Events
Mission Offsite ProjectsArts Birthday @ Kardomah Cafe
17 January - 17 January 2012
Cafe Scenes at the Kardomah | Tuesday 17 January 6-8pm
Kardomah Cafe | Morris Buildings | 11, Portland St | Swansea | SA1 3DH
To mark the annual celebration of Art's Birthday this site-responsive, interactive installation extends the normal opening hours of the renowned Kardomah, transforming customers into the contributors of a screenplay installation.
A Mission Gallery offsite event in partnership with Arts Birthday, Supersaurus and the Kardomah Café
Cafe Scenes at the Kardomah is part of the Arts Birthday Wales 2012 celebrations. See the Arts Birthday Wales blog for details of the accompanying events
Arts Birthday Wales is part of the worldwide celebrations for Arts Birthday.
Art’s Birthday
2012 marks art’s 1,000,049th birthday and the fifth year of Arts Birthday Wales based in Swansea, UK.
Over the past five years Arts Birthday celebrations in Wales have included the ‘three year four day working week’ radio station, Café Genie, art-themed three course meals, live link ups with celebrations across the UK as well as paper hats and many cakes. Arts Birthday Wales has worked with Elysium, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Framework, Supersaurus and Barrie Hole, Joan Jones, Matt Hulse, Steven Page, The Stylophone Orchestra of Great Britain and Foundation Art & Design at Swansea Met in addition to other organisations, artists groups and individuals.
This year, as well as Café Scenes at the Kardomah, in collaboration with Mission Gallery, Arts Birthday will be hosting an exhibition of sonic works at Klang Canteen at Elysium with works from Wales Belgium, Canada, USA and the UK. There will be an event in partnership with Glynn Vivian Art Gallery featuring a performative work from Matt Hulse and a time based sculpture from Hedsor.
Arts Birthday Wales Schedule 2012
Friday 13th January 1pm | Arts Birthday event at YMCA with Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Old Age Should Burn And Rave At Close Of Day by Matt Hulse with Elizabeth Lawrence; a short, playful performance piece involving a ‘Welshman,’ a ‘Scotsman’ and an ‘Englishman,’ an arm-wrestling competition and a Dylan Thomas poetry reading. This is the work’s UK premiere following its debut at Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2011.
Saturday 14th January 7pm | Klang Canteen curated by Barnaby Dicker at Elysium
Barrie Hole’s Hitlist Presents, Erik Benjamins, BpOlar, Annike Cassidy, Peter Courtemanche & Anna Friz , Common Culture, Rhys Davies, Glenn Harvey, Hedsor (Karl & Kimberly Foster), Arran Hodgson, Matt Hulse, Joan Jones, Lyndon Jones, Bella Kerr, Steven Paige, David Pitt, Théâtre de la Liberté, Fern Thomas, Ward Weiss, Nick Lee
Tuesday 17th January – Arts Birthday
Belgian Arts Collective Théâtre de la Liberté in residence at Elysium with intervention between 3-5pm
Café Scenes at the Kardomah in partnership with Mission Gallery 6-8pm
This site-responsive, interactive installation extends the normal opening hours of the renowned Kardomah, transforming customers into the contributors of a screenplay installation.
Images:
Eva Bartussek (Kardomah Cafe during the day)
Emma Rylance (Kardomah Cafe during the evening)
