The first in a short series of discussions and interviews examining the changing role of The Frieze Art fair as regards the London art scene. This show’s panel features Stuart Semple director at Aubin Gallery East London, Cynthia Corbett of Cynthia Corbett Gallery, West London, Chris Hammond director at MOT International gallery, East London and Brussels and Nathan Engelbrecht director at EB&Flo Gallery, East London. The show was hosted and produced by arts-broadcaster Fari Bradley.
Panel Borders: War (comic), what is it good for?
In an episode of Panel Borders previously broadcast as a live ‘Clear Spot’, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn, Eileen Cassavetti, Francesca Cassavetti, and David Blandy about about the importance of war comics in culture and bringing the experience of war and conflict to new readers in a way that text alone can’t fully realise, plus the forthcoming Comics and Conflicts conference and events at the Imperial War Museum. Plus, in excerpts from a couple of classic episodes Alex talks to Garth Ennis and Grant Rogers interviews Pat Mills about Charley’s War.
Alex Fitch, Ariel Kahn, Paul Gravett, Eileen Cassavetti and Francesca Cassavetti in the studio at Resonance FM, photo by Nick Tesco
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Info about the Comics and Conflicts events at the Imperial War Museum
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk (scroll down to find individual events
Info about Francesca and Eileen Cassavetti at fabtoons.blogspot.com
David Blandy’s film Child of the Atom
Info about War: The Human Cost
Charley’s War website
Wikipedia pages on Garth Ennis’ War Stories and Battlefields
Recommended events:
Comics and Conflicts festival , Imperial War Museum
…will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley’s War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti(Fabtoons).
On Friday 19th, there is an academic conference, in which University students and writers will be presenting papers on the subject of War Comics throughout the day, followed by a talk by Charley’s War author Pat Mills. There are tickets available for the conference which includes the talk by Pat Mills, or the talk is available as a separate ticket.
On Saturday 20th, there are talks, panels and workshops by small press creators and international authors, including a hour long discussion with Garth Ennis on stage in his first UK appearance at a comics festival in many years.
All Saturday events are £6 / the final event of the weekend, The Comics go to War film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children’s literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Full listing of events at www.panelborders.com/events
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Reality Check: Twisted Tales
Currently on stage at the Lyric, Hammersmith until 28th February is Jeremy Dyson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Twisted Tales”, combining five of his black comedy short stories into an eighty minute play about man’s inhumanity to man and the awkwardness of commuting… In a Q and A recorded after a performance of the production, cast members Jonathan Danciger, Nick Fletcher, Selina Griffiths, Alexandra Maher, Larry McCartney, George Rainsford and Trevor White discuss their love of Dahl, the delicate art of getting the tone right as one tongue in cheek tale rubs up against another that is genuinely disturbing, and playing multiple roles within the production. Tales by Roald Dahl adapted for the production include The Landlady, William and Mary, Galloping Foxley, Man from the South and Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat… (Originally broadcast as part of a Clear Spot on Resonance FM)
George Rainsford and Jonathan Danciger in Twisted Tales plus the opening paragraph of The Landlady by Roald Dahl
(Twisted Tales goes on tour to Newcastle in March and Liverpool in April)
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: More info about Twisted Tales at the Lyric, Hammersmith
Wikipedia page on Roald Dahl
Observer review of the production
Read The Landlady by Roald Dahl at www.wattpad.com
Roald Dahl official website and fan site
Recommended events:
Upcoming screenings at the Alibi, Dalston
Alibi Film club…
Feb 28th // Total Recall
March 7th // Saw
March 14th // Mean Girls
March 21st // Bad Lieutenant
March 28th // Evil Dead
Join the facebook group…
The Alibi, 91 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, London E8 2PB
FREE, Mondays from 8pm
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Reality Check: Charlie Higson, Enemy of The Dead
To coincide with the release of his new zombie novel for young adults, The Dead, Alex Fitch talks to comedian turned novelist, Charlie Higson about his survival horror novels set in London, whose locations take in such notable locations as Buckingham Palace, The Tower of London, the Imperial War Museum and Waitrose! Alex and Charlie discuss what led him to write the first book in the series, The Enemy and how that led to a prequel, his disappointment at the cancellation of Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) on TV, the difference in writing novels such as King of the Ants for adults and writing about zombies for younger readers plus his fascination in giving nightmares to children…
Originally broadcast 17th September 2010 as part of a ‘Clear Spot’ on Resonance 104.4 FM
Extracts of the covers from The Enemy and The Dead by Charlie Higson
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Wikipedia page on Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson’s website / The Enemy website
Listen to Alex’s interview with director Stuart Gordon, who adapted Charlie’s novel King of the Ants for the screen
Recommended events:
Orbital BECKY CLOONAN EXHIBITION EXTENDED TO SEP. 30th
Due to the big success of Becky Cloonan‘s show at the Orbital Gallery, we have extended the exhibition dates until the end of this month.
The show features original artwork from Demo, Pixu, the upcoming series Wolves and East Coast Rising, as well as limited screenprints, postcard sets and a hand-painted guitar.
The Orbital Gallery is open on our usual shop hours, from 10:30 to 19:00 Monday to Saturday and 11:30 to 17:00 on Sundays.
Orbital comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
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Clear Spot – 8th June 2010
How Life Begins – a collection of writings by Lynn Ruth Miller,
adapted and directed by Dimitri Devdariani
Narrated by Lynn Ruth Miller, with Linda Large, Victoria Johnston, Matthew Dexter, Frederic D’Amore and Peter Anderson.
