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Summer Fling programme
Darlington arts organisation arranges the great Summer Fling - and looks ahead to Autumn
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up late last year to help save Darlington Arts Centre, is to stage a week of arts events to suit all tastes at the Vane Terrace complex, under the name The Summer Fling.
The Community Benefit Society, a type of co-operative, will take over the Centre for five days starting on Tuesday August 30 and culminating with a day of activities, the DfC Arts Fair, on Saturday September 3.
In addition to appealing to everyone from dance enthusiasts and art lovers to readers and writers of all ages, the week of events will see the formal launch of the organisation’s Autumn and Winter programme, which has been arranged after Arts Centre owner Darlington Borough Council agreed to let DfC stage some of the events at the building on Monday and Tuesdays.
The programme for the Summer Fling includes:
Tues August 30 Books and writing day, including:
9.30am-3.30pm Origami drop-in Arts and Crafts session. Artist Lip Lee will demonstrate the Chinese art of paper folding to produce, oriental people, flowers and animals.
10-5 Book fair
10.4 Day-long children’s workshop with arts centre tutor Lynn Miller
For children aged 9-14. They will write and perform a story - and all in a day. Cost £20 Booking on (01325) 486555.
11am Launch of The Last Waltz, the Inkerman Writers‘ CD for the partially-sighted
2-4 Creating the perfect villain - An afternoon crime writing workshop taken by John Dean - two hours. Cost £13 Booking on (01325) 486555.
Throughout the day: Readings and workshops featuring local authors and writing groups, The RASC writing group and Inkerman Writers among them.
More information from John Dean at deangriss@btinternet.com
Wednesday August 31 - Film & Photography
10am-4pm Darlovelo to promote their Dutch bike hire. Darlovelo is a city bicycle sharing scheme for Darlington. It makes stylish Dutch bikes available for use by Darlington residents for a small monthly charge. To take advantage of the scheme, you need to join Darlovelo, members then pay a small deposit. Darlovelo has grown out of Darlington Media Group’s Beauty and the Bike project. During the DFC event, Darlovelo plan to have their bikes on display as well as information and advice about how to get involved.
9.30am-3.30pm Origami drop-in Arts and Crafts session. Artist Lip Lee will demonstrate the Chinese art of paper folding to produce, oriental people, flowers and animals.
Blanche Pease building and Foyer
The Media workshop and DM Gallery will be open 10 - 6 with demonstrations and displays time table to be arranged but will include some or all of the following:
* Traditional wet darkroom photo printing. Framing and mounting pictures and prints.
* Photoshop Elements and the digital darkroom.
* Printing exhibition prints up to A-2 in size using DMG's epson 7800 printer.
* Photoshop digital editing demonstration see how a creased timeworn old photograph can be brought back to life.
* Photoshop digital editing demonstration see how a sky can be added to dull photographs.
* Pinhole camera demonstration.
* Portrait photo session with lighting demonstration.
* How to make a photograph without a camera (photograms) demonstration.
Thursday September 1 – Music & Dance
9.30am-3.30pm Origami drop-in Arts and Crafts session. Artist Lip Lee will demonstrate the Chinese art of paper folding to produce, oriental people, flowers and animals.
Showcase. ‘Acoustic sessions’ from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm, including Ian Rutland, Si Kelly and Joanne Land
Copperhead Still and Friends. ‘Acoustic session.’ 7.00 pm – 11.00 pm, including Copperhead Still, Carl Eaton, Jane Beecher and Joe Kearney and Joanne Land
7.30 pm onwards. Dance Showcase.
Garden Bar : Folk Club host local Ceilidh band Compass Rose. 8.00 pm – 11.00 pm
Friday September 2 – Daytime
11am-12 noon
A talk Visual and Public Art Talk By Darlington Public Arts Officer Julie Revell. Free event
‘In Stitches’ Drop-in knitting cafe. Join textiles artist and tutor and a group of friendly and welcoming knitters for a fun and informative session, needles and wools at the ready. Learn new methods and get some advice on techniques on just about everything.
The regular 10-12noon and for the one day only 1-3pm
Cost £2 each
9.30am-3.30pm Origami drop-in Arts and Crafts session. Artist Lip Lee will demonstrate the Chinese art of paper folding to produce, oriental people, flowers and animals.
