Highlanes Gallery

Press Release: Poetry Invades the Art Gallery…

Experiments in Mood and Meaning at Highlanes Gallery
March 31, April 14, May 7, May 26, 2012

This spring, Highlanes Gallery continues developing its policy of partnering with, and programming other art forms, within the context of the gallery space and the current Collection and temporary Exhibitions, and announces a series of afternoon poetry events over the next three months titled Experiments in Mood and Meaning.

Designed to explore exciting new trends in poetry and to experiment with different ways of presenting it live, the series of four events will also showcase a number of Drogheda poets and other invited bards.

Beginning with poetry as drama with Adventures in the Word Jungle on Saturday 31 March at 3.00pm, when Nuala Leonard, Brian Quinn and Anne Tannam will explore the extra impact possible from multi-voice readings (directed by Brian Quinn), we go on to poetry as story on Saturday 14 April at 3.00pm, in Storylands of Hard Life Experience when the dominance of lyric poetry is challenged by the energy and honesty of longer narrative forms, featuring Patrick Dillon, Terry McHugh and Karl Parkinson.
Then, on (Bank Holiday) Monday May 7 at 3.00pm, during the annual Drogheda Arts Festival, it is poetry and music as ambiencellist Claire Fitch improvises to Roger Hudson’s moody life poems to create Interactions in the Sonic Supersphere.
The series rounds off, on Saturday May 26 at 3.00pm, with Lapwing Poets, a tribute to Lapwing Publications, the fiercely independent Belfast publisher which continues to discover poets establishment publishers ignore with poets Marie MacSweeney, Tommy Murray and Adam Rudden.

Curated by Drogheda-based writer and poet Roger Hudson, who will also take part, he sees the overall aim “to join and celebrate the current breakaway from traditional poetic forms and subjects that is revolutionising poetry and performance in Dublin and other cities.”

Says Hudson, “I’ve been attending and taking part in some of the exciting new spoken word events in Dublin such as the Glór Sessions and Tongue Box, and feel it is high time Drogheda had a chance to share in the excitement of this new flowering of poetry as a popular art.”
This programme has been funded by Create Louth   and Highlanes Gallery

Highlanes Gallery is grateful for the on-going financial support from Drogheda Borough Council, the Arts Council and Irish Cement Ltd.




Current and forthcoming Collection/ Exhibitions Programme at Highlanes Gallery:
March - September 2012

9 March - 26 April
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection including Recent Acquisitions
One + One: Brigid Mc Leer
SURREAL: Primary School Programme Exhibition

 4 May - 5 September
7:42 Thomas Brezing, Séan Cotter, Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien, in association with Drogheda Arts Festival, 2012

4 May – 5 June
Famine Times: Drogheda Municipal Art Collection

9 June - 5 September
Women Artists in the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection

Highlanes Gallery Public Programme includes tours, gallery talks, workshops for children, young people and adults, drop in drawing, and other exhibition focused events. Go to www.highlanes.ie for up to date programme information and join the email list by clicking on the home page.

Highlanes Gallery, now in its fifth year, is a municipal art gallery for Drogheda and the North East, home to the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, and exhibiting a programme of temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. Highlanes Gallery’s onsite partner is Andersons Café. Highlanes Gallery is situated in a former Franciscan Church, in the centre of Drogheda on the Boyne, Co, Louth.  Drogheda is a thirty minute train journey from Dublin and 1 hour thirty from Belfast.  

For interviews, high-resolution images or additional information:
Contact: Siobhan Burke, Telephone: + 353 041 9803311, Email: [e-mail]

Highlanes Gallery is open 6 days a week, Monday – Saturday, 10.30am – 5.00pm, closed Sundays except for Sunday May 6 (May Bank Holiday Weekend/ Drogheda Arts Festival)

Highlanes Gallery, Laurence Street, Drogheda on the Boyne, Co. Louth, Ireland
E. [e-mail]; W. www.highlanes.ie  T. + 353 (0) 41 9803311

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Norman Olson Exhibitits His Works at the Miami World Erotic Art Museum

Norman Olson wrote :Here is the information about my upcoming show of 17 drawings and paintings at the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach (South Beach) Florida...  I will certainly be there for the opening on August 1...

My thought right now is that there will not be any more of these shows in the near future, so this is the last chance to actually see some of my originals in a gallery/museum setting, nicely framed and mounted...  and in this amazing museum....  plus a good reason to come to South Beach, work on your tan and party...  if you are so inclined...  or just hang out...

All peace and love to all:  Norman J. Olson

 

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Norman Olson's News

Norman Olson, whose paintings and poems were used as covers or were published in numerous issues of mgversion2>datura sends us - his contasts - this message:

"as most of you know, I have been writing and publishing poetry and drawings in journals for many years now…  I published my first poem in 1984 (in the GW Review) after like 17 years of continuous submission and rejection…  I published my second poem ten years later in 1994…  (so, I am obviously not easily discouraged)…

I am not terribly prolific so, in total I have published maybe 500 or 600 individual poems and drawings altogether since 1994…  I supposedly have work accepted for the next issue of The Cream City Review (a poem) and The William and Mary Review (two paintings) both very highly respected academic journals…

well anyway, I always said that I would do readings if anybody invited me…  (nobody has LOL) and publish a book when I was asked to submit a ms…  well, RD Armstrong, publisher of Lummox Press made the invitation:

 Lummox,

PO Box 5301

San Pedro, CA 90733

www.lummoxpress.com

 

and is putting together a book of my poetry and drawings that will be out, hopefully sometime over the next year…  I am not sure when it will be out or what it will cost, but the title will be Pleasure in a Stained Universe which is from one of my poems…  PLEASE contact Lummox to find out how to order an advance copy!!!!  since I write little poetry anymore, and am getting on in years, I do not expect there to be any other books after this one, so this will be a unique time to get a real collection of my poetry and art…  actually, I will be interested to see what of my work will be in the book!!!  since RD is doing all of the selection/editing… I hate editing or selecting my work and am glad to leave that to others… 

also, there will be two shows of my original art this summer…  the first will be at JAY Gallery in Seoul Korea  www.jaypia.com July 6 through July 19…  I will try to be there on July 6 and 7 if the flights stay open, so this is a great excuse to go to Korea and see several of my large format drawings up in one room as well as one of the diptych paintings!!!  and a fairly large number of smaller drawings and paintings…

the second show will be for the month of August at the World Erotic Art Museum in the South Beach area of Miami, Beach… this will be 18 paintings and drawings in what is my all time favorite museum of art…  WEAM houses Naomi Wilzig’s amazing collection of Erotic Art…  a brief essay about my first visit to Weam is posted at www.ascentaspirations.ca...  you can see it  by clicking on “Archives” and “Essays” and scrolling down to “My Visit to the World Erotic Art Museum…”   I will be in Miami Beach for the opening, and will let everybody know when that is…

so, it is very interesting and weird for a reclusive old sloth like me to be doing these art shows and I have not made up my mind yet if there will be others after these two…  it depends on how I feel about the experience… 

so keep in touch when you can…  I love to get e-mails and respond to them when I can…  I have recently been traveling in Washington DC and LA so will write about that when I get time….  also, attached are three new drawings…

all peace and love to all!!!!  norman j. olson "

www.normanjolson.com

Besides, one of Norman's painting is used as the cover of a book by Denis Emorine - Closing Time - to be published by Jac Publishing. Here is the cover.

Les informations du début de l'été des Carnets du dessert de lune

C’est en juin que ça va se passer et même en juillet. C’est dire…


Brigitte Vio, illustratrice aux Dessert de Lune de « Anonyme euphorbe »  participera à l’exposition « Le papier dans tous ses états » à l’Ancien Musée de Peinture, Place de Verdun à Grenoble. Exposition ouverte du 2 au 26 juin 2011. Du mercredi au dimanche de 13 à 19 heures.

    Sylvie Durbec « Chaussures vides/ Scarpe Vuote », « Parfois silence » et Daniel Labedan « Transatlantique », « Ecrire à Stella » seront présents le jeudi 9 juin à 19h00 à la Librairie Bouquinerie Apostille 104 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille. Des livres édités aux Carnets du Dessert de Lune s’y trouvent dans cette librairie.
   
Anne-Lise Blanchard sera présente le mercredi 15 juin de 18h à 19h30, à la boutique Harmonia Mundi Lyon, 21 rue E. Herriot à Lyon Ier. Elle lira des extraits de « Anonyme euphorbe ».

    Pierre Autin-Grenier sera en compagnie du peintre Joël Gangloff, le samedi 18 juin à partir de 18h à la Librairie Le Baz'art des Mots, à Hauterives, 26390. Dans les rayons vous trouverez beaucoup de livres édités par Les Carnets du Dessert de Lune et notamment « Le poète pisse dans son violon » Le facteur Cheval servira les boissons.


Pascal Blondiau participera le 18 et le 19 juin au week-end Bienvenue en Wallonie, à Braine-le-Comte. Il vous fera découvrir ses 3 titres aux Dessert de Lune « Dès L’instant », « Empan Magyar » et « Sept novelettes » ainsi que quelques titres extraits du catalogue sur l’étal derrière lequel il officiera.
 

    Sylvain Farhi, auteur aux Dessert de Lune du récit « Assoiffé, carnet d’un voyage Latino » et de deux contes pour enfants illustrés par Maud Roegiers et Nathalie Sacré « Monsieur Tout à l’Envers » et « Touffe de poils » présentera le 24 juin à 20h30 son conte MYSTIC LE CLOWN à La Vènerie (Ecuries), Place Gilson à 1170 Bruxelles (Watermael-Boitsfort)

    Une exposition consacrée aux dessins de Nathalie Sacré, illustrant le conte « Touffe de poils » accompagnera ce spectacle. Elle se tiendra à  la bibliothèque jeunesse de la Maison des Enfants (Hondenberg).
    Sylvain Farhi jouera aussi ce spectacle du 20 au 31 juillet au festival d’Avignon au Théâtre L’art en Scène.
     

Le treizième Marché de La Poésie de Rochefort-sur-Loire se tiendra du 1er au 3 juillet sur le quai du Louet. J’aurai le plaisir d’y participer en compagnie de Louis Dubost qui lira des extraits de son dernier livre « Diogène au potager » le 2 juillet à 15h30 et de Francis Krembel, auteur aux Dessert de Lune de « Carnet pour habiter le temps ».
C’est organisé par Le Centre Poétique de Rochefort-sur-Loire. J’y serai entouré de nombreux éditeurs ami(e)s, le tout en bord de Loire, vin frais à portée de main et vous proposerai « Sans envie de rien » « La soie des mots musique » aux éditions Editinter et « Penser pourrir » aux éditions Du Soir au Matin, tous trois illustrés par mon ami et complice Gérard Sendrey. Et aussi sur la table les livres des éditions Cousu main.
Programme à télécharger ici.
 

Qu’on se le dise !

Jean-Louis Massot