This Land Is Your Land
10 - 24 Jul 2010
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
Saturday 10 July - Saturday 24 July 2010
11:00am - 6:00pm: FREE
Venue: CCA 1 / CCA 2 / CCA 3
Ages: all
This Land is Your Land is an annual two-week exhibition project exploring the connections between nature and art.
For a full list of events taking place during the exhibition, please take a look at the This Land is Your Land diary.
In its second year, the project will feature Naheed Raza’s film Silk, screening on a loop in CCA 1. The film depicts the reeling of the Golden Orb Weaver, a spider unique for the golden hue of the web it weaves. CCA 2 will screen John Smith’s The Kiss, Margaret Tait’s Garden Pieces and Anna Lucas’ Uña de Gato.
In CCA 3, a series of events, workshops, talks, exhibitions and one off screenings will be held. Cookery workshops will be delivered by CCA’s head chef, Kenny Milne; the North Glasgow Food Initiative and Tawona Sithole, helping people to learn how to cook delicious meals with healthy produce.
Window farms will be developed at sessions throughout the fortnight, allowing people to drop in and make their own hydroponics. These will be displayed in the CCA Sauchiehall Street windows and on a frame in CCA 3. A composting demo will be delivered by Beth Duffy of the Community Recycling Network for Scotland, and planting workshops will teach people how to plant and allow them to take away their own to grow at home. Kabloom’s Darren Wilson and Jennifer Claire will run a seed bombing workshop with an afternoon ‘bombing’ event by the Clyde, and a trip to Charles Jenck’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation will take place on Saturday 24 July, with a bus running from CCA. The trip costs £10 per person and tickets are available from CCA box office on 0141 352 4900).
A bee talk with artist Rebecca Chesney will talk about the great threat to bees and how their disappearance would have a catastrophic effect on nature and humans. Members of Streetland will host a talk on the community and place based creative project, Streetland, which ran a successful festival in the streets of Govanhill in May. Forging community links and future activities will be discussed, against the backdrop of the Glasgow DIY approach to public art, as Streetland lead you outside into the streets. Artist Karen Guthrie will present a talk on the community garden project in London, What Will the Harvest Be?
We're looking for young people between 10 - 15 years old who want to give film-making a try! No experience is required, only a phone with bluetooth capabilities. You'll work with professional film-makers and create a short film which will be screened alongside the exhibition at the CCA. Advance booking is essential; call the CCA box office.
Polytechnics’ installation Shredder will be on display in CCA 3. Originally commissioned by the Feral Trade Café, it shreds outdated computer manuals, mixing the paper with coffee grounds to create a useful organic matter used to cultivate café products. Sneha Solanki and Dominic Smith from Polytechnic will also present a talk and demonstration and Glasgow Social Centre will run a ‘Swap-o-rama’, a chance to get rid of items you don’t want and pick up something you do in an effort to reduce waste and encourage re-use to save valuable resources.
Voice artist Wounded Knee and analogue synthesizer collective 7VWWVW will perform a unique tribute to Tom Weir on Wednesday 21 July, during which an original score will be played live to footage of outstanding moments of Weir’s Way.
Finally, Glasgow School of Art’s Architecture department will showcase its work for the GROW sight on West Princes St. This is the second year the department has been involved in This Land is Your Land and CCA will be working with it again next year on the CCA Westhorn allotments building project.
All events are free apart from the trip to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
Saturday 10 July - Saturday 24 July 2010
11:00am - 6:00pm: FREE
Venue: CCA 1 / CCA 2 / CCA 3
Ages: all
This Land is Your Land is an annual two-week exhibition project exploring the connections between nature and art.
For a full list of events taking place during the exhibition, please take a look at the This Land is Your Land diary.
In its second year, the project will feature Naheed Raza’s film Silk, screening on a loop in CCA 1. The film depicts the reeling of the Golden Orb Weaver, a spider unique for the golden hue of the web it weaves. CCA 2 will screen John Smith’s The Kiss, Margaret Tait’s Garden Pieces and Anna Lucas’ Uña de Gato.
In CCA 3, a series of events, workshops, talks, exhibitions and one off screenings will be held. Cookery workshops will be delivered by CCA’s head chef, Kenny Milne; the North Glasgow Food Initiative and Tawona Sithole, helping people to learn how to cook delicious meals with healthy produce.
Window farms will be developed at sessions throughout the fortnight, allowing people to drop in and make their own hydroponics. These will be displayed in the CCA Sauchiehall Street windows and on a frame in CCA 3. A composting demo will be delivered by Beth Duffy of the Community Recycling Network for Scotland, and planting workshops will teach people how to plant and allow them to take away their own to grow at home. Kabloom’s Darren Wilson and Jennifer Claire will run a seed bombing workshop with an afternoon ‘bombing’ event by the Clyde, and a trip to Charles Jenck’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation will take place on Saturday 24 July, with a bus running from CCA. The trip costs £10 per person and tickets are available from CCA box office on 0141 352 4900).
A bee talk with artist Rebecca Chesney will talk about the great threat to bees and how their disappearance would have a catastrophic effect on nature and humans. Members of Streetland will host a talk on the community and place based creative project, Streetland, which ran a successful festival in the streets of Govanhill in May. Forging community links and future activities will be discussed, against the backdrop of the Glasgow DIY approach to public art, as Streetland lead you outside into the streets. Artist Karen Guthrie will present a talk on the community garden project in London, What Will the Harvest Be?
We're looking for young people between 10 - 15 years old who want to give film-making a try! No experience is required, only a phone with bluetooth capabilities. You'll work with professional film-makers and create a short film which will be screened alongside the exhibition at the CCA. Advance booking is essential; call the CCA box office.
Polytechnics’ installation Shredder will be on display in CCA 3. Originally commissioned by the Feral Trade Café, it shreds outdated computer manuals, mixing the paper with coffee grounds to create a useful organic matter used to cultivate café products. Sneha Solanki and Dominic Smith from Polytechnic will also present a talk and demonstration and Glasgow Social Centre will run a ‘Swap-o-rama’, a chance to get rid of items you don’t want and pick up something you do in an effort to reduce waste and encourage re-use to save valuable resources.
Voice artist Wounded Knee and analogue synthesizer collective 7VWWVW will perform a unique tribute to Tom Weir on Wednesday 21 July, during which an original score will be played live to footage of outstanding moments of Weir’s Way.
Finally, Glasgow School of Art’s Architecture department will showcase its work for the GROW sight on West Princes St. This is the second year the department has been involved in This Land is Your Land and CCA will be working with it again next year on the CCA Westhorn allotments building project.
All events are free apart from the trip to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.