Preparations for MAKE/Shift

Good evening kids, hope all is well!

We really need to meet up this week and have a good chat about jobs, times, costs etc etc.
I think wednesday would be good, at around 6pm at the basement? Nico will hopefully be nearing the end of his project so we will have a good idea where he is at. Because there is a lot going on in this exhibition, we need to know what exactly each of us will need to do on the day/night. After all this effort, we can't afford to mess anything up..

get back to me asap on here or my phone if you can't make it so we can try to organise a different time..

Thanks, x

poster/flyer/meeting

thanks nico for posting your oringal design on here, as hopefully it will help tasha and jess with the facebook/myspace message and the booklet design that we are planning to give out at your exhibition.

Callum was kind enough in printing us off a copy of an A5 and A4 copy of the design so we can organise circulating some flyers and posters asap. they're looking great!

i may be busy up until 6.30pm on thursday, but i cant remember the time we were supposed to meet.. if thats a bad time for everyone else then let me know and i'll try to sort something out..

much love, xxxxxxxxxx

poster

heres the flyer/poster design and two possible pics for the booklet thingy

blurb

Make/Shift
[or just make do]
An exploration into the building blocks of life.

Fri 1st Feb- Sat 3rd Feb

For the first event at hydeout, Nico Smith and Nick Davies have created a haphazard environment, struggling for stability and crying over spilt bricks.

A multimedia installation of constructions, compositions and catastrophes, made with everything from microchips to mud.

Private View Friday 6-9pm
Open all day Saturday and Sunday

Dates etc

Totally forgot perhaps the most important thing - the dates we decided on. Here are the preliminaries:

Fri 1st Feb - Sun 3rd Feb
Nico and Nick
'MAKE/SHIFT'
opening Friday 6-8pm
Saturday 12-8pm
Sunday 12-8pm


Fri 22nd Feb - Sun 24th Feb
Kirstie's exhibition
Plus one or two workshops - bookmaking/quilting/crochet (to be decided)
Perhaps some kind of stitching performance


Fri 29th Feb - Sun 2nd Mar
Alec and Ben's exhibition

Mmm, Brakspear

Excellent meeting! I'm pretty excited. Thought it might be a good idea to blog up what we decided and what's going on over the next couple of weeks:

hydeout leaflet
1/3 A4 x long side A3 leaflets, to be folded in 4
One side - a long image with the hydeout logo to show on the front when folded. Nico's asking alec if he can come up with a screen-printed design that'll be easy for us to get printed/copied.
The other side will feature (in each of the 4 sections) an intro to the hydeout space (plus website, email, call for artists etc.), a section on Nico and Nick's exhibition (title, blurb, and image and opening hours), a section Kirstie's exhibition, a section on Alec and Ben's exhibition.
I think Jess is having a shot at content, and I'll look into printing. We'll hopefully have something together by the meeting next Thursday, so be printed the following week for Nico and Nick's opening.

Publicity
Annie and Jess are emailing and ringing people to try and sort out publicity (newspaper listings etc) for Nick and Nico's exhibition.
Nico seems to have flyers, posters etc under control :)
I'll update the myspace and facebook to include this exhibition and will add images once we've got some.

meetings
I think we agreed our next meeting all together would be

Thursday 24th, 6pm at the Brudenell

Me and Jess are meeting Kirstie tomorrow in the basement at 12 to chat about curating and Alec and Ben will be going down there at some point too.

That's all I can remember for now.

Good work team!
xxx

Video!!

This is just an example of the sort of work i'm making at the moment- the installation will be very different but this gives you some idea!

First meeting of 2008!

Hello all, happy new year!

As you all know, i finally got that elusive key to the basement door so we can go forward in organising exhibitions and performances at last.

I think we all agree that we need to have a meeting but i need to know ASAP (!!!) when everyone is free for one. Ive posted the proposal from Amy Draper about the Buried Child play but we need to organise it sharpish if its gonna happen.

Please either text/ring me or just reply to this message with available times to meet. im pretty busy at the moment so i can't be arsed with chasing people everyday. For me, Monday afternoon would be perfect, or maybe even Sunday if none of you are doing anything..? let me know my lovers!

Peace and Fucking!

New Proposal from the Facebook page.

Word! this is a new proposal (of a sort) from the facebook page..

Hi! A friend told me about this group and I'm really glad I found it! I'm President of the Leeds University Theatre Group. This semester, among other things, we are putting on 5 plays. One of which is Buried Child by Sam Shepard sometime in the week beginning 18th Feb, normally 3 nights. We're looking for a venue...you can see where this is going! The director said he would love to do it in a basement type room. Is there any way this could be possible in your space? We'd be more than happy to meet up and chat about it. My number is 07912 227173. Amy x

What do we think? Im pretty sure Sam Shepard of whom she talks about suggested this gig at the meeting but i can't quite remember.. I like it. we could do it on a ticket basis, so we have a specific audience and then have them all sit down and watch etc.. obviously..

was going to reply to her but thought id get everyone's view before i do. bye!!!!!!!! x