Admission to Crescent Arts is free.

The Crescent is the place to be for Museums at Night on Friday 18th May.

Crescent Arts presents an exciting programme for Museums at Night coinciding
with Scarborough Arts Gallery’s Delight Night, which means you can imbibe a heady
cocktail of art, films, books, workshops, music and more, all in one place.

Future Shorts Festival

The first ever global pop up film festival showcasing exciting short films from around
the world arrives in Scarborough. Filmakers, audiences and festival partners come
together to create the next generation film festival with a worldwide audience of
half a million in 147 cities and 55 countries.

Crescent Arts will give a continual screening from 6-10pm of the Future Shorts
spring programme as part of Museums at Night.

The programme, which runs for 80 minutes, features:

Bear – dir. Nash Edgerton (Australia 2011)
Quadrangle – dir. Amy Grappell (USA 2010)
Venus – dir. Tor Fruergaard (Denmark 2012)
The Arm – dir. Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos, Jessie Ennis (USA 2012)
Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) – dir. Spike Jonze, Simon Cahn (France 2011)
Love You More – dir. Sam Taylor Wood (UK 2007)
L’Homme Sans Tete (The Man Without a Head) – dir. Juan Solanas (France 2003)

Please note that the Future Shorts film programme carries 18+ certification.
Admission is free.

For more information about Future Shorts Festival visit

http://futureshorts.com

For more information about Museums at Night visit

www.culture24.org.uk/museumsatnight

PLUS

The Portable Reading Room – Wild Pansy Press

The exhibition ‘The Portable Reading Room’ by Wild Pansy Press will be open
and we invite visitors to browse through a selection of fascinating publications
by artists and writers. We’re also featuring a range of poetry publications from
Scarborough’s Valley Press, highlighting the work of some of the region’s
foremost poets. All publications are for sale.

PLUS

‘The Great Art Book Exchange’

 
Adding to the literary theme.
Bring along an art book and exchange it.
You never know what you might find or who you might meet!

It’s all at The Crescent on Friday 18th May
from 6pm to 10pm.

Don’t miss it.

Artist Writes combines many of Crescent Arts’
activities in one programme; exhibitions, events,
talks, workshops and professional development
for artists.

Artist Writes starts with The Portable Reading Room
from Leeds-based Wild Pansy Press, open to visitors at
our studios in Scarborough 14th April – 19th May.
We’re offering poetry readings, talks and events and
invite you to participate in ‘But…’ a live text-work.

Workshops in writing, printmaking, paper making,
marbling and book making add to the theme of books
and writing. See the current workshop pages of our
website for more information about these activities.

The Portable Reading Room

The Wild Pansy Press

Saturday 14th April – Saturday 19th May
Opening times: Fri-Sun 11.00am – 4.00pm
and by appointment.
 

Admission is free.
Events: dates and times as advertised below.

The Portable Reading Room acts as a mobile bookshop,
gallery and project space, and will be installed within
Crescent Arts’ gallery/project space as a form of
social sculpture, creating a space for reading, viewing
and exploring the book as an expressive medium.
A range of publications will be available for sale
during the exhibition. Wild Pansy Press publications will act
as a focus, and the Portable Reading Room invites
participation and social interaction. 

The Wild Pansy Press is the brainchild of Simon
Lewandowski and Christopher Taylor,
artist-curator-publishers, who define their work as a
collective art practice using publication as a way of making
and distributing art.

The Wild Pansy Press catalogue comprises books and
projects which challenge and extend the usual notions of the
book format and publishing. The Wild Pansy Press Book of
Rainy Day Activities exemplifies their approach;
a compilation of instructional projects focusing on
self-organisation, distributed as four A2 sheets which
fold into a 64-page book. Wild Pansy Press seek to blur
boundaries between literature and art and to extend
our understanding and appreciation of these forms.

For more information about Wild Pansy Press visit
www.wildpansypress.com

We’re hosting a series of events and participatory
activities within the context of The Portable Reading
Room and Artist Writes.
 

