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Submitted by admin on February 5, 2012 - 19:45

What's On from Feb 12 to Feb 26 2012

Crafts and Applied Arts

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
DRAWING & PAINTING FOR THE PETRIFIED West Ox Arts Gallery, Bampton Feb 6 2012 - Mar 5 2012
1.30 pm to 4.30 pm each...
Legacy: Bev Bartlett South Hill Park Arts Centre Feb 10 2012 - Apr 8 2012
see website for general...
Make A Recycled Bag Workshop West Ox Arts Gallery, Market Square, Bampton, Oxon Feb 13 2012
6.30 to 9.30 pm
Colour in Painting: Colour & Composition (For Acrylics) Workshop West Ox Arts Gallery, Market Square, Bampton, Oxon Feb 26 2012
10.00 am to 1.30 pm

Dance

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
3 day dance residency with Tavaziva Dance Company leading to a performance at Dancin' Oxford Pegasus Theatre Feb 12 2012 - Feb 14 2012
10-4pm
Kylie Minogue choreographer - Tim Noble - Dance Masterclass in commercial dance and musical theatre Witney Feb 18 2012
10.15am - 1.15pm...
THE ABINGDON ARTS FESTIVAL BALL THE GUILDHALL, ABINGDON Feb 18 2012
7.30pm
Sensual Africa performed by Tavaziva Dance Company Pegasus Theatre Feb 24 2012 - Feb 25 2012
8pm

Film and Animation

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Ripper Teeth in Action A Film by Hector Castells-Matutano Modern Art Oxford Dec 10 2011 - Mar 18 2012
Please see website for...
Film Screenings: An Unfinished World- Artists' Shorts Modern Art Oxford Feb 16 2012
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Stop Motion Animation Film Oxford Feb 18 2012 - Feb 19 2012
10am-4pm
Film. ANOTHER YEAR. UK, 2010, Cert 12A Abingdon and Witney College, Abingdon, OX14 1GG Feb 23 2012
7.45pm

Multi Artform

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Exhibition: Made for Trade Pitt Rivers Museum Jul 18 2011 - Jan 27 2013
10.00-4.30 Tuesday to...
Modern Art Trolley Modern Art Oxford Dec 10 2011 - Mar 18 2012
2-4 PM, Saturday &...
Hidden House Trail The Oxfordshire Museum Jan 14 2012 - Feb 17 2012
10am - 4pm
Necessity is the Mother of Invention Pitt Rivers & Museum of the History of Science Feb 3 2012 - Mar 17 2012
During normal opening...
John Piper at Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace Feb 11 2012 - Apr 9 2012
10.30am - 5.30pm
Project Space Residency Exhibition: Tamarin Norwood Keeping Time Modern Art Oxford Feb 14 2012 - Feb 19 2012
Open during gallery...
Modern Art Trolley: Half Term Special Modern Art Oxford Feb 14 2012 - Feb 17 2012
2-4 PM, in the Cafe.
February Half Term: Explorers and Adventurers Pitt Rivers Museum Feb 14 2012 - Feb 16 2012
1-4pm, drop in session
Masterclasses Oxfordshire School of Creative Arts Feb 14 2012
9.30am to 3.30pm
Live at MAO: Oxford Improvisers Modern Art Oxford Feb 18 2012
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Artist Talk: Tamarin Norwood Modern Art Oxford Feb 19 2012
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Family print workshop The future Story Museum, Pembroke St, Oxford Feb 25 2012 - May 26 2012
2 - 4pm
WOAPA - open morning with Free Taster Workshop Drama Dance and Singing sessions Henry Box School, Witney Feb 25 2012
10.00am - 1.00pm

