The Photography Degree Show returns!
Visit unit 12 in Weston-super-Mare’s Sovereign Shopping Centre to see the amazing work on display form our fantastic students studying Photography and Visual Cultures, BA (Hons).
Saturday 7th May – Thursday 12th May 2022
Bristol Photography Festival
Visit - Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th Sept ‘21
Bristol Photo Festival is a new and innovative festival, commissioning and producing exhibitions biannually across the city, alongside an ongoing programme of talks, events, workshops and training through a partnership model of collaboration. The festival provides platforms for national, international, student and emerging photographers, and an extensive outreach and engagement programme with schools, community groups, third level educational institutions, charities and libraries.
There is a programme, which you can look at to see what you’d like to visit join in with in your own time, but we have selected a couple of venues to get you going as they include 5 great exhibitions between them. If you go individually at other times, it’s worth checking the venue websites/calling in advance to check nothing has changed or been cancelled.
You will need to plan your visit on Thu and Fri 23rd /24th Sept by booking individually for each of the 2 venues.
Please see handout (copy on Teams) for full details or download pdf of handout here
We have selected the following exhibitions from the programme:
Island Life
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Clémentine Schneidermann and Charlotte Jame
James Barnor:
Ghanaian Modernist
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
More Info and Booking
Ghanaian Modernist © James Barnor. Courtesy of Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
Beyond the Frame: Heather Agyepong | Jessa Fairbrother | Lua Ribeira
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Jessa Fairbrother
Lips Touched with Blood:
Sarah Waiswa
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
© Sarah Waiswa, created from original photo by Charles Trotter, copyright Bristol Archives. (right) © Sara Waiswa (left).
IN PROGRESS
Laia Abril - Hoda Afshar - Widline Cadet - Adama Jalloh - Alba Zari . Curated by Aaron Schuman
The Royal Photographic Society | 337 Paintworks, Arno’s Vale, Bristol BS4 3AR
![Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1), 2019 from the series ‘Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance)’ © Wildline Cadet courtesy Royal Photographic Society](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51ecf957e4b0a3afa66fba4e/1631195334743-2WNVEGOPWC75UNIS35LP/InProgressWidlineCadetPRESSIMAGE02WebOnly-1000x1250.jpeg)
Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1), 2019
from the series ‘Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance)’
© Wildline Cadet courtesy Royal Photographic Society
Please see handout (copy on Teams) for full details.
Extras if you like the sound of them:
Simple Things and Limbic Cinema present: SPECTRA
SPECTRA, a large-scale immersive sculpture created by award-winning multimedia creative artists Limbic Cinema and music producer K-LONE.
The immersive sculpture, presented by Simple Things and Limbic Cinema, explores the relationship with light, through projection mapping, volumetric lighting and intricate sound design. The FREE experience lasts around 12 minutes, with intervals throughout the four days.
Free to attend. The Station, Silver Street, Bristol, BS1 2AG
Dates: 23 Sept 2021 - 26 Sept 2021
Open: Thursday 10:00- 21:00, Friday 10:00- 21:00, Saturday 10:00- 21:00, Sunday 10:00- 21:00
More details here
Peggy Ahwesh:
Vision Machines
The preview night for this Film / Video Installation exhibition is on the Friday evening
Exhibition preview: Friday 24 September, 6–8pm
More Info at: https://www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/exhibitions/peggy-ahwesh/
Vanguard | Bristol Street Art: The evolution of a global movement
Although is: £6 concession, £7 adult. Free for under 18s – ticket still required
Book a time slot at: https://pretix.eu/bristolmuseums/mshed/ or just turn up and hope to get in.
High Volume: Bristol Sounds
Photographs from Mark Simmons
23 September – 30 October 2021
Strange Brew, 10-12 Fairfax St, Bristol BS1 3DB, United Kingdom
Photographs chronicling Bristol’s music scene since the 1980s by Mark Simmons.
I’d advise visiting on the Friday. Think you can get food/drink here during day too.
More Info
Bogle Competition Easton Community Centre, October 1992 A Jamaican Bogle dance competition at the local community centre. “The young man looks completely rapt, his partner is serene and holding the space while the crowd cheers them on.”
