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

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.

Find out who Petra De Braal is at our next First Friday

Petra De Braal is coming to Marine Studios for a residency. Petra has been working with kasus.nu on projects which develop experimental models looking at community cohesion and regeneration.

Head down to Marine Studios for 6:30pm 3rd May and meet Petra and hear about some of her work in Zeeland.

“ We need new models and new ways of working together to solve very real social problems. I am very much looking forward to coming to Thanet."

Petra will be finding out about some of the amazing people and projects here in Margate and sharing her experience.

What are the similarities and the differences between Thanet and Zeeland? What can we learn from each other? 

This is an experiment - come along and be part of it.

GEEK Phew! - First Friday Invitation

GEEK Phew! is a chance to catch up, meet up and say Hi.
6.30pm - 9pm 5th April 2013, all ages welcome. Donations Bar or BYO.

If you helped at GEEK…Phew! you need a bit of R&R – come along meet friends and toast your hard work. If you missed it...want to know what you missed? Be part of next year? Got some great ideas of how to make it better? Or want to find out more? Come along.

GEEK Phew! has a unique soundtrack thanks to our guest curator Robert Urquhart!

“Aside from writing, music and sound have always been an interest, from my first job making whale noises for Channel 4 learning to produce an album for Adaadat Records and DJ'ing for independent record label SEED records under the moniker of the (tongue in-cheek but some would say apt) title of DJ Required, I've always enjoyed the impact that computer use has made on the way we create.

At the GEEK 2013 after party I'll be playing a soundtrack that doesn't just include the blips and beeps of music made by using computers but also music and lyrics that have been influenced by us using computers in our everyday lives – from portents of Orwellian doom to celebrations of social media, as well as movie soundtracks and archive recordings.

I look forward to clicking through and scrolling down to GEEK 2014 and helping out in whatever way I can” - Robert Urquhart

Adventures In Comics entrants to be unveiled at our 1 February First Friday

We have just confirmed that Mike Garley, editor in chief of VS Comics will be our guest speaker for First Friday this year, and, he has offered to publish the best three comics submissions in his digital comics edition. In light of this exciting news we are extending the deadline for submissions to the 30th January and postponing publication of our paper until the 21st February to coincide with GEEK2013. All entries will be on display at our 1 February First Friday and this exhibition will move to the Pie Factory for 16th to 24th February 2013 where we’ll invite people to identify the stories they think should win. These peoples’-choice picks will share the winners’ podium with the judge’s choice – as chosen by Paul Gravett, author of ‘1001 comics you must read before you die’

Our last First Friday of 2012 is… Nigel Kneale’s The Year of The Sex Olympics

The BBC first broadcast The year of the Sex Olympics in 1968. Nigel Kneale (author of the Quatermass series) wrote it, it starred Leonard Rossiter and an almost unimaginably young Brian Cox, and it predicted reality-TV nearly 30 years before Big Brother arrived. In the play’s dystopian future the underclass are kept pacified by lowest-common-denominator TV – porn, cookery shows, and a reality show where strangers are stranded on a remote island.

And we’ve decided it’s the perfect way to round off this Olympic year. Join us for a rare screening on 7 December. Lights down and curtain up at 6.30pm.

3 years in Margate!! Come to our birthday party. Fantastic live entertainment from Abigail Cardwell and Sleeping In City Lights

Three years ago we packed our boxes and moved to the seaside. Join us to mark the move, celebrate local creative talent with live entertainment from Abigail Cardwell and Sleeping In City Lights

We are also marking the launch of our coworking space.
Here’s Wikipedia’s explanation of coworking.

Find out more at our new website.

Come see for yourself on 2 November.

First Friday - 6pm-9pm @ Marine Studios

We’ve already signed up our first co-workers come along and find out more.

Help us celebrate three years in Margate – and maybe find your new workspace.

Its a busy 1st Friday 5th October

The Wonderful Pushing Print is back! Dont miss it! 6th-27th of October.

In addition to the main festival there are a number of fringe events. We are one. We welcome back Sophie Herxheimer now joined by Susan Mackervoy. Their show, Unruly: Print into Poetry opens with a 1st Friday at 7.30.

Catch up with Sophie and Susan earlier in the evening, they will be at the Pie Factory at 6.15 for a bit of Unruly live poetry.

Marine Studios 1st Friday 5th Oct. All are welcome. We'll be reading a few poems at 8 pm - and we're hoping that people will bring along a poem or a piece of work to share, too (maybe work inspired by Margate?).

For more details of the Festival, take a look at the Pushing Print website here.

We’ve had to delay Adventures in Audio, but our summer-activity cup runneth over

We’re still listening out for your audio postcards

The bad news is that we’ve had to delay our September First Friday, ‘Adventures in Audio’ (AiA), scheduled for 7 September. We’ve given the artist, Sam Thomas more time to produce a bigger and better event later in the year.

But we still want to hear from you if you have any memory-rich audio recordings of places or things. Send them toinfo@marinestudios.co.uk and put ‘AiA’ in the subject line.

If you want to get a feel for just how evocative sounds can be visit theMuseum of Endangered Sounds – the sci-fi warble of the 80s modem is the current studio favourite.

Two events in August and September: Open Studios andreCyculture

The good news is that we have two other events on in August and September:

• We’re an Open Studios venue for RamsgateArts’ A Summer Squallfestival. You can meet five Thanet artists in our studio between 11.00am and 4.00pm on Saturdays 18/19/25/26/27 August. See programme here.

• reCyculture will make an intervention on our balcony next week in time for the beginning of September. reCyculture is a project that will explore physical and virtual installations inspired by, and created with, local communities across Kent in response to the county’s hosting of the Paralympic Cycling Events in September 2012. Find out more about reCyculture here.

Listen up. Get an audible sense of place at September’s First Friday, ‘Adventures in audio’

What was that? Did you hear it? Well, no, you probably weren’t listening. Most of us are so caught up in the visual that we often miss the sound of a place or significant event.

Not so for Sam Thomas and others who record the sound of special places and events. At our September First Friday (7 September) Sam will show us how the sound of a place can be as evocative – or even more evocative – than a photograph.

As ever, we’re keen to involve others. So if you have any audio recordings of special significance get in touch via info@marinestudios.co.uk

Want to know more? We’ll update you nearer the time. Meanwhile if you want to hear the sound of an iceberg, listen to this New Scientist itemon the songs that icebergs sing.

Wild and woolly surrealism at our 6 June First Friday event

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years you may still think that knitting is something that aunties torment nephews and nieces with (think garish, shapeless sweaters and weirdly ornate babywear).

The knittterknitknitknit gang are part of the knitting-is-fun revolution and ringleaders Jenny Duff and Emily Tull will spread the woolly word on Friday 6 June. These Thanet artists will explain how they create little oases of beauty in surprising places – and show you how even novice-knitters can get started.

So get ready to cast-off at 6.00pm Friday 6 June.