Showing posts with label love the black pearl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love the black pearl. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
MAP update
After
a meeting this morning at the Light with Jane and Hayley and The Black
Pearl crew, it was decided not to go ahead with the launch on Thursday
and although the Winter Wonderland will materialise over a few days in
the unit and into The Light, we will not do a launch on Thursday as previously advertised.
We need to recuperate after the storm and build to a charity event in the New Year, which we hope you can be involved in. MAP did not get hit that badly, but as many of you know The Black Pearl and many businesses were affected by the storm last Thursday. The new event will be a celebration of the black pearl, surviving the storm and the relaunch of the ground floor cinemas at The Light...with a working title of "After the storm".
The evening will be a community event and a fundraiser - probably for the Black Pearl and ourselves, the Momentary Art Project (we are a community interest company with 7 voluntary directors) and maybe other. We hope to use one of the screens (with kind permission from The Light) to show footage from a previous storm with live music, and use the foyer space for more activities such as music and poetry. As yet a date has not been decided upon but we will be meeting again next week.
Feel free to get in touch if you want to get involved.
Other news: Still looking for folks to tender for mural project...email MAProject@hotmail.co.uk
MAP directors Shaun and Liz managed to battle through and get some grant applications in to Love Wirral so fingers crossed and this is for an entirely different project...
We have many irons in the fire!
We need to recuperate after the storm and build to a charity event in the New Year, which we hope you can be involved in. MAP did not get hit that badly, but as many of you know The Black Pearl and many businesses were affected by the storm last Thursday. The new event will be a celebration of the black pearl, surviving the storm and the relaunch of the ground floor cinemas at The Light...with a working title of "After the storm".
The evening will be a community event and a fundraiser - probably for the Black Pearl and ourselves, the Momentary Art Project (we are a community interest company with 7 voluntary directors) and maybe other. We hope to use one of the screens (with kind permission from The Light) to show footage from a previous storm with live music, and use the foyer space for more activities such as music and poetry. As yet a date has not been decided upon but we will be meeting again next week.
Feel free to get in touch if you want to get involved.
Other news: Still looking for folks to tender for mural project...email MAProject@hotmail.co.uk
MAP directors Shaun and Liz managed to battle through and get some grant applications in to Love Wirral so fingers crossed and this is for an entirely different project...
We have many irons in the fire!
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
an Update from MAP for forthcoming shows and how to get involved
Dear Friends
"love the black pearl exhibition" will be open tomorrow (wednesday) from 11.45 til 12.45, please come and see the photographs and paintings, inside in the daylight. The exhibition will run until the 8th of December and we hope to have other opportunities when the space will be viewable from inside before the end of the exhibition. Many of the artworks on display are for sale so feel free to ask for more information. Email MAProject@hotmail.co.uk
We are appealing for local artists of all ages to help create a magical seasonal exhibition in the heart of the resort. “Winter Wonderland” is the title of the exhibition and MAP is asking local people to create individual snowflakes in shades of white, pale blue and silver - from recycled materials - to be hung in the MAP gallery space between SubWay and Starbucks. the Light Cinema will also play host to some of the snowflakes in their windows.
Contributors should bring their snowflakes to the drop box which will be located in the foyer of The Light Cinema, anytime between this Wednesday afternoon and the 8th of December. Each snowflake should be packaged to prevent damge during collection and should have a parcel tag or gift tag with your name attached.
Local schools will be asked to contribute a wrapped box as a gift for New Brighton - a gift of joy, peace, happiness or whatever they feel New Brighton needs for the future.
The launch of the exhibition will coincide with a celebration at The Light Cinema with carols and local musicians on Thursday, 12th December in the early evening, times and details to be confirmed.The display will run until the middle of January. Artists will be able to collect their exhibits from the MAP unit on (Sunday 12th January 2014) between noon and 2pm.
We would also like to hear from experienced mural painters for a major project for Spring 2014 in the dips, a tender form is available on request and will also be posted here on the blog and facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MAPmarinepoint/
We have an exciting programme begining to take form for 2014 and hope you will enjoy what is on offer in the next few months.
Best wishes from
all of us at MAP
Liz, Carl, Rose, Shaun, Jean, Andy and Alison
PS: Please feel free to forward to any interested parties. Many thanks.