Music

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Voice and Sound Harmonic Community Choir, The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay Jan 12 2012 - Mar 22 2012
7.30-9.30
Katie Stillman and Simon Lane Jacqueline du Pre Music Building Feb 14 2012
Doors open 7.30pm,...
JDP - Joanna MacGregor (piano) plays Chopin Mazurkas Jacqueline du Pré Music Building Feb 17 2012
7pm - 10pm
Festival Club Night Pegasus Theatre Feb 24 2012
9.30pm
Basement Gig: Adventures Close to Home Present Way Through and Bomber Jackets Modern Art Oxford Feb 25 2012
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Outdoor Arts

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Winter exhibition at Turrill Sculpture Garden Turrill Sculpture Garden (at Summertown Library) Dec 1 2011 - Feb 25 2012
During library opening...
Turrill Sculpture Garden Winter Exhibition Turrill Sculpture Garden Jan 1 2012 - Feb 25 2012
9.30-4pm
Chapungu Sculpture Exhibition at Waterperry Gardens Waterperry Gardens Jan 3 2012 - Mar 31 2012
10am to 5pm

Theatre

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Impro Mastery! Top Room, Oxford Playhouse Feb 15 2012
10am - 4pm
Young Designers Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford Playhouse Feb 15 2012
10am - 4pm
Impro Mastery! Top Room, Oxford Playhouse Feb 16 2012
10am - 4pm
Writing Day: Young Playwrights Hospitality Room, Oxford Playhouse Feb 16 2012
10am - 4pm
The Future Theatre Club Hospitality Room, Oxford Playhouse Feb 17 2012
1pm-4pm
Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury Feb 22 2012 - Feb 25 2012
7:45 pm

Visual Arts

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World Curated by George Shaw Modern Art Oxford Dec 10 2011 - Mar 18 2012
See website for gallery...
Lunchtime Tours: Graham Sutherland An Unfinished World Modern Art Oxford Dec 14 2011 - Mar 14 2012
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM every...
Oxfordshire’s Art Teachers exhibit at the O3 Gallery O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle Jan 14 2012 - Feb 19 2012
Weekdays 12-5, Weekends...
Hannah Brown Exhibition at The China Shop Gallery The China Shop Gallery Jan 21 2012 - Feb 25 2012
Gallery open Saturdays...
Exhibition: The Nature of Curious Objects: Sue Johnson’s Paper Museum Pitt Rivers Museum Jan 24 2012 - Jun 10 2012
10.00-4.30 Tuesday to...
Kaleidoscope Corpus Gallery, Banbury Jan 27 2012 - Mar 31 2012
11am - 4pm daily, except...
Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin Ashmolean Museum Feb 2 2012 - Apr 22 2012
10:00-18:00
Jocelyn's Cartoons Art Cafe, 14 Bonn Square, Oxford OX1 1LS Feb 5 2012 - Feb 29 2012
7am to 7pm each day
Julie Wigg Guest Artist at The Gallery Oxfordshire School of Creative Arts Oxford & Cherwell Valley College Feb 9 2012 - Feb 23 2012
Tuesday to Thursday 10am...
Ubiquitous Materials: Jeannie Driver & Christopher Lundie South Hill Park Arts Centre Feb 10 2012 - Apr 8 2012
Wed 7-9.30pm, Thu-Sat 1-...
While Things Were Good: Gemma Cumming South Hill Park Arts Centre Feb 10 2012 - Apr 8 2012
See website for general...
Exploring the Borough's 'Routes and Trees' South Hill Park Arts Centre Feb 10 2012 - Apr 8 2012
See website for general...
Guercino: A Passion for Drawing - The Collections of Sir Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum Ashmolean Museum Feb 11 2012 - Apr 15 2012
10:00-18:00
The Ballet Dancer Pegasus Theatre Feb 12 2012 - Mar 18 2012
Tuesdays - Sundays from...
The Art of Magic with Morgan and West Top Room, Oxford Playhouse Feb 13 2012 - Feb 14 2012
10am - 4pm
Children's Half-term Workshop in Printmaking for ages 7yrs+ Artspace-Kingham Feb 14 2012
10 - 3pm
You are what you wear - Dress and Costume in Renaissance and Baroque drawings from Christ Church Christ Church Picture Gallery Feb 15 2012 - Jun 4 2012
Mon, Wed - Sat 10.30 -...
Serious Money by Caryl Churchill Pegasus Theatre Feb 15 2012 - Feb 18 2012
eves 7.30pm, plus...
Children's Half-term Workshop in Casting & Carving - ages 7yrs+ Artspace-Kingham Feb 15 2012
10 - 3pm
Graham Sutherland Exhibition Tour: Colin Harrison Modern Art Oxford Feb 18 2012
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Saturday Spotlight Gallery Talk: Photographing Bhutanese Dance: the Michael Aris Collection Pitt Rivers Museum Feb 18 2012
14.30
Winter Workshops at Witney Art Studios Witney Art Studios, 11a High Street, Witney Feb 18 2012
10am-4pm
Natural Worlds West Ox Arts Feb 18 2012 - Mar 4 2012
Tue-Sat 10.30 am to 4.30...
Landscape Art Through the Ages South Hill Park Arts Centre Feb 22 2012 - Mar 21 2012
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Casting & Carving Artspace-Kingham Feb 22 2012 - Mar 21 2012
Wednesday Mornings 10-12...
Talk: George Shaw, Alexandra Harris and Michael Bracewell Modern Art Oxford Feb 23 2012
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Sculpture (Life Class) Artspace-Kingham Feb 23 2012 - Mar 22 2012
Thursday Afternoons 1.30...
Life Drawing Artspace-Kingham Feb 23 2012 - Mar 22 2012
Mornings 10-12.30
Painting Workshop Oxford - Putting on the Paint, lose your inhibitions! Wytham Village Hall, Oxford, OX2 8QN Feb 24 2012
9.30am - 3.30pm

