess the existent practices and policies, imagine new collaborative ways of tackling those issues and make recommendations and actions proposals. Members of the public from all disciplines and backgrounds are are invited to join the discussions and participate in laying down the foundations of PAX REPUBLIC. Sessions will be podcast to get more people involved in the discussions beyond the program The -
Decode Me Workshop for Kids
The gap between highly eclectic private schools and disadvantaged state schools widens the misunderstanding between communities and adds to the already existent social divide. Our aim is to forces the divides to be bridged through the sharing of common human values, would set the path for collaboration between privileged and disadvantaged children and helps with the breaking down of stereotypes and misconceptions and enhances cross-communal cohesion. Decode Me Workshop will target secondary sc -
Zygote Art Installation
Zygote Installation is created by Sumer Erek as the first phase of an organic art project dubbed the Womb Zygote is an installation created by Sumer Erek, it uses the works created during the period 1-15th July 2008 by 35 artists from UK, Ireland, China, Australia, Peru, Morocco, USA, Tunisia, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq - and that are inspired by the building blocks of life- DNA. The DNA code GATC used to create a personal message. It’s accepted that human consciousness begins bef -
Togetherness, Digital Art Show
New media art Exhibition from Three leading Digital artists - Mark America, Stanza and Heath Bunting Mark Amerika, who has been named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century, has had four retrospectives of his digital art work. The first-ever net art retrospective was held in the summer of 2001 at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, and was called "Avant- -
Through my Eyes Workshop
This workshop is organised by Charanjit Birdie from Christian Alliance Housing Association Ltd. Residents of the housing association will take portraits of the convention participants using their body parts and the medium of double exposure -
Bridges not walls, Poetry Evening
Poetry evening @ the Black-E- Naming anger and despair in the face of violation, atrocity and injustice.
- Demonstrating courage and imagination in the face of damage, loss and bereavement.
- Evoking the healing processes of conversation, compassion, community and creativity
- Asserting art and love over the dead hands of fear and guilt.
Sandy Ainon, Faiza Alasaly, Anne Candlin, Ruth Dillon, Nahida Izzat Ghaith, Kaety Moore, Cate Jacobs, Jeffa Kay, Michelle Richards, Pauline Rowe, Hyac -
Pax Film Festival
In collaboration with Liverpool Film Festival Films On Liverpool Sat 4 April
18:00 - 19:15 Of time in the city (2008) 72 min , Terence Davis
Of Time and the City is a very personal portrait of the city of Liverpool. Created by Liverpool-born director Terence Davies, this film charts the tumultuous story of Liverpool in the time-frame of the director's life. (more)
Nominated for the Best British Documentary ( British Independent Film Awards-2008) and BAFTA (Best production-2008) Sun 5 April -
Bauls Fakirs Tour
Baul Music marked its presence in the London Cultural circuit with a 10 day tour of four Baul Fakirs alongwith a team of banglanatak to the United Kingdom as part of attending International Workshops and Festivals from March 16-28, 2010. The visit of these Baul Fakirs opened up vast new exchange of folk ideas and forms that translated into an immense interest in this indigenous folk form and instigated an interest amongst the European audience as well as the Asian population of this part of the -
Egg Visual Artists Residency
with the participation of 6 artists from UK –
Ruth Dillon, Hambi Haralambous, Becs Andrews, Alan Lane, Dave Lawrence, Tony Knox
The programme included workshops in W. Bengal several villages and worked with PataChitras with whom they hadPOT plant workshop and exhibition, Jun 26-30/ 2010 at Lokayaa, New Delhi “And I wonder- I hope my trip will tell me- what is the story, the narrative, the experience by which moving through the digital village allows the audience to learn as much about themsel -
Egg Intermedia Art Residency
This is the 2nd artist in residence in West Begal with the participation of 5 Intermedia artists Borja Alexandre Fernandez, Diego De Leon, Suzanna Gonzalez, Jano Bizotto andDave Lawrence.
