International Alternative Press Festival 28th -29th May 2011

Cave People will be taking part in the Alternative Press Fair on Sat 28th & 29th May. At the International Alternative Press Festival artists will be exhibiting and selling their self-published comix, zines, art books, prints, radical literature and poetry.

There will also be three rooms of workshops and talks including Andy Simons from the British Library, screen-printing workshops and a reading area with Zine Swap.

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Entry to general public: £2

Alternative Press are an organized group of artists dedicated to establishing the free expression of art via self publishing. Please take a look at there website: http://www.alternativepress.org.uk/about.html

Songs of Salt

Songs of Salt, was a simple, immersive installation, situated in a beach hut as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme in July 2010. The piece was inspired by sea shanty’s, songs performed by men who lived and worked on the sea. It was collectively produced and conceived by Jessica Akerman, Ellie Curtis, Christopher Rainbow and Juliet Sugg.

Comprised within a blacked out beach hut, participants could discover a medative
experience conveying the juxtaposition of both the isolation and communal experience of life at sea.

The installation was topped off with a live sunset performance by the Whitstable based Sea Shanty and Folk group Dead Horse Morris and the Ship Wright Shanty Crew on the beach front on the last Saturday of the event. Drawing a large the successful part of the work was later included in Whitechapel Gallery’s Scrivener’s Cove event this August.

For more details please follow the link achieved in the original post. You can listen to some of the material on the Satellite post www.thewhitstablesatellite.com