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It's that time of year when our local talent flaunt their wares. East Kent is liberally sprinkled with artists, and the finest have gravitated to Herne Bay, of course.
This coming weekend they're opening up their homes for you to gaze, goggle-eyed at the marvels they have wrought. If you can't make this weekend, don't fret - they'll be doing it again 25th/26th October and 1st/2nd November.
Resident marvel Karen Simpson is at it again! Simple, creative fun for anyone and everyone - read on...
Please come along and Decorate a 'Pebble' for Karen's Community Art Installation "The People's Beach" which will be going on display at Reculver Visitor Centre in August.
People will be invited to paint or draw on a Plaster of Paris "Pebble" on the theme "what the coast means to me".
All the Pebbles will form an Art Installation at Reculver Visitor Centre (Reculver Lane Herne Bay CT6 6SS) in August 2013 and Beach Creative (Beach Street Herne Bay CT6 5PT) in October 2013.
To find out more about Karen and marvellous works, visit: www.shoreisaloadofrubbish.com
Here's a date for your diary. Beach Creative, Herne Bay's newest art hub, will be holding an Open Day on Saturday 23rd March from 10am - 4pm.
Beach Creative houses Galleries, Artist’s Studios and Workshop Rooms. This is an opportunity to see some of the activities that take place behind the scenes, chat with artists and workshop leaders and have a go at some taster sessions.
Beach Creative galleries are open daily 10am-4pm Monday-Saturday, and 10am-1pm Sundays.
The nice people from Portable Art Space are offering local artists an opportunity to showcase their work.
Those smashing people at Beach Creative are running an exhibition to support the excellent Fairtrade initiative.
If you're an artist (even if only in secret!) you need to hand in your work on 23rd February, between 10am and 4pm.
The exhibition itself will run from 27th February until 16th March.
A new and good thing is happening in Herne Bay.
A group called Beach Creative is taking up residence in Beach House, just off the William Street car park.
They are a new creative community who will be using the space to provide artists' studios, exhibition spaces, meeting rooms and workshops.
They are having an open day on Saturday 7th July from 10am until 8pm, so go along and have a look at what they're up to. These are nice people, doing a good thing, and they would love to see you.
Beach Creative founders Mandy Broughton, Gill Wilson and Mandy Troughton
A community interest company looks set to convert an empty building into a thriving centre for the arts.
Beach Creative, set up by the University for the Creative Arts, will take over Beach House and turn it into a hive of painting studios, writers' rooms and community space. UCA will lease the building after plans to demolish it to make way for town development stalled. The council-owned building will be leased to the group for a yet-to-be-agreed rent, expected to be a nominal sum.
University outreach coordinator Gill Wilson is heading the new community interest company. She said:
"At UCA we are excited to build upon existing relationships with local schools and community groups to enable more people to become involved in the arts."
Fellow director of the new group and artist Mandy Broughton said:
"This is an exciting new initiative for Herne Bay. In addition to providing much-needed studio space for local artists, we're committed to playing a positive role in the local area."
thisiskent 17th Feb 2012
Beach House in Beach Street was due to be bulldozed as part of town centre regeneration plans, but they are on hold after council bosses struggled to find investors. Charities that were based in the building, including Herne Bay Volunteer Centre, Volcare, Shopmobility and Epilepsy Here, were forced to relocate to make way for the plans and many of them ended up forking out for higher rents.
The building has now been empty for almost a year and officials plan to rent it to the University of Creative Arts. One volunteer working with the affected charities – many of which moved to Age UK's new centre in Reculver Road – said:
"It's a bit of an embarrassment for the council. It was rushing to get people out of it and now is worried about leaving it empty. It looks like it will be handed over to the University of Creative Arts to use as studio space."
Council spokesman Rob Davies said:
"The former leaseholder's tenancy of Beach House was due to end in December 2011 anyway, but early last year three of the organisations were offered alternative accommodation by Age UK, providing the opportunity to move. The other users of the building were also able to find a new home, and the council paid the moving costs of all the organisations. We would still like to have Beach House occupied, but the majority of users would want to have security of tenure, which the council is unable to offer. We are in discussions with the University of Creative Arts about their use of the building and the terms of a possible lease, which we hope to finalise in the near future."
thisiskent 14th Feb 2012
The Herne Bay branch of the WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) is starting a new season of courses.
There will be a seven week course starting 17th April - one two-hour session a week - looking at poets and poetry between the two world wars.
Tutor Ron Dodge introduces the course:
Do you like poetry? Yes? No? Think again... Hitler and German rearmament. The Spanish Civil War. Grinding poverty. Ominous noises off. Was it likely that anything poetic could come from this 'low dishonest decade'? Yet poetry is always being written however turbulent the times.
In the 1930s a new breed of politically aware poets came of age, writing about the Spanish Civil War, about the increasingly urban sprawl, about the need to take sides, sensing the havoc of the coming conflict. People like WH Auden and Louis MacNeice were inspired to some of their finest poetry in this decade.
But as well as the so-called 'pylon poets' there were some notable others. The precocious Dylan Thomas was starting to make his mark. The mature poet TS Eliot wrote some of his finest work. Yet others, seemingly disengaged from the turmoil such as AE Housman and WB Yeats at the end of their creative lives made notable contributions.
Ron Dodge will look at the background of this uneasy peace between two wars to explore how the awareness of a world falling apart led some poets of the decade to come to terms with an unpoetic age, and how others seemingly did not.
Meanwhile, Caroline Finucane will take another group through seven sessions, starting on 19th April, on British Modern Art. She has already run a one day class, on Saturday 28th January, on The Origins of Modern Art.
On the subject of poetry again, the 17th March will see a one day course, led by Jane Ireson, which will be devoted to poems on the theme of Remembering. And another day course on Egyptology will take place in May - date to be decided.
And music? Well, the music course has already started, but there will be others, so keep an eye open.
If you are interested and would like to find out more, have a look at the WEA website for dates, times, venues and fees of courses in Herne Bay, or phone 01227 372281.
