You are invited to
Arcade in collaboration with Eden Arts
an Exhibition #Town2Town
5th – 20th March 2010
A dual sited exhibition of arts in empty shops in both Carlisle & Penrith
Launching Fri 5th March at 8pm Lowther Arcade Carlisle
with Arts throughout, live music & Mini Food Fest from The Circle Cafe Bar.
Launching Sat 6th March at 12 [...]
Arcade …in collaboration with Eden Arts
arcade is an artist-led initiative which aims to encourage the bringing together of artists and creative practitioners working in broad ranging art forms, and to organise openly accessible events in public ‘non-gallery’ spaces.
Projects to date have been organised specific to a Victorian built walkway Lowther Arcade in Carlisle city centre, [...]
Artists Janis Young and Chris Hurford are in occupation in an empty unit in Penrith’s Devonshire Arcade until February 14th. They both want the public to interact with them working, come in and have a chat…!
You can hear Chris Hurford’s BBC radio interview by clicking these links:
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We are currently accepting proposals for the shop in Devonshire Arcade in Penrith as to the potential for art projects to use the shop windows when units are empty. Obviously from the owners point of view and from the perspective of the shops that are open empty units are not particularly attractive or interesting or [...]
17 November 2009 1:00pm – 4:00pm; Methodist Hall, Fisher street, Carlisle
Carlisle is set to host an Empty Shops Symposium instigated collaboratively between the Cumbria Network and Freerange Artists, brought together by artist Caroline Dalton, instigator of the Arcade project in Carlisle.
Recently Caroline attended the first ever national Empty Shops conference hosted in Worthing by [...]
Got an opinion on Penrith? Have a bright idea for your town? Don’t put it in writing – put it in a drawing!
This Saturday Penrith will host Eden’s contribution to The Big Draw, a nationwide project using drawing to connect visitors with their museum and gallery collections, urban and rural spaces. Local action group [...]