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HowTheLightGetsIn Global is a worldwide online festival experience, gathering Nobel laureates, groundbreaking journalists, mindblowing scientists, and the world’s leading thinkers in all fields to debate the most urgent, fascinating dilemmas we face in 2020.
With social distancing ongoing, the festival will be livestreamed online, featuring three programmes of events beamed from Delhi, London and New York, so that whatever continent you call home, you can check in on a time zone that suits you!
Over the weekend 19-20 September, we’ll be livestreaming over 200 events on eight stages, including folk, electro and world music acts, all-night DJ parties balanced out by stand-up comedy and mind-boggling debates and talks on everything from particle physics to patriarchy! In addition there will be a whole host of social spaces where you can meet other festival goers, chat to your friends and make new ones, talk over the events you’ve seen, bump into speakers and artists, listen to some great music together – and dance the night away!
The speaker line-up is nothing short of spectacular this year, with the world’s leading thinkers accessible right from the comfort of your computer screen! Speakers will include Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who’ll battle it out with opponents over the right way for public policy after coronavirus; Bianca Jagger, champion of human rights and fierce denier of moral relativism; Vandana Shiva, one of the world’s most prominent environmental activists; Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist and one of the famed “Four Horsemen” of atheism along with counterparts Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens; and Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist and quantum gravity expert. Other great minds includes Nancy Fraser, Abhijit Banerjee, Samantha Power, P.J. O’Rourke, Grace Blakeley, Rory Stewart, Polly Toynbee, Rupert Sheldrake, and Joanna Kavenna.
It wouldn’t be HowTheLightGetsIn without a fantastic music line-up to help you shake away those social distancing blues. This time around, the festival will play host to folk legend and ‘Send in the Clowns’ songstress Judy Collins; altrockers This is the Kit; multi-instrumentalist auteur Cosmo Sheldrake; and many more.
Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
HowTheLightGetsIn Global is a worldwide online festival experience, gathering Nobel laureates, groundbreaking journalists, mindblowing scientists, and the world’s leading thinkers in all fields to debate the most urgent, fascinating dilemmas we face in 2020.
With social distancing ongoing, the festival will be livestreamed online, featuring three programmes of events beamed from Delhi, London and New York, so that whatever continent you call home, you can check in on a time zone that suits you!
Over the weekend 19-20 September, we’ll be livestreaming over 200 events on eight stages, including folk, electro and world music acts, all-night DJ parties balanced out by stand-up comedy and mind-boggling debates and talks on everything from particle physics to patriarchy! In addition there will be a whole host of social spaces where you can meet other festival goers, chat to your friends and make new ones, talk over the events you’ve seen, bump into speakers and artists, listen to some great music together – and dance the night away!
The speaker line-up is nothing short of spectacular this year, with the world’s leading thinkers accessible right from the comfort of your computer screen! Speakers will include Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who’ll battle it out with opponents over the right way for public policy after coronavirus; Bianca Jagger, champion of human rights and fierce denier of moral relativism; Vandana Shiva, one of the world’s most prominent environmental activists; Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist and one of the famed “Four Horsemen” of atheism along with counterparts Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens; and Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist and quantum gravity expert. Other great minds includes Nancy Fraser, Abhijit Banerjee, Samantha Power, P.J. O’Rourke, Grace Blakeley, Rory Stewart, Polly Toynbee, Rupert Sheldrake, and Joanna Kavenna.
It wouldn’t be HowTheLightGetsIn without a fantastic music line-up to help you shake away those social distancing blues. This time around, the festival will play host to folk legend and ‘Send in the Clowns’ songstress Judy Collins; altrockers This is the Kit; multi-instrumentalist auteur Cosmo Sheldrake; and many more.
Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk
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Monday 21st September 2020 7.00 pm
Completely landlocked, surrounded by Russia and China, and known as the Land of Blue Skies, Mongolia is noted for its vast rugged expanses that link land and sky and is one of the last few places on the planet where nomadic life is still a living tradition. With the lowest population density among all independent countries in the world, it is this vast and majestic emptiness that is the country’s enduring appeal, bringing the traveller, as it does, into a close communion with nature and its nomadic inhabitants. Join Betty Pires as she takes you on tour, via Zoom, through the fabled land of Genghis Khan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire, who established the largest contiguous empire in history. Betty will take you through the massive Gobi Desert and the shores of Lake Hovsgol, the ruins of Kharakhorum, site of the 13th century capital of the Mongol Empire, the scenic Flaming Cliffs where Roy Chapman Andrews found the first ever dinosaur eggs and listen to traditional “throat singing”
This is an online Zoom event. (Click here for advice on how to participate.)
Pre-booking on Eventbrite is essential – click here. The Zoom meeting link will be sent by email on or before the day of the event.
Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
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Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
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Handmade in Highgate the Summer Fair 2020 will take place on 25 – 27 September. Come and find some of the UK’s most talented designer/makers at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Times:
Friday 25 September: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 26 September: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 27 September: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate the Summer Fair 2020 will take place on 25 – 27 September. Come and find some of the UK’s most talented designer/makers at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Times:
Friday 25 September: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 26 September: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 27 September: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate the Summer Fair 2020 will take place on 25 – 27 September. Come and find some of the UK’s most talented designer/makers at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Times:
Friday 25 September: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 26 September: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 27 September: 11am – 5pm
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