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Sep
5
Sat
Pinknic in the Park @ Waterlow Park
Sep 5 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Sep
17
Sun
Kate Davis, Charity – Exhibition Opening @ LUX
Sep 17 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Kate Davis,  Charity - Exhibition Opening @ LUX | England | United Kingdom

LUX presents a solo exhibition by Kate Davis featuring her new film, Charity (2017), commissioned as part of the Margaret Tait Award, Scotland’s most prestigious moving image prize for artists. This will be the first gallery presentation of Charity outwith Scotland and the first exhibition of Davis’ work in London since 2012.

Working across a range of media, including film and video, drawing, printmaking, installation and bookworks, Davis questions how historical narratives are produced and perpetuated. This has often involved probing the aesthetic and political ambiguities of particular artworks and specific historical moments from a contemporary feminist perspective.

Commissioned by LUX and Glasgow Film Festival in 2016, Charitywas inspired by the ways in which the work of film-maker, poet and artist Margaret Tait invites the viewer to contemplate fundamental emotions and everyday activities that are often overlooked. Taking artistic representations of breastfeeding as its focus, the film explores how the essential – but largely invisible and unpaid – processes we employ to care for others could be re-imagined.

Charity is shown alongside related artworks, bookworks, research materials and a selection of films and videos from the LUX and Cinenova collections. A newly commissioned text by writer and lecturer Amy Tobin will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

The exhibition is curated by Nicole Yip, Director of LUX Scotland, and presented with LUX Scotland.

Kate Davis’ film, Charity, was commissioned as part of the 2016–17 Margaret Tait Award and received additional generous support from Outset Scotland.

Opening: Sunday 17th September 2-5pm

Exhibition continues Weds-Sat 12-5pm until 28th October

Dec
19
Tue
wilde roses – an early music collaboration @ Lauderdale House
Dec 19 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

wilde roses

Wilde Roses is an early music collaboration between singers, multi-instrumentalists, composers, dancers and performers Anna Tam and Emily Alice Ovenden who met whilst they were performing with the Mediaeval Baebes.

Musically and visually inspired by the medieval and renaissance world, we draw our repertoire from illuminated manuscripts, courtly song books, Elizabethan broadside ballads and the folk tradition. Fascinated by the stories in these songs – medieval religious imagery so beautifully infused with nature; renaissance tales of piracy, jilted lovers and general folly alongside some of the most sincere and tender love songs that reach to the heart of life and human relationships.

Anna Tam (musical director, singer, nyckelharpa, viola da gamba, hurdy gurdy player, percussion) enjoys and eclectic career both in the folk and classical genres. She trained as a classical singer and instrumentalist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During her early studies, she performed at the Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3 and has been touring internationally since she was 15.

Emily Alice Ovenden (singer, recorders, percussion) received a scholarship from Andrew Lloyd Webber to study in London. With the Mediaeval Baebes she has made several albums, and recorded themes for BBC TV shows Victoria and Elizabeth. Emily made 3 acclaimed albums with her band PYTHIA and has recorded vocals for multi platinum selling band Dragonforce.

 

Time: 19:30

Venue: Lauderdale House

Price band A B
Standard £15.00
Concession £8.00
Child

Website: http://bit.ly/2hnzekw

 

Aug
12
Sun
Songs of Gays @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Aug 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Presented by London Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble

 

The London Gay Men’s Chorus Ensemble performs at the Camden Fringe Festival for the very first time. The LGMCe celebrates the joy of musical theatre in their uniquely humorous way. Expect vocal fireworks, sparkling harmonies and unforgettable ‘choral-ography’! Witness the West End as you’ve never seen it before!

Twitter: @LdnGMC

Web: www.lgmc.org.uk

Songs of Gays @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Aug 12 @ 7:45 pm

Presented by London Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble

 

The London Gay Men’s Chorus Ensemble performs at the Camden Fringe Festival for the very first time. The LGMCe celebrates the joy of musical theatre in their uniquely humorous way. Expect vocal fireworks, sparkling harmonies and unforgettable ‘choral-ography’! Witness the West End as you’ve never seen it before!

Twitter: @LdnGMC

Web: www.lgmc.org.uk