Tue, 10 April 2012 to Tue, 03 July 2012
The Albert Adams archive
The University of Salford has received a major gift of paintings, drawings and prints by Albert Adams (1929 – 2006). The archive will go on display in 2012 and will tour nationally from 2013.
Albert Adams was born in Johannesburg in 1929. Unable to pursue his education as an artist because of the apartheid policy he moved to the UK in 1953 to study at the Slade School of Art. Adams is recognised today as a gifted Expressionist painter and printmaker. His politically charged painting ‘South Africa 1959’ in the collection of Johannesburg Art Gallery is known as ‘the South African Guernica’.
In two linked exhibitions the University of Salford looks at Adams’ remarkable body of work. ‘Incarceration’ highlights his response to acts of political oppression and recent atrocities, ranging from Darfur to Abu Ghraib and the imprisonment of political prisoners on Robben Island. ‘The burden’ offers an overview of Adams life and career and his exploration of his own sense of identity. As well as paintings and prints, this exhibition features African and Asian artworks collected by Adams as well as studio artefacts and archive material.
Exhibition dates, times and venues:
Albert Adams ‘Incarceration’
Until Friday 29th June
Working Class Movement Library
51 Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX
Open: Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
Plus Saturdays 19th May and 16th June, 10am - 4pm
Admission: Free
Albert Adams ‘The burden’
Until Tuesday 3 July
Clifford Whitworth Library
Peel Park Campus, University of Salford, Crescent, Salford, M5 4WT
Open: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm
and Sunday, 12 - 4pm
Admission: Free
Fri, 11 May 2012 to Fri, 01 June 2012
I LIVE TEMPORARY
I LIVE TEMPORARY is a digital installation created by homeless people in Manchester, in collaboration with experimental arts organisation, arthur+martha.
Customised postcards, sound recordings and an epic tweet poem carry tiny stories, little snatches of homeless people’s lives. These voices are often unheard, but they have insight to offer everyone. Combining text, sound and image, I LIVE TEMPORARY is a report from life outside the borders of comfort and acceptance.
Funny, sad, angry, resigned - here are all the human colours.
arthur+martha works with people who are pushed to the margins of society – older people in hospital, excluded school pupils, holocaust survivors and many others.
Image: Humanity Abounds by project participant A. Customised postcard of a LS Lowry artwork. Postcard kindly donated by The Lowry.
Open: Until Friday 1st June, Mondays - Fridays, will be shown at various times throughout the day as part of the Egg screen programme schedule.
Admission: Free
Venue: The Egg, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 2HE
http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.co.uk
http://twitter.com/tweetfromengels
Thu, 17 May 2012 to Fri, 18 May 2012
Between You and Me
6.30 - 7.30pm
Second Year students studying for BA (Hons.) Performing Arts at The University of Salford have been working in partnership with Salford City Council to create unique and playful heritage interpretations of the many people and stories associated with Ordsall Hall.
Between You and Me promises to take visitors on a unique mis-guided tour through the curious spaces of the Ordsall Hall, which has a history dating back over 820 years. Easvesdrop on history evoked through arch gossip, uncanny echoes, loud declamations and comical asides. Get close up or take the long view over a motley company of maids and masters, theatricals and soldiers, curates and prostitutes who have come and gone through this iconic heritage site.
Performances:
Thursday 17 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Friday 18 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions), tickets available on the door. Suitable for all ages.
Venue: Ordsall Hall, Ordsall Lane, Salford M5 3AN
Please note: Some parts of the performance take place outdoors. Press dress appropriately.
Fri, 18 May 2012
W640 Exhibition Launch
6.00 - 8.00pm
Award winning urban photographer and writer, Len Grant, is set to reveal winners of W640, a new digital photography prize competition open to BA (Hons) Photography students at a special presentation evening, to be held at MediaCityUK on 18th May 2012.
‘W640’ will celebrate the creative talent of Year 1 & 2 students on the University of Salford’s BA (Hons) Photography Course. Lawrence Giles, course leader said “The students are creating some remarkable and innovative new work in response to this opportunity and I’m really looking forward to seeing it showcased in The Egg at MediaCityUK”. Len Grant, who has documented North-West regeneration for the past two decades, will also lead the competition judging panel. He will be joined by Lawrence Giles and university Collections Curator, Stephen Whittle. Winners will be announced at a special exhibition launch, to take place at MediaCityUK on 18 May, 6 - 8pm.
