Project 5-2-6

Spill Blog has been silent for a while but all busy in the background.  

Project 5-2-6 is reaching the final stages – which means that very soon Spill moves from F5 @ NH to F6 @ CU.  And then much stuff starts to happen.  It’s going to be exciting.

http://www.facebook.com/f5.norham.house
floor.5@gmx.com

Preparing for the Poets

Apples and Snakes is England's leading organisation for performance poetry and spoken word. The organisation runs performance poetry events, educational workshops and provides top quality training and artist opportunities.

Since January of this year Apples and Snakes have been using Floor 5 @ Norham House as a space for a monthly Newcastle ‘Scratch Club’.   Throughout the afternoon poets gather to share skills and develop new techniques, and then at 7pm they strut their stuff to an invited audience and ask for some constructive feedback.

This Sunday is going to be the last Scratch Tyne hosted by F5 @ NH – when the next scratch event takes place the F5 gang will have moved to their new base at Commercial Union House.  So.  We’re going to make tomorrow both lively and lovely.

Schedule is simple;

For information about ‘the rehearsal bit’ go to FB @ https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128383070576432

Information about ‘the performance bit’ is as follows;

• Guests welcome from 6.30pm
• Performances @ 7pm
• Shared food & creative chat @ 8pm.  

(If you want to stay for food please bring a couple of gold coins to put in the pot).

And all through today we’re preparing the space, because we want to make tomorrow a bit special. We’re thinking the projection of poetry films during & after the food.

.... oh yes.  It’s going to be lovely and lively.

Scratch Tyne is private event.

Please use FB message or email to confirm attendance. 

http://www.facebook.com/f5.norham.house
floor.5@gmx.com

Scratch Tyne on Sunday

Performance Poets stride into cafe/cabaret space at 7pm, food at 8pm, and a cycle of projection of new poetry films after the food.  Much creative chat through and after.  It’s the final Scratch Tyne on Floor 5 @ Norham House and it’s going to be lively.

Scratch Tyne is private event.

Please use FB message or email to confirm attendance. 

http://facebook.com/f5.norham.house
floor.5@gmx.com

Scratch Tyne is organised in partnership with Apples and Snakes: www.applesandsnakes.org

Wilkommen bei dem Blogspot des Spill Culture Clubs (Der Auslauf Kulturklub)

‘Spill’ (‘der Auslauf‘) ist ein Werksprogramm, das Kreativität vom neuen innerstädtischen Kulturzentrum "cultural hive" in ungewönlichen Räume der Innenstadt Newcastle upon Tyne auslaufen lässt. Der Spill Culture Club ist der Motor dieser Arbeit – ein Netzwerk von Künstlern, diebei  vielfältigen  anspruchsvollen Kunstprojekten zusammenarbeiten wollen, und gleichzeitig eine Plattform für Menschen, die wissen wollen, wo und was angesagt ist.

Die Einführung des Spill Culture Clubs hat am 26. Juni 2011 stattgefunden und Infos zu uns und den zusammenarbeitenden  Künstlern finden Sie weiter unten. Wir sind am Anfang unseres Weg und haben noch keinen mehrsprachige Internetpräsenz. Aber wir arbeiten daran.

Der Projektleiter Joe Price

Spill Culture Club Launch > The Artists

A huge thank you to those artists who contributed work to the feast of creativity that was the Spill Culture Club Launch last Sunday.  The ‘set menu’ was;

Shubunkin:  www.shubunkin.co.uk

Apples & Snakes: www.applesandsnakes.org.

Koocha: http://soundcloud.com/koocha.

The Pox Collective: www.youtube.com/user/traceyant

A la carte offerings were provided by;

Amina Evans & Aidan Clarke, Jimmy Ryan, Will Steele & John Henry Hall, Adele Evitt & Ken Evans & Lee Shillito, Eve Green & Gemma Hayward & Adam Lightfoot & Neal Campbell (in collaboration with Matt Cummins).

Exhibition work by Stuart Murray-Borbierg & Ben Farquhar.

Images from Topsy Qu’ret’s fantastic Silhouette Project can be found at www.bit.ly/spill01.

..... to be continued.

Spill on Sunday > The Essential Information

Go to previous entry (below) for Spill on Sunday evening schedule.  This post is about what ‘attendees’ need to know.

The Spill Culture Club Launch Event in the evening is the focus of activity, but we are doing a child friendly ‘open door to open floor’ afternoon between 2pm & 5pm for friends and colleagues who want to connect with the project but have other things that must be done on the evening.  Coffee & cookies & circus toys for little people to play with.

The way the evening event works is very simple.  Doors open at 7pm – and there is an opportunity for ‘early arrivers’ to become part of the art through Topsy Qur’et’s Silhouette Project.  The first performance element of the night is scheduled for 8pm.  (The magnificent Shubunkin).

We’re inviting people to bring 4 things with them;

• A tie.  Attendees wearing ties will have access to the VIP area.
• £5.  The Sunday event is free, but if you bring £5 that will buy you membership to the Spill Culture Club.  (More information about exactly what that means is available on Sunday).  Membership of the club is a choice on the night - come taste and decide.
• An ‘interested and interesting person’.  The Spill Culture Club aims to set up a network of people who are interested in this ambitious idea of creating diverse city centre work in unusual places - creativity spilling from the new hive building into the public realm.
• Something to drink. It's a 'bring a bottle' event – wine or vodka or some other favoured beverage.

