GALLERY WALK & TALKS

Join the NAE team and other professionals to tour the show, learn more about the artistic themes, and share your opinions about the work.

Alternate Wednesdays at 1.30pm and Saturdays at 12pm

Saturday 28 January

Tasawar Bashir, NAE ExperiMENTOR and Artist

Wednesday 1 February

Sarah Perks, Co-curator of Everything is Happening At Once

Saturday 11 February

Paul Gladston, Academic in Residence

Wednesday 15 February

Sam Chambers, NAE Volunteer

Saturday 25 February

Saira Lloyd, Independent Curator

Wednesday 29 February

Lydia Coles, NAE Volunteer

Saturday 10 March

Mervyn Mitchell, NAE experiMENTOR & Photographer

Wednesday 14 March

Oliver Scutt, NAE Volunteer

Saturday 24 March

Saima Masud, Clinical Psychologist

Wednesday 28 March

Jenna Finch, NAE Volunteer

Admission: FREE | Age range: All are welcome

BlackDrop

Hear vibrant spoken word performances by local artists. Performers of all ages and backgrounds share their dynamic words with tongue twisting poems, exploring life’s seven emotions. A great night out where you hear the impossibility of ideas translated through the art form of spoken word, performed with intensity and style in an intimate
cafe setting.

Thursday 2 February & Thursday 5 April, 8pm

Admission: £3 (£2 concessions)
Age Range: 18 +

Asia in the age of digital imagery Illustrated lecture with Q&A

Shaheen Merali explores the converging use
of digital imagery by contemporary artists
who live and work in Asia. This illustrated talk
will examine the implications of aesthetic and
socio-political constructions within the vast
continent by examining five artists’ practices.

Thursday 9 February, 7pm – 9pm

Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome

BOL

Light Night screening
165 minutes.
Dir: Shoaib Mansoor

Start your Light Night with a delicious dinner in our twinkling, candle lit cafe-bar where fire artists will entertain you as you eat. Follow this with a screening of the second feature film from Director Shoaib Mansoor - BOL.

BOL (roughly translated as Say, Tell or Speak) focuses on topics such as equality, transexualism, women’s emancipation, a patriarchal society and more. The entire story unveils in the flashbacks as Zainab (Humaima Malick) narrates her life story to the media, minutes before being sentenced to death. This brilliant drama is also the debut of superstar - Atif Aslam, and officially the highest grossing Pakistani film ever.

Friday 10 February, 7.30pm

Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All (PG)

Kobo Town

Live Music Performance

Founded by Trinidadian‐Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town is named after the historic neighborhood in Port‐of‐Spain where calypso was born amid the boastful, humorous and militant chants of roaming stick‐fighters.

Exploring the rich lyrical tradition and compelling rhythms of calypso's formative years ‐ Kobo Town strives to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of their art by engaging the pressing concerns of our time.

Nominated for an Indie award, a Canadian Folk Music Award, and an International Folk Alliance award, their debut album Independence has received very positive reviews from the international music press.

Saturday 11 February, 7-9pm

Admission: £9 (£8 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome

Blend!

Pendulum, Kissy Sell Out, Krafty Kuts – Have you heard of them?! Blend Visuals have been performing live visuals for years, supporting the biggest names in dance culture with their live VJ performance. Come along and learn to VJ to YOUR favourite music. All ages welcome, no computer experience required.

Monday 13 February

10am – 1pm: 11 to 15 yrs
2pm – 5pm: 16 to 19 yrs
Admission: FREE

Studio Photography

How do you see yourself? How do you want others to see you? Come along and use professional photographic equipment to find out. Bring props, clothes, accessories if you want (although no pets please)! You will have a chance to be both model and photographer. No experience required.

Tuesday 14 February 10am – 1pm

Admission: FREE

Age Range: 11 to 16 yrs

Comedy Workshop

Ever wondered why you laugh? Come along to the comedy workshop and find out what tickles your funny bone. Explore different ways to make people laugh and develop your comedic and performance skills.

Tuesday 14 February 2pm – 4pm

Admission: FREE

Age Range: 11 to 15 yrs

Acrobalance and Clowning

Learn how to mix comedy with acrobatic movement and balances in this fun session. Master your handstands or learn from scratch. Work up to using each other’s body weight to create exciting balances and counter balances. You will learn from experienced circus teachers in a fun environment and develop strength, flexibility and trust. So why not have a go?