Open: Friday 18th May, 6 - 8pm
Admission: Free, open to all
Venue: The Egg, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 2HE
Mon, 21 May 2012 to Fri, 01 June 2012
W640 Exhibition
W640, a new digital photography exhibition of work by BA (Hons) Photography students at the University of Salford will be on show at MediaCityUK campus, from Monday 21 May - Friday 1 June.
Open: Monday - Friday, will be shown at various times throughout the day as part of the Egg screen programme schedule.
Admission: Free, open to all.
Venue: The Egg, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 2HE
Tue, 22 May 2012 to Fri, 25 May 2012
Between You and Me
6.30 - 7.30pm
Second Year students studying for BA (Hons.) Performing Arts at the University of Salford have been working in partnership with Salford City Council to create unique and playful heritage interpretations of the many people and stories associated with Ordsall Hall.
Between You and Me promises to take visitors on a unique mis-guided tour through the curious spaces of the Ordsall Hall, which has a history dating back over 820 years. Easvesdrop on history evoked through arch gossip, uncanny echoes, loud declamations and comical asides. Get close-up or take the long view over a motley company of maids and masters, theatricals and soldiers, curates and prostitutes who have come and gone through this iconic heritage site.
Performances:
Tuesday 22 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Wednesday 23 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Thursday 24 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Friday 25 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm
Admission: £4 (£3 concessions), tickets available on the door. Suitable for all ages.
Venue: Ordsall Hall, Ordsall Lane, Salford M5 3AN
Please note: Some parts of the performance take place outdoors. Press dress appropriately.
Wed, 23 May 2012
Final Year Classical Elective Performers Recitals
11.00am
Students from within the University Music Directorate present their final recital to an examination panel in a public arena. Each half hour programme will represent a culmination of their time here at Salford and will be assessed on a number of criteria.
This event is the climax to the Repertoire Studies and Performance Practice component of each student’s academic profile. Each assessed recital provides the performer with an open platform to demonstrate their musicianship.
Admission: Free
Venue: Peel Hall, University of Salford, Peel Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford, M5 4WT
Tue, 29 May 2012
Creative Hive Live Event at MediaCityUK
2.00 - 9.00pm
Creative Hive is a collective based at the University of Salford whose goal is to provide real world opportunities and connections between people in education and industry. Creative Hive provides a means for people of any discipline and from anywhere to showcase their work and form new connections both digitally at www.creativehive.org and in person at live events such as Creative Hive Live, which is free of charge for anyone who registers.
Creative Hive Live is at the University of Salford’s state of the art living facility known as ‘The Egg’ at MediaCityUK on Tuesday 29 May. The event is a celebration of digital technologies and creative connections, consisting of storytelling, music, performances, installations, live events and more. The event connects people, creates new opportunities and features many exciting performances and presentations. There will be a creative speed networking using interactive touch tables allowing creative people to display and discuss their work.
Creative Hive Live is the launch event for the University of Salford's School of Media, Music and Performance final year shows, supported by The International Media Centre and features projects from the University of Salford, other Universities and the best creative talent of the North-West of England.
Open: Tuesday 29 May, 2.00 - 9.00pm
Admission: Free of charge to those who register
Venue: The Egg, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 2HE
Wed, 27 June 2012 to Sat, 30 June 2012
Judy Chicago's Birth Project Tours
The University of Salford's Midwifery Directorate is hosting a long-term loan of artworks fr
om the Manchester based Birth Rites Collection.
To mark the recent acquisition and display of two Judy Chicago tapestries from her 1980's Birth Project, there will be two tours of the Birth Rites Collection with curator Helen Knowles in June 2012. Helen Knowles will talk about the recent interview she held with Judy Chicago at her home in Belen, New Mexico and expand on the conversation about the 'Birth Project' work.
Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans over five decades. From 1980 to 1985, Chicago worked on the 'Birth Project', designing a series of birth and creation images for needlework that were executed under her supervision by 150 skilled needle workers around the country. Prior to the 'Birth Project', few images of birth existed in Western art, a puzzling omission as birth is a central focus of many women's lives and a universal experience of all humanity - as everyone is born. Seeking to fill this void, Judy Chicago created multiple images of birth to be realized through needlework, a visually rich medium which has been ignored or trivialized by the mainstream art community.
Open: Wednesday 27 June tour starts at 6pm and finishes at 7pm and Saturday 30 June tour starts at 11am and finishes at 12 noon. Please arrive 5 minutes before the tour is due to start.
Admission: Free
Venue: on arrival meet near the lift on the 3rd floor of the Mary Seacole Building (Frederick Road Campus, Salford, M6 6PU).