Special Events
Enter the park and become instantly immersed in the arts. The entire park will be transformed into a gallery and studio. Observe, interact, get involved in all forms of art. With displays across the day with free participation workshops with local artists and craftspeople.
Here are a few of the organisations createing special events across the park this year!
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EjectorSeat Festival after party At POP 3-4 Vernon Walk Saturday 4th June
Pop Factory was inspired by the Andy Warhol exhibition to celebrate music and art and continues to bring great new and underground music to Southampton. As creative folk, they're very proud to host the EjectorSeat Festival after-party for all those who've worked hard on the event and those who've attended and want to carry on celebrating. Have a cocktail and boogie in Southampton's newest venue for crazy party people.
Upstairs @ Pop Up: An array of featured artists from the festival upstairs getting experimental and a fun party for creative folks.
Downstairs - Disco, classics and party. Let your hair down, bring a sombrero or your festival sunglasses. Wellies are optional. |
Serious Shapes Dance Company
Serious Shapes Dance Company is based in the South East of England and has the mission to create high quality performances and classes, that engage, motivate and inspire. We want to inject dance into everyone's life, and share the joy it has given us. The company allows our strengths to be drawn upon, in a place where the dance style is free and the focus is on creativity. This broad platform of choreography is ours to explore and we hope to invite our audience members and students to join us here. |
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Art Asia Presents Rangoli at Ejectorseat
In Indian cultures, all guests and visitors occupy a very special place and a Rangoli (beautiful, elaborate patterns drawn out on the ground; 'rang' meaning 'color' and 'aavalli' meaning colored creepers' or 'row of colors'), is an expression of this warm hospitality. Join Art Asia and local artists to create Rangoli patterns out of unusual materials at Ejector Seat. The Rangoli created at Ejector Seat will help to inform a Giant Rangoli that Art Asia will be creating in the Guildhall Square on June 11th.
Art Asia been working since 1981 to promote and develop high quality South Asian arts across the Southern region. Our mission is to communicate the rich and exciting experience of South Asian arts to the widest possible audience. Our work aspires to be entertaining, surprising and to celebrate our belief that the arts of South Asia are universal in their appeal. |
Hannah Simpson
Hannah Simpson is an illustrator and printmaker. In her spare time she reads comics and makes extravagant paper hats. She is fascinated by epics and mass imagery, and uses traditional printmaking and paper craft to explore these subjects. She makes big pictures with lots in them to explore. At the festival she will be attempting the foolhardy task of illustrating the whole of Homer's Odyssey in one day - and on one piece of paper. |
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Festival goers are invited to write a message on a strip of cotton material and tie the message to a bush.
After the festival the messages will be sewn together to create one message sheet that will be displayed in a pubic place. |
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Marc Jaytin & Jade Xuereb from Southampton based photographic arts company, Obsidian-AIC, will be at the Arts Festival and will be allowing you a unique opportunity to become part of their ongoing CONception project 2011. Just get in touch with them through the website - www.obsidian-aic.com or turn up on the day and book yourself a free photo shoot, but you'll have to be early as this is a one off opportunity, available for one day only. |
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Simon Abbott
Simon Abbott is an illustrator currently based in the sleepy village of Harrold, Bedfordshire. He makes artwork fairly sporadically based on the way he is feeling that particular day, the story he is reading, the music he is listening to or the particular form of popular culture that has attracted him in that moment. Needless to say he tends to flit from idea to idea, yet incorporates a sense of pattern, emotion and mystery throughout. Simon is fond of working with print, sculpture, pencil, pen, paint, and generally any other device he can get his hands on. At the festival Simon will have around 15 rather small birdhouses (12x9 cm to be exact) to be illustrated onto and hung from a big tree.
Keiron Levine
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Local artist Keiron Levine will be creating a colony of monarch butterflies in paper form representing the fragility of the species. Any damaged caused by passers by will act as a metaphor for the human caused decline of these insects. Both Hepwright's Vintage Fashion and Beatnik Emporium are kindly supplying their own wacky and outrageous clothes for the Warhol catwalk.
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Esposito & Robb's production of Bench launches at The Ejector Seat Arts Festival in Southampton, June 2011.
This show marks the professional debut of two talented performing artists from The University of Winchester, graduates of 2011, Assunta Maria Esposito and Liam Robb.
Esposito & Robb are a collaborative theatre company that devise original performance. The company has a strong background in physical theatre influenced by practitioners such as Pina Bausch and DV8 and combines this with live art elements to give the audience an experience like no other.
Bench is a site specific performance created solely for the festival and explores the park through the eyes and splinters of an old park bench. The duo take the audience into a world through a vibrant physical storytelling from lost tourists, old flames, pigeons, children and dogs. In all its years of people- watching the Bench has seen it all.
'Bench' the performance will open on Saturday 4th June 2011, at The Ejector Seat Arts Festival, Southampton.
Sit on the Bench and watch the world go by...
