1st Friday News Update

August - it was wonderful to see Ron Hagells work here as part of the Thanet Open Studios. Ron has returned to the US but hopefully will contribute to future experiments/ projects at Marine Studios. September 6th - No 1st Friday at Marine Studios                         We are off to ASHA at Limbo an installation by Korinna McRobert at 6.30.            Other 1st Friday events - TweetMeet @ GB Pizza and Folk & Roots with The Hut People at Tom Thumb Theatre. October 4th - 10 Prints                                                              Pushing Print is back!                                                                  At Marine Studios we are showing 10.                                             10 Prints by Artists created to raise funds to support RCA students. The project was organised by Professor Chris Orr.                     The exhibition includes work by : Norman Akroyd, Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego.                                         1st Friday October 4th 6.00-9.00                                                   Also open Sat and Sun 12.00-4.00 November 1st  - MicroWorld by Genetic Moo.                               Come and meet Genetic Moo.                                                           Hear about their amazing Microworld.                                                 Be part of their digital Eco system.                                                 1st Friday November 1st 6.00-9.00                                                     Also open Sat and Sun 12.00-4.00

HKD in Margate

There is always something new going on in the studio. Visiting designers and Artists join us for projects or residencies bringing new ideas and skills. With visitors from Korea, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Holland and Margate imagine a reunion picnic, what a feast! We’ll let you know if it ever happens. Our current visitors are Rosa and Alfonso. An Architect and Artist they came here from Spain for three months and now as that draws to a close we are all busy setting up new projects to try to keep them here. On the food theme they made us an amazing lunch which included this soup – Salmorejo - recommended!

EPIK is doing what it says on the tin ….. Encouraging Programming In Kent

Photo – EPIK Coding Hub Awards Turner Contemporary Feb 2013

The amazing people at EPIK are taking a group from Kent to the MozFest in the O2 arena. This will be amazing! Free to join in. Sign up here meetup.com/EPIK-UK

This is for 14-18yr olds ( under 14 welcome with a parent)

More information here http://mozillafestival.org Oct 26 and 27

To make this happen they need mentors – adults to go with the group on the bus and during the festival – contact them to find out more.

Join the Human Tide

100 years ago Marcel Duchamp spent the summer at Herne Bay, It is believed that in this time marked the turning point in his work. So this August there is a festival in Herne Bay to celebrate Duchamp's time here. The festival is called "I am not dead" after a postcard he wrote to his friend that read "I am not dead. I am in Herne Bay". More information about the festival can be found here: http://www.iamnotdead.co.uk/

One of the events, "Human Tide" will take place as part of the festival as a mass participation digital happening on the beach.

At sunset on Friday 9th August, hundreds of people will walk precisely 1000 meters along the beach carrying sonar-guided light sticks, attempting to create a massive wall of light where the water meets the sand. The whole thing will be captured on special cameras, allowing them to ‘draw’ in light on film.
The essence of the project is to combine long exposed photography with stunning cin-ematic time- lapse films as well as 3D sound records and GPS data via a collaborative experience. 
It’s never been done before, and it's one surely not to be missed.

http://blog.humantide.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/events/183215355188552/

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 Pis, Arduino 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 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.