Arts Studio:
An invitation to look in on the Openarts Studio 10-4pm, Arts Studio, Blanche Pease building. Openart Studio is an Arts on Prescription and open access community arts engagement for anyone living or accessing health services in the Borough of Darlington. Openart Studio is open to all abilities on Mondays and/or Fridays throughout the year. Openart Studio aims to encourage participants to explore their own creative journeys in a supportive community environment and staff are available to help and advice.
Friday September 2 – Evening
Blimey! Lounge Launch
blimey! the Darlington based artists collective are hosting an event; blimey! lounge on Friday 2nd evening and all day Saturday 3rd September 2011, in the East Hall. These ‘lounge’ areas will be installation/performance/display areas for selected and invited artists.
Saturday 3rd September – Arts Fair – 9.30-4.30pm, in partnership with Darlington Markets
Entrance to the public – free
40-plus Arts and Crafts tables and interactive demonstrations.
Darlovelo Dutch hire bikes will open the Media group room Blanche Pease, with a display of their bikes.
Bollywood Dance drop in workshop in the Garden Bar 11-3pm @ £2 per adult and £1 per child
Entertainment through the day:
Blues singer Joanne Land
Street dance demo by Joe Cooper
Children’s stick-on tattoos and nail art
Face painters
Balloon modelling
Blimey! Lounge
DfC Autumn and Winter programme
Darlington for Culture is also putting together an Autumn and Winter programme for Monday and Tuesday nights at the Centre. Details will be announced later in the Summer.
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About
DfC
The Inkerman Writers are members of Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up in 2010 to help save Darlington Arts Centre from closure.
Its members include representatives of arts and community groups.
DfC was established after the centre’s owner, Darlington Borough Council, announced that budget cuts meant that it would have to withdraw its subsidy from the Arts Centre.
Although the centre closed, the organisation remains active - more at www.darlingtonforculture.org
Publications
Welcome to the site created by the Inkerman Writers to showcase our work.
Based in Darlington, North East England, and having celebrated their tenth anniversary in 2013, members have enjoyed success in a variety of arenas, including winning, and being shortlisted and highly commended, in short story competitions, having novels published and publishing the short story anthology A Strawberry in Winter, which can be obtained by visiting the website www.blurb.com
The group's second anthology of short stories, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, can be obtained, cost £4.95 plus postage and packing, from
The Inkerman Writers’ latest book, Out of the Shadows, which was launched as part of the 2013 Darlington Arts Festival, is on sale. The book can be ordered direct from
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4204019-out-of-the-shadows
The group also produced The Last Waltz, a double CD of short stories, available by contacting deangriss@btinternet.com, cost £5 plus p and p.
Several of our writers wrote original one-act plays in a collaboration with the Green Theatre company, which were performed at Darlington Arts Centre early in February, 2012.
Darlington-based Inkerman Writers have produced their latest anthology of short stories, Inkerman Street, based on the demolition of a fictional northern street and the stories of the people who lived in it.
The book, which features a variety of stories ranging from horror to comedy, was launched to a large audience at the Darlington Arts Festival Literary Day on Saturday May 26 and begins like this:
“Inkerman Street is still and graveyard-hushed tonight, the terraced houses cold behind boarded-up windows, silent sentinels among a sea of wasteland. No one lives here now and tomorrow the bulldozers will move in to flatten the houses to make way for the Council’s Grand Plan.
“Although the people are long gone, the houses still have life. Peek into one of the bedrooms and see on the wall a painting of a seaside scene, brightly-coloured boats bobbing in the harbour, fishermen pipe-smoking in the noonday sun and seagulls wheeling high above the choppy waters. In the roaring silence of the night, you can hear the screeching of the birds and taste the salt air, acrid and herring-sharp at the back of your throat. It is an illusion; the bedroom is empty and the blooms on the faded wallpaper have long since wilted.
“The air in the houses is musty with neglect yet but a few months before, these were bustling homes filled with frying bacon and steaming irons, whistling kettles and playing children. The houses witnessed all these scenes for more than 150 years. Behind their curtains were enacted a thousand stories but tomorrow they will be destroyed because Inkerman Street is the last of its ilk.
“Now, on the eve of the street’s death, the people who once lived here have returned, gathering solemn and silent in the mist, the ghosts of the past come to pay final tribute….”
The anthology can be purchased at http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/7524452/bae89c993c98ec8c8b37b12d6b9b37ecced5dec3
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