Wednesday 15 February

10am – 12pm: 11 to 15 yrs
1pm – 3pm: 16 to 19 yrs
Admission: FREE

Shazia Mirza: Live and
In Conversation

Shazia Mirza, comedian and award winning columnist for the New Statesman and Guardian, will be joining us at NAE to deliver her stand-up comedy routine before talking about her perspective and journey with the NAE team.
Shazia, who has appeared on CBS 60 Minute and Have I Got News For You (BBC), could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion on The Bishops Avenue, with servants, bidets, and horses. But instead, she chose to drive up and down the country for as little as ten pounds, staying in dirty lurid bed and breakfasts, trying to make people laugh. She thought of giving up, but no Muslim man wants to marry her, now that’s she’s dabbled in jokes and ‘fingered a few white men on the 38 bus!’

“Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy.”
William Cook, The Guardian

Thursday 16 February, 7pm – 9pm

Admission: £9 (£8 concessions)
Age Range: 16+

The Story of Lovers Rock

(A Stella Visual film club screening)
96 minutes.

Dir: Menelik Shabazz

The Story of British Lovers Rock Reggae is told through live performances, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive; including music from leading reggae artists Janet Kay, Maxi Priest and UB40. Lovers Rock, often-dubbed ‘romantic reggae’, is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems.

Join us in the bar after the film for a ‘lovers rock’ reggae session.

This event is supported by: Jamaican Ways Restaurant: www.jamaicanways.co.uk and The Hubb Bar, facebook: facebook/thehubb294.

Friday 17 February, 7.30pm – 11:30pm

Age Range: 12A

SOLD OUT

Due to phenomenal demand there will be a second screening of The Story of Lovers Rock on:

Friday 24 February, 1:30pm

Age Range: 12A

TICKETS AVAILABLE

Modern Origami

Calling on all families to explore how a two-dimensional image can be manipulated to create non-functional three-dimensional paper objects through the ancient art of origami with a modern twist.

Saturday 18 February, 2pm – 4pm

Admission: FREE, but a donation to support the event would be appreciated.
Age range: All are welcome

VOCAL: Pakistan Zindabad

VOCAL broadcasts local voices and
issues from the perspective of cultural
commentators and activists. This season
we bring together Tasawar Bashir (NAE
ExperiMENTOR and creative agitator),
Shad Ali (community activist and change
agent), Salma Yaqoob (media current
affairs commentator and leader of the
Respect Party) and our very own, Skinder Hundal (New Art Exchange's Chief Executive).

The panel will discuss issues facing the
Pakistani community in the UK today,
including: the impact of substance abuse
amongst young Mirpuri boys/men; the impact
of arranged marriages on children (where
one partner has migrated from Mirpur); the
low academic achievement amongst Mirpuri
boys; the disproportionate number of young
Muslims going into custody; and issues
around ‘integration’.

Skinder Hundal will be chairman of the dicussion.

Thursday 23 February, 6pm – 8pm

Admission: FREE

Age range: All are welcome

Image credit: Desperately Seeking Paradise ll, Rashid Rana, 2010, Installation view at Lisson Gallery, London, Courtesy of the Tiroche DeLeon Collection & Art Vantage Ltd

Paul Gladston: An introduction to
contemporary Asian art

Rashid Rana is representative of the influential
collective of artists who have emerged from
the East since the 1990s and taken centre
stage on the international arts platform. With
the 21st century, dubbed the ‘Asian century’,
the Asian art world has ‘boomed’ in line with
the economic and political transformation of
the East.

NAE’s academic in residence, Paul Gladston
will cast light on the rise of the Asian artist
and provide an accessible introduction to
a range of key issues related to the
production of contemporary art in Asian
contexts. Through this illustrated lecture,
Paul will draw comparisons between Rashid
Rana’s work and the work of other Asian and
Chinese artists.

Thursday 1 March, 7.15pm – 8.30pm

Admission: FREE

Age range: All are welcome

 

Recycled Sculpture

Come along to explore how to create beautiful sculptures from everyday
recycled materials.

Saturday 3 March, 2pm – 4pm

Admission: FREE, but a donation to support the event would be appreciated.

Age range: All are welcome

An Understudy

(work in progress performance piece)

In this performance piece, a narrator attends a group seminar as a proxy for Alia Pathan who is presenting her new work. The absent author becomes a character in the play, the narrator joins the audience and a critical, objective discussion space becomes acutely self-aware.
Here, Alia Pathan will present new work dealing with artistic authorship as a way of authenticating an artwork and its original means of production.