The artists have visited several West Bengali villages and worked and performed with Baul Fakirs from Nadia / Workshop has been very intense and productive, a lot of learning from such amazing people as Baul / Fakiri. Amitava and Tanmoy Bose have lead it with a magnetic heart. The concept of the programm is to -
Himalayan Kids Trust
Himalayas Kids Trust is an Indian not for profit organisation that was created in October 2010 and is based in Sonada, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. Himalayan Kids Initiative is born to address specific needs of the vulnerable population in the Himalayan region, assess those needs and develop adequate projects that meet them. Himalayas Kids Trust aims to promote the wellbeing of disadvanged children and youth in the region of the Himalayas. Its objectives include: fostering the welfare and ad -
Ihsan Opera Jam
Ihsan Video TrailerIshan is a circular journey that celebrates the universalspirit of tolerence of sufism throught Love and Emptiness, we use mixed media to tell this story.The show starts with aninteractive lecture on Sufism that will act as a musical score, with the speaker, audience, space, and environment functioning as compositional elements.
Following the lecture, the public is be immersed in 70 min. journey that's divided into 12 scenes and involves real time interactive sounds.The show is a fusion of sever -
Folknest initiative
Folknest WebsiteLaunch of www.Folknest.com that aims to promote Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism - Our objective is to develop Creative & Heritage Tourism, a travel directed toward an engaged and authentic experience, with participative learning in the arts and heritage, an immersive experience that provides a connection to local communities and helps promoting their living heritage and sustain their livelihood. -
Stygmergy
Flickr GalleryArt Exhibition
The Gallery Liverpool,
Stanhope St. Stygmergy is a mechanism of spontaneous, indirect coordination between agents or actions, where the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action, by the same or a different agent. Stygmergy is a form of self-organization. In 2010 a group of artists embarked on a Contact Base initiative.
As part of an EU commission Pax Liverpool sent 5 British artists to to collaborate and respond to residencies i -
Pax Festival 2010
PROMOTING INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF WEST BENGAL
Featuring Chau and Patachitra Tribal Artists (Liverpool)
Planet Art eXchange is proud to present two forms of West Bengali cultural heritage – Chau performanceon 20thNovember at 7pm and Patachitras Exhibition and Fair on 21st November from 10 am to 5pm. The eventswill be held at the Black-E, 1 Great George Street, Liverpool L1 5EW and admission is free. The unstoppable globalizationis threatening the World Oral and Cultural Heritage as t -
Ethno-Magic Going Global
In December 2009,Planet Art eXchange (PAX), Banglanatak ,London Metropolitan University and UNESCO India (associate) were awarded a Cultural Heritage grant from the European commission for the EGG project – Ethno-magic Going Global that aims to promote West Bengali folk art. PAX is entrusted with the co-ordination of an Artist Exchange Programme unleashing the previously unseen cultural traditions of West Bengal to a new international audience, this exchange programme will involve the hosting o -
The Isle of my India - Exhibition
Exhibition,
The Community Base, 4th Floor,
World Museum Liverpool In 2010 five British artists undertook an exchange programme (the EGG project), collaborating with and responding to rural artists in West Bengal, India. This exhibition highlights the work that came out of that exchange programme and the work of the patachitra or story-scroll artists from West Bengal. Artists from Planet Art Exchange: Becs Andrews, Ruth Dillon, Hambi Haralambous, Tony Knox, Dave Sponde, Jonathon Tooze. Pat -
Intermedia Art Residency, India
A team of 6 intermedia and performing artists from US, UK, Ireland and Germany will explore the Chau traditional Indian dance and will produce a Dance Film and an opera -The idea with this residency was to establish a relationship with these artists and lay the groundwork for a possible collaboration with PAX, VRMMP, and Banglanatok dot com (as well as Smart LAB, Dublin). The goal and intention is to create an interactive art piece that could be exhibited in a western gallery, creating awarenes -
The Jasmin Revolution
Exhibition of art photography by 4 Tunisian artists to be held in the National Museum of Slovenia, Maribor -
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The Jasmin Revolution Exhibition
Exhibition of art photography by 4 Tunisian artists to be held in the National Museum of Slovenia, Maribor
