Talks & events

Gallery Talk: Invisible Nation

Thursday 15th July, 6 - 8pm at Turner House

In response to Ffotogallery's current exhibition Raymond Depardon - Villes/Cities, Dr Daniel Meadows, photographer and lecturer in Photography and Participatory Media at Cardiff University, discusses what is revealed when amateur photography is brought into the light. Invisible Nation will focus on the notion of a democratic, 'amateur' approach to photography; a shift away from purely technical considerations or a desire to 'capture' the essence of the subject in a single image.

Parallels will be drawn between Depardon's involvement in the project 'Images cachées - Hidden Images' at Luxembourg's National Centre for the AudioVisual and Meadow's own experiences as creative director of Capture Wales, a project which has been described as "the most ambitious of all the BBC's user generated content offerings".

Please join us for drinks and discussion about the issues which Depardon's exhibition raises.

FREE EVENT - to book your place email: helen @ ffotogallery.org

Invisible Nation will be followed by July's artist FORUM, from 8pm.

Saturday 17th July

Summer Sun-Prints

Join Ffotogallery on the beach, as we help you comb the pebbles for treasures to create your very own Summer Sun-Print!

Saturday 17th July/ Wednesday 18th July.
Penarth Beach 11am - 4pm

Free Drop-in Ffotogallery workshop for families and children.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Picturing the Past

As one of the finale events of Penarth Festival, join Alan Thorne for an illustrated talk looking back to the 1911 census and the Seaman's Strike.

Turner House, Penarth. 2pm - 4pm.

FREE ENTRY

Summer Photography Workshops

*FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION PLEASE VIEW THE PDF*

SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS (16+)

Sat 17th July (10am - late afternoon) - Photographic Ramble - £30 - Meet at Chapter

Join landscape photographer Marc Arkless for a day of walking and photography along the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

Weds 4th August (11am - 4.30pm)- Introduction to Studio Lighting - £25 - Turnerhouse

Learn how to manipulate flash and backdrops to create professional portraits.

Sat 7th August (11.30am - 3.30pm) - Profile Shots - £15 - Turnerhouse

DIY approach to making your profile picture more professional.

Sat 14th August (10.30am - 4.30pm) - Professional Portraiture - £25 - Chapter

Exploring styles of portraiture alongside practical image making.

Sun 15th August (10.30am - 4.30pm) - Getting to Grips with your Camera - £25 - Chapter

Learn how to maximise the use of your digital or film camera through practical assignments.

Sat 4th September (10.30am - 4.30pm) - Photoshop Taster Day - £25 - Chapter

Introduction to Adobe CS4 , including scanning, image adjustments and file preparation for print.

SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Sat 17th July AND Weds 18th August (11am - 4pm) - Summer Sun Prints - FREE - Penarth Beach

These two drop-in workshops offer children and families the chance to comb the beach and develop sunprints with the found objects (weather permitting)

CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT

Tues 3rd August (11.30am - 3.30pm) - Pinhole Workshop - £10 - Chapter

Create extraordinary images with your own homemade pinhole camera.

CHILDREN UNDER 12 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT

For more information and to book a place on any of our summer workshops please email julia@ffotogallery.org or call 029 2034 1667

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NEW FFOTOGALLERY SUMMER BROCHURE - AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD NOW!

FFOTOGALLERY'S HOT OFF THE PRESS NEW BROCHURE IS AVAILABLE NOW TO DOWNLOAD.

This handy guide details all of our exhibitions, courses and events coming up over the next few months. Highlights include our next exhibition by Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon, details about our newly developed summer photography workshops, our schedule of autumn term photography and digital media courses and much, much more...

Download the PDF link below to view.

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JUNE FORUM @ Turner House

Ffotogallery's next FORUM will now be held on Thursday 17th June.

FORUM is an informal, monthly event aiming to develop a core group of emerging artists in South Wales together with students and graduates from visual media courses. It is a platform for practitioners from various disciplines to exchange ideas, experience and opinions.

The presentations will also trigger discussion on issues appearing in their work within the context of contemporary arts practice.

Refreshments will be available throughout the evening. There are no booking requirements however, should you have any special requirements or questions then please call (029) 2070 8870 or email turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

Life Less Ordinary: Gallery Talk

LIFE LESS ORDINARY: Gallery Talk Thursday 17th June 2010

6.30 - 7.30pm

Join us for a talk with guest speaker: Michael Carklin (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan) to mark the end of our current exhibition Life Less Ordinary: Performance and Display in South African Art.

You are warmly invited to Turner House on Thursday 17th June for an evening of discussion and refreshments, reflecting on Ffotogallery's current exhibition Life Less Ordinary : Performance & Display in South African Art. The talk will be followed by June's artist FORUM.