Written and Spoken Word

Event Venue Date(s) and Time
Return of Resource Scarcity with local group Flocking Environmentalists Pegasus Theatre Feb 23 2012
7.30pm
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Trevor Barton

Submitted by Trevor Barton on February 5, 2012 - 14:02
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Individual

Trevor Barton is an artist with artwork available for exhibitions. He also supplies commissioned art works, and creative consultancy. He is based in Oxford, UK.

Trevor mainly hand-paints acrylics on stretched box canvas, working from digital proofs-of-concept which he creates using computers. This often lends to a graphical and bold style, with vivid colour.

Full portfolio on Trevor's website.

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Jocelyn's Cartoons

Submitted by Jocelyn Ireson-Paine on February 5, 2012 - 13:24
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Venue: 
Art Cafe, 14 Bonn Square, Oxford OX1 1LS
Date(s): 
Sunday, 5 February 2012 - Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Timing: 
7am to 7pm each day
Cost: 
Free

Brush-and-pen cartoons. About the Oxford social gradient, local brewing, and Wolvercote; about spreadsheets, Artificial Intelligence, software jobs, and other computer things that don't work too well; and with horrid puns. Prints and books for sale from the cafe.

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Primary School Arts Workshop

Submitted by Gateway on February 5, 2012 - 12:43
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Closing Date: 
Friday, 30 March, 2012
Salary / Fee: 
negotiable

Gateway Primary School Carterton is holding an Arts Week beginning 28th May (running up to the Diamond Jubilee weekend celebrations) We hope to provide the children with a variety of enriching opportunities and engage with outside artists as much as we can afford. If you might be able to offer a demonstration or workshop, please get in touch with Kathy Stace, details below. Many thanks

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ETHICAL FASHION SYMPOSIUM curated by the O3 Gallery

Submitted by O3 Gallery on February 4, 2012 - 13:56
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Venue: 
Malmaison Hotel, Oxford Castle Quarter
Date(s): 
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Timing: 
3-5 pm
Cost: 
£5 (£4 conc.)

Following on from the success of Oxford's ‘Ethical Fashion Fest’ in March 2011, the O3 Gallery is set to curate a weekend of events designed to provoke thought about where clothes come from and whether they are ethically produced.

