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CANCELLATION - Celebrating Drawing - Wed 18th March - DMU
Message from Alex Roberts, DMU
As you are aware with the escalation of Covid-19 all logistics and events are in transition to adapt. Subsequently, this includes visiting artists/ lecturers' workshops and public engagement events within Leicester School or Art and at the Leicester Gallery.
As a result, Celebrating Drawing - Wed 18th March will not go ahead, this involves this evening's talk I was due to host with Penny and Jeanette in the gallery. Julian Wild’s Talk & Making the Connection collaborative event on Sat 28th March is equally cancelled.
The view is to hopefully postpone the various events to an alternative, later date once the international, present health situation has eased. I will keep you posted. Please could you share this news with your members ASAP.
Thank you for your interest so far with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 and this season that is championing drawing. For those that have sent me requests, catalogues for the TBWDP19 are available to gain remotely from the Leicester Gallery, so you do not have to completely miss out! Please contact the gallery for more details: http://thegallery.dmu.ac.uk
Wishing all your members good health and upbeat spirits as we adapt.
Kind regards,
Alex.
Message from Alex Roberts, DMU
As you are aware with the escalation of Covid-19 all logistics and events are in transition to adapt. Subsequently, this includes visiting artists/ lecturers' workshops and public engagement events within Leicester School or Art and at the Leicester Gallery.
As a result, Celebrating Drawing - Wed 18th March will not go ahead, this involves this evening's talk I was due to host with Penny and Jeanette in the gallery. Julian Wild’s Talk & Making the Connection collaborative event on Sat 28th March is equally cancelled.
The view is to hopefully postpone the various events to an alternative, later date once the international, present health situation has eased. I will keep you posted. Please could you share this news with your members ASAP.
Thank you for your interest so far with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 and this season that is championing drawing. For those that have sent me requests, catalogues for the TBWDP19 are available to gain remotely from the Leicester Gallery, so you do not have to completely miss out! Please contact the gallery for more details: http://thegallery.dmu.ac.uk
Wishing all your members good health and upbeat spirits as we adapt.
Kind regards,
Alex.
CANCELLATION - Leicester Sketch Club activities - till June
As a response to the recent advice about social distancing and reducing the possibility of coronavirus transmission, we have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we must cancel all INDOOR activities until June when we will be sending further information. This includes the monthly meetings for April, May and June, also various workshops, indoor sketching sessions, Cosy Club etc. No decision has been made on Outdoor Sketching at this time and that will depend on conditions nearer the time.
We will regularly review this and keep you informed. Although we may be socially distant we do want to keep in touch and hope members can still feel included - to this end, we will be offering virtual alternative activities which can be done without face to face meetings for any who wish to join in - let's keep the club vibrant! These will be sent as separate emails.
We will re-book workshop sessions at a later date where possible. If you have already paid for a workshop etc this will be dealt with in separate emails.
Please be assured that your participation in the club is much appreciated and we look forward to resuming activities as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we wish all of you well, please keep in touch.
As a response to the recent advice about social distancing and reducing the possibility of coronavirus transmission, we have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we must cancel all INDOOR activities until June when we will be sending further information. This includes the monthly meetings for April, May and June, also various workshops, indoor sketching sessions, Cosy Club etc. No decision has been made on Outdoor Sketching at this time and that will depend on conditions nearer the time.
We will regularly review this and keep you informed. Although we may be socially distant we do want to keep in touch and hope members can still feel included - to this end, we will be offering virtual alternative activities which can be done without face to face meetings for any who wish to join in - let's keep the club vibrant! These will be sent as separate emails.
We will re-book workshop sessions at a later date where possible. If you have already paid for a workshop etc this will be dealt with in separate emails.
Please be assured that your participation in the club is much appreciated and we look forward to resuming activities as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we wish all of you well, please keep in touch.
Invitation from Amrit Doll - Arts Officer, Leicester Arts, Museums, Festivals and Events
You are invited to a roundtable discussion of the research ‘It Takes A Region to Raise An Artist’ commissioned by CVAN EM and the University of Leicester’s CAMEo department, on Tuesday 17th March, 11am – 1pm, at Town Hall, Leicester.
CVAN EM director Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham will present the findings from ‘It Takes A Region To Raise An Artist’, research commissioned in 2019 with CAMEo – the University of Leicester’s Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies – into the East Midlands’ visual arts ecology.
Attendees will hear the key findings from this research, which for the first time provides data on the region’s visual arts workforce and economy. This is an informal event and attendees are invited to engage in informal conversation, over refreshments, about the recommendations made to CVAN EM and the wider sector for supporting regional artists and developing regional artistic talent.