‘But…’

Help us to create the ultimate pot boiler. Stray thoughts and
peripheral visions encouraged. Multi-dimensional literature
written by you, to occupy an entire room over five weeks.
Each contributing author receives a complimentary
unexpurgated published copy of ‘But…’ at its random point
of completion.

Valley Press Poetry Readings 1

Helen Burke, Norah Hanson, James Nash

Saturday 14th April at 3.00pm
Admission is free

Helen Burke, born in Doncaster, started writing poetry in the
1970s with awards, including Manchester International,
Suffolk Poetry Prize, and Ilkley Literature Performance
Poetry Prize (twice). In 2011, Valley Press published
The Ruby Slippers, her first full-length collection.

James Nash is a resident of Leeds. He has published three
collections of poetry, most recently Coma Songs
(Grassroots Press, 2003). In October 2012, Valley Press
will publish his latest collection, Some Things Matter:
63 Sonnets, with a digital-only edition of ‘selected poems’
planned for release in early April.

Norah Hanson, born in Hull, has focused on writing poetry
since retirement in 1996. She has been short-listed for the
Bridport Prize and commended in the Yorkshire Open.
In November 2011, Valley Press published her first solo
collection of poetry, Love Letters & Children’s Drawings,
to popular acclaim.

Valley Press Poetry Readings 2

John Wedgwood Clarke, Carl Potter, Jo Reed

Wednesday 25th April at 7.00pm
Admission is free

John Wedgwood Clarke is currently Leverhulme Artist in
Residence at the Centre for Environmental and Marine
Sciences at University of Hull, Scarborough. In 2010 he
was short-listed for the Manchester Poetry Prize.
In April 2012 Valley Press publishes, Sea Swim, the result
of a recent artistic project in Scarborough.

Carl Potter was born in Beverley, and studied English and
Creative Writing  at Leeds Trinity University College. He is
most widely published as a journalist for Hull Daily Mail.
His poetry debut, Form, is published in April 2012 by
Valley Press and this will be his first public
reading since the book’s release.

Jo Reed, born near Durham, has worked as an illustrator,
printmaker and teacher. She recently completed an MA in
Creative Writing from Newcastle University. Stone Venus,
her first collection of poetry, was published by Valley Press
in 2011, with her second book planned for release in 2013.

For more information about Valley Press visit
www.valleypressuk.com

Simon Lewandowski talks about
Wild Pansy Press

Friday 27th April at 1.00 – 2.00pm
Admission is free

Simon is co-founder, with Christopher Taylor, of Wild Pansy
Press. He is a practicing artist and currently teaches on the
MA Fine Art course, School of Fine Art, History of Art &
Cultural Studies at University of Leeds.

Patrick Coyle
Performance: ‘Beat I, Beat II and Beat III’

Friday 4th May at 5.00pm
Admission is free

Patrick Coyle pursues reading as a performative act,
by which making sense of the world through language
can fall into absurdity. His performance of ‘Beat I, Beat II
and Beat III’ on video is simultaneously riveting and
disorientating, promising a fascinating live performance
as the culmination of a day-long Artist Writes workshop
in company with Eileen Daly and Jeremy Akerman.

The performance is open to all, whether
participating in the workshop or not.

Patrick Coyle was born in Hull and is based in London,
having completed MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths,
University of London in 2010 and BA Fine Art
at Byam Shaw, University of The Arts London, 2005.
He has exhibited and performed widely in the UK,
including at Hayward Concrete Café; Bloomberg
New Contemporaries 2010; ICA; Spike Island and
Arnolfini, Bristol.  

For more information about Patrick Coyle please visit
www.patrickcoyle.info

Writing Workshop for Artists

Akerman Daly

with Patrick Coyle

Friday 4th May
10.00 am – 4.00 pm
£30 (members) £40 (non-members)

This is a workshop for artists who would like to explore
writing as part of their practice. Whether you need to write
a succinct statement about your work, a proposal,
biographical note or want to explore writing in a more
creative vein, this workshop will be of interest to you.

