Barrow in Furness Civic and Local History Society

Promoting local history and cultural heritage of the area.

Meetings are on the last Tuesday of the month and are held at Trinity Church Abbey Road, Barrow. Start 7:30pm. Members £2 - Visitors £2.50

28th September Speaker: David Fellows

Subject: A Cumbrian Colony in the South Pacific

Thought for the Week

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker.

Urban Retreat - Street Training

Street Training - 26th September 2010. Working with the physical and social territory, Lottie Child will lead a Street Training session looking at being joyful in public space which includes singing, parkour, climbing, chalking 2pm - 4pm. Street Training gives a name to people's own ways to connect with place playfully, subversively, sensually through intervention, observation and testing boundaries in public.

Lower age limit 6 years, no upper age limit!

Meet at 2pm at Art Gene, Nan Tait Centre, Abbey Road (corner of Bath Street and Abbey Road), Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 5TY.

Free, but places are limited so booking is essential. To book go to http://drawingwalk.eventbrite.com/or phone Art Gene: 01229 825085.

Part of the Urban Retreat for more information http://www.closeandremote.net/

Urban Retreat Lending Library

Browse the especially collated Urban Retreat Lending Library at Barrow Library, Ramsden Square, Barrow-in-Furness. A range of books both from the library collection and donated by the Urban Retreat artists and patrons, are available to read throughout the project. Each book will contain an especially designed book plate by Karen Di Franco.

Barrow Library opening times: Monday 0930 – 1900, Tuesday 0930 – 1700, Wednesday 0930 - 1900 , Thursday 0930 – 1200, Friday 0930 - 1700 , Saturday 1000 – 1600, Sunday 1200 - 1600

Urban Retreat - Urban Wanderer

Sophie Mellor will spend two weeks as an urban wanderer relying on the kindness of strangers and the bounty of the land to house and feed her. Look out for her on the streets, green spaces, seashore and wastelands of Barrow. Stop and have a chat; join her for a cup of tea; making a fishing basket; gathering samphire; whittling a spoon; window shopping; cockle picking; lorry spotting; toad watching. Offer her a meal, a place to sleep, a story.

Part of the Urban Retreat for more information http://www.closeandremote.net/

Monday 13th September to Sunday 26th September 2010. Art Gene (01229) 825085

URBAN RETREAT - In and around Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

Monday 13th September to Sunday 3rd October 2010 in and around Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

Part of the Urban Retreat for more information http://www.closeandremote.net/

Lottie Child, Emma Cocker, Karen Di Franco, Sophie Mellor, Laura Oldfield Ford, Clare Thornton.

Urban Retreat is a series of artists commissions, activities and events exploring the urban and rural landscape of Barrow in Furness.

Free, but places are limited so booking is essential. To book go to http://drawingwalk.eventbrite.com/ or phone Art Gene: 01229 825085.

We Live Here #1. ATIC Records 2010.

Sunset, looking west from Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness.

Music : Death Of The Neighbourhood - 'A Cool Breeze On The Back Of The Neck'. Taken from the album 'Death Of The Neighbourhood'. ATIC Records 2008 http://www.aticrecords.com/

Wasteland Drawing Walk - Art Gene

Saturday, 25th September 2010

Outdoor drawing workshop 2pm to 4pm with Laura Oldfield Ford.

The workshop will be a walk around the town examining the impact of the Barrow Blitz, the steel and shipping industries and urban regeneration schemes. Through a process of walking and drawing the hidden narratives of the area will be uncovered. Participants will use pens, pencils and chalk to form subjective maps of the town. Bring drawing materials and paper.

Meet at 2pm at Art Gene, Nan Tait Centre, Abbey Road (corner of Bath Street and Abbey Road), Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 5TY.

Free, but places are limited so booking is essential.

To book go to http://drawingwalk.eventbrite.com/ or phone Art Gene: 01229 825085.

Part of the Urban Retreat for more information http://www.closeandremote.net/

Cumbria Wildlife Trust events ...

