Invitation to Root Experience's 'The Game Project'

You may of heard or even met Root Experience at GEEK 2013, well now they starting a Kickstarter campaign for their new project - ' The Game Project'

This is an invitation to the special preview evening on the 10th May. Join in on the fun for free at Sticky Mike's Frog Bar 9-12 Middle St Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1AL after 6pm. 

More about the event:

"You are invited to a special preview evening in celebration of The Game Project – an exciting project that will bring together digital gaming and interactive theatre to create a unique adventure to which everyone is invited to ‘play’.

This Kickstarter campaign launch will give you the chance to see the premiere screening of our video, have a spot of bubbly with us to toast the live launch of the campaign online and generally mingle and find out a little more about the upcoming opportunities to play 'The Game' as we continue developing it....there may also be a little light entertainment/live music.

We have been developing the piece through workshops at Lighthouse Arts while working towards our forthcoming residency with Blast Theory. A prototype of the final show will be shown at Brighton Digital Festival in September with the aim of touring it across the UK in 2014.

The Game Project will be tailored to each city that the show visits and audiences will see once familiar sites transformed in front of their eyes, as the city becomes a playing space for an important mission with clues and plots popping up via actors, mobile technology and other audience members.

The project so far has been funded by Arts Council England and we've been fortunate enough to have some hugely encouraging support from organisations such as Lighthouse to make the work possible, but all this will be complimented with our Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and your support is invaluable...we'd love to share this very special evening with you.

Hope to see you there!

RSVP – Root Experience"

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.

Title has been announced for Adventures in Comics 4!

To coincide with AIC's appearance at Comica Comiket independent comics fair last Saturday, 20th April, we announced the title for next years 2-page comic Challenge. Which is

(Drum Roll………………..)

The Orb!

The Orb can be refered to such a diverse range that it will make next years comics even more interesting to see. Here's a couple suggestions from wikipedia:

• Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect
• Orb (optics), an unexpected, often circular photographic artifact
• Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy
• Globus cruciger, a hand-sized sphere over which the Christian cross is set
• Sovereign's Orb, one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
• Orb web, a type of spider web

Good luck!

We welcome a new designer at HKD. Scarlett has come Full Circle

“It was one of the oddest surprises for me joining HKD in Margate. I have lived and worked most my life in London but am now back in the home town of my family.

My grandfather used to own sweet shops a stones throw away from Marine Studios.It is really odd to picture him making rock candy in the 1970’s . My mums stories of growing up in Margate include tales of dolphin aquariums near the Nayland Rock Hotel (can this be true?) and being the first child to live in Arlington house. My own childhood memories include avoiding the Scenic Railway I much preferred the tea cups!”

Scarlett is now based in Margate, she is busy designing space exhibits for Hong Kong. Strange how things work out!

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

HKD

Building on our successful appointment as designers of the Hong Kong Space Museum the team is in Singapore for start-up meetings for a new gallery about Alfred Russel Wallace for the Singapore Science Centre.

“There is a picture of Alfred Russel Wallace on the cover of the anthology of his works that I have lugged halfway around the world. It was taken in Singapore in 1862 and shows a man with full beard, hat, black frock coat, waistcoat and high collar. Stepping out into 32 degree heat with thunder clouds building overhead I am not thinking about the Theory of Evolution (that he proposed at the same time as Darwin), I can only wonder whether he took his coat off to collect beetles in the jungle? Someone will know, and I am off to meet them later today.”- Richard Houghton, Creative Director HKD

Dates for your Diary

Tiny Games in the Glamper Van at GEEK2013

22nd March, Tiny Games Kickstarter
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting new development by Hide&Seek. Counting our pocket money we want the Tee shirt and the Surprise and the Year of Games! Join us and make this happen!

23rd March 7.00 - 10.00, Pot Luck #7
A buffet of delectable tit-bits, including performance, dance and live art. Two venues Limbo and Marine Studios featured artists include Marcia Farquhar, Peter Morton and Amy Godfrey.

Don't miss out on the £5 special offer at GB Pizza! (more details here)

19th - 21st April, Salinity by Rachel Johnston 
Gudrun Haraldsdottir worked with two wonderful assistants on the monumental transformation of the Winter Gardens for GEEK. Both students want to make their mark in the world of Art and Installation.

Rachel is showing her work at Marine Studios as a pre graduation show, she is looking for feedback and comments – come and meet Rachel and see her work.