Admission to this event is FREE.

Contact gallery staff on 02920 708 870 for more information or RSVP to info@ffotogallery.org

Michael Carklin is Head of Academic Programmes at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, where he teaches in theatre, performance and film. Michael grew up in Johannesburg and studied and lectured in Grahamstown, South Africa, before moving to the UK. He has a Masters degree in African Studies, specialising in African visual art and literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

For more information about the exhibition, which continues until Saturday 19th June 2010, please see the whats on section of the website.

From 7.30pm onwards will be June artist FORUM; a monthly event hosted by Ffotogallery for emerging artists and arts students from South Wales.

If you would like to know more about our monthly artist FORUM meetings please see http://www.ffotogallery-forum.blogspot.com/

Facebook: ffotogallery@turnerhouse

Book Arts Fayre 2010

Book Arts Fayre will be back Saturday 9th October 2010- Keep an eye on our blog for news and line-up confirmations. If you would like to host one of our free stalls at the fayre, please get in touch!

http://ffotogallerybookartsfayre.wordpress.com/

Book Arts Fayre celebrates the ‘artists book’ in all its forms, from hand printed zines to hardback monographs, giving everyone from artists to students, graduates and families the chance to explore and engage in self-publishing and a wealth of contemporary book arts practice from Wales and beyond.

Featured works by : groups like The Book Room, InterCity MainLine, Jazz Cakes and G39
: artists such as Eleanor Jane Parsons, Henry Ireland, Jeremy Dixon, and Sam Hasler

: publications like Hotshoe, Blown and Rubric

: and many more zines, cakes and arty ephemera on sale the from Book Arts Fayre regulars

Admission to the Book Arts Fayre is absolutely free! For more information about this gallery event please phone (029) 2070 8870 or email helen@ffotogallery.org

****See our brand new BAF blog-site for news and archive of past Fayres, contributors and pictures.****

Out of the Ordinary

OUT OF THE ORDINARY
DROP-IN PERFORMANCE & PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Saturday 29th May
Ffotogallery in the Morgan Arcade, Cardiff

On Saturday the 29th of May the Ffotogallery education team and members of the Sherman Cymru youth theatre welcome you to join us at Part Two of our current exhibition, Life Less Ordinary in the Morgan Arcade, just off the Hayes. Drop in at any time between 11.30am and 4.30pm and experience the artworks your own way using costume, performance, film and photography.

Be the Documenter – Our education team will be on hand to help you photograph or film the freakish character as it wanders between our on-site studio and the streets of the city centre.

Be the Performer – Dare to be different and wear our custom-made suit, inspired by the work of Athi-Patra Ruga; pose in our gallery studio or work with the team to create a short performance out in the streets or the arcade.

This Event is Free!

For more information please contact gallery staff on 02920 708 870 or email helen@ffotogallery.org

Peter Fraser in conversation with Mark Durden

Join us at 6.30pm on Wednesday 24 March when the artist, Peter Fraser will be in conversation with Ffotogallery's Director, David Drake and Mark Durden, Professor in Photography and Director of the European Centre for Photographic Research at University of Wales, Newport.

For more information about the exhibition please visit http://www.ffotogallery.org/

Information about the European Centre for Photographic Research can be found on this site

PETER FRASER.NET

This GALLERY EVENT is FREE and will take place at Turner House Gallery.
Seats can be reserved by contacting staff on 029 2070 8870 or turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

Image: taken from Lost For Words, 2010 (c) Peter Fraser

The Silent Village Publication Launch

You are warmly invited to Turner House on Wed 10th February from 6.30pm for an evening of talks, discussion and refreshments celebrating the launch of Ffotogallery’s new publication, The Silent Village.

The Silent Village exhibition and accompanying catalogue features new works from Peter Finnemore, Rachel Trezise and Paolo Ventura in response to the 1943 film, The Silent Village by Humphrey Jennings.

Admission to this event is free. If you would like to reserve a seat please contact gallery staff on (029) 2070 8870 or email turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

We are pleased to announce guest speaker Daryl Perrins (University of Glamorgan) will be talking about the film’s significance within the genre of Propaganda cinema in an informal lecture.
Daryl Perrins (b. Cardiff 1965) is a senior lecturer in film studies at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries University of Glamorgan where he leads undergraduate modules on Early Cinema, British Cinema, European Cinema, TV Genres and Cult Cinema. His research interests include British cult cinema, situation comedy and the working class and representations of South Walian industrial society on screen. He was a contributor to the book Wales on Screen Blandford ed. (2000) and has been a frequent delegate at the bi-annual International Conference on Welsh Studies (NAASWCH).