                                  A Fascination for Fungi

Tuesday 21 September 2010, 7.45-9.15pm.

The Parish Centre, Church Walk, Ulverston.

Entry £2 on the door.

A fascinating insight into these remarkable organisms at a time of year they can be seen around us. An illustrated talk by Mike Hall who is well known in Cumbria as an expert on fungi.

            ‘A year in the wild flowers of a Cumbrian village’.

Friday 8 October 2010, 7.30pm

At Broughton in Furness Methodist Church.

20 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

20 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope at the Forum, main hall.

A lecture about 20 years of the Hubble Space Telescope from Dr Robin Catchpole, Research Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 September at 7.30pm

Admission Free

FREE - Boat trip to Piel Island

FREE - Boat trip to Piel Island

As one of the Design Café events you are cordially invited to take a boat trip to Piel Island led by visiting artists to Barrow

When: This Saturday, the 11th September 2010.

So, book now as places are limited by going to http://www.artgene-designcafe.com/ or phone Maddi Nicholson: 07769915631 / Steve Harris: 07946126412.

Trip 1

Meet Art Gene Gallery 11.00am- Art Gene staff drive you to Ramsden Dock ( boat leaves 11.45 prompt.)

trip 1 & 1/2 hours.

Arrive Piel approx. 12.15pm have refreshments and ferry back late afternoon.

Art Gene staff drive you back to town.

Trip 2

Meet Art Gene Gallery 12.30 pm - Art Gene staff drive you to Ramsden Dock

( boat leaves 1.15pm prompt) trip 1 & 1/2 hours.

Arrive Piel approx. 2.45pm have refreshments and ferry back late afternoon.

Art Gene staff drive you back to town.

Art Gene Limited. Registered Charity 1135536 http://www.artgene.co.uk

FULL OF NOISES FESTIVAL

Hildur Gudnadottir – Saturday 25 September 2010. Residency and live performance at Lanternhouse (http://www.lanternhouse.org/), Ulverston from the acclaimed Icelandic cellist/composer. Visit http://www.hildurness.com/

For more info and tickets visit http://www.fonfestival.org/

Thought for the Week

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato

Audition Opportunity – The Ashton Group

The Ashton Group is looking for 4 young people to join our Apprenticed Actors Company.

You’ll perform 'Diffusion', a new play by Jamie Cubiss, second winner of our ‘New Lines’ playwriting competition. The show will premiere at The Forum, Barrow-in-Furness on 27th October and then tour to The Beggars Theatre, Millom; Bolton Octagon; The Kirkgate, Cockermouth and The Dukes, DT3, Lancaster.

We need 4 young actors aged 16 to 21. If you’re interested in a career in theatre and you’re aged between 16 and 21 ... and you’d like to be paid for 4 weeks rehearsal ... and 2 weeks performing then come to the audition at The Old Fire Station, Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness on either Friday 10 September or Monday 13 September at 6.30 pm

You don’t need to prepare a speech or sing a song – it will be a workshop audition run by Director Rachel Ashton.

For more details ring Rachel on 01229 430636 or email theashtongroup@btconnect.com

Furness College Advice Sessions

Find out about the extensive range of Part-time Courses, University Degrees, Foundation Degrees and University Pathways, Apprenticeships, Bespoke Training for Businesses, Skills for life and Full-time Courses, at Channelside Barrow-in-Furness.

Thursday 9th September 5pm – 6pm

Saturday 11th September 10am – 12 Noon

For further information Tel: 01229 825017

Teenage Book Club at Barrow Library

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Young People's Reading Group

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Bookstart Library at Bookstart Rhymetime

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What's on at Barrow Library

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Project Skate ...

FREE screening of new short films made about skating at Barrow skate park.

Friday 10 September 2010 7.30pm.

Don't miss it!

Thought for the Week

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." Blaise Pascal

Launch of Design Cafe

An exciting opportunity to work alongside Artists, Architects and other regeneration professionals to help reshape the future of Barrow Borough.

