21 May - 6 August 2011 Admission: Free
Are you looking for a special space / venue to programme an event or exhibition this year? New Art Exchange’s ‘Your space’ takes place this Summer and Winter, and is your opportunity to hire our spaces for your corporate hire, special event or Christmas party! For further details, please get in touch on 0115 924 8630 and ask for the Bookings Team or e-mail bookings@nae.org.uk
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Welcome from the Chief Executive Skinder Hundal Welcome friends, to New Art Exchange’s action packed summer programme featuring festivals, international and poignant exhibitions, and creative opportunities for young people, children and families. Our Main Gallery features an exhibition by artists from Ramallah. After featuring world-wide in major Biennials including Venice and Liverpool, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme create a multi-media installation - The Zone. In their first major show in the UK, they explore the Palestinian space. Supporting the Zone will be our first Academic in Residence, Dr Zahera Harb. Also launching at the same time is Patrin, an exhibition that unravels the plight and lifestyle of the Gypsy community, who continue to be seen as ‘outsiders’, ‘different’ and shrouded in mystery. Summer would not be the same without festivals, and so the Nottingham Mela festival is back, featuring at NAE and the Riverside Festival. A major European theatre festival neat11, produced by Nottingham Playhouse, features strongly at NAE with theatre from Ghana, film and youth theatre as YARD deliver the Gaza Monologues and we screen Arna’s Children in tribute to Juliano Mer Khamis founder of The Freedom Theatre in Palestine. Do also explore the activity taking place at the Kurdish Arts and Cultural Weekend. Be sure to engage with our family friendly workshops, volunteer and youth summer programmes, as well as sampling our world menu in the café and enjoying our spaces! I look forward to seeing you. Skinder Hundal Chief Executive, New Art Exchange
New Art Exchange presents
THE ZONE
Basel Abbas Ruanne Abou-Rahme Curated by Eva Langret Exhibition Dates 21 May - 6 August 2011 Private View Friday 20 May, 6pm - 9pm
Artist biographies Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work collaboratively from their base in Ramallah, Palestine. They have performed together with Ramallah Underground and recently founded the sound and video performance collective Tashweesh. Recent exhibitions and projects include New Sound (NY LYD) Images Festival, 2011 (Copenhagen); the
6th Liverpool Biennial (Future Movement); 23es Instants Video CCF, 2010 (Marseille); Home Works V, Ashkal Alwan, 2010 (Beirut); the 3rd Jerusalem Show, Al Mammal Foundation, 2009 (Jerusalem); The Delfina Foundation, 2009 (London) and the 53rd Venice Biennale, Palestinian Pavilion, 2009 (Venice).
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The Zone is the first solo exhibition by Ramallah-based audio-visual artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in the UK. A new site-specific installation, it explores the unique social dynamics that have brought about the eruption of a consumerist culture into the Palestinian struggle, amidst an increasingly dystopian environment. The Zone takes, as its starting point, what took place after the failure of the Palestinian resistance movement: the transformation of the PLO into an ‘authority’ and eventually a ‘security’ regime and with it the birth of new political discourses and desires largely centered on consumption. In these discourses, the fantasy of a pleasurable, prosperous existence, blind to the increasingly visible violence of the colonial situation, sharply contrasts with the brutal reality of the Palestinian social, political and urban landscapes. In one of the darkest moments in Palestinian lived history, a ‘dreamworld’ has emerged: a collective form of dysfunctional phantasmagoria that perpetually denies both the failures and disaster of Palestine’s current situation.