Sound/post production by Lee Stapleford.
Directed by Dimitri Devdariani
Lynn Ruth Miller is an American writer, comedienne, performer, and
artist. She calls herself a “late bloomer” as her creativity truly
flourished later in life. However, once it did, her artistic career
took off with tremendous force; Lynn regularly participates in the
Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe Festivals, and attracts large, mostly
young, audiences who admire her original humour and refreshing energy.
She is the author of 11 novels, numerous short stories and many
colourful paintings. Her comedy routines are loved in London and USA.
Dimitri Devdariani trained as an actor, director and playwright. He
sees himself mostly as a director and that’s the career he would like
to pursue. Dimitri staged various classical and modern plays both in
London and his native Georgia. Amongst them are “Uncle Vanya” by Anton
Chekhov, “Sorceress” by Alexander Kuprin, “Mad Girl” by Yoshio
Mishima, “Desperate Improvisations” by Jan Hendrik Verstraten and
“Pandora’s Boxes” by Denise O’Leary.
“How Life Begins” is Dimitri’s second radio project and he is
delighted to be working with Lynn Ruth Miller and Resonance FM.
Reality Check: Being Doctor Who
With another season of the show currently over, Alex Fitch looks at the enduring legacy of Doctor Who in a trio of interviews originating at a ‘Who’ convention in the Home Counties. Alex talks to former Doctor Sylvester McCoy, former Time Lord nemesis (and honorary Doctor) Michael Jayston, and also to San Franciscan cosplay expert Johanna Mead about her creating Who inspired costumes and contributing to the anthology ‘Chicks dig Time Lords’.
A soslovie of ersatz Doctors gather outside a replica TARDIS at the Time Quest 2 convention in Theobalds park
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Wikipedia pages on Sylvester McCoy and Michael Jayston, a.k.a. The Valeyard
Listen to the accompanying podcast featuring an interview with Doctor Who writer Rob Shearman also recorded at Theobalds park
Doctor Who audio trailer archive
Johanna Mead‘s website – www.skaro.com
Buy Chicks dig Timelords featuring Johanna Mead from www.madnorwegian.com
Buy He Jests at Scars starring Michael Jayston and ‘season 27’ starring Sylvester McCoy at www.bigfinish.com
This Clear Spot features an interview with, and performance by, Esteban Antonio. The guitarist, world-musician and inventor initially reflects on his attraction to, and subsequent mastery of, the guitar, citing some of his major influences and experiences. In the second section, he introduces his invention; a seventeen stringed, three necked instrument which he calls the Ha-Shem. Esteban plays three compositions: Tears of the Latter Rain, the Voice of Many Waters, and, Dreams, Legends and the Spirit; describing the techniques he has developed to achieve his new repertoire.
First broadcast on February 8th 2010
www.estebanantonio.co.uk
Produced and Presented by Lee Stapleford
Panel Borders: Caught up with a Long Scarfe
In the third of three shows about and inspired by the Tate Britain exhibition ‘Rude Britannia’, Alex Fitch talks to the beloved British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe about his contributions to the exhibition and Dickon Harris talks to comedienne Josie Long about her interest in creating ‘zines and comics for distribution at her stand-up comedy gigs…
Clockwise from top - part of Rude Britannia curated by Gerald Scarfe, a classic drawing of Thatcher by the artist, cover of a zine by Josie Long
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Rude Britannia microsite
Video tour of the exhibtion on The Telegraph website
Gerald Scarfe‘s website
Josie Long‘s website including her comics archive
Info about The Black Heart, home of Josie’s ‘Lost Treasures’…
Recommended events:
David Hine and Shaky Kane signing and exhibition at Orbital Comics
David Hine (Son of M, X-Men Noir) and Shaky Kane (Soul Sisters, Judge Dredd) willl be signing their new comic, Bulletproof Coffin, at Orbital Comics Thursday 24th June 2010 from 5-7pm.
There is also an exhibition of Shaky Kane artwork in the Orbital Comics Gallery from 14th-30th June.
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
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Deepwater Horizon has highlighted the fatal consequences of corporate incompetence. This is the first in a series of conversations with artists, activists, curators and concerned individuals addressing art’s environment and the impact artists around the world are having on environmental and social policy.
Tonight we have James Marriott, of Platform, an organization that brings together artists & activists to create projects focused on social and ecological justice, in conversation with John Jordan, co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a network of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life.
They discuss what makes art such an effective catalyst for change, the history of art-activism, the ailing condition of art institutions, the architecture of corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions and how the Lab of ii recently exposed the Tate Modern’s complicity with BP’s project of maintaining a ‘social license to operate’.
Panel Borders: A tour of Rude Britannia
Originally broadcast 09/06/10 as part of a Clear Spot on Resonance 104.4 FM
In the second of a trio of shows about and inspired by ‘Rude Britannia’, Alex Fitch introduces a special episode of Panel Borders presenting a tour of the Tate Britain exhibition of the same name narrated by curator Martin Myrone, featuring additional commentary by Gerald Scarfe who introduces his section of the exhibition and a short interview with Myrone.
Images from Rude Britannia - a giant copy of Viz, If Not Now Then When by John Isaacs, Ladies Night by Beryl Cook
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Rude Britannia microsite
Video tour of the exhibtion on The Telegraph website
Gerald Scarfe’s website
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