What better way of spending a murky November evening than with the soloists and choir of

PETER SYMONDS COLLEGE at the final concert in the ‘HYDE900 Michaelmas Music’ season?

Come along this evening and enjoy the stars of the future perform

• music for Brass ensemble by Jean Berger, Maurer, Riccio and Josquin.
• music for upper voices by Kodaly, Alexander Campkin and Bob Chilcott.
• two madrigals by Weelkes and Morley sung by Kelso Choir.
• Cantata by Purcell: How pleasant is this flowery Plain and Grove, for soprano, bass, two flutes and continuo.
• Two anthems for vocal ensemble by Tallis.
• Verse Anthem by Gibbons for mixed voices and brass with continuo.

Tickets £6 at the door (students free) which opens at 7.00.

Performance begins at 7.30

Opening on 28th October Invisible Cities is the inaugural HARP/Hyde900 visual arts event to take place at St Bartholomew’s Church and the adjacent Hyde Gate/Chamber.

Forming part of the 10 Days Across the City arts festival (starting this week in Winchester), Invisible Cities features work by four local artists, Susan Wood, Alex Hoare, Nicola Harlow and Sophie Cunningham Dawe who are re-uniting following last year’s highly successful contemporary visual arts exhibition, Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey.

Referencing past inhabitants’ and travellers’ tales, the four artists aim to create a conversation with current events taking place across the city of Winchester and beyond through installations which utilise glass, plastic, found objects and sound – often fragmentary – to explore how we might reconcile traces of past utility in this place – whether knowable or imagined – with its present and future possibilities.

Themes of memory, place and poetic contemplation are all investigated to form interventions within and around the historic architecture of St. Bartholomew’s and the Hyde Gateway/Chamber – almost all that remain of the Norman Hyde Abbey, once a great centre of pilgrimage and learning and the burial place of Alfred the Great.

How to visit:

Invisible Cities is situated in St Bartholomew’s and its rear grounds, in Hyde Gate & Chamber and can be self-guided 10am – 4pm daily (St Bartholomew’s open hours with services at 10am Wed and 9.30am Sun, all welcome). Works outside the Church and in Hyde Gate/Chamber can be viewed at all times.
All are welcome at the official launch event on Friday 4^th November 6.30pm at St Bartholomew’s when the artists will be present to talk about their work. The launch will feature the sole viewing of a projection that forms part of the show.  This exhibition is free and suitable for all ages.

SMALL IS VERY BEAUTIFUL IN HYDE EXHIBITION

The Hyde Tavern is hosting an unusually small – with the emphasis on the ‘small’ – exhibition until 6 November 2011 as part of the 10 Days Across the City event.

Organised by Sophie Cunningham Dawe as HARP/Hyde900’s contribution to the Winchester-wide festival, Hyde 9×5 celebrates the pleasure of small scale creativity concentrated into a space nine inches by five inches (or thereabouts).

“We issued an open invitation to local people to contribute their work and we have been overwhelmed by the response,” said Sophie. “Eighty artworks were submitted including drawing, painting, collage, photography, printmaking and mixed media. They came from a wide range of people aged between six and ninety-one, some of whom are practising artists while others are aspiring hobbyists. Collectively the works reflect the extraordinary range of work that can be generated within such tight constraints.”

The works are already selling at prices between £10 and £100 with visitors also being invited to vote for their favourite work as part of a People’s Choice Prize. (Three prizes will be awarded courtesy of local businesses Creative Crafts and Forte Tearooms. The prize winners will also be invited to take part in a group exhibition next year.)

HARP/Hyde900’s other contributions to 10 Days Across the City includes works for the Invisible Cities exhibition in St Bartholomew’s Church, Hyde Gate and Chamber.

The Hyde Tavern, now well established as a vibrant venue for local arts events, is open Mon -Thurs 5 -11pm incl. Thurs lunch 12.30 -2pm Fri 5 -12pm Sat 12 -12pm Sun 12 -11pm and is just a short walk from the city centre along Hyde Street. This exhibition is free and suitable for all ages.

This is a HARP/HYDE900 visual arts initiative to encourage all ages and abilities to join in for a group show representing the Hyde community and beyond. Works can be of any subject and in any media but no larger than 9” x 5” in finished size whether mounted, unmounted, framed or unframed.

There’ll be a People’s Choice Prize for the three most popular works and it’s free to enter for those under 17, over 70 or those on welfare benefits, otherwise it’s £5 per person. Works will be for sale and each person can enter up to 3 works. Read the rest of this entry »

Throughout the Spring and early Summer, Hyde900 put the spotlight on some of the best known artists and designers associated with the Hyde area in The Art of Conversation, a series of in-depth analyses and discussions of their work. In front of attentive audiences in Hyde Parish Hall, the well-known glass engraver Tracey Sheppard and nationally-recognised architect Robert Adam underwent in-depth questioning from interviewers Bill Lucas and Sophie Cunningham Dawe about their craft, their creativity and their careers. Also included in the series were Stephen Boyce (poet), Alex Hoare (visual artist), Andrew Carnie (visual artist, pictured here) and Mark Eden and Helen Sanderson (Guitarists). Read the rest of this entry »

A series of interviews with locally-based artists

The Art of Conversation series is designed to give insights into the career, creativity and craft of artists working in a variety of disciplines. Structured around a dialogue between the artist and an interviewer each session will feature samples of the artist’s work as a springboard for an in-depth discussion of how they were drawn to their field, their inspiration, working methods and commercial development as well as their satisfactions and goals for the future. Read the rest of this entry »

'Compacted Crypt, Winchester Cathedral' by Joe Low

'Impressions' by Pam Evans

Following the success of the Treasures of Hyde Abbey and Re-imagining exhibitions, Hyde900 and the Discovery Centre invited artists and writers in Hyde to respond to the Treasures and the story of the Abbey.

The resulting exhibition features the work of 12 locals (eight artists and four writers) and will be on display in the Learning Rooms Hallway of Winchester Discovery Centre until 12th May. It will also be displayed at future Hyde900 events and on this website.

The Discovery Centre is open daily, but opening times vary. See the Discovery Centre website for details.

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Joe Low

Hyde900 is calling artists, craftspeople, photographers, writers and the broader community to respond creatively to the Treasures of Hyde Abbey exhibition that is currently showing at the Winchester Discovery Centre.

Following the success of the initial Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey exhibition (currently on show at Winchester Cathedral, the Link Gallery and City Space) Hyde900 and its partners Winchester City Council and Hampshire County Council are extending the invitation so that more people can take part.

Sophie Cunningham Dawe, co-curator of the Re-Imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey exhibition says, “Now that visitors have had the chance to see both Treasures of Hyde Abbey and Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey we would like members of the community to create their own work, in whatever form they wish – artwork, photography, poetry or prose – as a contemporary response to the Treasures and the story of Hyde Abbey.”

A selection of the work contributed will form the Re-imagining Too exhibition to be shown in the Learning Rooms Hallway, Winchester Discovery Centre (27 April – 12 May). It will also be displayed at future Hyde900 events and on the Hyde900 website. Read the rest of this entry »