Sunday 29 January 2012
Saturday 28 January 2012
Friday 27 January 2012
The countdown is over... The Stove's first live art event is here!
Get yourself down to Dumfries town centre tonight for First Foot at The Stove. Show starts at 7PM till late both Friday and Saturday night!
Thursday 26 January 2012
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Backstage passes are being made at a secret location
Its expected signed passes could be forged for this high profile event.
Expect them on ebay monday for $$$
Expect them on ebay monday for $$$
Chinese whispers
Rumours abound that something is happening on the streets of Dumfries.
Strange images of a man sitting outside a building on fire have been stencilled around the town on pavements and in dark neglected places.
The town is buzzing. Is this some mafia infused extortion plan?
The police have been called.
Have terrorists identified targets to attack in sleepy Dumfropolis?
Should MI5 be alerted?
The pupils of Dumfries and Galloway have some thoughts on the matter.
Could it be health and safety conscious gas installers?
It's a mystery.
Monday 23 January 2012
Your chance to First Foot Dumfries from Outer Space
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Restaging The Conversation
Chris Helson and Sarah Jackets
The Stove, 96-102 Dumfries High Street,
Showings:
Friday 27th January 7.30pm and 8.30pm
Saturday 28th January 7.30pm and 8.50pm Duration 10mins
Parents and children of all ages wanted to exit the Mothership for any or all showings. If you would like to take part, please meet outside Shoezone (on the Main Square in Dumfries) 7.20pm and 8.20pm Friday and 7.20pm and 8.20pm Saturday.
Gin a body meet a body
The
keen eyed burghers of Dumfries may have noticed a lot of activity
around the Stove this past week as men in bunnets and leopard skin
toting ladies bustled around in ever increasing spirals of agitation,
armed only with Stanley knives, paint brushes and reams of tracing
paper. It's been all hands to the deck as the Stove juggles projectors,
aliens, keys, broken windaes all to get ready in time for the Big Burns Supper
Yes,
after months of deliberation; eureka moments, several shoogly nailed
marriages, shortfalls in monies, no monies, no ideas, awful ideas and
finally super, nay super dooper ideas and enough monies to cover our
costs, the First Foot show is finally about to kick off.
First out of the traps is 'Windows for Burns Night',
a project that transcends time and place and asks contemporary poets to
emulate the hard Bard Burns and speak of their own time via the medium
of melinex and a permanent marker.
The
results of this project, created by venerable Stovies Hugh Bryden and
Dave Borthwick, have been a great success with established poets
grabbing permanent markers and making free with the odes. Hugh, working
with the primary school pupils in and around Dumfries has produced some
sublime poems which are displayed throughout Dumfries. The collected
works can be seen in the windows of the Robert Burns House museum, the
Globe Inn, the Coach & Horses and on mass in the windows of The
Stove.
Naturally some were in too much of a hurry to stop and stare.
and finally from one our younger poets, Joanne Hiddleston.
* The poems on the Stove windows will be taken down on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings for the First Foot projections.
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