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Deveron Express Deveron Express / From Deveron Arts to Deveron Projects who we want to be, what our role is in Huntly, we need time. Time to think, to research, to in Scotland, and in the wider world. talk. Time to develop and plan not just for Winter 2016/17 Our birthday took place in a year that the next milestone, the next year, but for saw: Brexit and its unknown consequences, the next 21 years. While our commitment to Coming of Age, Huntly Trumpism in the making, war in Syria, Iraq, working with artists remains uncompromising, meets Syria, Shop Walk, Eritrea to name just a few, the decline of the it is our creative projects that can contribute oil industry and the arrival of Syrian refugees to a more considered role in our place, in our Skype Talks, Spiced in Aberdeenshire, the closure of multiple community, in our space in the wider world. Mince Pies, Elderberry shops and rising poverty levels in our own It is our affection for our community, and Flu Remedy, Energy community in Huntly. Continuous manipulation the patience to develop projects specific to Walks, Name-Change, of information, austerity consequences, our local culture, landscape, population and ARTocracy in the Making, nationalism and xenophobia urge us to rethink history, that drives our work. Hence, Deveron Huntly Calling, ArtStrike our purpose and doing. We are charged with Projects, or is it Deveron projects? creating solutions that are citizen-driven, I am grateful to Mark Stephen who alerted grown from the soil of our own places. us to this word We are living in a time we could call the play of projects/ At the end of 2016, Deveron Arts celebrated Great Insolence. It is our remit to go into projects. And to its 21st birthday. Such an event is recognised the realm of cultural life, to investigate and my friend Ernesto as a coming of age. It marks when you are not acknowledge the way in which people live and Pujol for the a child, nor a teen any more, but when you are want to live. Whether climate protection or a conversations grown up and stand alone. It’s when you get a human migration system, a respectful basic we had in the key, not just to the door, but to the world. income or equal education for all – the populist early hours of Deveron Arts has now changed its name conditions that have created this dangerous 9/11/16. to Deveron Projects. A name change can be anger have to be addressed. seen as a symbolic gesture, but in this case The key to facing our adulthood is to go it was also very timely. This occasion gave us beyond a bubble in which we only speak Claudia Zeiske, an opportunity to consider who we are, and with other artists or such like. And for this, Deveron Projects Pictured: Rachel Walker greets guests; Ross Sinclair treats us to a tune in Orb’s; Rhynie Woman foraged Birthday cake; programme of activities throughout the town 21 Years of the Town is the Venue 101 Projects / Jacqueline Donachie 85 Artists / Jacques Coetzer 21 Years Jake Williams Jelka Plate Aidan O’Rourke John Kenny Alan Macpherson Chris Wheeler Alec Finlay Jonathan Claxton Allysson Velez Julia Douglas Amy Fung Kenny Hunter Andrea Geile Leàn Coetzer Anne Murray Leena Nammari Anthony Schrag Maider López Baudouin Mouanda Mary Jane Jacob Ben Macfadyen Merlyn Riggs Bob Pegg Michael Höpfner Böller und Brot Mihret Kebede The Caravan Gallery Nancy Mteki Caroline Wendling Norma D Hunter Cath Whippey Nuno Sacramento Catrin Jeans Omar Afif Catriona McKay Paul Shepheard Celia – Yunior Paul Anderson Clare Qualmann Peter Liversidge Colonel Thierry Priya Ravish Mehra Geoffroy Rhynie Woman Dalziel + Scullion Richard Demarco David Sherry Rocca Gutteridge David Blyth Roderick Buchanan Deborah Beeson Roman Signer Dew Harrison Ron Brander Donal Brown Ross Sinclair Dudendance Sally Garden Duncan McLaren Sanaa Gateja Elsebeth Jørgensen Senzeni Marasela Emily White Shona Donaldson Eva Merz Simon Preston Ewan McClure Simone Kenyon Fabiana Galante Stéfanie Bourne Garry Williams Stuart McAdam Gayle Chong Kwan Tim Brennan Gemuce Tim Knowles Gill Russell Umesh Maddanahalli Hamish Fulton UTOPIA GROUP Hanna Tuulikki Wilhelm Scherübl Hans Abbing Xenson Znja Room to Roam by Huntly Singers; Toasts to 21 years; Syrian new Scots & friends preparing dinner; Cutting of the Huntly Cheese / Photography by Alan Dimmick ARTocracy in the Making Deveron Projects’ 50/50 principle is a helpful guideline for balanced working Artist/Community Local/Global Home/Away Conflict/Collaboration Read more of our Town is the Venue Manifesto. Pick up a copy from our office, or look online. www.deveron-projects.com Hashtags by The Gordon Schools, with artist Jacques Coetzer & Art + Community Worker Rachael Disbury ‘…a technology with a human face, is in fact possible; that it is viable; and that it re-integrates the human being, with his skillful hands and creative brain, into the productive process. It serves production by the masses instead of mass production.’ - E.F. Schumacher The Path Ahead The idea of Europe is currently being called into question, in the aftermath of Brexit, with Scotland’s role being a focus for us here in Huntly. What If? will stage scenarios and discussions in the town. Manaf will also work with Syrian new Scots, who arrived from Middle Eastern camps in 2016 and are now settled in Aberdeenshire. Energised Landscape A contemporary examination of energy sources, sites and consequences, by artist Andrea Geile Andrea Geile’s Energy Walk from Greenmyres Community Turbine on Deveron Arts’ 21st Birthday Edible Energy / New Economies / What If? 4 Mar, 9am - 12.30pm, The Square Our creative focus is now on a re-reading of The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 saw the ‘Real’ Energy Food making and tasting local economies and how they can shape the drawing of borderlines in the Middle East by wellbeing of our communities. The economy of French and British diplomats. Consequences Energy Walk a place is formed by interactions, exchanges of the deal are felt heavily a century later, but, 4 Mar, 1pm - 4pm, from The Square and values at play in day to day life. what if there was a different history? 10 mile walk with Andrea 2017 will see us look at sustainability and Focusing on the period between the regeneration in Huntly, and how we can beginning of the industrial revolution and the Slow Marathon connect to the wider world. beginning of WWI, artist Manaf Halbouni will 14-15 April Skill sharing opportunities, food-based imagine a world where the colonisers become 26 mile route created by Andrea Geile events, and rethinking possible uses of the the colonised. Ticket sales online £35 town centre, will be at the forefront of Deveron As General Yusef Hadid, Manaf will play a (£25 Early Bird / £15 Student) Projects’ programming. character transferred to the European front, by During February and March artist Jacques the President of the United Arab States. Manaf, Slow Sunday Coetzer will run a pop-up, The Local Café arriving in Huntly this Spring, will be rewriting 16 April, 11am - 2pm on 11 Gordon Street, Huntly, as a space to maps, complete with troop movements and Discussion on energy and renewables encourage conversation about economic place names, showing Europe divided into renewal. The Local Café, will offer coffee protectorate areas with Ottoman and Arabic grown by a small farming community in sectors. Food Chain Tanzania, and will be available for events, Continuous threat from terrorism, increased Evening Workshops meetings and discussion. Pay us a visit! Islamophobia, and conflict in the Middle East Connecting folk and food compels us to question and clarify our rarely #J20 Art Strike challenged history. Gastro Garden, 20 Feb An act of non-compliance on United Out of the veg patch and into the pan! States presidential Inauguration Day Friday Lunch Talks Seasonal cooking with Glenview Fresh 1pm, Brander Building Kitchen, Donation: £2 Local Produce “...in solidarity with the nation-wide demand that on January 20 and beyond, 20 Jan, May Murad via Skype, Art & Life in Gaza* Syrian Supper, 20 Mar business should not proceed as usual 27 Jan, Ann Davidson, Community Growing Bahaa Mahmoud shares Syrian in any realm. We consider Art Strike to 3 Feb, Linda Bolsakova, SSW Residency cookery advice be one tactic among others to combat 10 Feb, Dave Simpson, Cycling to Wellbeing the normalization of Trumpism—a toxic 17 Feb, Adalet R. Germiany via Skype, ArtRole & Iraq Cheese Making, 24 April mix of white supremacy, misogyny, 24 Feb, Alan Macpherson, Ecopoetics Bahaa joins us again to investigate the xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchic 3 Mar, Steven Gray, Trees & Townscapes art of cheesemaking rule.” - j20artstrike.org 10 Mar, Tyler Lewis & Mara Marxt Lewis, Art & Sound 17 Mar, Mike Whittall, Ochre & Wood 6 - 8pm Deveron Projects is closing the office, Fri 24 Mar, Frances Law, Art & Archaeology Brander Building Kitchen 20 January. Join us for discussion, debate 31 Mar, Vera Tamari via Skype, Art, Curation & Palestine Limited Places and Friday Lunch at 51 Old Road. 12-4pm * May Murad talk at 51 Old Road, Huntly £5 Boganlea Renewable Energy Ltd Dummuie WindFarm Huntly Ltd Clashindarroch Windfarm Community Fund Notices Digital Detox Our Guests 1 March - 13 April Syrian new Scots, Inverurie / Bob Donald, Slow Food Each Wednesday during the six weeks / Jim McEwen, Professor / Alison Bolger, Florist / Phil of Lent, Deveron Projects’ staff will be Gaitor, The Gordon Schools / Rachel Ashton, Kris completely offline. Orskov, Rebecca Dunn, Joost Oud, Miri Tamura, Phone us, write us a letter or join us for Alastair Thomson, Claudia Van Zuiden,
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