Lancaster

 

Venue: Dukes Theatre, Lancaster FREE ADMISSION

A talk and film screening by artist Chris Welsby who has been invited to visit Morecambe Bay during VELOCITY by the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is interested in the elemental processes contained within the landscape and will be spending the week looking at the relationships between technology and nature through the mechanics of film and video.

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For one day only, Martin John Callanan travelled around the VELOCITY festival, sending information about his whereabouts to an online map in our Lancaster map room.

Visitors to the map room at Lancaster Station helped us to track the artist's location throughout the day, interacting with Martin through text messages, photography and drawing as he visited towns, stations and landmarks around the bay.

See the evidence at http://velocity.greyisgood.eu

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The Nuffield Theatre and Grand Theatre Lancaster present: After Dubrovka

Venue: Grand Theatre, Lancaster
6pm-9.30pm Thursday 11 & Friday 12 October
2pm-9.30pm, Saturday 13 October
Tickets: £5 / £3 concessions Box Office: 01524 64695

In October 2002, Chechen rebels took over the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow during a performance of the musical Nord Ost, taking audience and performers hostage. The siege lasted for nearly two and a half days, ending when the Russian military pumped in a sedative gas and stormed the building. 129 hostages died...

Exactly five years on, AFTER DUBROVKA is an opportunity to reflect on the significance of this event, and on other acts of performance and audience in the world today.

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Venue: The Edge Gallery, Lancaster FREE ADMISSION

An array of interactive thaumotropes fill the gallery window facing inside and out. Their solar powered spin governed by the strength of the passing sun. Each device contains immaculately detailed hand painted miniatures as seen from the bay window of the artist’s studio overlooking the Firth of Forth.

_{Image: ~ in the fields - ‘just’, 2007}

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Venue: Platform 3, Lancaster Station FREE ADMISSION

Experience interactive art, pick up the latest event information and get recommended itineraries for your day around the Bay. Come and chat to the folly team, book places for workshops and performances and get a taster for the journey ahead.

_{Image: Steve Longbottom www.stevenlongbottom.co.uk}

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