Abbas and Abou-Rahme have created an immersive environment for the visitor, who, upon entering the installation, is subjected to a disorientating, sensory experience. In the narrow corridors and ominous rooms of The Zone, the familiar feels strange. At any given time, The Zone concurrently navigates the dialectic of dream and catastrophe, desire and disaster, past and present, near and far. This ambivalence is rooted in Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s artistic language, bringing together sound, video and installation, often juxtaposing found footage, archival material and field recordings - a way of working that came out of the need to formally express the violent geographical and political fragmentation experienced in Palestine and the wider Arab world. With support from The Delfina Foundation
Images on pages 1, 4, 5 & 6 from The Zone (2011) by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Talks and tours
Saturday 21 May, 2pm
Artists talk Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme discuss The Zone, their first major solo show in the UK, with curator Eva Langret. Admission: Free | Age range: All are welcome
Wednesday 25 May; 1, 15, 29 June; 6, 20 July; 3 August, 1.30pm
Walk and Talk Every fortnight on a Wednesday join our Gallery Team for a walk through the exhibition, learn more about its themes and exchange your opinions about the exhibition. Admission: Free | Age range: All are welcome
Saturday 23 July, 1.30pm
Curator’s Tour Join us for a special tour of the exhibition, as Eva Langret walks you through The Zone. Admission: Free | Age range: All are welcome
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Exchange This series of Exchange (NAE’s Artist-led Forum) will see leading experts in their fields, interpreting and debating themes and issues explored by the exhibition. All these events are free and open to all.
Thursday 16 June, 6pm
Saturday 9 July, 2.00pm
Thursday 4 August, 6pm
Breaking News from Jerusalem Talk by Dr. Mike Berry
Dreamland Talk By Dr. Anna Ball
Resistive Encounters Talk by Dr. Zahera Harb
(moderated by Dr. Zahera Harb)
Dr. Anna Ball explores utopian ideals and dysptopian impulses in The Zone, and the currency of dream and fantasy in the Palestinian creative consciousness.
The Israel-Palestine dispute is one of the world’s most bitter and protracted conflicts. It is also one of the most intensely reported international news stories. Dr. Mike Berry discusses media coverage, public understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the research he recently completed for the publication of his new book, Bad News from Israel. Mike Berry’s research interests focus on how the media influences public knowledge attitudes. Followed by a Q&A session.
(moderated by Dr. Zahera Harb)
Anna Ball is a lecturer in Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at Nottingham Trent University. Her book, Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective, will be published by Routledge in 2012. The talk is followed by a screening of the film ‘Stalker’ and Q&A session (see overleaf)
Dr. Zahera Harb explores the dynamics of defiance and resistance in the shaping of a Palestinian identity, as well as the wider political, social and cultural context of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Zahera Harb, lecturer in Culture, Film and Media Studies at The University of Nottingham has more than 10 years experience as a journalist in Lebanon working for Lebanese and international media organisations. Her recent publications include Channels of Resistance: Liberation propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media, published by I.B. Tauris in 2011. Followed by a Q&A session.
Film Programme
Saturday 9 July, 3pm
Thursday 21 July, 7pm
Stalker (1979)
Port of Memory (2006)
Introduction and Talk by Dr Anna Ball from Nottingham Trent University*
Port of Memory is a story rarely told, about the emptying of Jaffa, a thriving urban and economic port city in pre-1948 Palestine, of its indigenous residents. Aljafari’s film follow his family after they receive an order to evacuate their home in Ajami, Jaffa’s once wealthy sea-front neighborhood. Radically poetic, Port of Memory is a reflection on the absurdity of being at once present and absent.
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky (162 min)
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s second sci-fi film after ‘Solaris’, is a surreal and disturbing vision of the future. The Stalker guides illegal visitors through the Zone, a dangerous area kept under high security, containing a room where wishes may come true. Hauntingly exploring man’s dreams, desires, and the consequences of realising them, this cult movie has been described as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. The film screening will be preceded by a talk by Dr Anna Ball, lecturer, School of Arts and humanities. NTU works with both literature and film, and is particularly interested in Palestine and Afghanistan as emergent sites of postcolonial enquiry. Admission: £3 (£2 Concessions)