 

For more information see:
http://aliapathan.com/12/experimentor

 

Thursday 8 March, 6pm

Admission: FREE

Age range: All are welcome

Self and other modes
of censorship

A small group discussion moderated by
Shaheen Merali, with invited guests who
have been touched by circumstances that
sometimes defy logic, yet which, nevertheless,
continue to be addressed in their public
statements. Details of other speakers will be
released in February via our website.

Thursday 15 March, 7pm – 9pm

Admission: £4 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome

The Lion Mountains: A journey through Sierra Leone’s history

(A Stella Visual film club screening)
54 minutes.

Dir: Louis Buckley

Louis Buckley a 25-year-old Jamaican-English man heads out to Sierra Leone to discover firsthand the country and its history. The documentary looks at pre-colonial Sierra Leone: the beginning of African & European trade; the effects of Western imperialism; and colonial rule. The soundtrack fuses hip-hop with reggae, and the film presents stunning landscape visuals.

Friday 16 March, 2pm

Admission: £3 (£2 concession)
Age Range: 12A

Photographic Mosaic

Let’s create a photographic mosaic with pictures taken by you! Come along to this workshop to take photographs using your mobile camera or a compact camera and contribute to the growing mosaic image.
This session is led by Mervyn Mitchell, a Nottingham based photographic artist whose images have been exhibited in the UK and recently at the Qual Henry Jay, Saint-Louis, exhibition in Senegal. Mervyn is currently part of NAE’s experiMENTOR programme.

Saturday 17 March, 2pm – 4pm

Admission: FREE, but a donation to support the event would be appreciated.
Age range: All are welcome

Adil Ray

In Conversation

Actor, broadcaster, comedian and British Pakistani, Adil’s career began in 1994 in mainstream commercial radio, and has continued on through BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4. Adil’s TV career includes the award winning Desi DNA (BBC2), numerous documentaries and the hugely popular Bellamy’s People (BBC2). In 2012 we will see Adil in his self created sitcom - Citizen Khan, for BBC1. The first ever Asian sitcom, it’s set in Sparkhill, Birmingham and revolves around a self-appointed Muslim community leader and his long suffering family.

Adil talks about his varied career to date, his outlook and hopes for the future. A must see for any fan or anyone with an interest in working in the media.

Friday 23 March, 7pm

Admission: £8 (£6 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome

VOCAL: NAE Annual Public Meeting

Join the NAE team for a complimentary lunch,
a special performance, and the opportunity
to find out about our future plans. We would
also like you to share your ideas and views
directly to our team. To book your slot please email vocal@nae.org.uk

Saturday 24 March, 1.30pm – 3.30pm

Admission: FREE

Age range: All are welcome

My Granddads’ Car

(talk, discussion and video presentation)

After travelling to Pakistan and Nigeria, Sayed Hasan and Karl Obulo have set in motion the task of bringing their grandads’ cars to the
UK. It has been a challenging journey for both artists so far, as they attempt to park their grandfathers’ cars side by side. This symbolic
act expresses their feelings towards the complex issues of identity and cultural
inheritance.

In this, the second part of their New Art Exchange talk series, they will discuss their on-going project in an upfront discussion and video presentation.

For more information visit:
www.mygranddadscar.co.uk

Thursday 29 March, 6pm

Admission: FREE
Age range: All are welcome

Camera Obscura

Camera obscuras are simple optical projection devices, pre-dating the invention of photography! Using recycled materials and simple lenses, participants will be guided through building their own camera. Everyone will build a ‘box’ camera obscura to take home with them.

Saturday 31 March, 2pm – 4pm

Admission: FREE, but a donation to support the event would be appreciated.
Age range: All are welcome

Blend!

Pendulum, Kissy Sell Out, Krafty Kuts – Have you heard of them!? Blend Visuals have been performing live visuals for years, supporting the biggest names in dance culture with their live VJ performance. Come along and learn to VJ to YOUR favourite music. All ages welcome, no computer experience required.

Monday 2 April

10am – 1pm: 11 to 15 yrs
2pm – 5pm: 16 to 19 yrs

Admission: FREE

Pixelated Power: Graphic Art

Pixelated Power is a creative workshop led by graphic artist Honey Williams, that will explore pixelated art inspired by the work of artist Rashid Rana. This workshop is a chance to create colourful striking mosaic wall pieces, collage, decoupage and mirror image art. Using a mixture of block printing, paint, magazines, newspapers, and illustration you will make a bold statement about your identity via your own unique art work.

