MAS-SAMple

MAS-SAMple In Conversation 01

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Friday 25 July 2008, 2pm-5pm

The Studio Theatre, Live Theatre
Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 3DQ

Tickets £10/ £5 for artists based in the North East of England and a-n AIR subscribers

MAS-SAMple’s In Conversation series is a new programme of critical debates providing a space for artists, organisations and creative networks to openly explore the challenges of collaborative practice and international exchange.

MAS-SAMple will be hosting the first in this series, In Conversation 01 at Live Theatre featuring presentations from Mario Lewis (Trinidad), Annalee Davis (Barbados) and Ewan Atkinson (Barbados).

This critical debate presents a unique opportunity for artists and arts organisations based in the North East of England and beyond, to explore the challenges of collaborative practice, critique and international networks.

For tickets call Live Theatre’s box office on (0191) 232 1232 or visit www.live.org.uk

For further information, email: mas.sample@gmail.com

It's a date!

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At last we can spread thew news about our scheduled Critical Debate around Caribbean Art in the Diaspora. We have decided on Friday 25 July 2008, as the date. The venue is LIVE theatre on the Quayside of Newcastle. We're really excited and pleased about the prospect of this event taking place in such a wonderful place. We'll keep popping back here to update you on the developments of this event, with regards to content, times etc. But in the meantime, all you have to do is put the date in your diaries and make sure that you're coming.

Journals of Travel and Love: A Collaborative Peformance by MAS-SAMple

2008-03-15T15:05:00.001Z

Other people's holiday snaps...We've all been there; experienced those long evenings in a cramped living room with a projector and slides as some boring old fart shows his holiday snaps.

MAS-SAMple, back from the Caribbean, is planning a collaborative performance around this very British phenomenon at the Lit & Phil. Come join us for wine, cheese and nibbles and of course, the holiday snaps.

Wednesday 26 March 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Literary and Philosophical Society
23 Westgate Road
Newcastle upon Tyne,
United Kingdom

MAS-SAMple in Conversation

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Queens Park Art Gallery-Bridgetown, Barbados
Monday 25 February 2008
5pm

All welcome

Collaboration

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Diaspora

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Representation

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International

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Opportunity

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Call Out to Artists

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MAS-SAMple will be in the Caribbean fom 1-28 February 2008, with the aim of establishing contact with artists, writers, arts and cultural organisations, collectives, curators, publishers and thinkers based in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago.

We welcome contact and expressions of interest from emerging and established practitioners.

Throughout this time, we aim to share information about our initiative and build a greater knowledge and understanding of the artistic production, needs and aspirations of artists operating out of the Caribbean. This research will form an integral part of MAS-SAMple’s development and creative vision.

We view this exploration period as a visible and collective process, therefore all participating practitioners and members of the public will be able to access and respond to this research via hardcopy and an online pdf in September 2008.

The Beginnning of MAS-SAMple

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North East based artists, Andrea Macdonald and Sheree Mack have had a long-standing creative relationship over the last four years, working collaboratively on several arts and heritage based projects in the cultural sector. They mutually support each other in the creative and practical development of their own art practice, linked through similar conceptual interests to Caribbean ancestry and re-imagined Diaspora identities.

In February 2007, Macdonald and Mack embarked on a creative research trip to their ancestral homes of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago to collate first-hand research and new documentation for their personal practice. This journey was a self-initiated ‘go and see’ experience and served as a valuable opportunity for both artists to meet visual artists, writers, curators and critics in the Southern Caribbean. This trip resulted in new contacts, a series of professionally recorded audio interviews, new photographic and literary work, research and visual documentation.

Inspired by the mas-camps of carnival, the representation of the post-colonial condition in the arts, and the two-fold desire for experimentation, investigation and experiences across continents, MAS-SAMple was formally created on their return. Through extensive discussions about the aims and purpose and research regarding existing opportunities, regional and national networks, Macdonald and Mack created MAS-SAMple to establish a combined arts initiative for Caribbean Diaspora artists, issue-based arts and global audiences alike.