Dir. Kamal Aljafari (63 mins)
Admission: £3 (£2 Concessions)
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Images courtesy City Arts
Associated Events
Kurdish Arts and Cultural Weekend Solo Art... Solo Heart has been developed by City Arts Nottingham. In 2009 it showcased exciting work from diverse and vibrant international and local artists featuring music, film, photography, dance, puppetry and performance. They have organised A series of free workshops, with the opportunity to interact with some of the artists performing at Solo Art. All of the public workshops are free
Friday 1 July, 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Saturday 2 July, 2pm - 4pm
Beat Boxing with Lyrikool Lipz
Mask and Puppet workshop with Stephen Jon
Join internationally acclaimed Lyrikool Lipz to learn about beatboxing and create your own sounds. Beatboxing, rapping and singing are all elements of his full live show where he uses a looping pedal to create samples / loops of his voice to perform entirely original material. Age Range: 14 -19 year olds
Friday 1 July, 6.45pm - 8.45pm
African percussion with Surahata Susso Join the talented African percussionist Surahata Susso in this unique workshop. Sura was born into a family of ‘Griots’, which are known as hereditary musicians who play traditional music at certain events in society. He specialises in playing the Kora, a 22-string West African harp lute and composes his own music. Age Range: 16+
Stephen Jon will be exploring the world of mask making in this workshop. Participants will use a range of arts materials to create their own fantastic masks. Stephen has many years experience and has built up a significant reputation for developing work that is based upon movement-based theatre, theatre design, painting and sculpture. Age range: Open to families. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult
Saturday 2 July, 2pm - 4pm
Tar & Vocal with Karzan Mahmood / Kani This is a unique opportunity to take part in a workshop with highly acclaimed musicians Karzan and Kani. Karzan plays the Tar, Zab, and Daff, and other oriental instruments. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about traditional Kurdish music and vocals. Age Range: 16 + Festival continues at Nottingham Contemporary with live music performances from 8pm to 11pm Tickets available at NAE: £8 (£6 concessions)
Images courtesy Jason James, Emily Frisby
Family Friendly Workshops Saturday 4 June, 2pm - 4pm
Saturday 16 July, 2pm - 4pm
My Dream Day
Land
What is your perfect day? What would you do on such a day? Story board your imagination, create a story of your perfect day... The workshop will involve the creation of an illustrated storybook using a narrative created by you. The workshop will be run by local mobile comics creator Jason James.
Come and explore real and imagined places, spaces and dreamscapes. Using a variety of techniques such as words, paint, photographic images, air dry clay and objects we will aim to create a visual landscape of your dreams! The workshop is led by the Artist Saranjit Birdi.
Admission: Free | Age range: 4 - 11 years accompanied by an adult
Admission: Free | Age range: 4 - 11 years accompanied by an adult
Saturday 18 June, 2pm - 4pm
Lost and Found Bring along memories: photos, postcards, nostalgia, newspaper clippings, certificates, old letters, badges, fabric, clothing, old jewellery items or anything that you have lost... but found again! Together we can create a beautiful montage of your memories! Workshop will be led by Artist Zed Sardar. Admission: Free | Age range: 4 - 11 years accompanied by an adult
Saturday 6 August, 2pm - 4pm
‘The Journey is the Destination...’ Using found imagery, personal ephemera, drawing, painting and collage; participants will be able to explore their own relationship to their surroundings and themselves, develop their own visual language and begin to create their own informal yet intimate visual journal. The workshop is led by Illustrator Emily Frisby. Admission: Free | Age range: 4 - 11 years accompanied by an adult
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Summer Holidays Activities
Monday 1, Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 August 2011, 11am - 1pm
Monday 15, Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 August 2011, 11am - 1pm
Concepts of Freedom
Palestine Remixed
This is an interactive video project which explores the concept of freedom, what it means to young people in the UK, and how this contrasts with life in occupied territories.
Participants will take samples of traditional Palestinian instrumentation and music to create an original piece of contemporary western electronic music. They will learn about different instruments from the area and will explore issues relating to people living in places such as the West Bank and Gaza. All participants will receive a completed mixedmedia CD of their music with artwork.
