News Check out what’s been going on this season at Deveron Arts

In Town People Talk Shop

Town Collection Hello Roman Signer Shadow Curator Intern New pieces: Transmissions from the River/ Oct—March 2013 Bogie Bridge: Contraption of Elisabetta Rattalino comes from the Übertragungen aus dem Fluß Roman Signer’s Transmissions Cittadelarte - Fondazione Pistoletto Publication with text by from the River Alice Bain www.deveron-arts.com/town- Project Intern in English and German collection/transmissions-from-the-river- Oct—Dec2012 2011 £5 Rachel Walker studied Fine Art in

Dundee and has a special interest in River Bogie: Alan MacPherson’s Room to Roam socially engaged art in the rural Enamel Cups red and blue Minor Path context £7 www.deveron-arts.com/town- collection/minor-paths Welcome Kate Sargent took up her post as Project Manager in October, leaving a career with Opportunities the Bank of Scotland behind for a new challenge in socially engaged art in the Walking Programme Intern rural Aberdeenshire countryside.

start Jan 2013

Shadow Curator Intern start April 2013

Project Intern start April 2013

Volunteers and short-term Interns www.deveron-arts.com/shop any time www.deveron-arts.com/opportunities

Minor Path The Town is the Menu Alan Macpherson’s Rite of Way pro- ject culminated in a reclaiming action of a path along the side of the River A new Signature Menu for Huntly Bogie. Around 40 people joined him to walk in single file back and forth along Our Visitors the river side between Gladstone Road Park and Bogie Bridge until a 16 MFA Students from Simon Preston, gastro-artist and food and visiting chefs he will use these sto- path was formed. Help us keep it College of Art with Neil Mulholland to consultant, has come to work with local ries to inspire the menu. In the same open by taking a walk along it too. work with us on The Town is the Menu people to unearth Huntly’s food identity way that Arbroath has it’s Smokies and http://minorpaths.wordpress.com Contact Us Autumn 2012 and create and adopt a signature Cullen has it’s Skink, Huntly will have it’s Chrissie Orr, Artist from Santa Fé menu for the town. own Signature Menu that will celebrate before after http://www.elotroladoproject.org Deveron Arts it’s agricultural heritage and local taste The Studio, Brander Menu under Simon has been out and about with his buds and herald a gastronomic future. A delegation from the Institute of The Square, Huntly specially commissioned jigsaw table, Northern Culture / University of the AB54 8BR, Scotland Construction spreading conviviality and swapping The Menu will be launched on 1st of Arctic/Lapland to discuss future T: 01466 794494 tasty treats for local stories about food December at establishments across the collaborations E: [email protected] and everything else. Working with local town and at the Farmers Market. http://www.uarctic.org deveron-arts.com facebook.com/thetownisthevenue Haste ye back soon in Huntly soon! www.twitter.com/DeveronArts

Deveron Arts works with the context and identity of the town of Huntly in Aberdeenshire. Here, the town is the venue, research base, studio, gallery and stage for artists of all fields and from all over the world. Engaging local people and community in topics of both local + global concern, Deveron Arts works through a 50/50 motto, bringing together artis- tic and social relationships in a world wide network that extends throughout and beyond the geo-boundaries of Huntly.

Ceilidhamba: Nord-Este/North East The Town is the Menu Mestre Allysson Velez’s residency culminated in a Samba Parade at the Halloween Festival suppers. The portraits will be displayed in the Empty Shop and used to inspire the Signature Menu. During his time in Huntly Allysson also joined Brazilian Beats Huntly singer Keith Cockburn to work with children The Huntly Signature Menu Launch

