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A series of digital anthologies from Flax Books, the publishing imprint of Litfest will be available here.

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Learn to dance with Ludus

You can take part in the final event of f.city 2006, Finale, an innovative new piece of dance. Via video podcasts you'll learn simple dance steps and receive tuition and instructions for a final performance in Dalton Square on 21 October

For f.city Adele Prince has developed a series of online instructions and animations. These encourage people to seek out and document beauty in the everyday, to take pictures using their camera phones and upload them to a special Flickr group where they can be shared worldwide.

For f.city boredomresearch are launching a new online forum, expanding the notion of chat-rooms to provide a more contemplative and rewarding experience. This new generation of online forum will be launch here during the festival.

<Bump…> draws attention to the presence of technology through a touchscreen interface in the city centre, linked to bright red sound modules in various locations. The touchscreen invites you to play apparently innocent computer games, but be warned, every sound you activate while playing has a presence in the real world.

Venue: The Edge Gallery, 22 King St, Lancaster, LA1 1JY, 01524 66029

The first of a new series of digital anthologies from Flax Books, the publishing imprint of Litfest.

The weekly podcasts feature extracts of short fictions from writers across Lancashire and Cumbria, and include tales of ghosts, guns and Walt Disney, in an audio experience that is both entertaining and thought-provoking.

The latest ma-net brochure is now on-line at http://www.ma-net.org/calendar.html

media arts network [ma-net] exists to raise the profile of media arts practice through discussion, presentation, dissemination and collaborative creative opportunities.

ma-net is a group of pro-active individuals with considerable sector experience, attached to organisations who are committed to promoting media arts in the North West.

folly is developing an online support network and web site for new media artists. The site will:

> Support artists, offering and developing a knowledge base in the use of software as a tool and an art form
> Encourage participation and dialogue about the politics and practicalities of artists’ process and technical needs in the digital age
> Offer a collaborative/exploratory space that showcases creativity and discourse, encouraging debate at various levels, and appropriate for new comers and specialists alike.

Update: photographs from the event. Read more at http://www.p-tex.co.uk

p-tex is a lancaster based artist who uses multimedia technology to explore sound, incorporating sensors and live performance in response to the changing environment around him.

p-tex will be delivering GYOML in a field EVENT. p-tex proposes to research, create, perform and broadcast in real time over the internet, an experimental music installation, for the Grow Your Own Media Lab project.

The event will take place on 19th August 2006 in Heysham, with a web broadcast at 5.30pm and a performance at 7.30pm in the area known as the barrows - close to St. Peter's Chapel, the 8th Century ruin with rock-cut tombs, over looking the bay. Click here for the full story, including directions.

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folly has been commissioned by Lancashire County Council to maintain the www.lanarts.com web site and the Lancashire Artists Database (LAD).

Project delivery of LAN is being jointly managed by folly and Storey Gallery during 2006/7 with funding from Lancashire County Council.

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boredomresearch, a leading artist duo from Bournemouth is being commissioned to develop an interpretive forum for the new folly website.

To be launched early August 2006.