Events and Exhibitions at CREATE

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Show of Strength

CELEBRATION
10 - 11 April

Show of Strength's first Show in 2010 is CELEBRATION: a coproduction with Bristol's wonderful Travelling Light at the CREATE Centre.

Over the weekend of 10-11 April they are putting on performances all over The CREATE Centre: lots of inspiring short plays for young people 8 years + and their families. They're really excited about how locations like the Ecohome might inspire the writers who will be working on this. They are working with a range of writers and are delighted to welcome back Mark Ravenhill who first worked with SOS back in their Hen & Chicken days.

www.travellinglighttheatre.org.uk/celebration.html for more information. This will be a ticketed event.

There will also be an exhibition in the CREATE Gallery running until May 8th.

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Peak Oil Exhibition

Peak oil describes the point at which the amount of oil produced globally in a single year reaches its absolute maximum. From this point onward the amount of oil produced will decline. Increasingly oil will come from more difficult sources, which along with scarcity will increase prices.

Cheap oil has made possible many of the huge changes in the last 30 years in the way we communicate, travel, eat, work and play. The next 30 years will bring yet more changes to our daily lifestyles.

This exhibition shows how many groups and projects in Bristol are already exploring ways of getting the best out of life in a less oil intensive world. Come and be inspired to join in.

Find out more about the local groups and projects.

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Eco Tots

Every Wednesday
11.00am - 11.30am

Do you have children under 4?
Are you looking for a local, free sustainable activity?

Join our early years story and rhyme time in the Ecohome. All children and babies welcome. Come and make as much noise as you like.

To find out more tel: 0117 9250 5050
or just come along.

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2010 Photography Walks and Workshops

Over the summer Bristol photographer Graham Parish will be running several photography walks and workshops starting from the CREATE Centre

Workshops:

Portraits with natural light
- Saturday 5th June
Portraits with studio flash
Saturday 19th June
Reportage at the Harbour Festival
Saturday 31st July
Photographing the Urban Landscape
Saturday 11th Sept

All workshops cost £75.00 - advance booking only (max 8 persons per workshop)
Workshops run 10.00am - 4.00pm with a break for lunch
For full details of all of the above see UK Walkshops website
or to book a place please email: create@walkshops.co.uk

2010 Photo Walks:

Fridays at 10.30am - 21st May, 18th June, 30th July or
Saturdays at 1.00pm - 1st May, 15th May

Duration approx 2hr - cost - £15.00 pp - max 12 persons
For full details of all of the above see UK Walkshops website
or to book a place please email: create@walkshops.co.uk

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Get by in Italian on Holiday

Saturdays 8th, 15th and 22nd May
10.30 - 2:30

Tutor Claudia Omma

Cost: £48 / 28

To book on to the course contact Adult Learning Service and quote course code LIT2377CCC
Tel: 0117 903 844
www.bristol.gov.ul/adultlearning

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Exhibitions coming to the CREATE Gallery

March 4th - 31st
49th window
- CREATE Tenants Arts Show
April 10th - May 8th
Show of Strength
- Theatre company with exhibition on Local Trading
May 15th - June 5th
Photo of the Day
- Photographs by Will Stahl-Timmins and Friends
June 12th - July 24th
Robert Manners
- RWA CREATE prizewinner
August 28th - October 9th
Littoral: Marks from the margins
- The margin of land between low and high tide marks. Contemporary print and applied art - various artists
October 16th - November 27th
West Bristol Arts Trail

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‘Albatross’ - Gloria Ojulari Sule

Gloria lives in Bristol and works from a studio at Spike Island. We are delighted to host her work as part of our changing exhibition programme at CREATE.

‘I make work that focuses on issues of race, culture and identity drawing directly on my experience as a black female of dual heritage born in this country.

I also look to West African influences of contemporary Nigerian artists who in many cases use waste and recycled materials to create works that have strong links with culture and spiritual beliefs.’

‘My work ‘Albatross’ highlights the plight of the Albatross, particularly in the Pacific Ocean, as its colonies continue to be depleted by the build up of non-biodegradable plastic waste materials. Bottle tops are my main focus because they enter into our waterways and rivers in abundance and are effortlessly transported to the sea.

As an artist I am always aware of issues of pollution both locally and globally and I often use recycled objects and materials to make my work. In this project I draw inspiration from the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui whose practice utilises found materials and transforms them in huge artworks that harbour new meanings referencing cultural traditions.’

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