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The Python Gallery in Middlesbrough is looking for Volunteer Gallery Assistants to help with the day to day running of this exciting exhibition and events space. If you are interested in volunteering, then please contact Peter Heselton (Gallery Curator) by email with the word ‘volunteer’ in the subject line to:
January 2008 Book Launch Invitation: Thursday 24th January 7:00pm RSVP to jan@cinnamonpress.com Bob will be reading from the book at 7.30p.m. Praise for Yoik These poems are truly ‘made’ by the craftsman in the true meaning of the word - poet as ‘maker’. They display a remarkable range of tone and reference, tremendous verbal dexterity, strong, muscular, visceral use of language, yet, at the same time, a softness – a delicate, gossamer-like quality. Yoik is a major work with an ambition beyond the scope of most modern writers and in it we can see the full possibilities of a poet who can shift from formal but democratic contemplation to sharp social commentary to magical incantation and back again. He has the “negative capability” Keats described as he disappears or rather merges with his characters and objects – just as the title which describes Lapp shamanic song practice of invoking the object rather than singing about it - but is also not afraid to emerge here and there, sometimes in other voices, sometimes in his own, as a public poet who offers us a sharp set of questions to take away from his work and apply to our own reality. October 2007 The Wilds Launch Event
An outstanding literary event, the Wilds Book launch at the gallery on Thursday 4th October attracted over a hundred and twenty people keen to share in the vibrant atmosphere created by the poets reading from the anthology. The amazing readings ranged from the comic to the tragic, expressing a wealth of differing emotions but all fully engaging and enthralling the audience. ‘The Wilds An Anthology’ published by Ek Zuban is available from the Python Gallery priced £6.99 Also available are other collections from Ek Zuban Publishing, please contact the gallery curator for details.
September 2007 Dozen: Fresh From the Oven At 7pm on the 24th September, the preview of the exhibition ‘Dozen: Fresh from the Oven’ opened at The Python Gallery. Immediately, the venue was filled with nearly two hundred visitors eager to see the final show of the University of Teesside’s MA Design students. Featuring an eclectic mix of disciplines, the opening represented the culmination of an intensive programme of work for all the exhibitors. Officially opened by the Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Teesside, Professor Leni Ogelsby, the exhibition displays a variety of professional disciplines within the venue. The appreciative crowd applauded, as the work and the MA Design course was introduced by Mr. Charles Tait, one of the exhibiting designers and by Professor Ogelsby whose speech recognised the diligence, vision and hard work of all the participants and the need to develop creative and sustainable relationships beyond the University environment. Mr. Martin Johnson of the Python Group also said a few words, expressing that the gallery and the Python group were committed to supporting the development of creativity within the region, and that they would be looking forward to future collaborations with the university as it develops its current programme of courses. The evening was a vibrant and exciting mix of creativity, stimulating conversation and recognition for the achievements of the work by the artists and designers, all of whom had endeavoured to encapsulate a commitment to realising their final work, their productivity and their ideas as an exhibition open to all.
August 2007 Elements versus Location Review The Launch of The Python Gallery and the opening of the Inaugural Exhibition ‘Elements versus Location’ was a resounding success. As the doors opened at 7pm the gallery space rapidly filled with people keen to see the work on display and to celebrate the beginning of this new creative venture in Middlesbrough. The event which had been publicised in The Evening Gazette was also covered by North East Exclusive magazine, with a photographer taking pictures of the exhibiting artists and the visitors. At 8pm the Gallery was officially opened by Adam Lopardo-Sponsors Club for Arts and Business and Pete Broome and Martin Johnson of Python Properties. Some of the comments from the 200 or so gallery visitors on the evening are testament to the support from the wider community that this creative enterprise has generated. “A fantastic venture…”, “Great to see this happening in Middlesbrough”, “Amazing variety of exceptional work” The exhibition continues until 7th September, so if you haven’t experienced this dynamic space and the quality of the 22 artists exhibiting, then please come along and support us.
July 2007 The Inaugural exhibition of The Python Gallery previews on Monday 23rd July.
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APRIL 2008 Environments (25th April until 9th May 2008) An exhibition featuring work stimulated by the built environment. Read more here.
MARCH 2008
"We are faithful only to the imagination. What the imagination seizes.... Private View on 11th March 2008, 7-9.30 pm.
Back by popular demand! The sessions will begin on: At the new location of: If you would like to come along and participate then please email me to confirm your attendance – email Peter on: p_r_heselton@hotmail.com or: info@pythongallery.co.uk
Workshop call out The gallery has a relaxed and informal atmosphere and has an integral Bistro which is open 10am-3pm Monday to Friday.
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