Falling together

The second Grennan and Sperandio piece has gone up in Towneley Hall this week, let us know what you think!

and the original...

Another picnic!

Another date for your diaries...July 20th, we will be launching the medicinal herb garden at Rossendale Museum, planted by artists Kaspar Wimberley and Susanne Kudielka as part of the work they were doing with the New Light on Old Bones project. The garden will have a joint launch with local group Incredible Edible who are opening a community garden project that they have planted in the museum gardens. There will be lots to do from activities with local herbalists to meeting local food proucers and generally having a nice picnic! I'll post more details closer to the time...

Sunday picnic...

This Sunday from 12-4pm there is a celebration picnic (bring your own spread!) being held at Haworth Art Gallery. If the weather is fine (fingers crossed) we'll be in the gardens, if not we'll be in the house. Artist Becky Waite will be running her final workshops and inviting everyone to celebrate with her by decorating the trees in the park with the kaleidoscope installation she has been developing over the past month. You can also take the opportunity to see the new Stuart Haygarth piece commissioned for the gallery that inspired Becky's workshops, all in all a perfect day out!

Night sites...

Thanks to everyone who came and made the museum at night events a success this weekend. More pictures coming soon..

Night Sites...

We have a host of events happening this weekend for the'Museum at Night' nation campaign. We are using this event at Haworth Art Gallery and Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery to kick start a programme of workshops that support the main ReVisit commissions. See the CW website for more details and find out about the following workshops here and here.

Work by Becky Waite

Rossendales new medicinal herb garden...

For a full up date on the herb garden planted by Kaspar and Susanne at Rossendale Museum, pop over here.

New...

After much deliberation this programme of work will now be marketed under the banner of ReVisit, as below...

What is in a name...

So now we are moving forward with the commissions in each of the five areas, our train of thought has come round to the best way of letting people know what is happening. We have a variety of planned publicity up our sleeve, but we suddenly had a moment of doubt yesterday over what we have been naming the work. Since the idea was conceived we have been referring to it, as the name of this blog indicates, as 'The Spring Programme'. However with a a whole of host of galleries and theatres 'spring programmes' arriving on our doorstep, we began to think this might not have been the brightest idea. So back to the drawing board we go. We need a title that will link the very different work together. The main links are that all the work is in response to some of the impressive heritage collections that the venues house, and we would like to encourage more people to visit to discover what we have on offer in Pennine Lancs. So far the idea we like most is Rediscover - its simple and we can use it in a variety of different ways. We'd be very happy to hear your thoughts and opinions on this - get in touch!

Town/House

Towneley's project with artists Grennan and Sperandio is moving on swiftly. After a meeting this week is was decided that the best place for the series of temporary art works will be in the 'Burnley Room', and we have set a rolling time table from May '11to March '12 for the exhibition of these new works. The artists now need to spend time researching the collections and meeting the people of Burnley in preparation for the installation of the first piece in May. Below are a series of images of Grennan and Sperandios past works, needless to say we are very intrigued as to what form Towneley's work might take..

Website up to date...

Examples of Steve Manthorp's work

The CW website is now up to date with the up coming projects. Although it may appear to be quiet on this blog at the moment, we've been working away developing ideas with the artists. We have some really interesting ideas being developed and more meetings next week to progress them. I will post some snippets on here soon!