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SUMMARY:The Future Is Us Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Exhibition for ‘The Future Is Us Project’\nUntil 15th December\nTuesday & Thursday’s 1 – 4pm\n‘The Future Is Us Project’ was a Monmouthshire Arts based project to empower and listen to young people\nbetween the ages of 10 and 25.  Through engagement and participation\, it aimed to give them a platform to\nproject their views\, and posed questions around whether or not their voices are heard.\nDo they have a seat at the table? \nCulminating in a celebration event on 16th July with dance and drama performances around Abergavenny\,\nthe event was captured on camera and we are delighted to share with you the results!  Click HERE for more! \nEvery Tuesday and Thursday afternoon\, you are invited to view the exhibition in our gallery and share in a\ndiverse array of media including printing\, photography and installation.  Accompanying this\, is a looped\nscreening of the film that documented the project and final event on 16th July in venues around Abergavenny.\nThe film includes stunning dance performances\, artist interviews and messages from the young people who took part. \nFor  more Information\, please call 01873 853167 or email melvillecamanager@gmail.com
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/the-future-is-us-project/
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SUMMARY:The Red Dress Project - a weekend of talks and presentations with Kirstie McLeod
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled that Kirstie MacLeod has accepted Emma Bevan’s invitation to bring her amazing Project to the Melville Centre for the weekend of 8th and 9th\, October 2022!\nYou will have the opportunity to watch the film and listen to Kirstie’s story\, and ask questions – the film and talk will take place at 10:30am\, and then at 1:00pm (please arrive 10 minutes before it begins).\n\nYou will also have the opportunity to buy a copy of the crowd-funded Red Dress catalogue\, or one of the postcards.\n\n* NB: Please pre-register for a seat as we have a limited number of seats\, thank you. Email: info@melvillecentre.org.uk  – and please specify which day and time you prefer * REGISTRATION CLOSES on 21st September\n\n\n_____________________________\nLeading on from this weekend\, Emma Bevan\, with the support of the Melville Centre\, and Ginevra Croft\, will be coordinating a community project “Connecting Communities” with anyone interested in taking part: Creating a Community Shawl.\nYou can donate your square – it can be created by knitting\, embroidering\, felting\, printing\, crocheting or sewing squares\, which will then be sewn together to create the Community Shawl\, a representation of warmth\, safety\, and community\, with a nod to the Welsh shawl. The shawl can be displayed at events or exhibitions and worn during talks.\nPlease email emma.events9@gmail.com if you would like to take part. Completed pieces can be dropped off or posted to: The Wool Croft\, Neville Street\, Abergavenny NP7 5AD and the deadline is 11th December 2022.\n__________________________________\n\n\n\n\nTHE RED DRESS:\nA 13-year\, award winning global\, collaborative embroidery project\n2009 to 2022\nThe Red Dress project\, conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod\, provides an artistic platform for women around the world\, many of whom are marginalized and live in poverty\, to tell their personal stories through embroidery.\nFrom 2009 to 2022\, pieces of the Red Dress travelled the globe being continuously embroidered onto. Constructed out of 84 pieces of burgundy silk dupion\, the garment has been worked on by 336 women and 7 men\, from 46 countries\, with all 136 commissioned artisans paid for their work (as well as receiving a portion of all ongoing exhibition fees). The rest of the embroidery was added by willing audience at various exhibitions & events.\nEmbroiderers include female refugees from Palestine and Syria\, women seeking asylum in the UK from Iraq\, China\, Nigeria and Namibia\, victims of war in Kosovo\, Rwanda\, and DR Congo; impoverished women in South Africa\, Mexico\, and Egypt; individuals in Kenya\, Japan\, Turkey\, Sweden\, Peru\, Czech Republic\, Dubai\, Afghanistan\, Australia\, Argentina\, Switzerland\, Canada\, Tobago\, Vietnam\, Estonia\, USA\, Russia\, Pakistan\, Wales\, Colombia and England\, students from Montenegro\, Brazil\, Malta\, Singapore\, Eritrea\, Norway\, Poland\, Finland\, Ireland\, Romania and Hong Kong as well as upmarket embroidery studios in India and Saudi Arabia.\n\n\n      
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/the-red-dress-project-a-weekend-of-talks-and-presentations-with-kirstie-mcleod/
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SUMMARY:TANGO JAZZ QUARTET; Black Mountain Jazz
DESCRIPTION:TANGO JAZZ QUARTET \nBMJ CLUB PROGRAMME \n\nSunday 28th August 2022: 8pm\nBar opens at 7.30pm\n\n  \n\nMelville Theatre: Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5UD\nwww.tangojazzquartet.com\n\nJazz Quartet have played at our club and festival several times over the past years. In 2020\, the pandemic scuppered any thoughts of a live festival and a virtual event evolved. \nOne of the videos included\, which was produced in Argentina for us by Tango Jazz Quartet\, explores the blending of the two genres of music. \nWe are delighted to be part of their 2022 European tour and very much look forward to their visit to Abergavenny. \nWORKSHOP \nIn addition to their evening performance\, Tango Jazz Quartet will be facilitating an earlier workshop from 4pm to 5.30pm\, exploring the link between tango and jazz. \nThe workshop will be for all instruments\, including voice. \n\nStandard: £15.00\nFriends of BMJ: £13.00\nFull time students: £8.00\nUnder 18s: £5.00\nWorkshop tickets: £10.00\nBook online  www.blackmountainjazz.co.uk\nthelittleboxoffice.com/blackmountainjazz\n\n \n  \nPS: Please contact BMJ regarding tickets\, not the venue\, many thanks!
