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DIRTY BEACH
Venue: Cafe Delice, 40 Kensington Gardens
Date & time: May 2-30, 8am-7pm
Environmental art exhibition at new café in the heart of the North Laines
by Lou McCurdy & Chloe Hanks
A thought provoking exhibition that highlights the terrifying costs of human waste to the marine environment
Award winning artist Lou McCurdy, renowned for her ground breaking project "More Plastic than Plankton" has collaborated with graphic designer Chloë Hanks, who set up Plastic Bag Free Brighton, to bring an exciting and innovative show to this year's Fringe in a brand new cafe and venue.
Lou re-invents plastic rubbish found on Brighton beaches and makes big, colourful panels. They are cross sections of the sea demonstrating the permanence of plastic and how much it is embedded. This is powerfully contrasted by Chloë's eco-graffiti and the transient nature of her 100% bio-degradable work. The eco-graffiti takes its cue from protest slogans, spray-painted graffiti, popular culture and humorous slogans written in the dirt on white vans. Often site, weather and tide specific, the work sometimes exists for only a matter of hours, before disappearing without a trace.
The only permanent evidence of the work is photographic.
We will be giving talks, creating an event for Fringe City and providing additional information from Marine Conservation Society, Surfers against Sewage and Plymouth University (our project partners).
We are also selling "dirty beach" T-shirts - must haves for all Fringe goers!
Wild Nights Out: Bags of Trouble
As part of Brighton's Fringe Festival - the RSPB present:
An inspiring evening with Europe's leading conservation charity at the world's oldest aquarium - Brighton's Sea Life Centre.
Film screening of 'Message in the waves', sculptures by Lou McCurdy, guided tours and talks.
In association with Plastic Bag-Free Brighton.
Venue: Brighton Sea Life Centre, Madeira Drive
Date & time: 8 May 2008, 6.30 PM - 9:30 PM
Entrance Fee: £5.00 (suggested donation)
‘Plastic Bag-Free Brighton’ Film Event
www.plasticbagfreebrighton.co.uk present:
HAWAII MESSAGE IN THE WAVES - a BBC Natural History Unit documentary looking at environmental challenges facing the people and wildlife of the Hawaiian Islands. Shown from a Hawaiian perspective but with a global message. As a result of working on this film, Rebecca Hosking was inspired to help her home town of Modbury in Devon the first in the UK to be plastic bag-free.
The event also includes two short films by pupils from Balfour Junior School - 'The amazing adventures of the plastic bag' and 'The revenge of the rubbish' - a talk by artist Lou McCurdy, who exhibited sculptures made from plastic waste collected on a Brighton beach over 1 year and a general Q and A session.
The Venue: Duke of York Cinema, Brighton
Date & time: 3 February, 1.30pm
Entrance Fee: This event is free