"love the black pearl exhibition" will be open tomorrow (wednesday) from 11.45 til 12.45, please come and see the photographs and paintings, inside in the daylight. The exhibition will run until the 8th of December and we hope to have other opportunities when the space will be viewable from inside before the end of the exhibition. Many of the artworks on display are for sale so feel free to ask for more information. Email MAProject@hotmail.co.uk
We are appealing for local artists of all ages to help create a magical seasonal exhibition in the heart of the resort. “Winter Wonderland” is the title of the exhibition and MAP is asking local people to create individual snowflakes in shades of white, pale blue and silver - from recycled materials - to be hung in the MAP gallery space between SubWay and Starbucks. the Light Cinema will also play host to some of the snowflakes in their windows.
“Last year we asked residents to create sea creatures for our launch ‘Fish and Ships’ exhibition last December and they responded with enthusiasm, inventiveness, wit and artistic flair,” said MAP Chair Liz Byrne. “We are hoping that they will be equally inspired by the theme for this year’s Christmas exhibition.”
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| April Cheetham's contribution for Christmas Fish and Ships in 2012, our inagural show |
Contributors should bring their snowflakes to the drop box which will be located in the foyer of The Light Cinema, anytime between this Wednesday afternoon and the 8th of December. Each snowflake should be packaged to prevent damge during collection and should have a parcel tag or gift tag with your name attached.
Local schools will be asked to contribute a wrapped box as a gift for New Brighton - a gift of joy, peace, happiness or whatever they feel New Brighton needs for the future.
The launch of the exhibition will coincide with a celebration at The Light Cinema with carols and local musicians on Thursday, 12th December in the early evening, times and details to be confirmed.The display will run until the middle of January. Artists will be able to collect their exhibits from the MAP unit on (Sunday 12th January 2014) between noon and 2pm.
We would also like to hear from experienced mural painters for a major project for Spring 2014 in the dips, a tender form is available on request and will also be posted here on the blog and facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MAPmarinepoint/
We have an exciting programme begining to take form for 2014 and hope you will enjoy what is on offer in the next few months.
Best wishes from
all of us at MAP
Liz, Carl, Rose, Shaun, Jean, Andy and Alison
PS: Please feel free to forward to any interested parties. Many thanks.
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
MAP exhibition open tomorrow from 11.45-12.45 Wednesday and 1-3 Saturday
“love the black pearl”
The Momentary Art Project community
interest company in conjunction with The Black Pearl team called for
photographic images of our new Wirral icon, The Black Pearl, a driftwood boat
that has captured the imagination of old and young on the beach between
Egremont and New Brighton.
Anyone with an image of The Black Pearl was
asked to submit for the Momentary Art Project exhibition “love the black
pearl”. The ecclectic display is viewable from the 14th November in the window of the MAP
Gallery, Unit 13, Marine Point (between Subway and Starbucks) in the Neptune
development in New Brighton. We have arranged some times when we will open the unit this week
MAP exhibition open tomorrow Wednesday the 20th of November from 11.45-12.45 and 1-3 Saturday the 23rd of November.
Frank Lund of The Black Pearl said of the
driftwood boat and the exhibition
“When we started building the Black Pearl on a cold January
weekend, she was the just the latest piece in the ongoing art project on the
beach by Dalmorton Road slipway. We never expected the Pearl to last so long
nor to become so loved within our community - and beyond. Over the months since
that January day the Pearl has become an iconic image of New Brighton.
We often say that the Black Pearl is
probably one of the most photographed subjects in the town and there is no
doubt that the quality of these images and the frequency of their publication
have contributed much to the fame and notoriety of the driftwood pirate ship.
Over the months, over the seasons, event by
event, we have seen literally hundreds of wonderful Black Pearl images created
by Wirral and Merseyside photographers and artists. But as image follows image
the memory fades and it will be most rewarding to see so many of these moments
in time gathered together, but briefly, in this exhibition. We, the many
participants of the Black Pearl team, are certainly looking forward to this
event.”
MAP was established as a CIC company in
March 2013 to facilitate, encourage and enable arts in New Brighton. To find
out more and for times when the
unit is open go to their blog
http://www.momentaryartproject.blogspot.co.uk/
or facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MAPmarinepoint/
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
love the black pearl
"love the black pearl' is mid way through being assembled and we will launch it tomorrow night at the unit at 5.30pm, bring a strong torch as the unit is un-lit and we can explore the exhibits by torchlight...a novel solution to our situation but also useful as we hope to head to The Black Pearl itself on the beach between New Brighton and Egremont. It seems only fitting to go and see her in all her glory by the light of many electric torches.
So please join us at Unit 13 between Subway and Starbucks at 5.30pm tomorrow, the 13th of November and then walk together (or drive and walk) to visit the old girl on the beach. Dress warm and be safe.
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