Friday 26 July 2013

MiniGEEK is off to Singapore


We are packing up our boxes and some of our favourite highlights from GEEK and taking them off to Singapore to be part of the Singapore Science Festival.
Originally booked for August the festival has been rescheduled for November because of the air pollution affecting the region.
Mini GEEK highlights will include Punch the Custard, the Video Game Carnival including the wonderful Fruitcade and Replay Event's Classroom of the 80s. As well as a pile of GEEK boxes the team of six are heading off with a supply of Raspberry PisArduino and Makey Makey kits so visitors to the festival can Meet, Make and Play.
For more about GEEK visit www.geek2013.co.uk - more news about 2014 coming soon.

Come and join us for a dance. Not a 1st Friday but a 4th Friday.

Sofia Pintzou & Ron Hagell - Berlin 2012 Photo: Monika Oechsler
Sofia Pintzou & Ron Hagell - Berlin 2012 
Photo: Monika Oechsler
Open Studio Special 23rd & 24th August*                                                    World Premier of Tissu de Femme, a new work by Ron Hagell.
Ron Hagell is a Storyteller. He uses photography, choreography, film and installation to explore the relationship between the telling and receiving of stories.
His new work Tissu de Femme will be premiered at Marine Studios 23rd August. It will be shown alongside a selection of his recent works including Living the Dream (2013) and Alone in the City (2012).
Ron was raised in South Carolina, he spent his military service in Vietnam. He worked in film and television going on to becoe a respected teacher. He has held posts at Rhode Island School of Design, Royal Holloway-University of London, the Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt/M, Germany) and Columbia University (New York, NY).
His films, installations and photographic works have been exhibited widely in both the USA and Europe.
Friday 23rd 6.30 – 9.00p.m Friday 23rd
An informal evening of conversation with Ron Hagell.
Free. All welcome.
Donations bar.
Saturday 24th The gallery will be open 12.00 – 4.00.
* This event is a Thanet Open Studios event. Part of the Summer Squall festival organised by Ramsgate Arts.

Turning Japanese


In 2011 Marine Studios worked with Artist Sophie Herxheimer to collect Margate food stories. The Pie Days & Holidays project became a book, picnic, exhibtion and episode of the Radio 4 Food Programme. The project has now been featured in The Big Issue in Japan. The catalyst for this global migration was a shared residency for Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, where Sophie met Tomoko Take. Tomoko is a Japanese Artist who lives in Amsterdam, who also likes food as a theme.
To read the story click here. Have Google Translate at the ready.
Some of the Pie Days & Holidays food stories can still be seen on the seafront hoardings in Margate.

Come and play in Margate


RIBA sandcastle competition, Margate July 2013

So much going on. New places to eat, drink, play and watch. The recent addition of revetment seafront steps have transformed access to the beach giving people a place to eat and meet. Well done to everyone who was involved in that project - we love it!

Don't miss Curiosity at the Turner Contemporary - it gets our vote as the best show yet.

BTW - not wanting to be the scruffy kid on the block, Marine Studios is undergoing a face lift. It's business as usual behind the netting. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, it will all be worth it when the restored repainted building is revealed.

Further afield.                                                                             
Look! A Duchamp Festival in Herne Bay – more information here