Share your thoughts and ideas about examples
of writing which inspire you, and discuss its relevance
to your practice. There’ll be an opportunity to edit
your own, or selected texts in small groups and to
work on presentation with a view to publication. 

Eileen Daly and Jeremy Akerman will talk about their work
and approach to publishing, writing and working with artists.
Patrick Coyle will discuss his own practice and the process
of working with Akerman Daly. Patrick will give a live
performance of his work Beats I, Beats II and Beats III
after the workshop at 5pm.
This performance is open to the public.

We’re fortunate to be able to draw upon the expertise of
Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly who began their
collaboration as Akerman Daly in 2004, with the intention
of publishing writing by contemporary artists.
They develop projects to be realised in print, online or
through performances, and see artists’ writing as
complementing and extending what artists do.

For more information about Akerman Daly and their work
with artists, including Patrick Coyle,
please visit www.akermandaly.com

Participants in this workshop will have an option
to develop a text with the help of Jeremy Akerman
and Eileen Daly and to attend a second workshop in
the summer. An additional fee will be charged for this. 

Museums at Night

Friday 18th May 6pm – 10pm

(In conjunction with Scarborough Art Gallery)

‘The Grand Art Book Exchange’
Swap those forgotten art books
and meet like-minded literarties
over a glass of wine.

Watch this space for details of film-screenings at
Crescent Arts as part of Museums At Night.
For more information about Museums At Night visit
www.culture24.org.uk/museumsatnight

Tutor: Dawn Brooks

Maximum of 8 places on each workshop

18 + years

Drypoint Etching and Chine Collé

Saturday 26th May

10.00am – 4.00pm

£40 per person (non-members) / £35 (Crescent Arts members)

Drypoint Etching is a variant of engraving, done with an etching
needle or sharp point. A drypoint scratching leaves a rough burr
at the edges of each line; this burr gives dry point prints a
characteristically soft and rich velvet line quality. This method is
a simple and effective way of producing intaglio prints without the
use of any acids. Chine Collé is a collage method used to introduce
blocks of colours or texture into prints without the use of separate
printing plates.

BOOKING: Booking in advance is essential.
A minimum deposit of £20 is required to secure a place.
Payment must be made in full at least 10 days prior to a workshop.
Course fees are payable by cheque made out to Crescent Arts.

For further information or to book a place please contact
Dawn Brooks: www.dawnbrooks.co.uk 
T: 01723 351461 (Crescent Arts).

Anniversary – an act of memory: solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Monica Ross and Co-Recitors from Scarborough communities.

Saturday 29th October 2011 at 1.00pm

Scarborough Library & Information Centre

Vernon Road, Scarborough YO11 2NN

Free to participate, or just enjoy the event and meet like-minded  people.

Anniversary ― an act of memory is a performance series in 60 acts focusing on the
importance and relevance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Are you passionate about Human Rights?
Crescent Arts and Scarborough Library are inviting people from across the Borough of
Scarborough and the region to take part in a collective recitation of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights with artist Monica Ross. Take this chance to learn a small part of the
Declaration of Human Rights and recite it in public, in your own language, as part of
this unique performance.

What matters to you?
Whether your concern is local, national or global and focuses on family, discrimination,
the environment or access to education, employment, and healthcare for example,
you’ll find it’s reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The document gives pause for thought, in a period of uncertainty when access to social
services, information and support is under threat, yet most needed to sustain basic human rights.

Scarborough Library and Information Centre with Crescent Arts seek to highlight the
importance of access to (and sharing of) experience, information, knowledge, education
and creativity through support networks which take considerable time, resources and personal
commitment to build up and which can be so easily and thoughtlessly eroded.  

