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SITE/FRINGE _ M of L

Posted: March 13, 2012 by alternativeartcollege in Uncategorized

Hello guys, Museum of London project group (site/fringe) will be having thir first event 24th March 2012, 6pm @ The Carpenters Est Stratford.   More Details at: http://sitefringe.com/

Future of Education…

Posted: January 25, 2012 by alternativeartcollege in Uncategorized

Talk at the Whitechapel Gallery http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/22/product_id/1120 FEB 16th Speakers incl Mark Fisher (Author of Capitalist Realism). Worth a look. £7 ish

Nottingham event details and train times.

Posted: January 17, 2012 by alternativeartcollege in Uncategorized

Hello, Below is the info again for the event and the train times i have booked. (the cheapest times obviously). if you have a rail card it will be around 20 squid return if not closer to 50. Leaving LDN Kings Cross stn : 7.03am (1 Change in Grantham) Getting to Nottingham at 9.28am Returning [...]

This is a one day seminar at the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham (obviously)  Links at the bottom of post. 28 Jan 2012 10.30am – 6pm, Free, Gallery 2 With DAAR, Rasha Salti, Nicola Perugini, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (16 Beaver Group), Sari Hanafi, Lieven De Cauter, Ismael Sheikh Hassan, Berlage Studio A one day [...]

Museum stuff, so much stuff, stuff,stuff stuff stuff…………. stuff

Posted: December 11, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The Museum

Museums like that of the British Museum and the Louvre were set out to be a centre for nationalistic culture, now though anything from the bus stop to the school can be a site that can become a museum.  Eilean Hooper suggests that “going to a museum is often closer to going to a theme [...]

The museum is a prison playing football down a tunnel

Posted: November 24, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The Museum, Uncategorized

These are just a few observations i have from the museum visit this week: The Museum; Foxes in the gallery, Transient, Mutiny or independence, Modernist, built out of the ashes of the past, Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein, nationalism, pride in the city, kitsch, social history, working history, history from below, collections or archives? passion for learning? statistics, for the white middle [...]

Guideline for writing Offender Apologies

Posted: November 24, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The Prison

I was stumbling on google as you do to avoid writing essays and came across a guideline document for writing apologies from offenders by: Anne Seymour, Sharon English and Jill Weston. (2001). Washington, D.C.: Justice Solution. The pdf link is here; http://www.justicesolutions.org/art_pub_offender_apologies.pdf Also I found this anti apology letter from an offender with to quote another brilliant Daily Mail headline [...]

The Art of War

Posted: November 21, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in Events

The London Photographers’ Branch are proud to host a debate with award winning photographers Simon Norfolk and  Territorial Army Sgt Alison Baskerville about propaganda, embedding, censorship, objectivity and art – The Art of War. Simon’s widely recognised work has spanned from UK fascist groups to some of the worst war zones and refugee camps in the world. In the last ten [...]

Protests In Sport..

Posted: November 11, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The Stadium

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/the-rundown/article/8908/ The link above takes you to a ‘top 10′ countdown (everyone loves a countdown) of some protests in sport. Its been done by eurosport off the back of the poppy debate for the up and coming england friendly against spain. P

Prison Numbers to Rise

Posted: October 27, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The Prison

BBC NEWS Prison numbers to rise, the Ministry of Justice says Re-offending in England and Wales has dropped slightly over the past 10 years, the report says Continue reading the main story Related Stories More serious offenders face life Prison population starts to fall Prison numbers reach record high The prison population in England and [...]