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Between September – November 2019 Salford Museum and Art Gallery are seeking a host of local volunteers to come and support our Together We Move programme. You will play an important and people facing role to capture audience feedback. This will help us understand and shape the gallery and partners’ projects in the future.

The gallery are looking for people from 18 years of age to people in their 80s, who are able to commit to two separate half day sessions (around 2-3 hours each) to volunteer with them. They will offer volunteer and audience data digital training and are keen to pair volunteers together from across different generations. Volunteers also benefit from free spaces on any paid Together We Move events.

For further information please contact: volunteer@castlefieldgallery.co.uk or 0161 832 8034.

Live spoken word and musical performances, plus interactive poetry writing workshop.

To coincide Eileen Simpson and Ben White’s (Open Music Archive) Everything I Have Is Yours, an artists’ film that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952 – 62), Salford Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a series of free workshops and events for the public to get involved in.

Open Mic – Open Archive is a free afternoon of live performances and interactive poetry writing programmed in partnership with University of Salford MA student Ruby Ramelize.

People of all ages are invited to come together to enjoy a host of live performances by saxophonist, and one of the protagonists featured in Everything I Have Is Yours, Mike Farmer, Ella Otomewo of Young Identity, spoken word artist Louise Fazackerley, poet Charles McDermot, and rock’n’roll music from the 1950s performed live, whilst also getting creative.

Taking inspiration from the music of 1952-1962, attendees can have a go at creating new original poems that will, by the end of the session, form a bigger collective poem. From professional poets, enthusiastic amateurs, and anyone who wants to try something completely new – this session is for you.   And even if writing poetry is not your thing, feel free to sit back and enjoy the performances.

Date: Sunday 29 September 2019, 2 – 4pm
Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Admission: Please book your free place at Eventbrite.

This workshop is part of the current Together We Move engagement programme, supported by Arts Council England project grants, the University of Salford Art Collection and Castlefield Gallery.

Part of Salford Museum and Art Gallery’s Art Academy, monthly workshops and classes, to learn new skills to further develop your creative skills.

This month session looks at how to make music on your phone, whilst responding to the Everything I have Is Yours exhibition.

Date:  Sunday 29 September 2019, 12.00 – 2.00pm 
Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Admission: £8 per person or free to Together We Move volunteers, suitable for ages 12+. Bookings via Eventbrite.

To coincide Eileen Simpson and Ben White’s (Open Music Archive) Everything I Have Is Yours, an artists’ film that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952 – 62), Salford Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a series of free workshops and events for the public to get involved in.

DJ JAM is an inter-generational workshop offering the chance to turn your hand at DJ-ing, with music and beats inspired by a range of genres. The workshop is delivered jointly by El Statiko (previous winner of the DJ Championships and Unity Radio DJ) and Age Friendly Network’s DJ Ged who specialises in sharing music from the 1950-1960s to communities across the North West.

People can come and have a go at using CD-Jays, turntables and techniques such as scratching. Suitable for all ages to come and have a go.

Date:  Wednesday 4 September 2019, 5.30 – 7.30pm
Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Admission: Please book your free place at Eventbrite.

This workshop is part of the current Together We Move engagement programme, supported by Arts Council England project grants, the University of Salford Art Collection and Castlefield Gallery.

To coincide the current commission by Open Music Archive, Everything I Have Is Yours, which celebrates the music of 1952-1962, Salford Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a series of free and interactive workshop and events for the public to get get involved in.

Visual to Audio is a free workshop by musician and artist Ben McDonnell, inviting you to respond to visual scores of music inspired by the first ten years of the UK hit charts. During the workshop you will be invited to listen, respond and create new beats based on visual score sheets. All sounds produced will be edited together to create a brand new audio installation at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in September.

You do not need to be able to play an instrument to get involved, but this is a perfect session for a music enthusiast and if you have your own instrument you are more than welcome to bring it along!

This workshop is part of the current Together We Move Engagement Programme, supported by Arts Council England project grants, the University of Salford Art Collection and Castlefield Gallery.