Scarborough Library is an ideal location for the project as it represents a key
local resource that not only acts as a gateway to free information, knowledge
and opportunities for informal learning, creativity and expression but it is also
a democratic space that allows access to everyone.

Lend your voice.
Everyone is welcome and we hope that the recitation will fully reflect the many voices
and languages of Scarborough’s communities. We wish to include many speakers and
are interested in hearing Articles from the Declaration memorised and recited in many
different languages including British Sign Language.

The emphasis is not on perfect recall, but on the attempt to remember and
the difficulty of fulfilling the Declaration’s call to keep it ‘constantly in mind’,
especially when under pressure.

Anniversary – a brief history:
Monica Ross challenged herself to learn the Declaration of Human Rights by heart,
following the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes in July 2005.
She began the Anniversary series in 2008 to mark the 60^th anniversary of the UDHR
and so far over 30 recitations have taken place in contexts as disparate as
The House of Commons, Brighton seafront, a private flat, art galleries, universities and
even an opera, and with more than 250 co-recitors of all ages from different communities
and professions memorising and publicly reciting articles of significance to them in over
30 languages. Her aim is to achieve at least 60 solo and collective recitations.

The UDHR is the world’s most translated document and can be downloaded in over 370 languages from

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Introduction.aspx 

You can find out more about Anniversary – an act of memory here

 www.actsofmemory.net

You can see video from previous collective recitations here:

www.youtube.com/actofmemory

If you, your group, or organisation would like to take part, please get in touch with 

Karen Atkinson at Scarborough Library on 0845 034 9563  

Stuart Cameron at Crescent Arts on 01723 351461

OR

by email (subject: anniversary):

karen.atkinson@northyorks.gov.uk

info@crescentarts.co.uk

All Your Own Work

A showcase for printmaking and ceramics
produced at Crescent Arts workshops 2008 – 2011

You are invited to the

Exhibition opening:
Saturday 15th October 2.00pm – 5.00pm

We feel it’s time to highlight YOUR talents. All Your Own Work brings together some of the most exciting work produced by participants in Crescent Arts printmaking and ceramics workshops between 2008 – 2011. The exhibition launches on Saturday 15^th October at 2.00pm with a get-together and light refereshments. Demonstrations and hands-on taster sessions will whet your appetite for workshops coming up this autumn and in the spring. So why not come along and find out more about what we offer by way of facilities and expertise. Maybe enrol for a workshop or two?

(Karen Thompson, The Death of a Species, work in progress)

Prizes to be won…

We’ll be announcing prizewinners for the most creative work in the exhibition.  There are 5 vouchers to be won, worth £15 each, which can be used towards either printmaking or ceramics workshop fees from October 2011 to March 2012

Crescent Arts’ Director, Stuart Cameron, with printmaker Dawn Brooks and ceramicist Karen Thompson will judge the work.

Autumn Ceramics Workshops at Crescent Arts 2011

Tutor: Karen Thompson

Maximum of 5 people / 18+ Years

An Introduction to Ceramics

October 20th & 27th & November 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th

Thursday evenings  6pm to 9pm

Full 6 Week Course
£100 (non members) £95 (Crescent Arts Members)

Individual sessions:
£18 (non members) £16 (Crescent Arts Members)

All prices include basic materials & firings.

Whether you want to try your hand at throwing or hand building, create your
own jewellery, develop your glaze technology or alternatively find out about
other making techniques & possibilities then this is the course for you. 

Booking is essential.
For further information or to book a place email info@karent.co.uk
T: 01723 351461 (Crescent Arts)

Autumn Printmaking Courses at Crescent Arts 2011

Tutor Dawn Brooks

Maximum of 8 people / 18 years+

An Introduction into Linocut

Sunday 16th October 10.00 – 4.00pm

£35 per person (Crescent Arts members)
£40 per person (non-members)

Linocut is a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of lino is used for the relief surface.
A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge.
The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller and then impressed onto paper or fabric.

