Let's talk public art, in a pub

Name: Let's talk public art, in a pub
Start: 2024-11-06T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-06T23:00:00+00:00
Location: Owl and Pussycat

Schedule

Wed Nov 06 2024 at 06:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Owl and Pussycat | Basildon, EN

Talking public art in the pub, with Basildon residents, artists, & art lovers followed by pub quiz, karaoke & a free pub dinner!
About this Event

Let’s talk PUBlic art, in a PUB

Project : Cultural Trails

Date : Wednesday 6th November 2024

Time : 6pm until late (closing 11pm)

Artist: Emma Edmondson

Location: The Owl and Pussycat Pub, 164 Clay Hill Rd, Basildon SS16 5DF

Event type: Adult event at the pub, featuring a discussion around past, present and future of public art in Basildon bookended by a pub quiz and karaoke.

Short blurb:

Let’s talk public art, in a pub! All are invited to a chat between Basildon locals, artists, curators, critics, commissioners and council people around public art in the town. Everyone can get involved in a pub quiz with prizes, public art chat and karaoke. Pub dinner provided!

This event will start with a pub quiz on Basildon co-hosted by Ames Pennington and Emma Edmondson with some free pub grub so you can come straight from work. There will then be a chat about the past, present and future of public art in Basildon - we want to hear your memories, your opinions, what you like, what you don’t and what the future of public art should be. Let’s get it all out in this gossip! We will also put ideas towards a CARE CONTRACT formed by everyone’s voices and captured on beer mats to form a treaty to take forward in terms of caring for the public art past, present and future in Basildon.

Care Contractors are Shaun C. Badham, Emma Edmondson, Laura Whiting and Lu Williams four artists and creative practitioners who have been appointed by Creative BasildON for their Cultural Trails artist commission. The group are working alongside Basildon residents to celebrate public artwork (past and present) commissioned in Basildon and its importance to Basildon’s origin story.

They will be working to care for the historic public artworks of Basildon and imagine new works made with residents.

Using research and public events, they will explore how the roles and uses of Basildon’s public artworks have changed over time and get people involved in maintaining them for the future.

Instagram: @shauncbadham @laura_whiting_ @luwilliamsdotcom & @emerrrhhhh

Event timings:

6pm - Arrival and pub grub

6.30pm - Pub quiz

7.30pm - Panel talk around public art in Basildon past, present and future

9pm - Karaoke

Speakers:

Jes Fernie (curator, commissioner) http://www.jesfernie.com

Zarina Muhammad (critic) https://thewhitepube.co.uk

Michael Condron (Basildon public art artist) http://www.mcondron.co.uk

Aden Hynes (Sculpture Studios - Basildon) https://www.sculpturestudios.co.uk

Jack Ferguson (Basildon Cabinet member for Culture, Sport and Community) @jackaferguson