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.

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. 

To Infinity and Beyond: HKD visits Hong Kong.

Wish we could say that we are heading off to play (with a giant inflatable rubber duck!) but the team is delivering the Design Stage of the Hong Kong Space Museum.

We have been hard at work designing inter-galactic surf boards and dark matter tunnels, now its time to go through the 150+ exhibits with the client team in detail.

No Summer Games for GEEK

We were planning on having some new GEEK fun and games on the beach, but sadly we have failed to find the funding, so its stick to buckets and spades for this year.

It's not all bad news, this means we can concentrate even more on GEEK 2014 and maybe we can have a GEEK on the Beach 1st Friday event in the summer.

Its been a busy time since GEEK. We have developed Mini GEEK which includes the wonderful Fruitcade and Punch the Custard. We hope we have a booking in Singapore.... watch this space.

Some Indie Developers who came to GEEK2013 have been working hard;

Utopian World of Sandwiches showcased their game 'Chompy Chomp Chomp' which was available on Xbox arcade, but you can now download it to your PC.

Also Fist of Awesome, another game showcased is hopefully due for release within the next couple of months.

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"