Admission: Free | Age range: 8 - 14 years
Monday 8, Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 August 2011, 11am - 1pm
Podcasting - The Zone: Your Thoughts and Feelings This podcast will see the participants documenting their reaction to The Zone exhibition, giving them an opportunity to express what individual aspects of the work displayed actually means to them. Participants will contrast their thoughts with those of members of the public who have also viewed the installation. A short soundtrack piece will be created as a sound bed for the podcast by recording interviews of visitors to NAE with their own voiceovers. Admission: Free | Age range: 8 - 14 years
Admission: Free | Age range: 12 - 18 years
Images courtesy Eliza Smith
PATRIN
Cecilia J채rdemar and SARA Heitlinger Curated by David Schischka Thomas Exhibition Dates 21 May - 6 August 2011 Private View Friday 20 May, 6pm - 9pm
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Patrin – signposts Romany Gypsies left for their travelling fellows – was once the language of travellers, maps and stories shared by an ethnic community, present in Britain since the 1500s. Through digital photography, sound, oral history and maps this exhibition shows a contemporary form of patrin. John Berger has noted that while the dominant society has a culture of progress, outsiders such as Gypsies have a culture of survival. Such a culture demands great ingenuity, and nowhere is this more evident than in the ways to make a living, such as collecting elderflower, selling wooden clothes pegs, knife grinding, rag and bone picking. Gypsies have always plugged a gap in the market. These days, despite modern lorries, they are just as likely to collect scrap metal in an old horse-drawn dray, as it fetches a more favorable trade from nostalgic house-dwellers.
When times get tough they can always sell their possessions. Their homes, their wagons, their horses, their gold, and their beautiful Crown Derby china are all there to be traded without a sliver of sentimentality. “The only thing we’re attached to is our families.” And, one might add, to the rich traditions and customs - travelling, language and the culture - which they take firmly onwards with each new generation. This exhibition is the story of seven individuals and their collective history. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. A collaboration between The Monitoring Group, Lincolnshire Gypsy Liaison Group, Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group, New Art Exchange, and artists Sara Heitlinger and Cecilia Jardemar.
Nottingham European Theatre Festival neat11 @ New Art Exchange
Saturday 11 June, 5pm and 7.30pm
The Gaza Mono-Logues Thursday 2 & Friday 3 June, 7.30pm Tangle in association with Nottingham Playhouse and New Art Exchange presents
The Crossing
by Esther O’Toole Director: Anna Coombs Designer: Harriet Pearson Leave it all behind: friends, family, lovers. Drop all your hopes and gamble everything for the chance of a brighter future. Have you the money, the strength, the willpower to make the final crossing? The Crossing is a riveting story of three Ghanaian men who journey thousands of miles across Africa in search of the new EUtopia. Tangle is one of the UK’s most exciting new theatre companies, celebrating and championing the work of theatre people from across Africa and beyond. Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Box Office: 0115 941 9419 (Nottingham Playhouse) Book online at www.neatfestival.co.uk
Directors Sarah Stephenson and Rachael Young The Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in 2008/9 killed at least 1380 Palestinians, including 431 children, and wounded and displaced many thousands more. In 2009, UNICEF supported Ali Abu Yassine and ASHTAR Theatre in training young people in Gaza to focus on their individual experiences, dreams, fears and hopes – leading to The Gaza Mono-Logues, and ultimately, recitals of the monologues by young people around the world. Six youth theatre performers from New Art Exchange’s YARD and Nottingham Playhouse bring you the Nottingham premiere of the beautifully written and emotionally moving Gaza Mono-Logues. Tickets: £3 (£2 concessions) Box Office: 0115 941 9419 (Nottingham Playhouse) Book online www.neatfestival.co.uk
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Obituary
Thursday 9 June, 8.00pm
Screening of Arna’s Children Director: Juliano Mer Khamis Yussef committed a suicide attack in 2001. Ashraf was killed by the Israeli army in 2002. Alla led a group of resistance fighters to his death in 2003. Juliano Mer Khamis documented them as promising child actors in a theatre group he founded with his mother Arna. In this moving documentary, he returns to Jenin Refugee Camp in 2002, to see what happened to the children he knew and loved. ‘A must-see documentary’ Variety ‘Arna’s children offers a rare and poignant window into the lives and deaths of a lost generation of Palestinians’ The Washington Post Tickets: £5 (£3 concessions) Box Office: 0115 941 9419 (Nottingham Playhouse) Book online at www.neatfestival.co.uk
JULIANO MER KHAMIS It is with enormous sadness that we report the tragic death of actor, peace activist and film-maker Juliano Mer-Khamis. Juliano was shot dead on Monday 4th April 2011 at the theatre he founded in the Jenin Refugee Camp. He was due to speak at the screening at a post-show discussion about the film, his experiences and the The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine which he ran, preceded by his mother - Arna Mer. The screening will still take place and we will be donating all proceeds towards The Freedom Theatre in memory of Juliano. www.thefreedomtheatre.org
CLUB NIGHT
It’s time to party as New Art Exchange presents Soul Funk and Reggae Vibes The new monthly Vibes night where Goodtimes DJ’s will be spinning the best tunes for what is sure to be a great party vibe, with a fully licensed bar and food available on the night. Make sure you book the following Friday’s here at New Art Exchange…
Friday 27 May 2011, 7.30pm - 11pm Soul Funk Vibes
Friday 24 June, 7.30pm - 11pm Reggae Vibes
Friday 22 July, 7.30pm - 11pm Soul Funk Vibes
Admission Free Our Soul Funk Vibes night evoking the Panther era coincides with Nottingham Contemporary’s summer exhibition on Jean Genet (15 July - 2 October), which includes art work by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party’s Minister of Culture, amongst other Panther artifacts
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An(other) Story photograph by Bartosz Kali
NAE Touring Exhibitions: Hisaab Kitaab An(other) Story
Monday 18 July – Friday 30 September Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA
Hisaab Kitaab
Free Preview evening: Friday 15 July, 6pm - 8pm (all are welcome)
Have a book sitting on the shelf? You loved reading it and now want to share it?