Ffotogallery presents Switchboard

Switchboard is an exciting new online channel being launched by Ffotogallery and May You Live In Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 2009, 22 - 24 October 2009. Switchboard will continue to run during Autumn 09, as part of Ffotogallery’s Vision On new media season.

Using freely available social networking platforms Switchboard will introduce audiences to a mixture of live and edited content, acting as the ears and the mouthpiece of the festival and showcasing its highlights.

As a central website, Switchboard will open up a dialogue between the physical festival and a global audience online. It will provide up to date audio and video reports, reviews and interviews as well as an exciting programme of specially programmed sound art, web based tutorials and interactive user generated content.

This award by the You May Fund is a Ffotogallery and MYLIIT commission made possible by Safle with the financial support of the Arts Council of Wales. The project has also received generous support from University of Wales Newport.

http://www.mayyouliveininterestingtimes.org.uk http://twitter.com/MYLswitchboard

Look Up!

Make a mess with the Education Team at Turner House with our practical art sessions for pre-school children and their carers. A chance to get your tots involved in creative play and art activities while you enjoy a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Suitable for all pre-school children.

Beginning January 2009
Location: Turner House Gallery
Admission Free
Email turnerhouse [at] ffotogallery.org for further details

Ffosfforescence

A dynamic light installation in the water surrounding Penarth Pier.

This visually stunning landscape intervention is the closing event to Ffotogallery’s Vision On season. It will highlight the ‘Save the Penarth Pavilion Campaign’ and celebrate the Pavilion's 80th Birthday.

Ffosfforescence is the first work from Bread - a new collaboration between Bristol based artists Ruth Essex and David Boultbee which aims to use light to articulate hidden spaces and shadows of familiar public landmarks.

The work will be built with the help of volunteers from the local community and experts from Dorkbot Bristol who will both assist in the construction of the work and transport the glowing orbs through the town to the pier.

Workshop:

Saturday 5th December / 12 - 5pm / Ffotogallery, Turner House / FREE - Advanced Booking Available

Watch the Installation:

For those of you just wanting to watch, you can view the work being assembled from 4 pm, and it will reach its dramatic climax at high tide, around 9 pm.

Saturday 5th December / 4 - 9pm / Penarth Pier/ FREE

At the same time the Pier Celebrations will kick off with a reception at the Kymin at 5pm to celebrate the 80th Birthday for the Penarth Pavilion followed by drinks from 6:30pm at Turner House Gallery.

For further information about Ffosfforescence please contact Ffotogallery on 02920 708 870 or email turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

"Village of the..." : Digital Self-Portraiture Workshop

Saturday 19th September 2009 / 11 am - 3.30 pm

Join the gallery education team and explore our current exhibition, Cockroach Diary and Other Stories by Anna Fox. Get inspired by the work and our special research pack to invent and photograph your own alter-ego!

Transform yourself with our costumes, props or your own materials. Then in Ffotogallery’s temporary portrait studio, you can control the lighting, effects and direct the taking of your own digital self-portrait.

Gallery_Shorts are our Saturday family drop-in sessions inviting you to take a closer look at our exhibitions and to make your very own artworks. The workshops are aimed at those aged 5-15 (and their carers) and they’re completely free!

Booking is required: Contact gallery staff on 029 2070 8870 or email helen@ffotogallery.org to book or for more details. Please give the number and ages of people hoping to attend.
Session times: bookable slots between 11am - 3.30pm.
Location: Turner House Gallery
Admission Free
Refreshments available

Gallery Explorers

Families can explore the gallery and in the company of Ffotogallery staff. Participating children and adults are invited to use our Family Resource Pack, which includes art materials, worksheets, and ideas for discussion and activities.

Explorer activities are free and booking is not required.

Time: Any time during gallery opening hours
Location: Turner House Gallery
Admission Free, all welcome

Vision On | Disrupting Things

"Visual Interventions in the Landscape"

Lecture

Wednesday 2nd December 7.00pm : Fiddian Warman, Soda CANCELLED

Workshop

Saturday 5th December 12.00 - 5.00pm : Orb Making with BREAD

Help to make the glowing orbs with the artists at Turner House from 12pm. Ffosfforescence is a temporary floating light installation at Penarth Pier by BREAD, commissioned by Ffotogallery and The Washington Gallery. Watch this Vision On closing event, which is supporting the 'Save Penarth Pavilion' project, at the Pier from 4pm. Finale between 7 - 9 pm. For more information please see the EVENT below. FREE - ALL WELCOME