An Introduction into Drypoint Etching and
Multi Colour Printing
(3 week course)

Saturday 29th October, 5th Nov & 12th November 10.00 – 1.00pm

£25 per session
or for all 3 sessions £54 per person (Crescent Arts members)
£60 per person (non-members)

Drypoint Etching is a variant of engraving, done with an etching needle or
sharp point. A drypoint scratching leaves a rough burr at the edges of each line,
this burr gives dry point prints a characteristically soft, and sometimes blurry, line quality.
This method is a simple and effective way of producing intaglio prints without
the use of any acids.

Colour printing & Mono printing will be used to introduce painterly effects to
the finished prints. There will also be the opportunity to combine other techniques
such as Chine Collé which is a collage method used to introduce blocks of colours into prints.

* This is a 3- session course; participants can attend some or all 3 of the sessions.

Collagraph and Carborundum (2 day course)

Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November
10.00am – 4.00pm

£80 (non- members)

£75 (Crescent Arts members)

Collagraph combined with carborundum printing can be a very interesting way of
working mainly because of the many different effects that can be created and the great
variation in texture created from using different materials. Almost any material with
texture can be collaged onto the printing plate such as paint, fabric and leaves.
Carborundum is a grit which is applied to the plate to create rich tones and textures.
The materials applied to the plate will determine the tone and strengths of the ink,
and will also give a wide variation of textures. The resulting impression is that of
embossing as well as printing.

Booking in advance is essential. £20 deposit is required to secure a place.

For further information or to book a place please contact Dawn:

 www.dawnbrooks.co.uk 

01723 351461 (Crescent Arts)

Crescent Arts Studios

The Crescent

Scarborough

Friday 15th July

6.30pm

Admission free.

You are invited to a special screening of Ever Remote, a selection of artists’ films exploring and challenging ideas of home, loss, travel, distance and belonging.

 Curated by Hondartza Fraga

 Selected from invitation and open call, Ever Remote presents a selection of contemporary video works that engage or question the meaning of home, elsewhere and all the distances in-between. Each work explores a different aspect of the distances between ourselves and everything else: physical, temporal, cultural, emotional, imagined. Home and elsewhere come across as alien concepts that are constantly being both re- and de-constructed.

The borderlands between domestic and unfamiliar, native and exotic, homeland and foreignness are blurred, distorted or invented altogether. These works are portraits of the ambiguous space between fiction and reminiscence, between the traveller and the memory of the journey, between home and a half remembered homeland. They all seem an attempt to understand the uncertain distances that escape measurement and definition.

Ever Remote offers a further opportunity to view work by Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis, resident artists at Crescent Arts over the past year. Webb-Ellis recently presented their video installation ‘Clinging’, to great acclaim, at The Coliseum in Whitby. Their short video ‘Becoming’ is part of this programme.

More info at: www.hondartzafraga.com

Limited places. Please RSVP info@crescentarts.co.uk

14/15 Queen Street, Scarborough

Simon Farid
The Tragedy of Richard Anthony and Cleopatra Taylor

Saturday 18th June – Sunday 10th July

Fri/Sat/Sun 12.00 – 5.00pm

admission free

Simon Farid, 2011

This new installation by Simon Farid at Crescent Artspace in Queen Street reveals an extensive, detailed, almost obsessive process on the part of the artist; a process which comprises never-ending excavation, investigation, fabrication, documentation and speculation. It is a creative process which relishes, observes and ponders, examines and tests the blurring of ‘truth’ and ‘fiction’, the ‘real’ and the ‘illusive’.

“(The work) involves many histories, whether real or imagined. We are in Alexandria in 50BC, and in Rome in 1962, and for this production, maybe Scarborough in 2011?” Simon Farid 2011

Simon Farid delights in the juxtaposition and superimposition of people and places. He takes a great deal of time and trouble with a multiplicity of re-constructions and re-enactments of stories, events and situations. He sifts and edits and mixes, adding to and compounding layers of the ‘factional’ to those already embedded in the material. The film itself, excerpts of the film, re-enactments of excerpts of the film (the kiss), projections of enactments and re-enactments, plans and models of places and people, contemporary press images, journalistic articles and accounts, and so on. Ambiguity is to be found at every turn.

