Islington Mill Visual Arts
documenting the programme of visual art activity at islington mill, salford www.islingtonmill.com
CHERYL invites you to join us for an interactive video shoot, dancing and crafting in preparation for Sunday’s ROYAL RUCKUS. Come get your fancy dress on.
Make a bustle, a ruffle or whatever royal treatment you envision; we’ll provide some materials and feel free to bring your own. If you’re not inspired to make your own or are looking for the perfect pantaloons to go with your powdered wig, House of Haynes will also be on hand for a Fancy Dress Hire Costume Sale. Costumes either too worn out or too way out to hire for only £5. Once you’re all dressed up, lend us your face for a live film shoot and be part of a CHERYL video. We need you to help spread the word for what will be the wildest party in the realm!
Eggs Collective, Manchester’s female fast cabaret company and pioneers of bad taste, are preparing a monstrous, monarchic queen-off. The gloves are off, we’ve had the corgis and Lizzy 2 has hit the bloody roof. There’s only one Queen who can sort this out…come down with your crown and join us for a right royal rumble!
ROYAL RUCKUS. 3rd June 6pm-6am £6 adv
CHERYL & OFF with THEIR HEADS PRESENT: ROYAL RUCKUS: Sunday 3rd June 6pm-6am
Welcome to the world of Great Kitten where everyone is a ruler and is crowned King/Queen upon arrival as they take an oath upon the disco orb.
Featuring Eggs Collective, Volkov Commanders, Organ Freeman, Sex Hands, Bollox DJs, Trash-O-Rama, DJ Jorge Vieira, Brutal Ruth, Northern Crosses, Raw Like Sissy, Chew Disco, Good Afternoon DJs, Pumping Iron and Lucy Ironmonger.
It’s out Liz’s 60th year in power, the event will run from 6pm-6am in the 6th month of the year and will cost you a mere £6 from Skiddle in advance.
The culminating party from our disco deviants in residency for the season CHERYL. The 4 piece performance collective from New York have been working with many artists, musicians, performance groups and members of the public to help in creating a site-specific installation throughout their time at the Mill. All relating and revolving around the theme of ritual that we Brits have with our Royal Family, this will be their take on a great British Day Out.
The event will feature a special one off performance from our favourite band Organ Freeman as they collaborate in only ways we can imagine and dream of with CHERYL. Sex Hands will also give a special performance. Mill favourites Eggs Collective will be doing several performances throughout the day dotted around the building and after their Halloween night here last year this can only be a good thing as they have been working in Islington Mill for a few weeks now in preparation for the big day itself.
After they smashed it at Sounds From the Other City earlier in the month, CHERYL have been working with the Volkov Commanders on plans for the Jubilee. They will be bringing back the Disco Cave v3 and doing some very special performances throughout the day, but that is all we shall say for now…
And lets not forget this is a party, a celebration and would be nothing without a stellar line up of DJs. So we gathered as many as possible together all under 2 rooms: Chew Disco, Bollox, Trash-o-Rama, Raw Like Sissy, Good Afternoon, Northern Crosses, Brutal Ruth…keeping the 2 room party going into the early hours. DJ Jorge Vieira will also be making his Manchester debut, in town all the way from Lisbon/Porto Portugal
It’s a long day for all celebrating/commiserating the Royal Family so we will have food on offer in the form of the Queen Cafe. In a similar vein to our ‘Candle in the Wind’ cafe at the Royal Wedding last year. We shall be playing Queen songs all day and serving up a selection of delights, including we hope Diamond Jubilee Chicken- our own ‘special’ recipe.
This event keeps growing so expect so much more on the day as well. Check out our Facebook event.
Our advice to you…get down early and be prepared to get messy CHERYL style.
CHERYL and Off with Their Heads present ROYAL RUCKUS at Islington Mill.
Sunday June 3rd 6pm-6am
Tickets £6 adv
Mass coronation ceremonies, participatory rituals, flash mob processions, royal banquet pinatas, disco cave, dance floor explosions and a lot a lot more!
‘I’ve Started So I’ll Finish’
Sunday 17th June 4pm-late
A day of performance, installation and video art. Showcasing artists studying and working at Salford University.
TONIGHT Wed 16 May 7-10pm CHERYL invites you to their NEW MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: A Psycho Aerobics Class. Please join us in our gallery space for a combo warm up/fitness class/mind meld. CHERYL will be sharing moves and learning from YOU. Jazz hands, high kicks, Miley Cyrus, Maypole-ing, CHERYL-ing, interpretative dancing etc…CHERYL will be rolling the evening into one big disco ball in preparation for secret dance floor rituals to be revealed during CHERYL/Off with Their Heads Queen’s Jubilee Party on June 3rd.
Join us if you want to get sweaty and get weird on the dance floor!
Check out this poodle exercise video for inspiration…!
This Saturday we’re attending The Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention. The convention returns during Future Everything festival 2012 with talks, a film screening, vegan food, stalls, an exhibition and co-ops.
