Exhibition, live performance events and artist seminars
The global café is an ideal venue for exhibitions and events, with over 1600 people visiting the café each year. The exhibitions shown at RISC are aimed to be educational showing either issues based work or the work of contemporary artists from the Majority world. Artists exhibiting also run workshops, seminars and events so keep you eyes peeled to this space to find out what on.
Pighalta Satya paintings by Govinda Sah Azad
Tuesday, 15th of June 2010
Pighalta Satya paintings by Govinda Sah Azad
RISC Global Café
5th July – 30th July 2010
Monday 5th July 7pm, Exhibition opening with special guest Dr Suresh Chandre Chalise Ambassador of Nepal
An exhibition of paintings by Nepali artists Govinda Sah. Geometric shapes and forms borrowed from ancient Tantric South Asian Mandala’s are used to investigate the conflict between the infinite nature of human desire and the boundaries and limits we create to control them. The result is a cosmic explosion of colour and light.
Thursday 15th July 10
5 – 7pm Artist talk and workshop
Join Govinda Sah for a creative evening exploring the art of Mandala paintings and Rangoli, whilst he discusses his own work and influences.
Booking: Shehnoor@risc.org.uk 0118 958 6692
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Portraits of volunteers
Tuesday, 15th of June 2010
June 5th –4th July National Volunteer week Portraits
RISC is very excited to be working with Italian born, Reading based professional photographer Salvo Toscano. Salvo aims to capture the passion of RISC's and other Reading based volunteers using his black and white portraiture style photography. An exhibition contains images and personal statements from the volunteers will accompany each image.
www.salvotoscanophotography.com
Posted by Shehnoor Ahmed
Nya Jee Salone - My Mother Sierre Leone
Tuesday, 20th of April 2010
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42: an exhibition by photographer Karen Lee Stow
Friday, 12th of March 2010
42 an exhibition by photographer Karen Lee Stow
www.leekarenstow.com
Sierra Leone in West Africa is ranked by the United Nations as one of the poorest countries on Earth. Though peace has returned to a country brought to its knees by brutal civil war from 1991 to 2002, Sierra Leone remains shattered and broken, with abject poverty and high unemployment.
Women are trying to rebuild their lives claim their rights and work towards a future, yet too many still suffer inequality, brutality, hardship and despair. Life expectancy for women is around 42.
42 Women of Sierra Leone is a tribute to the strength and spirit of women who wake up each morning with the belief that one day life really will get better.
This exhibition will be showing in the Global Cafe from Monday 1st- Sunday 28th March.
The exhibition coincides with RISC's 'A Cabaret of Wonders', a celebration of International Women's Day which is taking place on March 5th 7.30pm till 1am.
Ticket for this event are available from the Global Cafe and shop for £5. or See www.risc.org.uk/arts/artsevents.php for more details.
Posted by Shehnoor Ahmed
Maryam Hashemi
Friday, 23rd of October 2009
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Fair Trade:Materials Matter
Thursday, 22nd of October 2009
Fair Trade: Material Matters Work by artist Jane Frost October 09
Jane Frost’s artwork work raises the profile of resources and materials used in creating work as well as the communities and the environment it is placed in, the effect it will have over time and the market it is placed in. She combines textile based skills and materials with work that highlights peoples’ interaction with the environment to encourage a sensitivity and awareness of shared living space. As a participant in the Moscow Biennale in February and March 2007 she made links with Fair Trade fortnight in the UK using the project Fair Trade: Material Matters.
"I invited people of all ages to draw a self-portrait, they kept the original and I took a carbon copy to work with, stitching onto recycled blankets. Biennales are Art markets and are based on the same principles as the financial stock exchange. The future value of the work is invested in by dealers and marketers, the artist is usually excluded from this dealing; this denies the artist a right to the future value of their own work. The title 'Fair Trade Art' relates to an action of exchange where both sides of the transaction benefit and the action is in the present".
Installation of Fair Trade Material Matters has been used to link The Sainsbury Centre for Art, UEA, Norwich with Black History month 2009 and Museums and Galleries month 2008
The work will be exhibited at risc during October 2009, linking to Reading International Festival
Top: Pupils from Pheonix college draw their portraits
bottom: Fair trade tea party and stitch and expression workshop
Top: work by tea party participants
bottom:work produced by Y7 & 8 Pupils from Pheonix college
All the work was exhibited in the cafe alongside Jane Frosts blankets.
Posted by Shehnoor Ahmed
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