Unravel - creating the longest hand painted film in Britain!

Come along and help to create the longest hand painted film in Britain!

Unravel comes to Hull Saturday 15th January 11 - 4pm at The Museum of Club Culture, 10 Humber Street, Fruitmarket, Hull.

Winner of the Deutsche Bank Award for Art at the Royal College of Art 2010, Unravel is an epic project that will create a hand painted film that correlates in length with the 874 miles between John O'Groats and Land's End - taking each metre between these two edges of mainland Britain as a ratio to equal one frame of 16mm film.

In collaboration with over twenty national and international film festivals across England, Scotland and Wales Unravel are holding touring workshops aiming to amass an epic sixteen hour film that will be created and manipulated by hand, by a diverse demographic of the people of Britain.

Free of charge and open to all, the Unravel team are looking to involve as many local communities as possible - from young children and families to experienced film veterans!

Unravel aims to turn the viewer into the maker of the work in a literal 'hands-on' way.

We hope that these events will be as entertaining, informative and inspiring introduction to film making, providing an informal setting for people to interact with each other as much as the project.

Formed by Maria Anastassiou and Chris Paul Daniels whilst studying at the Royal College of Art, Unravel is also comprised of OKO Lab of Leeds (Mark Pickles and Jo Byrne) and, Manchester based, Kelvin Brown.

'Keeping The Faith' Northern Soul photography exhibition

'Keeping The Faith' an exhibition of Northern Soul photography by John Barrett is now on show at The Museum of Club Culture and is open to the public on Thursdays 6-9pm and Saturdays and Sundays 11am-5.30pm (or by appointment) and will run until the end of January. Free entry.

Hull Daily Mail says 'its a must' and we do too!

'Keeping the Faith' exhibition preview of John Barrett's photographs of The Northern Soul Scene in the UK is on Friday Dec 3, 7pm - 9pm. This exhibitions runs until 23rd December. Open Thursday nights 5-9pm, Saturdays and Sundays 10.30pm to 6pm.

John Barrett has been documenting the UK soul scene through a range of black and white and colour photography. This rare collection provides a true insight into the most endearing and idiosyncratic UK dance scenes which continues to survive, uninterrupted since the1960s'

Ted Polhemus talk cancelled

Unfortunately, due to the bad weather conditions causing road and rail disruptions Ted Polhemus's talk has been cancelled. It will however, be re-scheuled in January.

Ted Polhemus talk at The Museum of Club Culture

Ted Polhemus will introduce the new edition of his book Street Style and show visuals at The Museum of Club Culture on Friday 3rd December from 7pm

Captain Zips Video Trip last night was attended by an enthusiastic audience followed by a lively discussion afterwards

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumofclubculture/sets/72157625471997630/

A Hyperfruit report on our launch evening last Friday

http://hyperfruit.net/2010/11/club-museums-lively-launch/

The Captain Zip Video Trip

Captain Zip will introduce his films at The Museum of Club Culture, 10 Humber Street Hull, HU1 1TG on Thursday 25th November, 2010. Doors open 6.30pm, screening starts 7pm

Phil Munnoch aka Captain Zip had become involved in London’s punk scene and decided to start filming it for posterity. He reports spending every spare weekend filming on the Kings Road, where this footage was taken. While the punk scene was the subject of much television reportage and some independent film making, 'The Captain Zip Video Trip' is unusual in focussing exclusively on the everyday grassroots punk scene from the viewpoint of those directly involved. These vibrant time capsules of one of the most colourful explosions of expression the streets of England have witnessed were largely edited in-camera and have become an important social history resource enabling an inspiring form of time travel to a less politically censored age.
Captain Zip's films are a part of The British Film Institute National Film and Television archive.

Captain Zip on "The Home Movie Roadshow" (BBC2, 3rd September 2010)

The Art of Illustration

The Art of Illustration! Free workshop

Practitioner, author and educator Mark Wigan will give a free introductory workshop on illustration on Sunday 21st November.

