Upcoming presentationsPosted on 27th January, 2009.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery has a contemporary collection of artworks dating from the 1980′s, addressing ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. There are a series of talks, presentations and films as part of their current exhibition programme. Here’s just two of them I’m involved with…

Caribbee Island Saturday 21st March, 1pm, Wolverhampton Art Gallery. An encounter with Caribbee Island; the Irish quarter of Wolverhampton in the 19th Century.

Identity and Divided Society Thursday 9th April, 1pm, Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Explore how Northern Irish identity has been addressed within images in the Northern Ireland Collection in an open discussion.

web updatePosted on 15th January, 2009.

All galleries back online. Animator & and Piddle Valley relocated to Project Archive section…..

Book of the BridgePosted on 10th January, 2009.

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The Borderland Foundation have published ‘The Book of the Bridge’, 146 pages of documentation of the Bosnian Triptych project (2006). Essays in three languages (English, Polish and Bosnian) by  Krzysztof Czyzewski, Ranka Mutelevic, Tanja Miletic Orucevic, Brendan Jackson and Wieslaw Szuminski, lavishly illustrated by photographs from the media workshop and the book workshop.

Build completePosted on 7th January, 2009.

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The film project with the BUILD group (Be United In Local Development) is undergoing final tweaking in the edit suite at Kingshurst Technology College. A group of young people from the college have worked on a media project about the regeneration of North Solihull and are putting the final touches to it. More info at the Laundry web site…