Special Events @ Broomhill
Jazz at Broomhill
Monthly Jazz Evenings with the best of contemporary jazz. These evenings book up early - so don't delay in looking at the details here...
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Waterstone’s Supper Club
Details of future Supper Clubs will be here.
New Installation with Laury
New Installation ‘Artists of the Silk Road’ by Laury Dizengremel from May 2008.
After a busy year in 2007, having been commissioned by the ATP, governing body of the men’s professional tennis circuit, to create sculptures of the best eight tennis players in the world as ‘Tennis Terracotta Warriors’ Laury Dizengremel has created a new installation for Broomhill. The installation will be a follow-on from the current three large ‘Artists’ sculptures taking its audience further on the journey with the ‘Artists of the Silk Road’. 102 figures in resin on 21 steel platforms and 27 figures in bronze on 9 bronze platforms will be located on the flood plain of the Broomhill river.
The Art of Good Food
Part of the North Devon Festival
A month long celebration of North Devon’s local produce.
Throughout June Broomhill will be celebrating fresh, organic, fair, genuine, locally produced Food. The organisation ‘Slow Food’ is supporting this mouth-watering month by offering up its knowledge and experience to show us how we can counteract our fast food/fast life lifestyle.
Broomhill will be displaying Slow Food literature and showcasing a different local food producer each week in June, including tasting sessions and displays.
Visitors as always will have the pleasure of discovering new flavours, tastes and traditions with produce from the regions local food producers.
What is slow food?
“Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.” taken from www.slowfood.com
Polar Bear
Wed 04 Jun 08 •20:00
Part of the North Devon Fringe Festival - NOTE: This perfomance is on WEDNESDAY
“Castanet-like handclaps trigger long, guttural sax lines; electronics fly across the speakers and give way to free-blasting; and odd, pogo-dancing themes over bumpy drumming sound like punk interpretations of Parisian café music.” - John Fordham, The Guardian
Polar Bear were Mercury prize nominees in 2005 and front man/drummer Sebastian Rochford picked up the BBC’s rising star award in ’04.
“This is not nu jazz, acid jazz, Jamie jazz, Parky jazz, Brit jazz, beardo jazz,post-jazz or twee jazz. It’s dream jazz.” - Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly
“[The album] explores a mix of trance-like, long-note music over eerie, hypnotic grooves, full-on electronics and free-improv, melancholic songs, punky thrashes and some of the best two-sax conversation to be heard on the current scene.” - JohnFordham, The Guardian
“The big-hitters of the current new wave.” - Phil Johnson, Independent On Sunday - ABC
“Polar Bear blast out of the past, full of straight, cool school skills, and detonate the past, bursting with edgy, forward-looking lust.” - Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly
- Mark Lockheart - Tenor sax
- Pete Wareham - Tenor sax
- Tom Herbert - Double Bass
- Leafcutter John - Electronics
- Sebastian Rochford - Drums
Art Trek - June Exhibition at the Broomhill Gallery
Part of the North Devon Festival
Marianne Edwards
An experienced pastel painter inspired by the shifting patterns of light in the sky, through trees and over water in the Devonshire countryside and coast.
Marianne studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art. She has won prizes in TV-sponsored exhibitions and has shown widely in many solo and mixed exhibitions, including: R.W.A., Pastel Society, Royal Society of Painters and the Newlyn Art Gallery. Marianne is also an exhibiting member of North Devon Arts.
Starting in Art
Part of the North Devon Festival
Fri 06 Jun & Thu 12 Jun 2008
Co-ordinated by Devon Adult & Community Learning
Workshops for budding artists using traditional and also innovative techniques.
An exciting new event aimed at people who would like to be creative, but who haven't had the courage to start. You will learn in a supportive environment with a qualified tutor. Each workshop has been designed to encourage you to develop those latent talents. Please visit devon.gov.uk/adultlearning for further details.
North Devon Arts
North Devon Arts a friendly and informal networking group of professional and amateur artists and anyone with an interest in the arts. Our current membership includes painters, potters, graphic designers, textile artists, writers, sculptors, furniture makers, print makers, photographers, stained glass artists, teachers and others with an interest in the arts. You do not have to be a practising artist to join - membership is open to anyone.
More information and details of meetings and events is here.
New Year New Work 2008 information here
Looking at our local Footprints
Supported by Leader+
“Using art, science and technology as the vehicles for delivering environmental awareness.” • Lillian Sum
As the worlds political figures rise to the challenge of tackling environmental concerns on a global scale, North Devon’s Broomhill Sculpture Gardens is rising to the challenge on a more local level with their largest and most interactive outdoor installation yet. The installation named ‘Footprint’ is by Artist Lillian Sum, and will be open for public viewing at Broomhill Sculpture gardens from the 14th June 2007.
Lillian Sum is based in the UK, her eastern roots and educational background has influenced her to explore cultural diversity, human interaction and the relationship with our environment. Over the past three years Lillian has worked on educational art projects to forge cultural links between the UK and India, Tibet, Nepal and works to spread this network to other countries in the near future. ‘Footprint’ is an installation inspired by Tibetan Prayer Wheels, comprising 27 oil drums, each held in wooden huts that make up a small village, depicting ecological themes that are part of a local project with Marwood Primary School. Lillian has been holding Arts and Science workshops at the School to plant seeds of environmental awareness within the consciousness of the children, empowering them with knowledge, understanding and confidence to deal with the rapid changes happening to our planet.
The school will form a cultural link with a school in India, specifically to create an open dialogue to assist in the learning and understanding of the changes happening in other rural locations around the globe; potentially, giving opportunities for working together in the future for developing environmental consciousness, and implementing practical solutions.
You can add to the installation by leaving your own thoughts and ideas behind, in our interactive hut. ‘Footprint’ has been designed to encourage us to think about how we can help to reduce our impact on the earth.
‘Footprint’ will be open for public viewing at Broomhill Sculpture Gardens from 14 Jun 07.