Tuesday 3 April

10am – 1pm: 11 to 15 yrs
2pm – 5pm: 16 to 19 yrs
Admission: FREE

Language of Self dance workshop

Exciting dance workshops designed to discover, encourage and create! In this insightful session Dwayne Antony will encourage you to respond through the body to the fantastic Rashid Rana exhibition. Designed to ignite a creative habit, this workshop is fantastic and fun for everyone.

Wednesday 4 April

10am – 1pm: 11 to 15 yrs
2pm – 5pm: 16 to 19 yrs
Admission: FREE

We Are Here

YARD Theatre Company Performance

Never failing to entertain and connect with their audience, YARD Theatre Company endeavours to push boundaries and challenge perceptions of theatre practice by incorporating music, dance, and art with physical theatre.
We Are Here promises to be an innovative performance which mixes multi-media technology with visual theatre.

The piece will respond to Rashid Rana’s exhibition and the participant’s own experiences of living in world dominated by TV, video games, internet and social media. How do these elements obscure our notion of reality? YARD will be collaborating virtually with the young people from Corby’s The Core theatre to create their production.

Thursday 5 April, 6.30pm

Admission: £5 (£3 concessions)
Age range: All are welcome

BlackDrop

Hear vibrant spoken word performances by local artists. Performers of all ages and backgrounds share their dynamic words with tongue twisting poems, exploring life’s seven emotions. A great night out where you hear the impossibility of ideas translated through the art form of spoken word, performed with intensity and style in an intimate
cafe setting.

Thursday 5 April, 8pm

Admission: £3 (£2 concessions)
Age Range: 18 +

Behind the Veil of Photography

Does photography tell us the truth? Is the reality sometimes distorted? Come and join us for a creative session that explores ideas of self presentation, heritage and identity through the use of photography, sound, collage and discussion. We will investigate the innovative artworks made by the artist Rashid Rana as a basis for this workshop.

Tuesday 10 April

10am – 1pm: 11 to 15 yrs
2pm – 5pm: 16 to 19 yrs
Admission: FREE

Street Re-Seen

In this workshop participants will work with photographic artist Sian Stammers to make a 3-D model of the street they see around them. They will work with different camera techniques, digital imaging software - using blur, colour and collage to create an inside out street sculpture using Rashid Rana’s exhibition as a starting point and source of inspiration.

Wednesday 11 April

10am – 12pm: 11 to 15 yrs
1pm – 3pm: 16 to 19 yrs
Admission: FREE

YARD Visual Arts Club

**YARD VISUAL STARTS SATURDAY 28 JANUARY 2012**

YARD Visual is the new visual arts group for young people aged 11- 18. These fun, informal sessions will give young artists the chance to explore the themes and ideas behind our latest exhibition by Rashid Rana ‘Everything is Happening at Once’ using a range of artistic techniques. The sessions are free and will run for 10 weeks.

For further information contact info@nae.org.uk or Tel: 0115 924 8630. Please book to avoid disappointment!

Please click here to see our full YARD programme.

YARD - Youth Arts

Workshops

For our Arts Programme specifically for local young people which includes Drama, Music, Dance and other forms of Art,

YARD Youth Theatre is looking for new members! YYT meet every Tuesday and Wednesday. Develop your performing arts talents whilst working with theatre professionals. There are opportunities to develop acting skills, pick up new dance moves, stretch your vocal cords and put on shows. As well as working on stage, you can work backstage as script writers, set designers, light and sound technicians, directors, producers and much more.

Theatre / Drama workshops take place every Tuesday from 5- 7pm (age 15+) and Wednesday from 5- 7pm (age 11- 14)

For further information contact yard@nae.org.uk Tel: 0115 924 8630 or drop in! Please click here to see our full YARD programme.

Young People's Panel

Panel discussion

Made up of 15-25 year olds who are passionate about visual and performing arts, these sessions provide insight and experience of working within a creative organisation. The panel meet monthly to vision and shape the Youth Programme at NAE.

These monthly sessions are held on a Tuesday, 5-7pm and will take place on the following dates; 10, 24 January, 7, 21 February, 6 March and 3 of April.