Date: Wednesday 24 July, 2 – 4pm
Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Admission: Free, but booking required via Eventbrite.

Everything I Have Is Yours is an ambitious film and sound work by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952-62). Working with a group of older musicians – many of whom are the ‘original teenagers’ of the Greater Manchester music scene, now in their 70s and 80s – this film focuses on this diverse group as they re-engage with public-domain samples from the formative era of the ‘birth of pop’, and incorporate these timeless sounds into new musical creations. When the musicians play, they individually and collectively interact with digital technology, recalling archive sounds ripped from 1950s and early 1960s shellac and vinyl chart hits. As the group trigger these sounds from the past, the camera continuously tracks its way through the assembled musicians, echoing the circular loops of the music itself.

Everything I Have Is Yours has been commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Contemporary Art Society, University of Salford Art Collection and Castlefield Gallery. An edition of the film will enter the University of Salford Art Collection.

To coincide with Everything I Have Is Yours, Castlefield Gallery is presenting Eileen Simpson and Ben White: Open Music Archive, the first UK survey show of the artists’ work from 14 June – 18 August 2019. The exhibition presents a selection of projects developed over the last ten years in which the artists explore the performative potential of the archive by reanimating copyright-expired archive material.

As part of Together We Move, a group of older musicians representing the film’s protagonists in Everything I Have Is Yours, by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive), and wider Greater Manchester communities will perform in Manchester International Festival 2019’s Festival Square on Wednesday 10 July, 5.30 – 7.00pm. This one-off set will include music from the 1950s and 60s, ranging from Jazz and pop to Rock and Roll, and spoken word, with performances from the Jazz Crackers, Emperors of Rhythm, Ged’s Music and more.

The Together We Move programme is supported by:

and Castlefield Gallery Commissioning Patrons, Jo and Allan Melzack.

Community partners:

Join us on Wednesday 3 July 2019, 6 – 8pm for the launch of Everything I Have Is Yours .

Everything I Have Is Yours is a mesmerising new artists’ film by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952-62). Working with a group of older musicians from Greater Manchester, many of whom are the ‘original teenagers’ now in their 70s and 80s, the film focuses on individuals from the group as they engage with top ten hit recordings from the period. Working together, sampling fragments of music from the formative era of the ‘birth
of pop’, the artists and musicians make new music from timeless sounds, that have been digitally processed for the project to release out-of-copyright samples. As the group trigger sounds from the past, the camera continuously tracks through the assembled musicians, echoing the circular loops of the music. The resulting 30-minute artists’ film is presented as an ambitious art installation ‘ screened on a loop in Salford Museum and Art Gallery.

Launch event:  Wednesday 3 July 2019, 6 – 8pm.
Admission: Open to all, RSVP at Eventbrite. Free to attend, refreshments provided.
Venue: Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Salford, M5 4WU

Together We Move is an on-going programme of responsive events and exhibitions, which celebrate Everything I Have Is Yours by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive).

Since January 2019, local producer Liz Wewiora, and artist team, Sally Gilford and Ben McDonnell, have been working with over 60s residents from across Greater Manchester to engage with the music, visual culture and social history of the decade 1952–1962. Following a series of creative workshops including screen printing, collage, music and how to develop a ‘visual score’, the participants and artists have developed a collective artwork. This new installation fills the stairway and represents visual scores drawn from tracks including Moon River by Danny Williams (HMV) 1961, Oh Carol by Neil Sedaka (RCA) 1959, and Because You’re Mine by Nat ‘King’ Cole (Capitol) 1952. From 3 September 2019 an audio piece was added to the installation to animate the space further.