Mark Wigan has written 5 books on illustration for AVA publishing and his illustrations have been commissioned by a broad range of clients, he has led B.A. and M.A. courses at Camberwell College of Arts, University of Salford and now is lecturing at HSAD.
This introductory workshop is a taster for more short courses planned for the near future.

http://www.avabooks.ch/index.php/ava/bookdetails/978-2-940373-60-4

Museum of Club Culture promo

doodlesting

A Kate Jessop animation for The Museum of Club Culture

Heres a still from a promo video Kate Jessop made for The Museum of Club Culture, to see the video go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0D2454yym0

On Friday 19th November the actor and singer Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals)

will officially launch The Museum of Club Culture followed by Viva La Muralists! with

Manchester's Barney Doodlebug!

Viva La Muralists!

We have great pleasure in inviting Michael Barnes-Wynters to The Museum of Club Culture to detonate our series of cultural events and exhibitions.

Viva La Muralists! A Doodlebug sharing of Cross Platform Street Art Interventions with Manchester's Barney Doodlebug
on Friday 19 November at 7.00pm

Manchester based artist and event producer Michael Barnes-Wynters (aka Barney) has curated leading edge cultural initiatives for the past 20 years ranging from nightclub promotion to doodlebug live painting events and the noiselab part of noise festival. http://noiselab.co.uk/barney

Doodlebug was born in 1991 as a creative platform for its culturally diverse Northwest based artists, musicians, performers and DJs. Doodlebug's debut event in '94 presented the unknown DJ Shadow and DJ Krush...headz session(mo wax records). During this time Doodlebug provided a platform for unknown artists the likes of as Mr. Scruff, Andy Votel and Alison David to develop and explore their creative practices.

its annual celebration of visual/street arts known as International Doodlebug Day-Viva La Muralists! IDD ( 99-06), held simultaneously in Manchester, London and Tokyo, IDD nurtured talent the likes of Pete Fowler and gave rise to the scrawl collective whilst introducing the UK’s first street art expo at Urbis, Manchester in 2003, which moved onto the Tate Modern in 2008.

Captain Zip presents

Captain Zip will introduce and screen his 1970's punk scene movies filmed down the Kings Road

on Thursday 25th November, 2010. Doors open 6.30pm

Screening starts 7pm

Phil Munnoch aka Captain Zip has made some 200 films on 8mm and Super 8 since he was a boy in the 1960s, ranging from records of events taking place in 1960s London to recent films of London’s S&M scene.

Munnoch/Captain Zip had become involved in London’s punk scene and decided to start filming it for posterity. He reports spending every spare weekend filming on the Kings Road, where this footage was taken. While the punk scene was the subject of much television reportage and some independent film making, 'The Captain Zip Video Trip' is unusual in focussing exclusively on the everyday grassroots punk scene from the viewpoint of those directly involved. These vibrant time capsules of one of the most colourful explosions of expression the streets of England have witnessed were largely edited in-camera and have become an important social history resource enabling an inspiring form of time travel to a less politically censored age.

Captain Zip's films are a part of The British Film Institute National Film and Television archive.

Captain Zip will introduce the programme

T.shirts and badges for the Museum of Club Culture

Design Week

...and we are getting quite a bit of press interest at the moment including a great piece in this week's Design Week www.studio-output.com/studio-output-features-in-design-week

Heres a bit more information on us:

www.hull.co.uk/mailshot_view.asp?EmailID=114

you could also check out our website: www.museumofclubculture.com

Museum of Club Culture T-shirts

Setting Up

Setting up at The Museum of Club Culture - the weekend of 17th and 18th July 2010

Mark Wigan's exhibition

video by Humber TV

'The In Crowd Exhibition' by Mark Wigan

The Museum of Club Culture is situated in the old Fruit Market in Hull's new cultural quarter still has plenty of work to be done on it by the builders before it officially opens in September, but we opened our doors for the return of the Clipper weekend with an exhibition of work by Mark Wigan titled 'The In Crowd'.

International artist, illustrator, educator and writer Mark Wigan has been prolific in his creations from mural painting in New York and Tokyo to exhibiting in contemporary art galleries world wide. He has designed Club interiors, sets for T.V. shows, Airships and appeared as the central figure in adverts for Parco department store in Japan. He has painted the world with his strange creatures and also chronicled night life and subcultures in pen and ink. www.wigansworld.com