Folk and Tribal Arts in India An(other) Story explores the diversity of Folk and Tribal art styles and techniques, including: Madhubani/Mithila, Gond, Warli, Patua scrolls and Folk embroidery, which have been embraced for centuries throughout India. An(other) Story was originally curated by David Schischka Thomas and Saleem Arif Quadri and presented at New Art Exchange in 2009. The project will also celebrate the bicentennary of Nobel Laureate and ‘Shakespeare of the East’ Rabindranath Tagore.
Our Hisaab Kitaab Book Swap programme* continues alongside this new exhibition. Our book swap shelf will be enriched with some books on the Middle East, enlarging the horizons of this new free reading zone. Start this journey to the territories of the West Bank, whilst we explore the eruption of those consumerist enclaves, the circulation of ideas, the sharing of knowledge and promotion of creative exchanges that is Hisaab Kitaab. Come to NAE with a book which relates to the exhibition and swap it for any book you like from our shelf... Set your book on a journey, get a new companion in its place and discover the hidden travelling story of your book! *Please Note: Our aim is to offer a free book exchange service focused on the themes of our exhibitions, therefore we ask you to please come to NAE’s Hisaab Kitaab shelf with relevant literature.
Images courtesy Zed Sardar, Leo Asemota, Raam Tarat
Academic in Residence
Central Gallery
20 May to 6 August
Dr. Zahera Harb Academic in Residence, Dr Zahera Harb, over the period of the main exhibition, The Zone, will be moderating key talks, leading a tour of the exhibition and launching her most recent publication: Channels of Resistance. She will also be delivering several talks, exploring new ideas for further research and connecting conversations of the ‘street’ with academia during her time with us. Thursday 26 May, 6pm Book Launch: Channels of Resistance by Dr Zahera Harb Wednesday 20 July, 1.30pm - 2.15pm Walk and Talk Thursday 4 August, 6pm ‘Resistive Encounters’ - Talk by Dr Zahera Harb See also Page 7 for Exchange Talks
20 May - 6 August 2011
Zed Sardar Zed’s textiles works are an exploration of shapes, colour, fabric collage and machine stitching. Her innovative fabrics are inspired by her travels around the world: Australia, India, Spain, Pakistan and Indonesia are a few places she has taken inspiration from. Drawn to the ambience, vibrant colours and the intricacies and structures of buildings. Each textile piece is created by silk-painting, layering with an array of beautifully coloured organza’s and embellished with intricate machine stitching. Zeds works take the form of intricate mini panels, banners, appliqués and collages.
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Coming Soon
16 September - 26 November 2011
Leo Asemota The Ens Project’s “First Principles” Curated by David Schischka Thomas The Ens Project is Leo Asemota’s longstanding work in which the Nigerian born and London based artist’s concerns are informed by the influence of technological, social and cultural phenomena on the psyche. This exhibition at New Art Exchange will present phase one of a project the artist has been working on assiduously from 2005 and which is still unfolding. Comprising photographs, drawings, sculptures and video installations of performances at the National Portrait Gallery and at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, “First Principles” traces the development of the project from three primary sources: an ancient ritual of head worship by the Edo peoples of Benin called Igue; Victorian ambition and the British punitive expedition against the pre-colonial Kingdom of Benin in 1897; and Walter Benjamin’s text “The artwork in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility”, an essay important for its analysis of the impact advancements in technology has had on art and our perception of it.
