Saturday 25 June 2011

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.

Thursday 23 June 2011

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 26th.
Doors Open @ 7pm and floor active 8pm til midnight.
More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Wednesday 22 June 2011

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 26th.
Doors Open @ 7pm and floor active 8pm til midnight.
More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Tuesday 21 June 2011

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 26th
Doors Open @ 7pm and floor active 8pm til midnight.
More information about Spill Culture Club in left hand column.

Monday 20 June 2011

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.

Sunday 19 June 2011

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....

Wednesday 15 June 2011

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