from the Gordon Schools and did several artist’s Coco is an African-influenced musical rhythm that Eateries around Huntly will join forces to launch the talks about the music traditions in north east originated in Brazil. It refers to the stomping style of Signature Menu in December. Signature Street Food and its numerous different styles of rhythm, dance dance performed to the music. The name comes will be served at the Farmer's Market and the and . from the Brazilian word "cabeça" (head), as song Signature Loaf will be revealed. Local shops and lyrics are often improvised. The music is commonly supermarkets will offer tastings and recipe cards. performed at traditional parties in the northeast, What’s Next? Check the website for details. such as weekend street parties and Carnival. The characteristic sound of coco arises from four Signature Dishes Walking off the Grid instruments: the ganzá, surdo, pandeiro, and of Brazil. Allysson has been exploring cultural From 24 Nov to 8 Dec Austrian artist Michael triangle. Performers also often wear wooden clogs, similarities and traditions of his home state of elsewhere Höpfner will walk a 30 mile circuit around Huntly for the stomping adds a percussive element. with those here in the North East of 14 consecutive days. He will be outside all the time Arbroath Smokies, Maracatu is a term common to two distinct Scotland. and stay overnight in his tent along the way. Aberdeen Angus, Bakewell performance genres found in Pernambuco state in For his project Nordeste:North East Allysson Michael is interested in the perception of an Tart, Baked Alaska, Black northeastern Brazil: maracatu de nação (nation- has been working with us towards a performance at unknown environment, the lives of people living Forest Gateaux, Boeuf style maracatu) and maracatu rural. A third style, the Halloween/Samhain festival. Starting with a solo within that landscape and the details of sites along Bourguignon, Bombay maracatu cearense, is found in , in the drumming performance from Allysson, dressed in a the route. The project asks how to leave Potato, Boston Bun, Bristol northeastern state of Ceará. Maracatu also stag mask, he then led the embryonic North-East of standardized images and a geographical laptop Cream, Champagne, Cheddar Cheese, Chelsea designates the music style that accompanies these Scotland Samba School round the square. Menu Under Construction Help to Inspire the Menu screen world behind, and exchange it with a Bun, Cornish Pasties, Cumberland , Cullen performances. Ceilidhamba creates a new space for socialising Current artist in residence at Deveron Arts is Simon You can see the Town is the Menu table at the geography drawn of personal stories and memories. Skink, Dijon Mustard, Dover Sole, , Samba is a dance and musical genre and community exchange by working with local Preston - an Edinburgh resident who is living in Empty Shop on Bogie Street. Simon says 'Drop in This walk/absurd pilgrimage leads the hiker into an Eccles Cake, Edinburgh , Frankfurter Sausage, originating in Bahia with its roots in the West African musicians/artists and visiting samba mestres. Huntly until mid-December devising a new signature and say hello, there's always tea and cake if you unknown land, meeting unknown people with a new Highland Toffee, Irish Stew, Kalamata Olives, slave trade and religious traditions. It is recognized Allysson has also set up shop in his Casa das menu for our town. Simon is well known for creating have a Huntly tale to share'. Table outings will be experience of time. Every day he will negotiate with Kendal Mint Cake, Lancashire Hotpot, Liverpool as a symbol of the and an icon of Ideias on Bogie Street, where he is working with imaginative food events and festivals around the advertised on the blackboard outside the shop or a different farm about a campsite for the night Scouse, Marseille Bouillabaisse, Cornish Clotted Brazilian national identity. The Bahian Samba de local musicians of all genres towards the recording country and this is his first visit to Aberdeenshire. check www.deveron-arts.com and Facebook. ahead. People are invited to join the walk and Cream, Salade Nicoise, Paella Valenciana, Peking Roda (dance circle), which became a UNESCO of the Ceilidhamba CD that will feature both So what's it all about? Simon says 'Cullen has it's exchange ideas around the Huntly circuit. At the Duck, Somerset Cider, Stornoway , Heritage of Humanity in 2005, is the main root of Scottish traditional music and Brazilian beats of Skink and Arbroath has it's Smokies but what are the Last Suppers at the Hairst end of the walk, Michael will invite people he met en Welsh Rarebit, Viennese Coffee, Yorkshire Pudding, the samba carioca, the samba that is played and Samba, Marakatu and Coco. For this, Scottish foods that you should eat when you come to this Working with students from the Edinburgh College of route for a joint dinner with images from the Turkish Delight, Ulster Fry, Worcestershire Sauce. danced in Rio de Janeiro. musicians like Paul Anderson, Shona Donaldson place? We have the excellent Dean's and Rizza's, a Art, Simon got into the spooky spirit for Halloween. fortnight’s round. and Donal Brown have been working with him as thriving livestock mart and rolling fields of barley, but Petrified punters were asked, ‘If your next meal was Ceilidhamba This will be the first one in a large series of well as NE based Omar Afif with his Afro-Arabian what do we want the food culture of Huntly to be?' to be your last, what would you choose?’ whilst they events dealing with walking as art. SIGNATURE MENU LAUNCH Over the past few months we have worked with rooted music. Simon will be out and about around the town with his enjoyed a free sample of a Huntly Signature Menu

Mestre Allysson Velez from in the North East specially-made jigsaw table (pictured) gathering your dish-in-progress, local Steak and BrewDog Ale Pie Nurturing stories of Huntly in exchange for edible treats made with a Treacle crust. Saturday 1 December 2012 Zimbabwean photographer Nancy Mteki’s project by chef Keira Allan at The Huntly Hotel. Your stories Try and buy the new Huntly Signature will focus on the delights and issues surrounding will be used to inspire the new dishes for Huntly, our Farmers Market Portraits Loaf and taste street food versions of feeding and nutrition in maternity, particularly 'Signature Menu', which will be launched on At November’s Farmers Market, ‘Death Row Dinner the Signature Menu dishes at the working with young mothers in the town. She will December 1st, in all kinds of restaurants, cafes and Portraits’ (pictured) were drawn onto paper plates by Farmers Market explore the bond between children and their mums other eateries around town. and document the various forms of sociability young artists for an instant exhibition of local last across multiple-generation households. Nancy All Weekend herself is a young mum and will bring her 3-year old Book or just turn up to try dishes from daughter Kayla to Scotland. Mteki has made her the Signature Menu in restaurants, name in the Zimbabwean art scene through her cafes, shops and supermarkets all compositional photographic approach and the over town and at the famous Huntly aesthetic research evidenced in a series of images Coffee Morning taken in private settings. She has also frequently

addressed gender issues in her work, notably the place of women in Zimbabwean society. See website and local paper Nancy won the Deveron Arts residency prize at for details. DAKAR Biennial. www.biennaledakar.org