Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Young Cultural Ambassadors event at Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre
The Young Cultural Ambassadors event at Hartlepool Town Hall theatre on June 16th was a fantastic night and we hope everyone who attended enjoyed it as much as we did!
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Virtual Gallery Tour of New Exhibition coming soon!
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Generations:
Warships into Friendships
Works by artists Dieter Löchle & Gavin Mayhew
Saturday 12th July to Saturday 30th August 2014
This is a joint exhibition of English artist Gavin Mayhew
and German artist Dieter Löchle, as part of a wider
programme that is taking place in Hartlepool to
commemorate the First World War.
For two decades the artists have exhibited together and they
can be seen as a symbol of a special relationship that has
developed between the two countries.
Gavin and Dieter are showing separately and collectively,
both new work and past collaborations. Their new work has
been inspired by the theme of ‘Reconciliation’.
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Friday, 11 April 2014
High Tunstall exhibition in Emerge@ Hartlepool Art Gallery
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Check out some amazing work by students of High Tunstall at Hartlepool Art Gallery.
The exhibition will be there until the end of May so get yourself there and show some love by leaving some great comments about the work...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Face to Face @ Hartlepool Art Gallery
This beautiful painting is a self portrait by Doris Zinkeisen as one of the portraits exhibited in the Face to Face exhibition at Hartlepool Art Gallery.
Painter and stage designer; with her sister Anna, Doris Zinkeisen was a familiar figure on the artistic scene from the 1920s. Best known for society portraits, horse paintings and murals of regency scenes, she was also an official war artist for the St John Ambulance Brigade and her drawings of Belsen are held in the Imperial War Museum. This self-portrait was made while the artist was on a world tour, and was mostly painted in her hotel bedroom in Sydney.
Read the rest of the blog to see self portraits created at our young people’s art session.
Monday, 31 March 2014
Votes for Women in the 21st Century
Saturday 8th March, just like any other day in Hartlepool. Dark. Abysmal. A bit on the chilly side. And yet, the day would be entirely different to the constant pattern of modern life, all in the hands of 10 youths.
Dressed up to the nines, only in the wrong era, the teenagers ranging from ages 11 to 17 congregate to re enact a debated suffragette march in commemoration of the efforts from World Wars 1 and 2. Being 100 years since the war, Hartlepool Borough Council had conducted leaders to host a series of meetings leading up to the event where the group would rehearse the authentic characteristics and the encouraging speeches of which were performed at the Cenotaph within the Town Centre’s Victory Square.
During the morning session, workshops were held in costume where local children could be educated of the Suffragette movement and produce flags to join in the parade. After hats were pinned securely and sashes were fastened tightly, the group of six girls set out in the gusts of wind reciting the verses from the Suffragette song of a classic Disney film, Mary Poppins. Followed by the small group of boys, also dressed authentically, the boys (some being soldiers, some being the typical man of business) would retaliate with counter arguments against women gaining the vote and the occasional hurl of verbal abuse, all staged to the satisfaction of performance.
Family members and curious locals gathered around the barriers of the performing area as spectators, showing their support and respect for the past.
After a few speeches were given by the Suffragette girls, a debate, a photo shoot and a repeat of the event, a brief summary was given by two members of the performance group when a bell rang and a minutes silence was initiated.
Then, to follow, the girls, in their great state of relief marched back to the Grand Hotel, of which they commenced at, chanting more verses and lyrics from the Mary Poppins song and, naturally, ‘Votes for Women’.
Dressed up to the nines, only in the wrong era, the teenagers ranging from ages 11 to 17 congregate to re enact a debated suffragette march in commemoration of the efforts from World Wars 1 and 2. Being 100 years since the war, Hartlepool Borough Council had conducted leaders to host a series of meetings leading up to the event where the group would rehearse the authentic characteristics and the encouraging speeches of which were performed at the Cenotaph within the Town Centre’s Victory Square.
During the morning session, workshops were held in costume where local children could be educated of the Suffragette movement and produce flags to join in the parade. After hats were pinned securely and sashes were fastened tightly, the group of six girls set out in the gusts of wind reciting the verses from the Suffragette song of a classic Disney film, Mary Poppins. Followed by the small group of boys, also dressed authentically, the boys (some being soldiers, some being the typical man of business) would retaliate with counter arguments against women gaining the vote and the occasional hurl of verbal abuse, all staged to the satisfaction of performance.
Family members and curious locals gathered around the barriers of the performing area as spectators, showing their support and respect for the past.
After a few speeches were given by the Suffragette girls, a debate, a photo shoot and a repeat of the event, a brief summary was given by two members of the performance group when a bell rang and a minutes silence was initiated.
Then, to follow, the girls, in their great state of relief marched back to the Grand Hotel, of which they commenced at, chanting more verses and lyrics from the Mary Poppins song and, naturally, ‘Votes for Women’.
-Post by Annabelle
Seeds of Change – International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day on the 8th March 2014 the Seeds of Change project offered an opportunity for young people to take part in a variety of creative activities at The Grand Hotel.
The Seeds of Change group hosted a special workshop based on the theme of The Suffragettes to mark International Women’s Day. The activities included making suffragette flags, sashes and Votes for Women Banners. This was then followed by a re-enactment of a Suffragette March from The Grand Hotel to Victory Square which will be led by the Seeds of Change Young People, who then performed a short play to the public.
The event is part of a two-year project called ‘Seeds of Change’ to encourage youngsters aged 13-19 to explore the heritage of World War One.
The project has been developed by the Arts For Teens Group – young people working with Hartlepool Council’s Youth Support Service and Museums Service to develop better cultural opportunities for youngsters in the town - and is being funded by a £34,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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