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Preview: Spike Island Open Weekend
The Spike Island Open Weekend is always a hugely popular event in the Bristol art calendar. Visitors to the renowned centre for art and design can see at first hand the studios where some of the most exciting and challenging artwork in the city and beyond is created.
The current exhibition by Cally Spooner, Post-Production, runs in the main gallery whilst throughout the rest of the building visitors are invited to view the artists’ studios, chat to the artists about what they do, what they create and what inspires them and how they work.
Throughout the rest of this vast hive of creativity and artistic endeavour there will be performances, workshops, film screenings, installations and artistic interventions. Spike Print Studio, Spike Associates and Spike Design will be hosting guided tours, activities and events. Food and drink will be available in the Spike Island cafe and from invited guest caterers.
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Some of the highlights of 2015’s Open Weekend include the launch of Spike Islands Film Open 2015 which is a screening of of new work selected by the ICA’s Associate Curator of Artists’ Film and Moving Image Steven Cairns.
Artist and writer Holly Corfield Carr will be creating a site-specific writing commission on the Bristol ferry Matilda, and artist Ben Owen will show The Goldfinch, a film event which explores ageing, politics and landscape with musicians performing beneath a series of short films and disco lights.
For more information, visit www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/exhibitions/spike-island-open/
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