During Fairtrade Fortnight, the O3 Gallery has assembled a line-up of leading names to discuss the sustainability of fashion/design and whether there can ever be such things as ethical consumerism and ethical luxury.

TALK 3: Ethical Luxury: Squaring the Circle

Can luxury goods be ethical?

ETHICAL FASHION SYMPOSIUM curated by the O3 Gallery

Submitted by O3 Gallery on February 4, 2012 - 13:52
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Venue: 
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Date(s): 
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Timing: 
2-4 pm
Cost: 
£5 (£4 conc.)

Following on from the success of Oxford's ‘Ethical Fashion Fest’ in March 2011, the O3 Gallery is set to curate a weekend of events designed to provoke thought about where clothes come from and whether they are ethically produced.

During Fairtrade Fortnight, the O3 Gallery has assembled a line-up of leading names to discuss the sustainability of fashion/design and whether there can ever be such things as ethical consumerism and ethical luxury.

TALK 2: Sustainable style: How to be an Ethical Consumer

The impact of fashion, textiles & jewellery industry on the environment – the dest

ETHICAL FASHION SYMPOSIUM curated by O3 Gallery

Submitted by O3 Gallery on February 4, 2012 - 13:37
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Venue: 
Oxford Brookes Main Lecture Theatre
Date(s): 
Friday, 9 March 2012
Timing: 
2.30 - 4pm
Cost: 
£5 (£4 conc.)

Following on from the success of Oxford's ‘Ethical Fashion Fest’ in March 2011, the O3 Gallery is set to curate a weekend of events designed to provoke thought about where clothes come from and whether they are ethically produced.

During Fairtrade Fortnight, the O3 Gallery has assembled a line-up of leading names to discuss the sustainability of fashion/design and whether there can ever be such things as ethical consumerism and ethical luxury.

TALK 1: Fairtrade Fashion: Weaving the Fabric of Society

The dilemma that is created from women producing clothes for the multi-national ga

Book Launch: Mark Leech, Jennifer A. McGowan and David Olsen

Submitted by BRP.committee on February 3, 2012 - 23:38
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Venue: 
Art Jericho, 6 King Street, Oxford OX2 6DF
Date(s): 
Friday, 10 February 2012
Timing: 
7:30 pm (doors open 7 pm)
Cost: 
Free entry
Poster

Back Room Poets present recent publications by members: Mark Leech - Changan Poems, Jennifer A. McGowan - Life in Captivity, David Olsen - New World Elegies. The event also features readings by Pat Winslow and Paul Surman. Also your chance to view the Art Jericho exhibition: William Cotterill, A Tangle of Ghost and Matter.

http://www.myspace.com/backroompoets/blog

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Meet the Artist Don Henderson

Submitted by Katherine M Waters on February 3, 2012 - 21:47
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Venue: 
Corpus Gallery, Banbury
Date(s): 
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Timing: 
12noon - 3.30pm
Cost: 
Free

Meet the artist Don Henderson at Corpus Gallery in Banbury

Kaleidoscope includes the paintings of Don Henderson and the ceramics of Stephen Bird.

An interest in the possibilities of paint, painting materials and traditional craft such as lacquering and japanning has lead Henderson to a unique and contemporary painting practice. ... Birds humerous contemporary ceramics make observations of complex collective issues including politics, cultural imperialism and the global power struggle.

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This Phoenix Shall Fly

Submitted by TCox on February 2, 2012 - 17:00
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Venue: 
Old Fire Station
Date(s): 
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Timing: 
7.30pm
Cost: 
£5 Donation
A narrative poem about a life redeemed from childhood abuse by Natasha Campbell

Carolyn Pickles and Caroline Webster offer two startling perfomances in a reading of Natasha Campbell’s play in verse exploring life and motherhood after childhood abuse.

£5.00 at the door or contact

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