COLD WAR STEVE - You, Me & Cold War Steve - Exhibition - Weston super Mare 2021
YOU, ME & COLD WAR STEVE
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE PEOPLE 2021
University Centre Weston is proud to be part of this exhibition with Cold War Steve.
Come see a brand new set of 23 artworks from Cold War Steve at Loves Cafe plus University Centre Weston, Loxton Campus’s and Weston Arts Space. Monday September 20th - Sunday October 3rd 2021.
’Cold War Steve aka Christopher Spencer is an artist from Birmingham, England who specialises in surreal, satirical and hilarious collages originally made on his phone and iPad.
Since 2016 Cold War Steve’s Twitter account has been a lifeline to many in these dark times with his following increasing by the day. Three solo exhibitions, two books with Thames & Hudson, commissions for the National Galleries of Scotland, Whitworth in Manchester, Birmingham Museum and Gallery, a giant billboard installation at Glastonbury Festival and an international TIME magazine cover have all followed.
In 2020 his jigsaw Hellscape was shortlisted for the Design Museum’s Design of the Year Award and his latest book A Prat’s Progress nominated for the The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Cold War Steve also shot a feature length documentary about his work – Cold War Steve Meets The Outside World was released in October on Sky Arts.’ - https://coldwarsteve.com/bio/
Exhibition details at: http://poool.co.uk/cws-wsm
University Centre Weston creative arts degrees include:
For more details on all our course please visit: www.ucw.ac.uk
Control Shift Network (CSN)
Control Shift
2 - 18 Oct 2020 - Hybrid edition
An exciting new arts programme coming to Bristol this Autumn
Three weeks of workshops, discussions, installations and screenings - online and across Bristol, UK - exploring ways to reframe and rethink our relationships with technology.
The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between Watershed, UWE Bristol and University of Bristol. Control Shift Network is a collective of artists, technologists and producers. In 2019 they produced ‘You Make the Rules’ - a day of workshops followed by an algo-rave performance, which was part of Processing Community Day (a global celebration of ‘art, code and diversity’ initiated by the Processing Foundation). Control Shift has developed from this event and follows in the same ethos, with a focus on accessibility and diverse engagement.
In the talk below curators Becca Rose, Martha King, and Rod Dickinson will discuss core ideas behind the event.
Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements
Programme of short films, Online + also showing at the Arnolfini 10-11th Oct, 12-17:00
The ruins of history offer a host of unresolved traces that imagine the global south as a site of prehistoric technologies. This programme of short-films offers counter evidence to the assumption that technology is a western construction. The films address the politics of technology in Africa, affirming the continent as an active agent in the production of technology through indigenous practices.
Films will be online throughout the Control Shift programme, and also screened at Arnolfini on 10-11 October 12-5pm.
Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements (curated by Russel Hlongwane) assembles critical voices and cinematic expressions from Africa. These films present a broa...
Find out more about Control Shift, and how to get involved at https://www.control-shift.network/ Control Shift is funded by Arts Council England, Knowle West Media Centre, Institute of Coding, and University of the West of England. And supported by Watershed, Furtherfield, Aksioma, We the Curious, Bristol City Council, and Processing Community Day.
Creative Arts Summer Show - 2020
The faculty of Creative Arts would like to warmly invite you to celebrate this year’s summer exhibition of learners' work as they make their mark on a new creative future.
Join us virtually for our launch night as we open the Creative Arts Summer Show 2020 and introduce exceptional student success from level 1 all the way through to Level 6.
At the end of an academic year that has been challenging and unprecedented, our learners would like to share with you their achievement and what they have produced and learnt against the odds. We have been truly blown away by their commitment, innovation, resilience and their incredible skills and talents within their subject areas and we are excited for you to see the outcomes for yourself.
Please join us on the 9th July at 5.30pm
via the Weston College Facebook Live event: https://www.facebook.com/westoncollege
or sign up to join us on Zoom using this link:
https://weston-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZMmgGHIYTDGKFr5kYmNpNw
