Digital and Creative Futures
Kid Carpet
I've been producing an event on behalf of FutureEverything in partnership with Vision+Media as a follow-up to the extremely popular City Debate. Taking place on Thursday 1st July, the final few tickets for Digital and Creative Futures can be snapped up for no cost for anyone with an interest in cross-discipline discussion and ideas relating to the future of our cities, technological advancement and alternative methods by which we assess and interpret the world around us.
FutureEverything
Featuring Professor Steve Furber, Millennium Technology Prize Laureate and principal designer of the ubiquitous ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor discussing 'The Relentless March of the Microchip', plus the political fist-of-thistles that is commentator and writer Gerry Hassan, addressing the dismal failure of ideologies: 'After the Century of Isms: What is the Future of the Future?' Kid Carpet will be providing an injection of kiddy punk upon poundshop instruments finishing off with a rapid-fire Unconference intended to tap into themes raised upon the day.
© Sosolimited: Prime Numerics
Installations on site will include the jaw-dropping beauty of Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir, Sosolimited's Prime Numerics mash-up of the final televised general election debate and Aaron Koblin's hand picked selection of the best in data visualisation. And all in the shadow of Salford's answer to Dubai, the emerging creative hub of Media City. Don't say I didn't tell you about it.
Hazard MMX
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Free tickets are now available for Scratch 'n Sniff Cinema presents My Beautiful Laundrette at Hub M3 as part of Hazard MMX on the evening of Friday 16th July at 7pm, or the matinee performance on Saturday 17th July at 2pm. The site will be transformed into TUB for the evening with artwork, surprises and a few secret enhancements for this screening-with-a-twist of writer Hanif Kureshi's and director Stephen Fear's then-controversial 80s drama (now sweetly dated but no less enjoyable). Budge up along the rows, it's going to be a tight fit! Remember them? "Fantasy Island, all I ever wanted, true love, holding us together..." (just ignore me, eighties flashback underway).
Forbidden suds
Daniel Day Lewis, Gordon Warnecke
As mentioned in my last post I'll be updating the project page for Scratch 'n Sniff Cinema presents My Beautiful Laundrette with further news as we firm up the details. I'm also now in conversation with a special guest - TBC - about an audience Q&A after the success of our last post-movie natter with Micha Bergese. Check out the trailer at the above link if you can't remember it or worse - you've never seen it! Where have you been? Quick, head to the BFI's teaching resources page so that you can hold your head up in public without shame. A true British classic.
Sharpest tooth
The Company of Wolves: image courtesy of Park Circus
Better late than never, a full write-up with new pictures of Scratch 'n Sniff Cinema presents The Company of Wolves in Grizedale Forest over Easter. I can now announce that the next instalment in this accidental series will be My Beautiful Laundrette, Friday 16th - Saturday 17th July, at Hub M3 gallery space in Salford / Manchester City Centre. I'm choosing scents right now and have a strong urge to nudge into the abstract as a thinly veiled comment upon the greed of Thatcherism. Tickets will be limited - and with a special guest soon to be confirmed - swift to disappear!
Simon Misra screenprint
If you see this man, kiss him.
Not long to go now until our much anticipated contribution to the AND Festival across Cumbria with Scratch 'n Sniff Cinema presents The Company of Wolves. Tickets are on sale later today via the website for the public screening on Friday 2nd April if you're not fortunate to be on the guest list for Thursday 1st. As well as incorporating eight different scents into the experience (animal dung, anyone?), we have a swagbag of extra trimmings... from a His & Hers Transformation Station to these frankly INCREDIBLE limited edition screenprints from the eye-wateringly talented Simon Misra.
Limited edition print by Simon Misra
Hand-pulled at Hot Bed Press, Salford, and limited to just 50 prints, they will be on sale at the event for a piffling £10. Bargain! Anyone quick enough to realise how fast they will fly out of the door/forest might want to get in touch to reserve their copy now...