Exhibition Dates: Thursday 4 July – Sunday 3 November 2019 
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 9.30am – 4.30pm; Saturday & Sunday 11.30am – 4.00pm
Venue: Blue Stair, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford

Previous events and activities:

• Sunday 27 October 2019, 12 – 2pm: Introduction to filmmaking
• Monday 16 September – Friday 20 December 2019:
  He was a wild one: An exhibition of 1950s and 1960s British music photography.
• Saturday 12 October 2019, 1.30 – 4pm: Music Memorabilia and Print Workshop
  Introductory film screening of Everything I Have Is Yours at Salford Museum and Art Gallery followed by workshop at Islington Mill, Salford, where you will have the chance to create your own music memorabilia celebrating the music culture from 1952-1962 with local artist Sally Gilford.
• Wednesday 2 October 2019, 6 – 8pm: In Conversation: Paul Morley with Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive)
  Join music journalist Paul Morley as he delves into the themes behind Everything I Have Is Yours, with the artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive), plus an audience Q&A.
• Sunday 29 September 2019, 12 – 2pm: Making music with your phone
• Sunday 29 September 2019, 2 – 4pm: Open Mic – Open Archive
  Live spoken word and musical performances, plus interactive poetry writing workshop.
• Wednesday 4 September 2019, 5.30 – 7.30pm: DJ JAM Workshop
  An inter-generational workshop offering the chance to turn your hand at DJ-ing.
• Wednesday 24 July 2019, Visual to Audio
  A free creative workshop for music enthusiasts.
• Wednesday 10 July 2019, Together We Move Performance
  A group of older musicians representing the film’s protagonists and wider Greater Manchester communities will performed at Manchester International Festival 2019’s Festival Square.

The Together We Move programme is supported by:

and Castlefield Gallery Commissioning Patrons, Jo and Allan Melzack.

Community partners:

Thanks to the generous support of the Haworth Charitable Trust we were able to reintroduce life drawing classes into the School of Arts and Media in 2015. For the fourth year we are displaying work by some of the student made during these classes.

The Haworth Life Drawing Prize, a travel bursary of £750.00, was awarded to Aleksandra Rak at the exhibition preview alongside the second place price of £150 to Lewis Pathak and a third prize of £100 to Jade Williams. The travel bursary gives the winner the opportunity to travel to a European country to study artworks in major galleries/museums. Each of the awards are judged upon the quality of the drawings/paintings in the students’ wider portfolios, their development of skills and their active participation to the life drawing classes.

Preview: Tuesday 7 May 2019, 4 – 6pm. All welcome. Viewings outside of the preview event are by appointment only, please contact the Art Collection team.
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 8 May 2019 – Monday 20 January 2020
Venue: Council Chamber, Old Fire Station, University of Salford

Selected works from Critical & Contextual Studies and the University of Salford Art Collection.

This exhibition draws together a selection of visual and written works from the student Independent Research Project 2019 with prints, photography and painting from the University of Salford Art Collection. Together, the works consider a range of ‘shifting perspectives’ – from visual and spatial shifts which reconsider our relationship to the physical world around us, to ethical and emotional shifts in the way we produce, interact with, and consume images and media.

Critical & Contextual Studies staff work with students throughout their studies to explore and respond to their creative practice in a wider global context, supporting them to understand the present and address the challenges of the future. The Independent Research Project sees final year students of Fashion Design, Fashion Image Making & Styling, Graphic Design, Interior Design, and Photography critically engage with a broad range of cultural, commercial and critical contexts to define their place in creative and professional practice.

Exhibitors:
Undergraduate: Bradley Crandon, Laura Walls, Nicole Candiotto, Wictoria Kauc, Matthew Austin, Maxine O’Nion, Bryony Walsh. Written work: Yasmin Banks, Lucy Clews-Jones, Luka France, Jenny Hall, Brigita Kudirkaite, Andrius Maknevicius, Helen O’Grady, Amber Sunderland, Samuel Thompson

University of Salford Art Collection: Patrick Hughes, Brendan Neiland, Robyn Denny, James Chadderton, Lizzie King & Craig Tattersall

Launch event: Wednesday 22 May 2019, 4 – 6pm. Speeches from 4.30pm.
Open to staff, students and public. Free to attend, refreshments provided.

Exhibition dates: Thursday 23 May – Friday 2 August 2019
Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm.
Venue: New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, University of Salford