Heard And Not Seen

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Heard and Not Seen news 24th October

Its all systems go at HANS HQ as we move into the final stages, before the launch of the exhibition on 7th of November.  The technical aspects are being finalised with Steve Carson putting the finishing touches to the responsive video pieces and Darren Joyce working on the audio environment – meanwhile Lee is running around making sure we have all the right technical equipment ready in time for testing the whole thing out. For the rest of us its the usual accellerating experience as we dive headlong into the last two weeks.  As well as putting the exhibition together there’s all the marketing and PR to do, to make sure we get our message across, event planning and logistics and just plain old putting food on the table (when we remember to eat).  We’re looking for volunteers to help with the event – both in the set up and to invigilate the exhibition, so if you can spare us some time and energy, please get in touch with Sandra at sandra@livearts.co.uk – we’d be glad of the help!

Countdown to the Exhibition

It’s only a few weeks to go until the launch of the exhibition at the Mailbox, on November 7th.  We’re all getting very excited and the creative team are beavering away to make what promises to be a very special, stunning piece of artwork.  Please make sure you don’t just come to the launch party, the show will be well worth a visit at a quiet time, when you can really enjoy the contemplative nature of the artwork on offer. Hope to see you there.

Photography workshop 20th September

We’d like to thank everyone who came to the Mailbox, Birmingham, unit 183, between 10.00am and 3pm last weekend to have their photograph taken. Some of these photos will appear in the exhibition ‘Heard and Not Seen’ in November.  We had a great time on the day and took hundreds of photographs of dozens of people from all walks of life – a great addition to the interactive nature of the project.  We’re looking forward to seeing these photographs appear in the final exhibition – and hope those who participated are too!

Interactive Arts Exhibition. ‘Heard and Not Seen’ is an interactive, art exhibition taking place at the Mailbox 7th – 28th November 2008. Opening times 10.00am – 6pm Monday to Wednesdays, 10.00am – 7pm Thursday to Saturday, 11.00am – 5pm Sundays. To be part of a round table discussion in the event please see here.

Installation Structures - Watch this space!