This talk is suitable for artists, curators, visual artist programmers and anyone working in the visual arts sector with artist development and support within their remit.
Please register your interest at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/it-takes-a-region-to-raise-an-artist-tickets-90806672201
You are invited to a roundtable discussion of the research ‘It Takes A Region to Raise An Artist’ commissioned by CVAN EM and the University of Leicester’s CAMEo department, on Tuesday 17th March, 11am – 1pm, at Town Hall, Leicester.
CVAN EM director Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham will present the findings from ‘It Takes A Region To Raise An Artist’, research commissioned in 2019 with CAMEo – the University of Leicester’s Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies – into the East Midlands’ visual arts ecology.
Attendees will hear the key findings from this research, which for the first time provides data on the region’s visual arts workforce and economy. This is an informal event and attendees are invited to engage in informal conversation, over refreshments, about the recommendations made to CVAN EM and the wider sector for supporting regional artists and developing regional artistic talent.
This talk is suitable for artists, curators, visual artist programmers and anyone working in the visual arts sector with artist development and support within their remit.
Please register your interest at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/it-takes-a-region-to-raise-an-artist-tickets-90806672201
March monthly meeting news
- Many thanks to Alastair Adams for a hugely enjoyable and interesting talk about his career as a portrait painter
- The 'bring and buy' table also raised over £100 for the club - thank you to everyone who contributed!
- There are still spaces available on the Burlesque sketching and Pastel Portrait workshops - now open to non-members
- If you would like to sign up for this year's sketchbook exchange, please email Vivien at vivien.blackburn@gmail.com by Sunday 8th March - listing the details below and giving permission to share your details with the rest of your group: Name, Address, phone number, email, Subject for your book (remember to keep it fairly open so that it can be interpreted in different ways)
- Coronavirus: there are no plans at the moment to make any changes to the programme but please check here for updates.
- As we are short of volunteers for the committee, we are currently advertising for a Club and Membership secretary on the VAL (Voluntary Action Leicestershire) website - see here for details http://www.volunteerleicestershire.org.uk/opportunity/club-and-membership-secretary - if you know anyone who would be interested, please get in touch
- If you haven't yet been to the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, it's worth a visit - https://www.vangoghexpo.co.uk/leicester/
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City sketching workshops with Emma Fitzpatrick -
September 2019 Emma Fitzpatrick will be running two city sketching workshops later this month, at The Exchange in Rutland Street, in Leicester's Cultural Quarter. For more details see her website: www.emmafitzpatrick.eu/workshops Or places can be booked here: Saturday 10th August City Sketching: Line & Movement Saturday 24th August City Sketching: Composition |
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City sketching workshops with Emma Fitzpatrick -
August 2019 Emma Fitzpatrick will be running a series of city sketching workshops this summer, at The Exchange in Rutland Street, in Leicester's Cultural Quarter. For more details see her website: www.emmafitzpatrick.eu/workshops Or places can be booked here: Saturday 10th August City Sketching: Line & Movement Saturday 17th August City Sketching: Values Saturday 24th August City Sketching: Composition |
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PAINTING & DRAWING CLASSES BY VIVIEN BLACKBURN
Member Vivien Blackburn is running the following classes;
Evangelical Church, Bath Street, Market Harborough
Mondays 10am-12noon - Advanced Painting & Drawing
Mondays 1pm - 3pm - Any Level Painting & Drawing
Countesthorpe Community College
Tuesdays 7pm-9pm - Any Level Painting & Drawing
Classes are run workshop style, with students own choice of medium and subject in discussion with the tutor. Projects are sometimes set but these are optional. The classes aim to develop observation, colour mixing, mark making, consideration of composition and a development of understanding of medium chosen and papers etc available. Friendly welcoming classes, which aim to build core skills.
To book you can go to the Go Learn Leicestershire website here
Member Vivien Blackburn is running the following classes;
Evangelical Church, Bath Street, Market Harborough
Mondays 10am-12noon - Advanced Painting & Drawing
Mondays 1pm - 3pm - Any Level Painting & Drawing
Countesthorpe Community College
Tuesdays 7pm-9pm - Any Level Painting & Drawing
Classes are run workshop style, with students own choice of medium and subject in discussion with the tutor. Projects are sometimes set but these are optional. The classes aim to develop observation, colour mixing, mark making, consideration of composition and a development of understanding of medium chosen and papers etc available. Friendly welcoming classes, which aim to build core skills.
To book you can go to the Go Learn Leicestershire website here