I think that covers the essentials.  Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.  If you do want to bring ‘extra people’ please FB message Fifth Floor, or send an email.

floor.5@gmx.com

http://facebook.com/f5.norham.house

Spill on Sunday > The Schedule

Spill Culture Club Launch ::: Doors Open @ 7pm.  Floor active from 8pm til midnight.

Appetizer (for ‘early arrivers’)

Topsy Qur’et’s Silhouette Project > An opportunity for people to become silhouettes and be part of a major city centre window based artwork.

Set Menu  (scheduled performances)

8pm  - 8.30pm ::: Shubunkin > sound and images conjured from empty space.

9pm – 9.30pm ::: Apples and Snakes > spoken word & unexpected collaborations

10pm – 10.30pm ::: Koocha > Floor 5 House Band.  (And we’re losing them to London soon).

11pm – 11.30pm ::: Pox > music, words, wigs & a bit of cosmic dancing. 

À la carte  (work you have to find – or work that will find you).

Jimmy Ryan > writer/director/performer in one man show to one-at-a-time audience

Stream of Consciousness > splinters of Skakespeare in unusual places

IAM / Impro & Mask > dredging the lake of souls with Trance Mask happenings

….it’s a fat night & it’s going to be fantastic.

The Spill Culture Club Launch is a private event.  Please use facebook or email to confirm attendance. 

http://facebook.com/f5.norham.house
floor.5@gmx.com

More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Three Days to Spill

Three days…. three days to go….

Pox have just been in the building talking about technical requirements ‘cause they’re performing at 11pm at the Spill Culture Club launch.  Difficult to explain Pox.  Does involve music and words and costumes and paint and wigs and a bit of cosmic dancing.  A meditation on reality.

…. and as the clock chimes 12 tonight the full schedule for Sunday goes up on the blog, as well as a bit of information about what guests need to bring.  Ties.  Ties are important.  Anybody wearing a tie gets access to the VIP area.

Spill Culture Club Launch > Sun June 26^th.

Doors Open @ 7pm and floor active 8pm til midnight.

More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Four Days to Spill

Four days to Spill and Floor 5 is getting busy.  Striding around the space today is Stream of Consciousness, a grouping of new graduates from the University of Northumbria Performing Arts Course who’ve been working with Resident Artist Matt Cummins and are creating something unexpected for the evening event.

And throughout Norham House Topsy Qur’et’s Silhouette artwork is gradually making its presence known.  Silhouettes has been conceived as a window based project that will be seen by the general public on New Bridge Street, Pilgrim Street and Northumberland Street in the centre of Newcastle. Between 7pm & 8pm on Sunday there will be an opportunity for some people to have their shadows cut out in paper and become a silhouette that will join the others in the windows.

Images of the Silhouette development process are on Fifth Floors Flicker stream @ bit.ly/spill01

Spill Culture Club Launch > Sun June 26^th.

Doors Open @ 7pm and floor active 8pm til midnight.

More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Five Days to Spill

Performance poet AJ McKenna was on Floor 5 last night working with dancer Angelina Lucas - creating something as part of the Apples & Snakes contribution to the Spill Culture Club launch.

Spoken word is scheduled for 9pm on Sunday @ Spill, but the performance element of the evening kicks off with a set from Shubunkin at 8pm. 

Shubunkin is special - motion sensors linked to adapted technology to conjure a symphony of sound and images.  Shubunkin web site @ www.shubunkin.co.uk

Spill Culture Club Launch > Sun June 26^th

Doors Open @ 7pm and floor active 8pm til midnight.

More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Six Days to Spill

Go check out tunes from Koocha @ http://soundcloud.com/koocha.

Koocha performing at 10pm after a most fantastic set of spoken word performance curated by Kirsten Luckins, north east programme coordinator of Apples and Snakes.  

For more information about Apples and Snakes go to www.applesandsnakes.org.

Seven Days to Spill

Spill shaping up.....

Afternoon Event > 2pm til 5pm

 

Lots of stuff for kids to do. And the Silhouette Project creating work for the evening.

Evening Event > 8pm til midnight  (Doors open at 7pm).

Multi-Media from Shubunkin @ 8pm

Apples & Snakes Performance Poetry @ 9pm

Music from Koocha @ 10pm

Plus Pox as special guests....

Spill Culture Club Launch > Sunday June 26th

For 10 months F5 @ NH has been operating as a multi arts resource centre supporting emerging artists and new work.  On Sunday June 26th the floor opens its doors to share work with its friends and colleagues and launch the next phase of activity – a second city centre building that will serve as a creative hub for a diverse range of projects and practitioners, linked with a schedule of work that will spill the creativity out of the building and into the streets of Newcastle.

2pm – 5pm: Open Door to Open Floor.  A relaxed afternoon with exhibitions of work from F5 @ NH Resident Artists, the opportunity to become part of the ‘Silhouette’ project, as well as fun stuff for children to do.

 8pm – midnight:  Spill Culture Club Launch.  Music and theatre and circus and films and spoken word and art installation all mixing and merging into the most eccentric and intriguing event. Attendees wearing ties will have access to the VIP area.

Join us on Facebook to keep up to date with the schedule www.facebook.com/f5.norham.house

 Facebook adverse folk can email for more details: floor.5@gmx.com

Sunday June 26th is a private view event.
Please confirm attendance via facebook or email or telephone/text 0777 390 1072