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Detail taken from Portal a site specific work for Blackpool Vistas 09 by Nicholas Kowalski

The Comrades Club Project 09

Colin Binns Visualising Blackpool...

Paul Rogers

Blackpool Vistas 2009

Arts Festival -week commencing 30th March

A celebration of the distinctive cultural context of contemporary Blackpool

'Art: Changing Perceptions of Place'

The third annual Blackpool Vistas Symposium took place on

1st April 09, 2-7 pm at the Comrades Club, Adelaide Street, Blackpool.

Programme

2-3pm Artists & delegates- registration and informal welcome in the bar

3pm Introduction and overview of Blackpool Vistas Imaginative Reconstruction: From Theory to Practice Dr Jill Fernie-Clarke

3.20pm The Guernika-ness of Guernica Josie Bland, University of Teesside

3.40pm Taking a Line for a Walk David Stokes, University of Liverpool & gmf

4.10pm Metamorphosis and Place Dr Mark Haywood, University of Cumbria

4.40pm Blackpool Arts Regeneration Project Artist in Residence Kate Eggelston-Wirtz

5pm Short Break

5.10pm Visualising Blackpool as a Body of Energy - Colin Binns

5.30pm Passage Suzanne Pinder

5.45pm Films by contemporary local film makers provided by Blackpool Council supporters of the event

6.30pm Plenary & discussion Art: Changing Perceptions of Place?

7-9pm Private View: Portal Site Specific Work by Nicholas Kowalski
and Passage Orb Art

7.15pm Hotpot supper

Exhibitions

At The Comrades Club:

Portal Nicholas Kowalski an installation particular to the Comrades Club - using its unique and multi layered history, architectural fixtures, physical landscapes, and existing/ambient lighting.

Passage by members of Orb Art, Orb Artist's Studios, First Floor.

At the New Blackpool Enterprise Centre:
Visualising Blackpool as a Body of Energy by Colin Binns

And New Photographic Work by Paul Rogers at Barista, Birley Street, Blackpool.

Contact: Dr Jill Fernie-Clarke

Email: jfc@blackpoolvistas.com

Address: Studio 8 art@cedarfarm, Mawdesley, Ormskirk, Lancs. L403SY