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Elephant Workshop

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

elephant

Title: Elephant Workshop
Location: MadLab
Description: Elephant Workshops leads an exciting workshop using different art forms to explore the senses. Including drawing music, creating sound art and creating collage from smells.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-11-13
End Time: 16:00
Age Range: 7-12 years
Booking: please email Annette at development@blankmediacollective.org

(bookings taken on first-come first-served basis…)

The workshop will focus on the senses and explore working across art forms. The session will include will include:

  • participants drawing in response to music…
  • participants interviewing each other, using Dictaphones to create ‘sensory profiles’…
  • participants will use Dictaphones to create a group sound piece…
  • participants will be draw an object by just feeling it, or draw/write about what a particular smell makes them think of…

Complimentary drinks and fruit will be provided.

ELEPHANT WORKSHOPS

Elephant is a national project led by artist Naomi Kendrick, that provides art workshops and exhibition tours. Elephant began in 2004 and has received two Arts Council England Awards. For further information please visit http://www.elephantproject.co.uk/

FURTHER INFORMATION

http://www.blankmediacollective.org/news/comments/elephant_workshop

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BLANKWEEKEND

An ambitious showcase of more than fifty artists across fourteen venues, BlankWeekend is an explosion of art and creativity across the city of Manchester. As Blank Media Collective enters its fifth year of supporting the work of emerging artists from the UK and beyond, BlankWeekend champions these exciting individuals and events and introduces inspiring new projects and future greats. A celebration of all things Blank since 2006 and a toast to things to come!

Take an innovative urban art trail through the city, accessible 24 hours a day, experiencing work in prominent window displays. Engage with unexpected live performances in bustling undisclosed city centre locations. All this plus a literary night out, BlankSounds gig, photographic exhibition and artist-led workshop. This is truly the biggest project Blank Media Collective have yet undertaken. For further information please visit http://www.blankmediacollective.org/blankweekend

BLANK MEDIA COLLECTIVE

Blank Media Collective champions emerging artists, writers, musicians and performers by giving them a unique platform to showcase their work. Blank Media Collective is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation established in 2006 and is run from Manchester by a dedicated team of volunteers. The organisation is developing an excellent reputation for the high quality of its output. Blank Media Collective are proud to offer a vital support network to hundreds of creative practitioners from throughout the UK and abroad as well as its base in the North-West. For further information please visit http://www.blankmediacollective.org

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Robot Hackday

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Robot HACKDAY

Title: Robot Hackday
Location: MadLab
Description: Bring your old electronic junk and toys down to Madlab. Take them apart and put them back together again as… robots!
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-10-30
End Time: 16:00
Audience: Everyone
Price: Free. Booking required!
Event Themes: Bright ideas
Event Type: Workshop/Hands-on/Demo

Work on your own or team up with others – there will be prizes at the end of the day for the best entries. Don’t worry if your robot building skills are not up to scratch, we have experts to guide your robots.

This year we have  Adrian from Howduino, HACMan and a mystery guest will be there throughout the day to give you a hand.

MadLab is proud to run Robot Hackday again. Here are some pictures from last years event for inspiration.
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Robot Hackday is part of this year’s bigger and better Manchester Science Festival, entertaining the region from 23 – 31 October.

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Home Chaos Workshop – The Other Volcano

Monday, September 27th, 2010

The Other Volcano

Title: Home Chaos Workshop
Location: MadLab
Description: Come and take part in this exciting workshop with designer Nelly Ben Hayoun where you will learn how to make a volcano in your living room, a real sleeping giant in the corner of your domestic environment!
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2010-10-29
End Time: 16:00
Audience: Adults, Teenagers GSCE 16+
Price: Free. Booking required!
Event Themes: Bright ideas
Event Type: Workshop/Hands-on/Demo

Do you want your everyday life to go with a BANG? Is being in the centre of one of the nature biggest spectacle of smoke, dust and lava will blow you up?

How would you deal with a live volcano in the middle of your living room? Would you ignore it? Would you wrap it up?

Come and take part in this exciting workshop with designer Nelly Ben Hayoun where you will learn how to make a volcano in your living room, a real sleeping giant in the corner of your domestic environment! Be the hero of your own home mythology! Spice up your daily life with this workshop at the fringe of insanity!

In collaboration with Carina Fearnley (volcanologist, Hazard Research Centre, UCL Earth Sciences department). Come and take part in this risky workshop, where you will learn how to make a giant living room volcano out of coffee and smoke bombs, a real sleeping giant in the corner of your domestic environment!

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Home Chaos Workshop is part of this year’s bigger and better Manchester Science Festival, entertaining the region from 23 – 31 October.

Manchester Science Festival 2010

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iPhone 4⁴ Workshop

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

iPhone 4 U

Title: iPhone 4⁴ Workshop
Location: MadLab (Upstairs)
Description: Developing with iOS4, XCode 4, iPhone 4, in groups of roughly 4
Price: £300
Max number of participants: 16
Start Date: 2010-10-25
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2010-10-27
End Time: 16:00

The iPhone 4⁴ workshop is aimed at developers coming from other languages who want to learn Cocoa and Objective-C. The three-day, highly participatory, intensive workshop will cover the Objective-C language and various aspects of the Cocoa frameworks: constructing user interfaces, interacting with device features such as GPS/camera/accelerometer/gyroscope and interacting with remote data sources and APIs.

Participants will be organised into small teams (of around 4 people, preferably not people they work with already!) for the practical elements of the workshop, to create real, working applications.

The course will be led by Sam Easterby-Smith – an established coder and trainer who has worked on various iPhone and iPad projects including the Times newspaper iPad app and his own Gigometer. He has run numerous iPhone training workshops with UKOLN and North-West Vision and Media over the last year and is very pleased to be offering his second course at the Madlab. For more about Sam see his corporate site: http://spotlightkid.co.uk

Book your places now on Eventbrite.

IMPORTANT:
Participants will need to bring a Mac Laptop running Snow Leopard & any iOS devices they might have.

HEALTH WARNING:
The learning curve of Objective-C is quite steep and involve heavy use of object-orientation so this course is NOT RECOMMENDED for those new to programming. HTML and CSS do not count as programming. C++, Ruby and Java developers will be fine. Actionscripters and PHPers should be ok as long as they are familiar with OO concepts.

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Manchester Camerata and ArtCollider

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Manchester Camerata and ArtCollider

Title: Manchester Camerata and ArtCollider
Location: MadLab
Description: Manchester Camerata and FutureEverything team up to present Camerata’s principal cellist, Hannah Roberts, who is widely recognised as ‘one of the most outstanding cellists of her generation’, and sound artist Andrew Deakin in a live collaborative performance.
Start Time: 12:30
Date: 2010-10-03
End Time: 17:30

This kaleidoscopic production will see Hannah and Andrew explore Bach’s stunning unaccompanied Cello Suites.

This is followed by a hands-on workshop featuring The ArtCollider, a project that enables artists around the world to collaborate in a globally networked studio. Led by an international media artist, this workshop gives participants the chance to create audiovisual art projects from live VJing to visual programming with the Collider Infrastructure. Meanwhile, remote participants can provide footage from different locations, as well as process (modify, remix, transform) footage created in the workshop.

Tickets to both events are free but very limited, please sign up here-
FutureEverything Presents Manchester Camerata (performance)
FutureEverything Presents ArtCollider (workshop)

For more information about the Manchester Weekender click here.

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