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Rhubarb Review 2009: Programme Of Events
09/07/2009

2009 Rhubarb-Rhubarb Events

“Photography Is Dead…” The Debate: Thursday 30th July 2009, 1pm, Radisson Hotel, Birmingham

New for 2009 is the Rhubarb debate, which aims to discuss and deconstruct the provocative premise that “Photography Is Dead…” Chaired by New York-based critic Stephen Mayes, the panel includes Alison Nordstrom from George Eastman House in New York, MaryAnn Camilleri from the Magenta Foundation in Toronto, photographer Brian Griffin and more... for tickets, £15, contact info@rhubarb-rhubarb.net Book online at : http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/02_seminars.asp

Portfolio Promenade, Saturday 8.30-11 pm, 1st August, Radisson Hotel, Birmingham – Welcome by Cllr Martin Mullaney, Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure and Sport, Birmingham City Council

The private Portfolio Review will be opened up to the public for the Portfolio Promenade, a chance to view and buy images from the international photographers visiting the event. Rhubarb team members will be on hand to assist nervous or shy buyers and give advice to new or emerging collectors who might want to buy work for individual, public or corporate collections. The event offers a great opportunity for the public or arts-interested companies to meet likeminded others:
An unmissable opportunity to see the finest international contemporary Fine Art photography and buy it for yourself! And drink a cocktail or two. Contact info@rhubarb-rhubarb.net or visit http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/01_festival_promenade.asp

Kaino Keno, A Short Film by Babis Alexiadis

Fusing photography, performance art, film and installation, this beautiful artwork considers journeys, sacrifices of the self along the way and the spaces that leaving opens up to future opportunity. Babis will be joining us on Saturday 1st August at the Radisson Hotel

Hereford Art College, Photographic Degree Student Showreel, Aston Business School

The students profile themselves and their work. Available for public viewing, the screen will be situated in the lounge of ABS from Friday 31st July to Sunday 2nd August

Selected Exhibitions, Region-Wide Venues

Obama's People by Nadav Kander: Showing now until 31st August 2009 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Open daily, Weekdays/Saturdays 10am-5pm/Sundays 12.30pm-4pm.

Rhubarb has gathered together its regional partners to create an off site array of the latest contemporary photographic offers.
Co-curated by Rhubarb Creative Director Rhonda Wilson, Rhubarb is proud to host the World Premiere of “Obama’s People” by Nadav Kander, the most talked-about photography exhibition currently in the UK and one of the hottest shows of the decade http://www.bmag.org.uk/news?id=18

Hungry, Rhubarb Bursary 2009 Winners Exhibition: Wolverhampton Art Gallery from 27th June until 29th August 2009 – Monday to Saturdays 10-5pm

The “Hungry” exhibition features this year’s crop of exceptional Rhubarb/Arts Council of England Bursary Winners who hail from the West Midlands and across the UK. The new Award is designed to bring together photographers from different levels of their development, the show is a startling reminder tha extraordinary talent reveals itself very early on in the lives of artists – The Jackson Twins, Lucinda Chua, Dominic Hawgood, Nicky Walsh, Moira Lovell, Peter Ainsworth, Elizabeth Hingley, Toby De Silva, Chris Shaw and Colin Gray – reveal their latest series. Two of the winners will be chosen to attend the Meeting Place International Review at Fotofest, Houston 2010. http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/004013.html

The Last Things by David Moore: Runs to 5th September, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

A touring exhibition organised by the University of Hertfordshire Galleries.A secret glimpse behind the scenes of a Ministry of Defence emergency environment. Deep beneath the streets of central London lies a crisis management facility, the first port of call in any situation where the state is under threat. http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/004003.html

Special WAG/Rhubarb-Rhubarb Event – “Celebrating Photography at Wolverhampton Art Gallery” – Thursday 30 July – 5.30pm-8.30pm. Open to all. Free Admission.

It's Yesterday Once More by Clifford Morris: Light House Wolverhampton, Friday 31st July until Friday 11th September, Monday-Friday 8.30am-9pm. Open Evening July 30th, 5.30pm-7.30pm

Clifford Morris takes us on a trip round the Low Level Railway Station and Springfield Brewery in ‘It’s Yesterday Once More’, a nostalgic look at Britain’s industrial heritage through photography. http://www.light-house.co.uk/whats_on_article.php?id=286

"Photography Is Dead..." The Rhubarb retrospective show, Three White Walls, Mailbox, 9th July until 15th August 2009

With images chosen by international gallerists and publishers, celebrating some of the many successes that have resulted from the International Review over the last ten years. Followed in the same venue by ‘The Colour of Time’, by Barbara Downs – a visual notebook of what Downs has seen and what delights her on a single repeated train journey: movement, rhythm, the fleeting line, the linear colour. From 20th August to 30th September – Opening Times Mon-Wed 10am-6pm, Ths-Sat 10am-7pm and Sunday 11am-5pm

Observance by Nicola Dove: St Martin’s Arts, St Martin’s Church in the Bullring, Birmingham, 13th July until 8th August, 10am - 4.30pm Mon – Sat, 10am - 7.30pm Sunday

Observance is a series of long exposure portraits of people from a wide spectrum of faiths in a meditative state of prayer. The work explores whether this internal experience can be recorded and communicated via the photographic medium.
Opening Evening Monday 13th July, all welcome. 6pm-8.30pm including Artist Introduction and talk. http://www.bullring.org/index.php/saint-martins-arts.html