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Celebration Event at Ward End Library

Rose — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:44:27 +0000

Here are some images from the Celebration Event at Ward End Library.

Thank you to everyone who turned out to see the most recent outing of the Heard And Not Seen Exhibition and installation piece by members of the afternoon tea group at Washwood Heath Children Centre, a great time was had by all with some thought provoking conversation regarding the work overall.

HANS discussions and celebrations

Rose — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:32:10 +0000

We had our celebration event last night, a big thank you to everyone who made it down. A good time was had by all with lovely food and company.

There have also been some brilliant facilitated discussions within the Heard And Not Seen exhibition at Ward End Library. We’ve had the pensioners group from the library meeting the women of the afternoon tea group from Washwood Heath Childrens Centre and today members of the Sahali group and Irish centre coming down. These discussions within the exhibition has given everyone the time to reflect on the work and then discuss with each other thoughts and ideas surrounding all religions and communities.

The feedback so far has been that having the quiet space within an environment like the exhibition to interact with each other and the work, has given new opportunities to connect with each other in unexpected ways. Just what we like to hear.

Bringing the branch to life

Rose — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:37:35 +0000

Here is some footage of our magnificent branch in creation.Thanks to Sarah for all the sanding and scrubbing to help create the final piece.

A taste of whats to come

Rose — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:56 +0000

Rose — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:00:18 +0000

We’ve been busy working with Washwood Heath Children Centre’s Afternoon tea group to create a thought provoking and reflective piece of artwork.
Combining textiles, labels, found objects and new technologies within the workshops, the ladies have found a way to express their thoughts and feelings about their home and local communities.
The above images are a sneak peak of what’s on display so do come down this week to Ward End library to see the work in the flesh. (So to speak).
Within the exhibition we also have the interactive installation pieces with some newly added content from members of the group. We are open for the rest of this week (except wednesday & sunday) 11.30am-5.00pm, with a celebration event this Thursday 12th May 6pm-8pm.
See you there.

A process in progress….

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:21:50 +0000

The above images are of a selection of poetic labels that will feature in the exhibition of Heard And Not Seen at Ward End library 30th April 2011.
The women from the ‘Afternoon tea’ group at Washwood Heath Childrens Centre have been taking part in art activities within workshops to help discuss theme and ideas around the words “community” and “home”. These discussions have informed the creation of the upcoming exhibition.

Look out for further posts showing the work in process, progress
and creation.

Heard And Not Seen exhibition launch at Ward End library

Rose — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:04:30 +0000

We’re happy to announce the opening of Heard And Not Seen at Ward End Library on Saturday 30th April at 11.30am. For the exhibition we have been working in partnership with Washwood Heath Children Centre afternoon tea group to create an artwork and provide facilitated discussions for local residents to meet and share stories.
There are also a series of free facilitated discussions accompanying the exhibition. Please see the HANS site for booking and details www.heardandnotseen.com

The exhibition runs untill 14th May 2011

Summer 2009

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:20:48 +0000

Well, it’s been a little quiet here whilst we work on our other projects over at Friction Arts. We haven’t finished with Heard and not Seen, not by a long chalk and are continuing to refine and develop the project, even if it is not ‘in major’ at the moment. We are currently developing a kind of tool kit for workshops relating to the themes of the project and hope to be using it with schools and community groups in the Spring. We have also secured another outing for the exhibition of Heard and Not Seen, this time at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery during Spring 2010. Watch this space for full details nearer the time. We will be holding facilitated discussions during the show, so keep checking back, we will be booking spaces from next March.
We’ll also be updating this website more regularly from January 2010 as we head towards the exhibition and always welcome comments or questions from website visitors, just comment or contact us.

Exhibition Closed – For Now

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:49:11 +0000

Sadly, but temporarily, the Heard And Not Seen exhibition has closed. Thanks to everyone that came along and suported the project, it’s been fantastic. If you didn’t manage to make it along, there will be further chances to see the exhibition next year as we tour it to a range of places, from small community venues to galleries and museums. Keep checking the exhibition page for details of future opportunities to see the show, where you can also get a taste of the exhibition through photographs and film documentation. There’s currently a an excellent documentary film by a student, Cherrelle, who interviewed Sandra whilst the exhibition was on. We’ll be uploading much more soon, but do try and come along and see the show next time, even if you have seen it before, as each incarnation will be different as the audience and website community feed into it. Thanks again to everyone who supported and assisted on the production of the first outing of Heard And Not Seen, especially the excellent volunteer invigilation team, the crew, the artists, supporters and funders, the people who attended the discussion groups, and the participants of interviews and workshops.

Last chance to see the exhibition!

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:09:52 +0000

Welcome to the ‘Heard and Not Seen’ blog and website. ‘Heard and Not Seen’ is an arts project by Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia supported by Friction Arts. The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to meet and ask questions with each other, of each other; particularly about faith, religion and spirituality. More details about the project can be found here.

There’s only a few days left, the show closes on Friday the 28th at 7pm, so if you haven’t seen the exhibition, get yourself down to level three of the Mailbox and grab a look. The show will be touring next year, so if you can’t make it, keep checking back here and we’ll let you know when there’ll be another chance to see the exhibition.

We’ve had a great time so far, with a huge range of people attending the show, interested parties and Mailbox shoppers. The facilitated discussions have been a resounding success and have been great at giving people the opportunities to talk and ask questions of each other that we always intended for the project, the opportunity to be seen AND heard…