European Volunteer Service Programme
This year NAE is hosting two volunteers within the European Voluntary Service (EVS), a part of the Youth In Action programme, funded by the European Commission to promote youth mobility and international voluntary service. Laura Rossi, from Italy, and Islam Muhammad, from Egypt, will be based at New Art Exchange throughout 2011. NAE’s EVS programme as a host organisation provides volunteers a significant learning and work experience opportunity to support in the planning, promotion, implementation and delivery of its artistic, community and learning engagement programme. The key projects include Nottingham Mela, International Exhibitions, World Event Young Artists, YARD. New Art Exchange is also an accredited EVS Sending Organisation for young people from the UK who wish to volunteer abroad. If you would like to know more about the EVS programme, you can contact us on evs@nae.org.uk or visit www.nae.org.uk/evs.php
How to find us / Accessibility By tram
Accessibility
We are approximately 7 minutes away from the city centre by tram, which run every 5 / 10 minutes in and out of town. Whichever direction you’re travelling in, get off at ‘The Forest’ stop and walk towards the traffic crossing. We are the big black building across the road.
The building and facilities are fully accessible on most levels. We have parking spaces available for people with disabilities at the rear of the building, just off Noel Street.For access to these spaces, simply call us on 0115 924 8630 to arrange.
By bus Bus services 78, 79, 80, 81 & L12 all travel from Nottingham City Centre to Gregory Boulevard. Get off at Gregory Boulevard and walk towards the Forest Recreation Ground. We are across from ‘The Forest’ stop on the tramline, next to Hyson Green Library.
Community group tours and workshops Please contact New Art Exchange to book a group tour, or to take part in a workshop with your community group. We can cater for all ages, please get in touch on info@nae.org.uk.
By car From the city centre: Leave the city centre via Mansfield Road / A60 following signs for M1 Mansfield. At both subsequent roundabouts take the first exit on to A6130 (signposted M1, Matlock A610). Go forward passing the Forest Recreation Ground on your left. Cross over the tramlines and New Art Exchange is on your right. From the North or South: M1, at junction 26, take the A610 exit to Nottingham, and continue straight over subsequent roundabout and traffic lights. Take a slight left at A6130, and you will be on Gregory Boulevard. Go past the Mary Potter Centre on your right and the traffic lights, New Art Exchange lies on your left. There is free parking available on Gregory Boulevard and nearby.
Cycling It takes about 10 minutes to cycle to us from the city centre using the city’s cycle lanes or following the tram route. We have bike racks at the side of the building.
Noel Street
Hyson Green Market
Towards Town / Mansfield Road The Forest
Bus Station / Railway station
This brochure is available in large text, audio and other formats. If you would like it in a different format, please get in touch with us. Please note: All information is correct at the time of going to press. Whilst every effort will be made to keep to the programme, it may be necessary to make changes with or without notice. New Art Exchange apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Photographs by Bartosz Kali, Ashok Mistry, David Sillitoe
SPACES FOR HIRE at NAE
Building
Our Spaces
New Art Exchange is a landmark building in Nottingham, just 5 minutes away from the city centre. The first dedicated African, African Caribbean and South Asian facility for contemporary visual arts in the UK, we are slowly changing the arts landscape, and have won a series of design awards in the process!
We have three dedicated exhibition spaces and a range of other facilities including a cafĂŠ, performance studio, artist workshop, meeting rooms, arts education workspaces and office space for hot-desking. All of these are available for hire through our Bookings Team.
Hire space
We are also able to offer a full range of catering services to suit your individual needs. From drinks and light snacks to a simple finger buffet, or a traditional Asian or Mediterranean banquet, our guest services team would be delighted to discuss your requirements.
Meeting, conference or away day? We have the perfect space for you, with a wide range of facilities, in-house catering and multimedia support. A comprehensively-equipped and versatile venue, we can fully cater to your organisations’ needs. All our spaces benefit from natural light and are ideal for creative thinking!
