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Bournemouth and Beyond:
Arts Events & InformationIssue no. 7- June 2009 ( pdf file will open in a separate window)
Search is on for beach hut designers
Boscombe Beach Huts for disabled users. Design Competition brief and consent form (will open as pdf files)
Today sees the launch of an exciting competition to design and build innovative new beach huts specifically for disabled beach users in Boscombe.
Professional artists, architects and designers are invited to submit bold and dramatic concepts to reinvent a row of beach huts specifically for disabled beach users.
The new huts will form a key part of Boscombe Sea Change, a regeneration scheme funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), which will deliver the UK’s only purpose-designed accessible beach facilities.
Boscombe seafront is a suburb of Bournemouth, one of the UK’s top seaside resorts, located two hours from London on the south coast. Boscombe is currently being transformed from years of urban decline into one of the most innovative seaside regeneration schemes in Europe. Facilities include Europe’s first artificial surf reef and Beach Pods designed by Hemingway Design.
The winning submission will secure a £100,000 contract to detail design and build the four iconic beach huts.
Submission deadline for models: 26th June 2009.
Further arts-based commissions will follow. Keep up to date via www.bournemouth.gov.uk
All enquiries by 29th May to Andrew.emery@bournemouth.gov.uk
Andrew Emery
Boscombe Sea Change Project Manager
Bournemouth Seafront
Information Office
Bournemouth Borough Council
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Bournemouth BH2 5AA
United Kingdom
Tel: 01202 451782
Fools’ Experiments: Artist Events
Free events open to artists considering developing work for the forthcoming exhibition ‘Fools’ Experiments’ – a celebration of life and work of Charles Darwin, at Bournemouth Library and Bournemouth Natural Science Society.
Artist Open Days at BNSS
Tours for artists
BNSS curators will be giving tours at 11am and 2pm for artists to view and explore the natural history collection. Artists will also be able to spend time among the collection, taking notes, photographing and sketching exhibits to help develop/produce their final pieces of work. Donations accepted
Wednesday, 10 - 4pm
April 1st, All Fools Day; May 6th; June 3rd 10 – 4 pm
Free. Bournemouth Natural Science Society
‘FOOLS’ EXPERIMENTS’
Artists are invited to make new work for two exhibitions in Bournemouth on the theme of Darwin’s life and work, and in response to the collection at Bournemouth Natural Science Society (BNSS).
Entry deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2009
For copy of the brief and entry form, please contact:
Pauline Stanley: pauline.stanley@tiscali.co.uk
Denise Poote: deedmp@ntlworld.com or
Arts Development Officer, 01202 451805 or email: artsdevelopment@bournemouthlibraries.org.uk
FOOLS’ EXPERIMENTS’
Mon 24 August until Sat 5 September 2009
BNSS, 39 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH1 3NS:
Mon 3 August until Sat 5 September 2009
Bournemouth Library Gallery, 22 The Triangle, Bournemouth, BH2 5RQ:
Bournemouth Natural Science Society (BNSS) and Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development invite visual artists living and working in the Bournemouth area and within the South West region to produce new contemporary work that responds directly to themes relating to Darwin and the evidence displayed at BNSS.
Special Artist Open Days at BNSS are on 1 April, 6 May and 3 June from 10am - 4pm. A tour with a BNSS specialist/curator will be available at 11am and at 2pm on each of the open days to view, discuss and document the evolutionary aspects of the collection. Artists will also be able to spend time among the collection, taking notes, photographing and sketching exhibits to help develop/produce their final pieces of work. Entry to BNSS is free.
Artwork will be exhibited across 2 venues: at BNSS within its specialist natural history collection, unique to this area and opening to the public specifically for this exhibition period in conjunction with their own Darwin Natural Science Exhibition, and at Bournemouth Library Gallery with its extensive literary resources.
In addition, a programme of free Darwinism-related lectures is taking place at BNSS and Bournemouth Library (see http://foolsexperiments.blogspot.com/ and http://www.bnss.fslife.co.uk/ for details of exhibition events and other lectures).
Links to further reading
Bournemouth Natural Science Society website
Bournemouth Arts Development website
Natural History Museum specialist site for Darwin200
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| Arts Development | |
| 22 The Triangle, Bournemouth BH2 5RQ | |
| Tel: 01202 451805 | |
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| Email: Arts Development | |