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

Songs of Salt - Whitstable Biennale 2-4th July

The Cave People are off to the seaside!

For their very first joint exhibition Cave People have created an immersive installation inspired by the rhythms and lyrics of traditional English sea shanties as part of the 2010 Whitstable Biennale Satellite program.

Songs of Salt is an audio-visual installation inspired by shanties and tales of the sea. Located in a beach hut during the Biennale, you are invited to lie back and immerse yourself in the narratives of those who have lived and worked on the ocean.

The beach hut will also host a LIVE shanty session at 7pm Saturday 3rd July lead by local folk ensemble Dead Horse Morris & The Ship Wright Shanty Crew! This will be the centrepiece of the event so DON'T MISS IT!

The installation will be open from Friday 2nd July - Sunday 4th July.

Come along for a drink and a riotous dusk sing-along on the beach!

The installation and live performance are based at Whitstable Beach at:

Hut 16 - Long Beach, Whitstable Harbour
Whitstable, Kent CT5 1BU