Monday, January 29, 2007
Polar Bear Exhibit at the Horniman Museum
Great White Bear
Until Mar 25 Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ
Great White Bear
It’s easy to see how these things happen. One minute you’re wondering vaguely how many stuffed polar bears there are in the UK, the next you’re engaged in a three-year project to find and photograph them all in situ, and trace the history of how they came to be killed, transported, stuffed and displayed. From there, it’s a short step to borrowing ten of them for an installation in Bristol, publishing a lavish art book about your quest, and exhibiting your photographs at the the Horniman Museum.
At least that’s how it was for Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snaebjörnsdóttir, a duo of collaborative artists whose work explores the relationships between people, places and the natural world. Their curiosity was piqued by what these specimens tell us about the way people have attempted to pin down and appropriate the raw power of these fierce and beautiful animals.
There are 34 bears in the exhibition - although there ought to be 35, as the Horniman is currently searching for its own lost bear, which was sold in 1948 and may have ended up in a pub in Hull. The specimens the artists have tracked down range from a very manky-looking object on wheels, dating from 1786, which the artists found in a gloomy corridor in Blair Castle, Perthshire, to a playfully posed and pristine beast which was bought by Lord and Lady Puttnam in 1999 and installed in their London residence. Several, of course, are housed in museums, including well-preserved and naturalistically mounted examples in the Natural History Museum, Manchester Museum and Sheffield City Museum. But there are some unexpected locations too: in the hallway of a private house in Somerset, a bear which once graced the Fox’s Glacier Mints factory now wears a fez on one ear and presents visitors with a basket of tulips.
Until Mar 25 Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ
Great White Bear
It’s easy to see how these things happen. One minute you’re wondering vaguely how many stuffed polar bears there are in the UK, the next you’re engaged in a three-year project to find and photograph them all in situ, and trace the history of how they came to be killed, transported, stuffed and displayed. From there, it’s a short step to borrowing ten of them for an installation in Bristol, publishing a lavish art book about your quest, and exhibiting your photographs at the the Horniman Museum.
At least that’s how it was for Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snaebjörnsdóttir, a duo of collaborative artists whose work explores the relationships between people, places and the natural world. Their curiosity was piqued by what these specimens tell us about the way people have attempted to pin down and appropriate the raw power of these fierce and beautiful animals.
There are 34 bears in the exhibition - although there ought to be 35, as the Horniman is currently searching for its own lost bear, which was sold in 1948 and may have ended up in a pub in Hull. The specimens the artists have tracked down range from a very manky-looking object on wheels, dating from 1786, which the artists found in a gloomy corridor in Blair Castle, Perthshire, to a playfully posed and pristine beast which was bought by Lord and Lady Puttnam in 1999 and installed in their London residence. Several, of course, are housed in museums, including well-preserved and naturalistically mounted examples in the Natural History Museum, Manchester Museum and Sheffield City Museum. But there are some unexpected locations too: in the hallway of a private house in Somerset, a bear which once graced the Fox’s Glacier Mints factory now wears a fez on one ear and presents visitors with a basket of tulips.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Monday Love - Politcal Movies and DJs - Free
Monday Love
NW6, The Good Ship, Kilburn. Free
London Indymedia, Filmmakers Against War, Spiritual Kids and IFIwatch.tv host a weekly mix of conscious cinema & live music, welcoming those who still believe in something more than money and fear.
At The Good Ship 289 Kilburn High Road NW6, London, nearest tube is Kilburn Jubilee Line or Brondesbury BR line, it's on the right from Kilburn station, just a few doors down from the Tricycle Theatre. Buses: 16, 31, 32, 9, 189, 206, 316, 328
Free entry all night, and every Monday. Donations welcome to cover costs.
https://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2006/11/355324.htmlhttp://www.thegoodship.co.uk/
Listing:
January 15th - Movimientos
Latin American Night with 'Hasta la última piedra' Live music Movimientos DJs
January 22nd - Climate Change
‘End Of Suburbia’
djdubuddah
January 29th - East Asia
Environmental and political films from South Korea &Malaysia including 'Alice Lives Here’
Ken the Poet
February 5th - Palestine
‘The Sun Doesn’t Shine In This Camp’
dj Geshe & The Rub
February 12th - Love night
Michael Franti’s ‘I Know I’m Not Alone’
Black Sheep Central & Milli Moonstone
February 19th - Anniversary of invasion of Iraq
‘Sir!, No Sir!’
Princess Emmanuelle
February 26th - Global Resistance
‘Forth World War’ & Arundhati Roy in ‘WE’
The Hey Chinaskis
March 5th - Debt & International Financial Institutions
‘Life & Debt’
Lee harris & Virgo-Verbal Assault
March 12th - End The Occupation
Jo Wilding’s ‘Letter To The PM’
River Styx
March 19th - Immigration
Michael Winterbottom’s ‘In This World’
Pop & M.A.D. Scientist
March 26th - OIL
‘Rob Newman’s History Of Oil’
Mono Sabilick
NW6, The Good Ship, Kilburn. Free
London Indymedia, Filmmakers Against War, Spiritual Kids and IFIwatch.tv host a weekly mix of conscious cinema & live music, welcoming those who still believe in something more than money and fear.
