Contemporaries Programme
Holburne Contemporaries Events
Holburne Contemporaries is the Museum’s new membership specially designed for people who are passionate about art and want to feed their appetite for new artistic and cultural thinking.
The regular programme will feature unique artist-led events, artist talks and film screenings, live music and discussions about contemporary art and culture. You can join from £10 a month. To subscribe or for further information please contact Marnie Whiting 01225 388564 or email m.whiting@bath.ac.uk
To book tickets tel the Holburne 01225 388569 or Bath Box Office tel 01225 463362
Artist’s Talk: Simon Martin
Wednesday 21 March
7.30pm, Picture Gallery
Ticket £8 / £6 / £3 BSU students
Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
In this artist's talk, Simon Martin expands on the inspiration for his film project Louis Ghost Chair and reflects on the longstanding interest in art and design history that continues to inform his work. Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella, the film sits neatly with the Holburne’s own trove of objects, and finds similar points of connection between the classic and the contemporary.
Ways of Seeing – Screening with Mike Dibb & Gareth Evans
Thursday 12 April
7.30pm, Clore Learning Space
Ticket £8 / £6
Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
Concessionary tickets for members of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Equity and the Musicians' Union (on production of a valid membership card)
Like his artist’s talk on the inspiration for his film Louis Ghost Chair, Simon Martin has chosen another classic of its type – John Berger’s documentary Ways of Seeing – as a point of reference for his own investigations into the secret lives of objects. This special screening, Episode One of the original BBC series, is introduced by its producer Mike Dibb, and the critic Gareth Evans.
Past Events
The Leon Hunt n-tet
Thursday 23 February, 7.30pm
Tickets £12 |£10 Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
“Everything is just a little bit faster than it should be”. A night of 1940s style blue grass with 4 piece band The Leon Hunt n-tet featuring Bath based banjo player Leon Hunt, Jason Titley (guitar), Ben Somers (bass and vocals), Joe Hymas (mandolin).
As one reviewer once observed ‘being the best 5-string banjo player in the UK must be rather like being the fastest ‘fast-bowler’ in Virginia’.
Leon Hunt has, for more than a decade, continued to confound that notion (and the many stereotypes that attempt to confine the 5-string banjo to Bluegrass music) by making his living playing alongside some of the world’s top musicians from a number of musical styles, backgrounds and disciplines.
www.leonhuntntet.com
The art of landscape photography
Don McCullin and Mark Edwards in conversation with Katy Barron
Thursday 13 October 2011
6.30 -7.30pm, Garden Café open from 6pm and after the talk for book signing
Join curator Katy Barron as she discusses the working practices of two very different landscape photographers. Don McCullin is renowned for his war photography, but his recent work focuses on the English landscape. Mark Edwards’ exhibition at the Holburne shows companion landscapes to those painted by Gainsborough and continues Mark’s approach of exploring the relationship between landscape and personal and collective memories and identities.
Ticket £10 / concession £8
Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
Tom Trevor: Arnolfini at 50
Thursday 3 November 2011
7pm – 8pm, Garden Café open from 6pm and after the talk
In conversation with Alexander Sturgis, the Director of the Arnolfini, Tom Trevor, will discuss 50 years of the Arnolfini as a leading centre for contemporary art, and their current exhibition, the Museum Show: Part One (24 September - 19 November 2011), which marks the Arnolfini’s 50th anniversary.
Ticket £8 / concession £6
Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
Singularities 1 Musician, 1 Instrument, 1 Hour
Kiku Day: Shakuhachi
Thursday 17 November 8pm – 9pm,
Garden Café open from 7pm and after the concert
Kiku Day specialises in jinashi shakuhachi; a bamboo flute closely associated with Japanese meditative practice. This solo performance will feature traditional and contemporary works for the instrument. Serene and minimal, the works draw the audience to focus on subtle aspects of sound material generated in performance, where timbre takes on a role as important as pitch or melody. Performing and speaking worldwide, Day is an ethnomusicologist, studying the social and cultural aspects of music in local and global contexts.
Tickets £10, Concs £8, University Staff £8, BUSU £5
Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
Kiku Day is giving a combined talk and workshop at the Widcombe Social Club on Wednesday 16 November. For details visit www.bath.ac.uk/icia/home/
Martin Gayford A Bigger Message: conversations with David Hockney
Thursday 1 December 2011
7pm – 8pm, Garden Café open from 6pm and after the talk for the book signing
Author Martin Gayford talks about his experience of creating this remarkable book that records a decade of private conversations with David Hockney. Their correspondence reveals, via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. The book is punctuated by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists. The talk will be followed by a book signing in the Garden Café
Ticket £8 / concession £6
Free to Holburne Contemporaries Members
iPlaytime
Tuesday 10 January 2012
7pm – 10pm, Garden Café
Bring your iPad or iPhone to the Holburne for a night of fun with apps. A team of experts from Farpoint and artists, including multi-media artist Katy Connor and graphic designer Paul Minott, will start the evening with master-classes so you can get the most from your art and music apps. After the master-classes we invite you take inspiration from our collection to paint, draw, compose music or manipulate photographs to create your own interactive-collages, compositions and art. Farpoint and Bang & Olufsen have kindly provided the technology for everyone to share their creations on screens and music players in our Garden Café. Farpoint, with the help of Apple, will have 20 spare iPads on the night for those who are yet to invest. Visit www.farpoint.co.uk/holburne to download apps in advance
Ticket £8 / concession £6
Free to members of Holburne Contemporaries
Supported by
Bang & Olufsen and Farpoint