Design Café is Art Gene’s open link to the communities of Barrow Borough inspiring engagement with Regeneration.

Design Café will establish an aspirational group of local people, who are inspired and empowered to take a proactive role as champions for sustainable contemporary design-led regeneration within their peer groups and communities. The group will meet at Art Gene, creating a temporary café sometimes in the recently refurbished Art Gene Gallery amidst artworks, at other times in the studios of Art Gene’s (inter)national residency artists or at other interesting sites where design meets regeneration.

Art Gene aims to create an environment where the Design Café group feel empowered and supported to question, comment and exchange ideas about the regeneration of the social, natural and built environment and definitions of high quality design.

Presentations and Talks

Art Gene and its team of associate (inter)national artists and architects and other leaders in their field will present a varied programme of visual presentations, tailored to evolving investigations, discussions and debates.

Design Cafe Research Trips
Art Gene will also lead ‘Go explore’ research trips around the locality and beyond. The group will be encouraged to use a new Design Café discussion forum on the Art Gene website as a networking space which will help form a collective sense of purpose and identity, facilitate group and ultimately external communication and promotion.

Launch Event to be held at Nan Tait Centre Abbey Road Barrow 8th SEPTEMBER – 6PM - DESIGN CAFÉ LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENING ‘YOUR FUTURE NEEDS YOU’ - FREE

EXHIBITION CONTINUES: 9 SEPTEMBER - 17 DECEMBER 2010 12-5 PM WEEKDAYS

LATE NIGHT WEDNESDAYS ‘TIL 6 PM - CLOSED WEEKENDS. - FREE ADMISSION

Artists Architects and Designers, engaged in Art Gene’s Barrow by Design and wider programme, take a fresh look at regeneration in Barrow and further afield.

Please ensure you check the website http://www.artgene.co.uk/ for further events and up to date information, & additional special events.

Free Theatre Tickets for under 26's.

The forum is pleased to be involved in the Arts Council scheme offering free theatre tickets to under 26's. The scheme will run until February 2011.

Events included under the scheme are:

People's Theatre Company 'How the Koala Learnt to Hug' - Thursday 2 September

Theatre Productions 'The Naked Truth' - Wednesday 8 September

Barrow Amateurs Operatic & Dramatic Society '100 Not Out' - Wednesday 22 September

Femme Fatale 'Scrubbers' - Friday 1 October

Red Ladder Theatre Company 'Ugly' - Thursday 14 October

Walney Junior Amateur Operatic Society 'Oliver' - Wednesday 20 October

The Ashton Group Theatre - Diffusion - Wednesday 27 October

Seabright Productions 'Hit Me! The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury' - Tuesday 2 November

Scamp Theatre 'Stickman' - Friday 12 November

Walney Musical Theatre Company 'Jesus Christ Superstar' - Wednesday 17 November

Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp - Friday 17 December

We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Thursday 3 February

The Ashton Group 3 for 2 youth theatre deal... - Monday 21 February

EXHIBITION at the Forum – REVEALED by Andrew Sweeting

September and October 2010 - Admission Free

Andrew's art was inspired by numerous trips to his local DIY stores.

He often used to look at the relief patterns on anaglypta wallpaper and wonder what they would look like if they were painted in a way that revealed and enhanced the patterns.

He decided that he wanted his pictures to have some impact, so he pasted the wallpaper on large pieces of hardboard and then used acrylic paints as his colouring medium.

Once they were pasted he used technical drawing instruments to extend the patterns, giving them a three dimensional look and then coloured them in using bold and contrasting primary colours on very dark or light backgrounds.

Exhibitions at the Dock Museum

7th September – 10th October - Annual Autumn Showcase of the Barrow Society of Artists

13th October – 9th January 2011 - 'Into the Wild’ - Heléne Burrow

Heléne is exploring new techniques both in her studio and painting outdoors. ‘Wild Portraits’ will show some of those experiments with oil along with some previously unseen acrylic and pencil works.