Guest Services
For more information please contact the Bookings Team on bookings@nae.org.uk or 0115 924 8630
Mela Weekend 2011
This year this takes place on Saturday 6th August at New Art Exchange and Sunday 7th August animating the Riverside Festival on the banks of the River Trent. Come and enjoy live international performances by leading artists, visual arts workshops, market stalls, the nostalgic scents of sizzling South Asian cuisine and a great day out with the family… Mela @ New Art Exchange Saturday 6 August from 11am to 7pm
Mela @ The Riverside Festival, Trent Bridge Sunday 7 August from 12pm to 6.30pm
Join us at New Art Exchange to enjoy world voices and expressions and experience the essence of South Asian cultures in Britain today. This will be a day of vibrant music from across the world, succulent and spicy cuisine, fun visual arts workshops for children and families, and an opportunity to view classic films like Pakeezah in a chilled out space.
For the main music and dance acts join us at the Riverside Festival this year in the romantic settings of River Trent, located near Trent bridge. This years acts represent the South Asian diaspora from Brass Bands, Dance and Magic from Jaipur, to a tribute hour to Mohammed Rafi saab, 31 years after the great ‘Voice’ of Indian cinema departed us. Featuring in this afternoon of sunshine and nostalgic scents will include the finest in specialist South Asian cuisine from dosas to pakoras, clothes and crafts markets, and new sounds including specialist percussion group ‘Rhythm Tribe’ who beat drums from across the world to the launch of the ‘Funkawallas’ who blend funk with Asian beats and ragas.
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SUMMER Programme Date
Event / Activity
Description
Friday 20 May
The Zone / Patrin
Launch event
Saturday 21 May
In Conversation with Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Artist talk
Wednesday 25 May
Walk and Talk
Guided exhibition tour
Thursday 26 May
Channels of Resistance by Dr Zahera Harb
Book launch
Friday 27 May
Soul Funk Vibes
Club night
Wednesday 1 June
Walk and Talk
Guided exhibition tour
Thursday 2 - Fri 3 June
The Crossing by Esther O’Toole
neat11 theatre production
Saturday 4 June
My Dream Day
Storybook workshop
Thursday 9 June
Arna’s Children
neat11 film screening
Saturday 11 June
The Gaza Mono-Logues
neat11 / YARD show
Wednesday 15 June
Walk and Talk
Guided exhibition tour
Thursday 16 June
Breaking News from Jerusalem – Dr Mike Berry
‘Exchange’ talk
Saturday 18 June
Lost and Found
Montage workshop
Friday 24 June
Reggae Vibes
Club night
Wednesday 29 June
Walk and Talk
Guided exhibition tour
Fri 1 - Sat 2 July
Kurdish Arts and Cultural Weekend
Festival
Wednesday 6 July
Walk and Talk
Guided exhibition tour
Saturday 9 July
Dreamland - Dr Anna Ball
‘Exchange’ talk
Saturday 9 July
Stalker
Film screening & talk
Saturday 16 July
Land
Art workshop
Wednesday 20 July
Walk and Talk with Dr Zahera Harb
Guided talk
Thursday 21 July
Port of Memory
Film screening
Friday 22 July
Soul Funk Vibes
Club night
Saturday 23 July
Curator’s Tour
Guided tour
Mon 1 - Wed 3 August
Concepts of Freedom
Video project
Wednesday 3 August
Walk and Talk
Guided exhibition tour
Thursday 4 August
Resistive Encounters - Dr Zahera Harb
‘Exchange’ talk
Saturday 6 August
‘The Journey is the Destination...’
Art workshop
Saturday 6 August
Nottingham Mela at New Art Exchange
Mela
Sunday 7 August
Nottingham Mela at Riverside Festival
Mela
Mon 8 - Wed 10 August
Podcasting - The Zone: Your Thoughts and Feelings
Audio-visual workshop
Mon 15 - Wed 17 August
Palestine Remixed
Music workshop
Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge the financial support New Art Exchange has received from our Funders and Partners. Revenue Funding
Capital Funders
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21 May - 6 August 2011 Admission: Free