With most things in place, it seems like a good opportunity to say a big thank you to our sponsors, supporters and collaborators: The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Dubreq, and, of course, our stunning 'acts'.

The Glynn Vivian's offer to host the opening event was fantastic and really gave form to our plans. Thanks especially to Gordon Dalton.

Matt Hulse's immediate enthusiasm for Art's Birthday and in bringing The Audible Picture Show to Swansea was also fantastic and gave further form to our plans.

The Stylophone Orchestra of Great Britain's enthusiasm was similarly fantastic and plan-firming. As was Dubreq's fantastic enthusiasm for sponsoring the Stylophone Orchestra's gig. Given that Dubreq are THE manufacturers of the Stylophone it could not be more fitting that they do so. We have a feeling that this will be an historic occasion!

The input of Barry Hole's Hitlist presents Andy Candles and the Party Poppers as support act for the Stylophone Orchestra and contributors of new work for The Audible Picture Show only makes things more fantastic.

All in all it has made us realise that we didnt really have any plans before all of the above got involved. One last thing: this is the last Art's Birthday for a while that falls on a weekend - let's celebrate accordingly!





Check out Dubreq's new Stylophone: www.stylophonica.com


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2010 Line-Up

Art's Birthday 2010

Well, the celebration is shaping up nicely. Details to appear very shortly...

Our provisional 'Book ' can be downloaded here !!!! now

http://www.4shared.com/file/81144095/347e3f80/artsbirthday2009.html

Tuesday, Wednesday

Well, things have been going well and have been fun...Pictures and video would be nice, but they are still floating around slightly out of our reach...soon...

Festivities Begin!

For the sheer cheeky joy of it, we would like to declare Art's Birthday 2009 underway!

This morning at 9.30 GMT Barnaby Dicker and Owen Griffiths orchestrated some 100 art students in singing Happy Birthday in English and Welsh and all wearing Art's Birthday hats!

Pictures and/or video to come!

Happy Birthday Week!

Carrion Book Model

We will be using Ulises Carrion's The New Art of Making Books as our model.

Take a look, its available here:

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/Ulises%20Carrion,%20The%20New%20Art%20of%20Making%20Books.pdf

Project

This year we propose to make Art a book, which will be available online as a PDF. It will, however, be no ordinary book! Following this year's proposed global themes – 'Magical Music Machines' & 'Change' – could lead us to all manner of methods of creating the book! It will be linked to all the other celebrations for Art’s Birthday across the world.

‘Official’ celebrations begin on Firday 16th and end on Sunday 18th of January to ensure everyone around the world gets a fair chance to celebrate. We are going to start on Tues 13th at our very own Framework Social and end late on Saturday night at the Elysium Gallery! Tickets will be available for all other events during that week at the Social and from members of Framework.

Everyone is welcome to contribute in any way they feel appropriate to Art's book (perhaps: pictorially, sculpturally, sonically, verbally, scripturally, etc.) We will gather in Elysium Gallery, Swansea on Saturday 17th. Please come along and take part. If you are unable to pop by, the address to send material to is: abuk1701@gmail.com

Work may be of ANY subject, in ANY style, involve ANY media, etc. as long as one
sees the work as being something Art would like or failing that, that it relates to the day (17th January (2009)) or to your own birthday. Quality is not an issue - it’s the thought and gesture that count! Please help make a great contribution to this worldwide project. This is a unique opportunity!

Send them in person, digitally, with or without a comment, etc. etc. And please could you name any files after yourself (eg. BarnabyD001.tif)

We hope this all sounds like fun! Write it in your diary! Join in with the Swansea events or make your own day, meal, evening or perhaps only 10 minutes of it! Just send us an image!

CONTRIBUTE, GET INVOLVED!

Programme

Well, here it is:


A R T ’ S B I R T H D A Y
E X T R A V A G A N Z A 2009

UK ACTIVITIES IN SWANSEA

Framework | Fframwaith & Barnaby Dicker


T I M E T A B L E January

13th ~ The Launch at the Social. A very special Social launching the weeks events, activities, 15 seconds of fame, collage club, ‘Cash Generator’ Art Rock, Instructional leaflets, FLUXUS, Tickets for all the weeks events available at the Social Entry: £2
St James Jazz Club, 40 St James Crescent, Swansea

14th ~ Barrie Hole’s Hitlist presents Barrie Hole’s Hit Parade. Human Juke Boxing and sound play – www.myspace.com/barrieholeshitlistpresents. Limited Spaces. Free.
Secret Location

15th ~ Cigarette Cinema Old Vanguard Heyday Special
Details only available at the Social, entrance by ticket only £2.50. Black Tie
and Cocktail Dresses. Limited Spaces.
Secret Location

16th ~ ‘Cabba Hey’ Mr & Mrs Clarke will be ‘creating a post Xmas January Blues Cabba Hey’, 7.30pm.
Elysium Gallery, High St. Swansea
www.elysuimgallery.com 01792 641313

17th ~ 'Arts Birthday – The Actual Birthday' 12.00pm – 6.00pm Call in with your contribution for Art's Birthday book either on paper or disc, all day activities etc.
Elysium Gallery, High St. Swansea

Evening Event, 7.00pm Fancy Dress Three-Course Meal. (£5.00 inc supper)
Come as your favorite artist or artwork at Elysium Gallery and enjoy a vegetarian three course art-meal and performances. After Dinner speaker, performances and
visual experimentica.. Professional Interval entertainment will be provided by
Barrie Hole’s ‘Birthday’ Presents, ‘Tony and the Art Breakers’. Entrance by ticket only – tickets available at Framework Social.
Elysium Gallery, High St. Swansea


frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
abuk1701@gmail.com

Prologue

Thanks to Swansea's Framework collective, The Half-Way House and Elysium Gallery, Art's Birthday will be an extravaganza! The celebrations will kick-off on Tuesday 13th at the Framework Social and climax on Saturday 17th in Elysium, with something happening every night in-between...