Classical Indian Kathak

Dance workshop

In these interactive dance workshops, Vina Ladwa of Manushi Dance will work with individuals to gain a taste of the Indian classical dance form - Kathak. The workshops will begin to break down this classical style to create a language of movement with the participants, representing an identity rooted in two cultures. There will also be story-telling which explores Indian mythology and history using facial, hands, body and eye movements. Participants are advised to wear comfortable clothing for the workshops. All ages are welcome; intermediate to advanced level dancers.

Come in for a taster session any Saturday this month, to get a flavour of Indian Kathak dance! New classes start 14th January 2012.

Every Saturday

Intermediate / Advanced class at 12pm - 2pm

Beginners at 2pm - 3pm

Admission: £5 pw (adults) | £3 pw (concessions / under 16's)

Floating Coffins @ 'Migrations' - Tate Britain

ZINEB SEDIRA   

Zineb Sedira's multi-screen installation Floating Coffins (2009), commissioned by New Art Exchange and produced by Arts Admin is on display as part of a major historical group exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Migrations.

Floating Coffinswas filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics -the habour city of Nouadhibou, whichhas become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.

The installation is presented on a complex arrangement of 14 screens with layered sound compiled by Mikhail Karikis. The work lingers with surreal ease on figures removing scrap, birds arriving, and the extraordinary landscape where desert, sea and man's struggle to survive, all combine.

Zineb Sedira's multi-screen installation Floating Coffins (2009), commissioned by New Art Exchange and produced by Arts Admin is on display as part of a major historical group exhibition at Tate Britain entitled Migrations.

Floating Coffinswas filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics -the habour city of Nouadhibou, whichhas become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.

The installation is presented on a complex arrangement of 14 screens with layered sound compiled by Mikhail Karikis. The work lingers with surreal ease on figures removing scrap, birds arriving, and the extraordinary landscape where desert, sea and man's struggle to survive, all combine.

‘'Floating Coffinsis a space where life, death, loss, escape, abandoned and shipwrecked journeys meet.It's both a toxic graveyard and a source for survival and hope.''

Zineb Sedira

Floating Coffins was purchased by Tate Britain 2011

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31 Jan - 12 Aug 2012

Tickets £6.60 / £5.50concessions (bought from Tate Britain)

For further information, click on the link below

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/migrations/default.shtm

rations/default.shtm

Spirit Nottingham

This is a new initiative that has been developed as a result of an innovative cross-sectoral cultural partnership involving arts venues, museums, galleries together with city centre restaurants, pubs and bars. Through this special website, you can see what's on offer in Nottingham and plan a night offer through the best of the region's cultural offers!

It is has been enabled by funding from Greater Nottingham Partnership, Arts Council England East Midlands, with match funding secured from the originating partners who are:  Broadway Media Centre, Dance4, Galleries of Justice, Lakeside, New Art Exchange, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Playhouse, The Royal Centre, Capital FM Arena and We Are Nottingham.

You can access the best of Nottingham's cultural offer at www.spiritnottingham.com

Primary Studio Applications Now Open

Primary Studios, Nottingham are seeking applications from contemporary visual artists to join our exciting new venue.PRIMARY is a new and important feature on the visual arts landscape andis the first dedicated, permanent artist studios in Nottingham, which supports the development and production of contemporary visualart, its mission is to operate high quality, secure and affordable studios with associated exhibition and events space. New Art Exchange is proud to be a Corporate Director of Primary and we are working with them to develop their commitment to ensure that the building develops a strong public interface. This will be achieved through the delivery of a growing, varied public programme, which will expand and evolve as the building develops.

For further details and an application form please email admin@weareprimary.org

Primary Studio Applications Now Open

Primary Studios, Nottingham are seeking applications from contemporary visual artists to join our exciting new venue.PRIMARY is a new and important feature on the visual arts landscape andis the first dedicated, permanent artist studios in Nottingham, which supports the development and production of contemporary visualart, its mission is to operate high quality, secure and affordable studios with associated exhibition and events space. New Art Exchange is proud to be a Corporate Director of Primary and we are working with them to develop their commitment to ensure that the building develops a strong public interface. This will be achieved through the delivery of a growing, varied public programme, which will expand and evolve as the building develops.

For further details and an application form please email admin@weareprimary.org

2012 Spring Training and networking events

Mainstream Partnership invites Artists, Practitioners and Organisations across the East Midlands to take part in our 2012 Spring Training & Networking Events. If you are looking to set up as a creative enterprise, broaden the scope of your networks and collaborations, increase your knowledge and contribute to regional conversations that impact you, book today:

www.mainstreampartnership.eventbrite.com

 

Past Events