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/tango-jazz-quartet-black-mountain-jazz/
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: : “In the Lines”\, Julia Davenne
DESCRIPTION:Julia grew up in Llantrisant\, near Cardiff\, and now has returned to South Wales – Abergavenny\, after many years away in London and Norway.  She studied a B.A. degree at St Martins School of Art\, and a postgraduate diploma at Royal Academy of Arts\, Schools\, London where she concentrated on composition.  After returning from living in Norway\, Julia taught at Chelsea School of Art for 12 years before re-locating to the Brecon Beacons. \n  \n———————————– \n  \nLiving on the edge of the Brecon Beacons is to be on the doorstep of dramatic\, wild and sometimes remote nature and the inspiration for my artwork.  The landscape is rich and varied\, at times wild plains\, ancient forests\, moss covered trees\, old stone walls\, dark earth\, derelict remains\, mist descending over the mountains\, the river sources winding down the valley into the rivers\, dark skies\, stormy weather\, twigs & branches\, woven hay mounds\, mountain peaks\, geometric stone steps over years formed by water\, ancient stones & boulders\, oak trees & silver birch. \n  \nIn my artwork…I look at the geographical formation of the different terrains.  The artwork is a depiction of this terrain\, using marks\, forms and lines.  I am interested in :- mark making\, in the linear quality & language of maps\, in the possibilities of depicting a terrain in a visual language\, and then in the possibilites that arise in making works from drawings on paper: – using these drawings as a material. \nI draw images from nature\, simplify them to a language of marks\, lines & forms and build them into compositions.  I work with drawings on paper and on boards & installations. \n  \nThe artworks shown here were made over many years and this is my first show in Abergavenny\, curated for the Melville Centre and beginning on the weekend of the Abergavenny Arts Festival. \n  \nwww.juliadavenne.com \n(Please note opening hours vary so please call ahead 01873 853167)
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/art-exhibition-in-the-lines-julia-davenne/
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SUMMARY:Arts for our Community Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Come along to The Melville Centre on Saturday 18th June for an exciting series of FREE workshops\, and then relax and enjoy delicious snacks and refreshments in our coffee-bar. \n  \nMany thanks to The Big Skill for providing funding (you can book your places directly on their website\, link below). \n  \nSchedule: \n  \n*10.00 am – 11.30 am: Sketching Workshop with Alli Neal… \nSo\, you think you can’t draw… \nThink you can’t draw or want to draw better? Want to draw but don’t really know how to begin? \nThis workshop is intended for anyone who has ever picked up a pencil and wished that they could really draw. \nIn this free workshop Alli Neal will help you to discover and begin to develop the drawing skills you think you haven’t got. \nAll materials provided. \n(Dr. Alli Neal left her job as course leader for the BA in Fine Art at the Hereford College of Arts to complete a PhD on contemporary drawing practice. She is now concentrating on developing her own drawing and painting practice. ) \n \n  \n  \n*10.30 am – 12.00 pm: Stitch Meditation Workshop with Pam Wesson… \nStitch meditation is known as an ‘active meditation’ – a process where the hands are busy yet the mind is free to wander.  \nYou are not aiming to produce a design or project just carrying out the process of stitching some pieces of fabric together.  \nSwitching off your creative head can be harder than you think\, however\, you do often end up with a lovely little piece of art that you can frame\,  \nput in a book or use as part of another project. \nAll materials provided. \n \n  \n* 10.0 am – 11.00 am\nor\n* 11.30 am – 12.30 am @ Printmaking Workshop with Francesca Kay… \nPoet and printer Francesca Kay offers you  a chance to try letterpress printing – making words with movable type and ink. \nIt’s a 600 year old craft\, and more fun than a computer! Francesca will help you find a word or short phrase that has meaning for you\, helping you typeset and print it on her vintage Ajax tabletop printing press. You will have a unique memento of this ancient and enjoyable art.  And there’s a special poster made with wooden type that you can also print to take away as well. \nIf you can read backwards it will help! \n \n  \n* 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm: Needle felting workshop with Emma Bevan… \nTextile artist Emma Bevan will be offering the opportunity to try\, or develop\, your needle-felting skills in this 2 hour session. You can make a little brooch of your favourite animal or flower\, a heart brooch\, or maybe something abstract!\nEmma will supply all the natural fibres\, the needles and materials necessary for making your own needle-felted creation. \nEmma is a qualified tutor and artist and an experienced workshop facilitator; you will have lots of fun learning all about felt-making. \n \n  \nWe are also delighted to have the art exhibition by Julia Davenne\, who will be displaying her work here from 18th June to 7th July – here is one example of her beautiful work: \n \n“River”.   Oil and graphite on linen\, 33 x 45 cm\, 2016 – 2017. \nwebsite :   www.juliadavenne.com \n  \nIn addition\, we are thrilled that Pam Wesson will have her inspirational New Quilt for Humanity on display here that day\, as well as her work in progress Pride Quilt. \n'The New Quilt of Humanity' was a community lockdown project initiated by Pam Wesson through the Facebook page Stop & Stitch.\nInspired by the words of Julia Myers & Liz Kettle's Stitch Meditation Facebook group\, Pam reached out to other stitchers\, locally & globally\, \nto take part by sending her their 'stitch meditation' squares. Little did she know at that time how long lockdown would last & how important 'stitch meditation' and the \nStop & Stitch community group would become in supporting people through this difficult time.\n \n  \nFor more information\, please email emma.bevan@melvillecentre.org.uk \nWorkshop bookings available soon at www.thebigskill.com/bookhere \nBeacons Open Studios online brochure can be viewed here: Beacons Open Studios 2022 online brochure.pdf
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/arts-for-our-community-workshops/
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