easton arts trail

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Here’s our guide to what happened during the Easton Arts Trail 2008:

Group Exhibitions

You could have started by visiting group art and craft exhibitions at the Easton Community Centre and Silai for Skills and then moved on to smaller group exhibitions at St Mark’s Road Baptist Church, Greenbank 5 Studios and Easton Family Centre. To view a map and a list of participating venues visit Venue Map. You can also see the full programme for Silai For Skills below or download it here.

Open Houses & Other Exhibitions

You were also invited to visit 19 open house exhibitions that included sound installations, art and craft exhibitions and lots of cake! There was a programme of live music and spoken word at the Thali Café, more live music at The Chelsea Inn (see below for more information) and smaller exhibitions at Kebele, Breadolution, Café Maitreya and in the entrance to Mivart Street Studios. To view a list of artists, makers and performers and to find out where they are taking part visit Artists & Performers.

New Temporary Installations, Performances, Interactions & Workshops

And as if that wasn’t enough, there were also a number of new temporary, site-specific installations, performances and interactions taking place on the cycle path and streets of Easton during this year’s arts trail. To find out more about this new project visit New For 2008.

Other highlights include:

Easton Arts Trail Launch Party: The Plough - Friday 20 June, 9.30pm

You were invited to the Easton Arts Trail Launch Party at The Plough on Kilburn Road from 9.30pm on Friday 20 June. Thanks for putting on a fantastic party Stu!

Live Music: Thali Café - Saturday 21 June, 1-4pm

There was live music from our guests:

1pm: Mercado Mestizo - Latin American folk music
2pm: Laienda - Traditional folk & roots
3pm: Jetfly - Folk music

Arab Egyptian Dance: Easton Community Centre - Sunday 22 June, 1-2pm

Maria Krajnik-Dachraoui and friends performed a series of Arab Egyptian dances between 1pm-2pm in the Sunshine Room at the Easton Community Centre.

Live Music: Chelsea Inn - Sunday 22 June, 2-6pm

Live music from:

2pm: Soundsmith – Alternative, melodic & moving songs
3pm: Pink Froot - Evocative & haunting folk songs
4pm: Family Johnson - Original & classic country
5pm: Fellow Travellers - Dance Tunes of our ancestors & dry satirical songs

Spoken Word: Thali Café - Sunday 22 June, 2-4pm

Fabulous live poetry event:

2-4pm: Spoken Word hosted by David Johnson

David Johnson is a witty and quirky performance poet, who mixes his stand-up humour with his own verse. His inspiration comes from the bizarre world that we live in combined with a wry commentary on change and progress.

There will be a combination of invited poets reading their work and a Poetry Slam, together with an opportunity for budding local poets to read their own work.

Favourite Poet Slam: David invites you to bring along your favourite poem by any poet to read to the audience or if you are too shy, one of the poets at the event will read it for you. The audience will be asked to vote for the poem they liked best.

Silai for Skills’ Arts Trail Programme

Silai for Skills at 176 Easton Road, BS5 0HH opened on 21 & 22 June as part of the Easton Arts Trail. There were a wide range of creative activities taking place over the weekend including exhibitions, fashion shows and workshops.

Open All Weekend

End of year Exhibition of students work;

Student Shop, your chance to buy unique creations from Silai students in the café;

Silai Bags, a chance to see and buy handmade bags produced as part of the GRAB scheme;

Bristol Dye Works Open Weekend
Fiona and Jaz are Bristol Dye Works. They hand dye high quality organic fair trade cotton fabric for the patchwork and quilting market. They also stock some haberdashery, dyes, sketchbooks and felting essentials. Pop in and ask them about their workshop programme, and come and see their lovely colours! If you can’t make it this time, they are also open on the first Friday of every month, between 10am and 4.30pm

The Whistle Stop Cafe is OPEN all weekend…
Serving vegetarian and vegan lunches, cakes, tea and coffee.

Saturday 21 June 2008

4.30pm: End of Year Fashion Show, current and ex-students show a diverse range of designer garments;

11am: Henna Painting with Davey Patel;

11am-12pm: Indigo Dye Workshop, please book a place by
calling 0117 941 5180;

11am: Children’s Workshop with Liz in the crèche;

1-3pm: My Easton - My Memory, bring along a photo or memorabilia to inspire you, make an Easton Memory Swatch in mixed media and textile, to be exhibited at Silai in the Silai Kahani exhibition, part of a Heritage Lottery funded project,
please book a place by calling 0117 941 5180;

Sunday 22 June 2008

12noon: Card Making Workshop with Barbara - make your own
cards;

11am-1pm: My Easton - My Memory, bring along a photo or memorabilia to inspire you, make an Easton Memory Swatch that will be exhibited in Silai Kahani, Silai’s Heritage Lottery Funded project, please book a place by calling 0117 941 5180;

1-2pm: Traditional Costume from around the world - women from Silai will present and display their traditional costume. Bring yours along and tell us about it;

Plus How to Wrap a Sari, learn how to wear a Sari with style from Aroona - bring your own or just turn up! This activity will take place in the marquee in the Silai car park.