Monday 30 April 2012

Bill & Ted's Excellent Blog

I was quite happy fiddling around with this blog malarkey - certain that I was writing for my own amusement. Now I'm told that this an "excellent blog" (Fringe website) and all of a sudden the pressure in on to deliver quality - or your money back! I could try and divert your attention by reminding you how excellent the Fringe website is and maybe you'll go scurrying off there. But, just as last week we had a bit of a scoop and an exclusive on the Buxton Film project (superbly reported this week in the Advertiser and the Buxton Times) well this week we might be first to tell you a bit aboutVers@tile!

As you should be aware by now Fringe 2009 is the 30th Fringe and we're trying to make a bit of a splash - the first splash being the launch party in November. Well coming to a school, Children's Centre or other venue near you in the next 3 months is Vers@tile! This is a multi-media arts project and is the wonderful idea of two local artists - Ingrid Karlsson-Kemp and Caroline Chouler-Tissier. They will be organising 15 workshops in the coming weeks which will produce (amongst other things) 150 small tiles which will be mounted on a three panels (a triptych may be the proper word). This piece will be first displayed in the Buxton Museum - probably in May - and will be a key exhibit during the Fringe.

The Vers@tile! triptych will find a suitable permanent home later in the year.
The project is being generously sponsored by Lottery funds, the Bingham Trust, the Satterthwaite bequest and Derbyshire County councillors.
Do look out for further details of this project and try to find ways of taking part if at all possible.

(I can't remember where Bill & Ted came into this: but this I do know, tomorrow [Sunday, 25th January] this blog will be celebrating the 250th birthday of Robert Burns. The haggis will be meat-free so some might question the authnticity. Even less authentic will be the Scottish accents. An enigma, this Burns fellow. I doubt that I would have liked him much but trust he would not be offended if friends gather in his memory to share some whisky and verse).


by Keith Savage - Published 24/01/2009 

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