At The Good Ship 289 Kilburn High Road NW6, London, nearest tube is Kilburn Jubilee Line or Brondesbury BR line, it's on the right from Kilburn station, just a few doors down from the Tricycle Theatre. Buses: 16, 31, 32, 9, 189, 206, 316, 328
Free entry all night, and every Monday. Donations welcome to cover costs.
https://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2006/11/355324.htmlhttp://www.thegoodship.co.uk/
Listing:
January 15th - Movimientos
Latin American Night with 'Hasta la última piedra' Live music Movimientos DJs
January 22nd - Climate Change
‘End Of Suburbia’
djdubuddah
January 29th - East Asia
Environmental and political films from South Korea &Malaysia including 'Alice Lives Here’
Ken the Poet
February 5th - Palestine
‘The Sun Doesn’t Shine In This Camp’
dj Geshe & The Rub
February 12th - Love night
Michael Franti’s ‘I Know I’m Not Alone’
Black Sheep Central & Milli Moonstone
February 19th - Anniversary of invasion of Iraq
‘Sir!, No Sir!’
Princess Emmanuelle
February 26th - Global Resistance
‘Forth World War’ & Arundhati Roy in ‘WE’
The Hey Chinaskis
March 5th - Debt & International Financial Institutions
‘Life & Debt’
Lee harris & Virgo-Verbal Assault
March 12th - End The Occupation
Jo Wilding’s ‘Letter To The PM’
River Styx
March 19th - Immigration
Michael Winterbottom’s ‘In This World’
Pop & M.A.D. Scientist
March 26th - OIL
‘Rob Newman’s History Of Oil’
Mono Sabilick
Monday, January 08, 2007
Russian Winter Festival - this weekend
It is that time of year again. Time for more standing around Trafalgar Square in teh cold.
Russian Winter Festival
Saturday 13 January, Trafalgar Square. Free
Tube: Charing Cross, Underground: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Charing Cross
Russian Winter Festival
Eventica is organising the Russian Winter Festival on Trafalgar Square – an extravaganza of Russian sights, tastes and sounds, all for free in the very heart of London.
Moscow’s top DJs and the latest contemporary rock and pop. Visitors will be able to sample real Russian food whilst browsing for traditional souvenirs and arts and crafts during this packed full-day event.
As Sochi, in the south of Russia, is an official Candidate City for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian Winter Festival in 2007 will have a special focus on winter sports to highlight Russia’s traditional winter sporting prowess – and visitors will even have a chance to pit their ice hockey skills against the finest Russian sportsmen in a specially-adapted ice hockey goal shooting game.
In 2007 the event will include performances from renowned folk artists such as the Chuvash State Ensemble of Song and Dance, Nadezhda Babkina and her group Russkaya Pesnya, Pelageya, Ulyanovsk folk ensemble Cossack Soul, the military cadets of the Suvorovsky Ensemble and the world respected dance ensemble Gzhel. Modern artists range from the freshness of Ranetki, Siberia and Tokio to the latest boy wonder Dima Bilan; from the club sounds of a DJs-Vengerov & Fedoroff to the mature talent of Garik Sukachiov and Nogu Svelo.
Russian Winter Festival
Saturday 13 January, Trafalgar Square. Free
Tube: Charing Cross, Underground: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Charing Cross
Russian Winter Festival
Eventica is organising the Russian Winter Festival on Trafalgar Square – an extravaganza of Russian sights, tastes and sounds, all for free in the very heart of London.
Moscow’s top DJs and the latest contemporary rock and pop. Visitors will be able to sample real Russian food whilst browsing for traditional souvenirs and arts and crafts during this packed full-day event.
As Sochi, in the south of Russia, is an official Candidate City for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian Winter Festival in 2007 will have a special focus on winter sports to highlight Russia’s traditional winter sporting prowess – and visitors will even have a chance to pit their ice hockey skills against the finest Russian sportsmen in a specially-adapted ice hockey goal shooting game.
In 2007 the event will include performances from renowned folk artists such as the Chuvash State Ensemble of Song and Dance, Nadezhda Babkina and her group Russkaya Pesnya, Pelageya, Ulyanovsk folk ensemble Cossack Soul, the military cadets of the Suvorovsky Ensemble and the world respected dance ensemble Gzhel. Modern artists range from the freshness of Ranetki, Siberia and Tokio to the latest boy wonder Dima Bilan; from the club sounds of a DJs-Vengerov & Fedoroff to the mature talent of Garik Sukachiov and Nogu Svelo.
Roller Disco
