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Artists needed to display in September Taking a different approach to the future
Painters, sculptors and artists of all kinds are being invited to register for Swindon based environment campaigner Michael Thomas has published
a popular visual arts event. Countdown: responding to a global crisis where he advocates a new
Swindon Open Studios 2010 will for interested artists to meet those science – Philonomics – as the basis for a development framework to
provide a showcase for creative who have already taken part. narrow the gap between rich and poor, but enable human life support
people who live within a 12 miles The deadline to take part is 19 systems to be preserved for future generations.
radius of the town. July. His book comes has been primarily
Last year about 60 people dis- Download details and an ap- at a time when even driven by compe-
played paintings, textiles, draw- plication form from www.swindo- politicians have re- tition, greed and
ings, sculpture, glass, ceramics, nopenstudios.org.uk alised that economic gambling and over
jewellery, computer graphics, pho- growth cannot con- the last 20 years
tography and pastels over a week- Handmade Market tinue indefinitely, a global capitalism.
end. This year SOS will take place Saturday 12 June, 10.30am - 3.30pm wide acceptance He wants to see a
from 11 to 19 September. Items made by local artists that the gap be- framework for creat-
The nine day event will be and designers tween the haves ing and distributing
launched on Thursday 10 June, Post Modern Gallery and have nots is wealth – one based
7.30pm, providing an opportunity Theatre Square, Swindon unacceptable, and on values such as
continued reliance cooperation, shar-
on fossil fuel for en- ing, fellowship and
Image music by Edge Effect on 12 June ergy, driven by this compassion.
Swindon based multi-media artist, Andy Preston presents an evening growth, has resulted Countdown is
performance of projected (video & still) imagery accompanied by live in forms of pollution available to order
ambient electronic music on Saturday 12 June, 7.30pm to 10pm at Artsite, that threaten most of humanity with from any bookshop or online or
in the Post Modern Gallery, Theatre Square. extinction. from Troubador Publishing on 0116
Andy has worked in this field using the name ‘Edge Effect’ for many He advocates a different ap- 2792299
years. Although he has appeared at multi-media and left-field music proach to the economic system that www.troubador.co.uk
events in Swindon, most of his performances have taken place in London,
Bristol, Bath and Burton-on-Trent.
He describes his music and visuals as slow, quiet, isolationist, contem- Get in tune with your keyboard
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