“It’s a proposal for a play or a film about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton falling in love, whilst playing Mark Anthony and Cleopatra. A tragedy. A complex thing, no doubt, one involving six protagonists; Liz and Rich, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Liz’s Cleopatra and Richard’s Anthony.”  Simon Farid 2011

Such is the contemporary language of cliché and ‘the everyday’, frequently to be found in the contexts of press, media and cinema, that it might at first appear vulgar or inadequate. However, through the experience of this work, it is revealed as complicit in the artist’s approach and response to narratives, situations, characters and roles, which can be seen as both contemporary and archetypal. ‘Tragedy’ – the word carries a heightened sense of the dramatic, inextricably binding together ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’. Checking on the origins of the term I note a supposedly literal meaning, ‘goat song’, in Greek. Whether accurate or not, I rather like the earthy quality which this lends to the Hollywood version of ‘Cleopatra’ as personified by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Simon Farid has been resident at Crescent Arts for the past 18 months. He graduated from Central St. Martins, London, with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2009. He was the recipient of an individual award from Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts in 2010 for a research visit to Cairo and to assist the production of this work.

Simon Farid would like to thank: Helen Donnelly, Stuart Cameron, Amanda Holderness, Martin Emerson, Jessica Butcher, Tom Rosenthal, Faye Merralls, Joe Rizzo-Naudi, Mark Farid, Neill Warhurst, Crescent Arts, Arts Council England Yorkshire, The Lost Theatre, Scarborough Borough Council, Comet, CEL, University of Hull.

The Crescent, Scarborough

10/11/12 & 17/18/19 June 2011

11.00am – 5.00pm daily
admission free

Webb-Ellis, Susan Timmins, Karen Thompson,

Susan Slann, Simon Farid, Dawn Brooks

Crescent Arts’ Director, Stuart Cameron, asked our current resident artists to consider what part drawing played in their practice, if any. This exhibition provides a response which ranges across Simon Farid’s video walk through Cairo, Susan Slann’s sewn canvas, to Dawn Brooks’s automatic drawing and mark-making for intaglio print. There’s a video projection by Webb-Ellis, Susan Timmins’ three dimensional drawing and slide-viewer works by ceramicist Karen Thompson. The artists offer propositions for drawing as exploratory, investigative, analytical, or perhaps documentary activity; frequently involving humour and, more often than not, contradicting traditional notions of drawing.

NORTH YORKSHIRE OPEN STUDIOS 2011

10/11/12 & 18/19 June

10.30am – 5.30pm daily / admission free

Dawn Brooks: printmaker 
Susan Slann: painter
Karen Thompson: ceramicist

Meet three of our artists-in-residence; visit their studios to see aspects of their work and creative processes not usually on display to the public. Some work is for sale, so pick up an original work of art for yourself or as a unique gift. Saturday 18^th June is a day to see how it’s done and have a go yourself.

A new video installation by

Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis

The Coliseum, Victoria Square, Whitby

Friday 3rd June 6.00pm – 9.30pm

Saturday 4th June 11.00am – 4.00pm

Admission is free

Crescent Arts presents ‘Clinging’, a powerful new video installation produced by Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis,at The Coliseum in Whitby for two days only. The work is presented as a three-screen projection which the spectator is free to explore at will with no predetermined viewing time.

Webb-Ellis work across film and installation, and their practice explores the tension between fiction and reality, challenging traditional notions of documentary truth. The artists approached The Coliseum in Whitby as a venue which is perhaps associated with more conventional cinema screenings of feature films. ‘Clinging’ contradicts such expectations by allowing the viewer to move within the installation and enter or leave at any time.