All events below have places available.  To book a place, please contact Creative Skills on 01209 218879 or email admin@creativeskills.org.uk to request a booking form.

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AIRTIME Penzance
Supporting artists' practice through information and networking
Date: Monday 8th March 2010
Venue: The Exchange, Penzance
Time: 3.00am-5.00pm
Cost: Free

Are you a visual artist seeking information on insurance, funding, legal and professional matters? Do you want to develop your networks and collaborations? Locate like-minded artists and get timely advice from other artists and experts at this event that is open to practising visual and applied artists in the South West. Don't miss this unique opportunity - recommended by 94% of artists attending previous events in the series.

Contributors include Steve Perry (Hencilla Canworth Insurance Brokers), artists and experts including representatives from AIR, Alias (Artist-Led Initiative Advisory Service) a-n, BOSarts, Cornwall Autonomous Zone, Creative Skills, DACS (Design and Artists Copyright Society), Happidrome, NAN (Networking Artists Networks) and The Exchange.

Event organised by a-n The Artists Information Company on behalf of AIR:
Artists' Interaction and Representation, in partnership with Creative Skills, DACS and The Exchange.

Pre-booking is essential as places are limited.
To reserve a place contact AIR@a-n.co.uk with AIRTIME Penzance in the subject box.

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Space Invaders - With Permission or Not?
Cornwall Visual Arts Forum
Open to all practitioners
Date: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Venue: Cornwall College Camborne
Time: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Cost: £10
Includes buffet lunch

An investigation into how artists and curators occupy, appropriate, invade and negotiate their way into alien territory. Invited speakers include Paula Orrell, Curator of Plymouth Arts Centre with perspectives on The British Art Show that is coming to Plymouth. We also have Didem Ozbek from PiST/// in Istanbul; an Interdisciplinary Project Space with an international reputation for its exciting work the latest being their Artist Information Project. The intention is for this to move beyond the city of Istanbul to cross borders and focus on contemporary art practices abroad. British artist, academic, film maker, writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist Stewart Home will also contribute. The chair for the day will be Dave Beech from the artist collective Freee. The collective is made up of three artists, who work together on slogans, billboards and publications, occupying the public sphere with works that take sides, speak their mind and divide opinion.

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Neither here, nor there.

Build Preview
Date: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Venue: Proctor Gallery, Cornwall College Camborne
Time: 5.30 - 8.00pm

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Build Artist Talk
Date: Wednesday 5th May 2010
Venue: Proctor Gallery, Cornwall College Camborne
Time: 6.30pm

BUILD resident artist, Alexandra Zierle will be presenting the culmination of her 15 week residency. Zierle is currently using her time as artist in residence to investigate ‘a Sense of Belonging' through one to one interviews. The processes of connecting with others and the common rituals involved hold a fascination for the artist. The collated material from her encounters will lead to further performative works, which will map out the dislocated and unnoticed, she will walk to fall and play with the senses.

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Visual Arts Forum Afterhours
NUNO SOUSA VIEIRA
"Don't underestimate the impact of the work place"
Date: 15th May 2010
Venue: The Studio, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Cost: Free

Portuguese curator and writer, João Silvério, who has worked with Nuno Sousa Vieira several times in the past, will respond to the work in this the artist's first UK show, exploring the concepts and issues raised.
Sousa Vieira transforms the gallery spaces in Newlyn using relocated structures from his studio building, an abandoned factory in Portugal. Combining these elements, he creates a narrative that encourages the viewer to reconsider the role and attention paid to the gallery and the studio space.

This exhibition is curated by MA Curatorial Practice, University College Falmouth.

CVAFterhours are hosted in partnership with art agencies across Cornwall. They are designed to be informal social evenings with the focus on discussion and debate.

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