Talks, Zines, Film, Workshops, Tours etc…
Talks include:
‘Making a noise: an express ride through the world of punk and riot grrrl fanzines and the UK feminist underground 1977-2012’ - Cazz Blase
‘Pam Ponders Paul Morley’s Cat: the wired and wonderful world of city fun’ - David Wilkinson
‘Closed caption/rotherham Zine Library’
Check out the Facebook event for more details!
This weekend the Mill is very excited to attend Manchester Salon Weekend - a weekend of artist-led discussion, curator insights, technology and popcorn as part of the final North West Visual Arts Open of 2012. An exciting programme of free public events has been organised by galleries and venues across the city to showcase and promote access to local and international artists and their work. The North West Visual Arts Open Weekends have been organised to encourage artists and people interested in the arts from other towns and cities across the North West to visit new galleries or places they haven’t been for a while, to experience what the visual arts has to offer and current developments in artists practice.
Key highlights of the Manchester Weekend include:
Saturday 19th May
Chinese Arts Centre
Exhibition: 60 minute cinema
10-5pm FREE
Enjoy the latest video art from Mainland China in the second instalment of 60 Minute Cinema at Chinese Arts Centre with free popcorn and Chinese Tea; including work by Zhao Liang, Cao Fei, Yang Fudong and Jun Yang. Exhibition continues until 9 June 2012.
1830 Warehouse
Exhibition: Future Everybody
10-5pm FREE
18 international artists from sculptural, video, sound and digital fields display their work in this exhibition, which is part of Future Everything 2012. The exhibition is hosted in the 1830 Warehouse, a Grade 1 listed building which forms part of the Museum of Science and Industry’s site in Castlefield Exhibition continues until 10 June 2012.
Victoria Baths
Craft Fair: Handmade
10-5pm, Entry £2
Handmade is an interactive craft fair for artists combining craft and digital technology. Visitors will have the opportunity to create their own DIY artworks. Alongside Handmade there will a Zine Symposium displaying Manchester ‘zones’ with workshops for visitors to contribute to a Victoria Baths Fanzine. Part of Future Everything 2012.
Castlefield Gallery
Artist talk: Artist-Led Platform 1
6-8pm, refreshments from 5.30pm. FREE
For this special event Castlefield Gallery has brought together artist-led projects Rogue Project Space, Blank Media Collective, the Artist Bonfire and the Lionel Dobie Project amongst many others. A series of short presentations on their current activity and future plans will lead to an audience led Q & A. Further discussion may continue until 9pm and then most likely the pub!
Sunday 20 May
Manchester Art Gallery
Curator Tour and drop-in workshop
11am to 3pm, FREE
Explore Haroon Mirza’s sculpture A Sleek Dry Yell featuring Richard ‘Kid’ Strange with curator Kate Jesson. Discuss the use of sound in contemporary art and then enjoy a hands-on drop-in workshop, recording your own found sounds to make a musical composition. Suitable for all ages.
Castlefield Gallery
Exhibition: Put Your Money Where Your Eyes Are
1 to 6pm
Castlefield Gallery are having a special open day for this Manchester Salon Weekend, giving visitors an extra chance to see the work in their fundraising auction Put Your Money Where Your Eyes Are. More than 50 donated artworks will be on show from artists and curators including: Pavel Büchler, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gordon Cheung, Shezad Dawood, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Leo Fitzmaurice, Rachel Goodyear, Naomi Kashiwagi, Mark Leckey, David Mackintosh, Haroon Mirza, Peter Saville, Mit Senoj, David Shrigley and Liam Spencer. Online bidding starts 4 May and works are viewable in the gallery from 11 May by special appointment only. All bids close with the auction at the gallery on 30 May 2012.
Cornerhouse
Curator Tour: Subversion
2 to 3pm, FREE
Subversion is a major new socio-political group exhibition curated by Omar Kholeif, who will host this public tour. This event is free however booking is essential via www.cornerhouse.org. Following the tour meet us in the ground floor foyer to walk round to UHC and the next event.
Ultimate Holding Company
UHC roundtable discussion: Art, Design, Activism and Occasional Property Development
3:30 to 4:30pm, FREE
Ultimate Holding Company (UHC) is a group of creative pioneers and provocateurs operating at the junction of contemporary visual art, engaged design practice and social activism. Recently UHC began working in partnership with property developers ASK on a series of conversations on the areas surrounding Manchester City Council’s new cultural development at First St. This round table will bring together members of UHC with invited guests to interrogate how artists and activists can build effective and ethical relationships with the private sector, and utilise the constraints of the economic downturn to create the space for risk and adventure. Following the discussion, join us for a brief walk to Castlefield Gallery, to view their fundraising auction exhibition Put Your Money Where Your Eyes Are.
For further information about what’s on visit: www.northwestopen.wordpress.com
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Deborah Barrett: Performance Art ‘CLEAN ME’ at Islington Mill
EGGS COLLECTIVE will be performing on 3rd June for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Cannot wait. Queens at the ready…
Do not miss CHERYL/Off with Their Heads/Eggs Collective takeover on June 3rd 6pm-6am
Expect pure madness.
Tickets available here
