Manchester Temporary Autonomous Arts Exhibition, Events & Festival of street art and creative subversion

Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of last years extrav­a­gan­za in Man­ches­ter’s North­ern quarter.…it’s hap­pen­ing again!

Manchester Temporary Autonomous Arts flierFol­low­ing the suc­cess of last years extrav­a­gan­za in Man­ches­ter’s North­ern quarter.…it’s hap­pen­ing again!
The 2nd annu­al Tem­po­rary Autonomous Arts fes­ti­val in Man­ches­ter 24–28th Octo­ber 2007.

Once again Man­ches­ter is join­ing the tide of col­lec­tive groups com­ing togeth­er to cre­ate a cul­tur­al, inter­ac­tive autonomous space where peo­ple are free to be, free to cre­ate and free to express them­selves.

Reclaim­ing space that has no oth­er imme­di­ate pur­pose, we will be repair­ing, mak­ing safe and improv­ing the build­ing we use before trans­form­ing it into a vibrant, organ­ic, tech­no artis­tic state­ment. Artists, musi­cians, writ­ers and per­form­ers who oth­er­wise would have no out­let, are invit­ed to dis­play their work unin­hib­it­ed by the nor­mal con­straints placed on the cur­rent artis­tic cli­mate. The space will be used respect­ful­ly and intel­li­gent­ly, for gen­uine com­mu­ni­ty devel­ope­ment, cre­at­ing fields of oppor­tu­ni­ty for a future at no cost or harm to any­one else.

We want to exhib­it all forms of art­work; draw­ings, paint­ings, sculp­tures big and small, pho­tog­ra­phy, instal­la­tions and more. Show­cas­ing poets and vocal­ists, films and per­for­mance, words and con­cepts born out of the free par­ty under­ground move­ment. These spaces of reclaimed free­dom have been mak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to an alter­na­tive art world and we want to bring it back to Man­ches­ter!

Wednes­day 24th Octo­ber

Come help us cre­ate the space. All artist and cre­ators are invit­ed to con­tribute and see the space morph through the day into an over­all work of art. This will lead into an evening of visu­als and film.

Thurs­day 25th Octo­ber

A day of skill­shar­ing and a cel­e­bra­tion of D.I.Y cul­ture.

If you would like to share a skill at the D.I.Y Day please get in touch ASAP.

Evening: This will hope­ful­ly lead to a per­for­mance by the jam ses­sion musi­cians and improv DIY music (bring instru­ments!)

Fri­day 26th Octo­ber

Heal­ing day, alter­na­tive ther­a­pies and relax­ation space from Noon til 7pm

If you would like to run a heal­ing work­shop or offer mas­sage or alter­na­tive ther­a­pies please email us. A full list­ing of what’s on offer will be here soon

Bicy­cle Art Parade 6pm Cen­tral Library, end­ing at TAA

It will not only be an amaz­ing bike ride to cel­e­brate the bicy­cle, to meet oth­er cyclists, to have an excuse to ride around, to feel part of a bike gang, to have a fun evening etc etc.but!this month it will also be Man­ches­ter’s FIRST EVER Bicy­cle Art Parade! So dress up your bike in tin­sel or glit­ter or make it look like a drag­on or a fly…whatever..lets get cre­ative!!!!

the last few months have seen around 120 cyclists on crit­i­cal mass, lets make this one even big­ger

Made in Lan­cashire

A night of cel­e­bra­tion of Lan­cashire! Wi’ hot pot, fan­cy dress and coun­try dancin’. From 9pm to mid­night

Sat­ur­day 27th Octo­ber

Work­shops for all through­out the day and includ­ing per­ma­cul­ture, truth poets

and from 7.30pm onwards the super fan­tas­tic TAA Cabaret open for any­one to take part with unique acts and per­for­mance.

If you have any skill shares, work­shops or activ­i­ties you would like to do in the space please email us and we will add it to the time table.

Street Blitz

From 14–28 Octo­ber 2007 we are host­ing Man­ches­ter’s first ever Street Blitz, the two week fes­ti­val of street art and cre­ative sub­ver­sion.

Dur­ing the pro­posed two weeks we want you to use Man­ches­ter as an open gallery. There is a map of the city primed and ready for Blitzers to post their activ­i­ties, no mat­ter how big or small, onto a map over­lay.

Install your art or any­thing which changes the per­spec­tive on our city then get online and post it onto the emp­ty map on the Street Blitz web­site at www.streetblitz.org/manchester. You can add a descrip­tion and any pho­tos of your work. There will also be room for com­ments on each place­mark which can also be used to tell us if the art­work is still there or if the miser­ly bureau­crats got there first.

THIS IS YOUR CITY
Leave your mark!

info@forbiddenartsmanchester.org.uk
http://www.forbiddenartsmanchester.org.uk