ACTIVIST BOATS REACH GAZA STRIP

23/08/08 Two boats carrying members of a US-based pro-Palestinian group, sailling from Cyprus, have been successful in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The boats left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Friday morning. The journey took them about 30 hours.

The Free Gaza protest group said about 40 activists from 14 countries were on board the boats, including the sister-in-law of Cherie Blair, Lauren Booth. The boats are carrying 40 activists, 200 hearing aids and 5,000 balloons.

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28th August – 3rd September
Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London. E2 7ES
12-6.30PM

In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati,and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb.

The exhibition will run for one week and in that time a number of events such as music nights and short film screenings will be programmed, creating a temporary arts club. Highlights include collaborating with groups such as the the Strangeworks performance collective and screening the ‘Essentials’ programme of seminal short film curated by the Independent Cinema Office.

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TROLLEY DOUBLE PRIVATE VIEW
WEDNESDAY 27TH AUGUST
7-9PM

Isabelle Graeff
Romance is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Trolley Gallery
73a Redchurch Street, London. E2

Le Gun
The Family
Exhibition and launch of Le Gun #4
Rochelle School
Arnold Circus, London. E2

Trolley is pleased to announce a collaboration between Trolley Gallery and collective Le Gun, who will open a week-long exhibition and temporary arts club, at the same time as Trolley will open with the solo show of Berlin artist Isabelle Graeff.

On Wednesday 27th August the two spaces will hold joint openings to celebrate the two exhibitions.

For more information please contact Hannah Watson
44(0)20 77296591
hannah@trolleybooks.com

David Rickard at Goethe Institute London
Exhaust 19-06-08

Until 19th July 2008

50 Princess Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7

Admission free

On the 19-06-08 David Rickard spent a 24-hour period breathing out his exhaled air, via a respiratory mask, into a series of large silver foil balloons. The final arrangement of balloons demonstrated consumed space in the form of a long vapour trail of balloons that rose up the three floors in the stairwell of the Goethe Institute, London. The performance demonstrated our daily consumption of fresh air, and in a quantifiable manner revealed our constant demand for fresh air and our active relationship with the space that surrounds us.

LE GUN
THE FAMILY
EXHIBITION AND LAUNCH OF #4

Thursday 28th August – Wednesday 3rd September
Exhibition 12-6pm
More events to be announced

Rochelle School
Arnold Circus
London, E2.

Week-long exhibition and temporary arts club with film and performance, plus launch of Le Gun #4.

‘Dear patrons, please charge your glasses and drink heartily for tomorrow you may die’

In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati, and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb. Raised on the the streets of parallel metropolis Legundon, an eccentrically Anglo-Saxon place of loose women, gin and cream cakes, and Francis Bacon’s butchers shop, they are an unusual dynasty. LE GUN’s gigantic black and white ink drawings record the families journey from their home cities murky streets and dens of vice, across a wild unchartered ocean to an outlandish Interzone of mind bending intoxicants and bordellos, and the jungle funeral of unloved street urchin Caliper Boy.

The exhibition that will feature the collective’s large scale drawings, forming a physical embodiment of the work found on the pages of LE GUN. These drawings, some up to 10m in length, are collaborative, narrative panoramas that link together to tell a curious tale…
The exhibition will also feature a ‘salon wall’ of works by artists working with LE GUN, and our cardboard-constructed ‘arts club’ installation that will host a bar plus performance and screening area. The exhibition will run for one week and in that time a number of events such as music nights and short film screenings will be programmed, creating a temporary arts club.

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ALIXANDRA FAZZINA FINALIST AT CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage.
There will be an exhibition of the work from her ongoing project ‘A Million Shillings  Escape frm Somalia’ at Visa Pour L’Image festival held at Perpignan this September.

The winner is Stephanie Sinclair with her reportA Cutting Tradition: Inside An Indonesian Female Circumcision Celebration.
The three other finalists are:

Agnes Dherbeys: Wat Prah Bat Nam Phu, Temple of dooms (Thailand)

Suthep Kritsanavarin: Cyclone Nargis…life aftermath (Myanmar)

Ariana Cubillos (Associated Press): Mud cookies to stop hungry (Haiti)