Bristol Visual Arts Consortium Project ideas from meeting held on January 25 (2006)

2007

Arnolfini May to July 2007
Catch A Fire - partnership with UWE and City Museum
1. Exhibition of work by David Hamands
2. Exhibition curated by David Banley - audio/visual piece
3. Alves - Berlin artist sowing a garden from ballast seeds from Bristol harbour
4. Picture This - Steve McQueen Trading for Georgian House
5. "Small Boats" exhibition - Isaac Julian in Custom House
6. Radio station on a boat at Arnolfini marina

Watershed
1. Digital stories with Museum of Bristol and Bristol Libraries
2. St Pauls Learning Centre: Dark Room facilities for photography workshops. Black cinema project with directors' lectures.
3. African digital artist in residency - funded by the Clarkes Trust.
4. British Council project led by Nema at Arts Council SW.
5. African art exhibition at RWA curated by Tessa Jackson.
6. Abolition 200 web development support.
7. Host Abolition 200 conference with agencies and funders in April 2006.
8. Links with FACT in Liverpool.
9. Broaden out Split Screen season of Black films project with KUUMBA.
10. Host Black history lectures organised by UWE.
11. Development opportunities with Black Elders film.

UWE
1. Commission resarch work.
2. History project with Madge Dresser.
3. HREC 'Migrations Strategic Initiative'.
4. Possibility of a Reader in Slave History.
5. Possibility of a course on Civil Rights.
6. Project work with students' asylum support group.
7. possibility of positive action scholarships.

Spike Island
1. Spike Island is closed for 2006 and is reopening in 2007
2. Decibel funding for a BME trainee internship
3. Partciaptory soicial structure residency programme with Mehton School
4. Calcutta artist outreach programme in Easton

Architecture Centre
1. Look at City Walks
2. Architecture Week in June
3. Doors Open Day in September
4. C.A.B.E. - Identity and Diversity initiative
5. Positive action fellowship with UWE
6. Links with architecture centres in Liverpool & Hull

Picture This
1. Georgian House Project -film installations
2. Bristol film anthologies plus books to tour other cities

Planet 9
1. Working with asylum seekers support groups