A event on Sunday 26th May. The event starts at 19:30.
Anything Moving & What Remains by Kitchen Table Photo Club
Join MAYK for an intimate guided trail in the wonderful nook that is Nightingale Woods. Created by Kitchen Table Photo Club (KTPC), artist Esther May Campbell and friends, this trail takes you on close encounters with the 'Anything Moving' trilogy of short films made by kids and animals, as well as a wander through 'what remains' of a month long Mayfest residency in these trees. The films, artworks and dusk trails, co-created by youngsters for all generations, beckon you to a special nocturnal event.
This special evening explores what happens when we lightly touch down into the wonderful specifics of place. When we dream, delve and muck around in woodlands to discover ancient secrets, new growth and made up games. Ancestors and animals plus all kind of inter-generational intrepidness are revealed in a 90 minute art encounter in Nightingale Woods. You are invited to come with eyes and ears wide open.
The trail is what remains after Esther, the young people from Kitchen Table Photo Club and guest artists have spent a month in the woods conjuring images and magic. Entitled '378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure' their residency attention is on layers. Layers of time (industrial, geological), layers of place and movements (soil, stone, stream), layers of personhood, psychic layers, layers in story and myth and the folds and falling through times that create digressions, dens and wild spaces. What they unearth will also be found in the event with the films.
The enchanting 'Anything Moving’ film trilogy, projected on the trail, includes music from Laura Cannell and Bass Clef and sound recordings from Dave Howell, with musical foolery with Tom Bugs.
‘Anything Moving is so good, so un-bossy in its artistry, so moving as portraits of children (and therefore portraits of all of us). Really I can’t think of any other account of childhood that doesn’t feel patronising by comparison. What it offers is profound, abundant and not quite graspable. I love it’. Alice Oswald, poet / gardener.
What is KTPC? It is a co-created community art group facilitated by Esther. The club meets in her home in Bristol around her kitchen table. It is all about gathering together to eat snacks, take photos, muck around, look at books, fiddle with analogue cameras. Esther is an award winning artist working with film and photography. Work includes a set of art/photo prompts called 'Bewilderment Cards', a photo-book made at St Paul's Adventure Playground 'Scrapbook' and the exhibition and book Water Salad on Monday documenting Elm Tree Farm, as well as BAFTA winning September and Venice Critic's Light Years.
ACCESS
Here is a link to an Easy Read about the event: https://shorturl.at/iPSW6
This event is part of Mayfest: Bristol's international festival of contemporary theatre and live performance, curated and produced by MAYK. Check out the full programme at https://www.mayk.org.uk/mayfest, @mayfestbristol
Part of Confluence – a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for Redcliffe Quarter with the support of Grainger plc.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Join MAYK for an intimate guided trail in the wonderful nook that is Nightingale Woods. Created by Kitchen Table Photo Club (KTPC), artist Esther May Campbell and friends, this trail takes you on close encounters with the 'Anything Moving' trilogy of short films made by kids and animals, as well as a wander through 'what remains' of a month long Mayfest residency in these trees. The films, artworks and dusk trails, co-created by youngsters for all generations, beckon you to a special nocturnal event.
This special evening explores what happens when we lightly touch down into the wonderful specifics of place. When we dream, delve and muck around in woodlands to discover ancient secrets, new growth and made up games. Ancestors and animals plus all kind of inter-generational intrepidness are revealed in a 90 minute art encounter in Nightingale Woods. You are invited to come with eyes and ears wide open.
The trail is what remains after Esther, the young people from Kitchen Table Photo Club and guest artists have spent a month in the woods conjuring images and magic. Entitled '378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure' their residency attention is on layers. Layers of time (industrial, geological), layers of place and movements (soil, stone, stream), layers of personhood, psychic layers, layers in story and myth and the folds and falling through times that create digressions, dens and wild spaces. What they unearth will also be found in the event with the films.
The enchanting 'Anything Moving’ film trilogy, projected on the trail, includes music from Laura Cannell and Bass Clef and sound recordings from Dave Howell, with musical foolery with Tom Bugs.
‘Anything Moving is so good, so un-bossy in its artistry, so moving as portraits of children (and therefore portraits of all of us). Really I can’t think of any other account of childhood that doesn’t feel patronising by comparison. What it offers is profound, abundant and not quite graspable. I love it’. Alice Oswald, poet / gardener.
What is KTPC? It is a co-created community art group facilitated by Esther. The club meets in her home in Bristol around her kitchen table. It is all about gathering together to eat snacks, take photos, muck around, look at books, fiddle with analogue cameras. Esther is an award winning artist working with film and photography. Work includes a set of art/photo prompts called 'Bewilderment Cards', a photo-book made at St Paul's Adventure Playground 'Scrapbook' and the exhibition and book Water Salad on Monday documenting Elm Tree Farm, as well as BAFTA winning September and Venice Critic's Light Years.
ACCESS
Here is a link to an Easy Read about the event: https://shorturl.at/iPSW6
This event is part of Mayfest: Bristol's international festival of contemporary theatre and live performance, curated and produced by MAYK. Check out the full programme at https://www.mayk.org.uk/mayfest, @mayfestbristol
Part of Confluence – a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for Redcliffe Quarter with the support of Grainger plc.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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