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Hefin Jones
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UP Projects
Screening
The Floating Cinema: Extra-Terrestrial - Home Grown Space Travel Talk & Screening, With Hefin Jones
6 Sep 2015
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Tickets: £6.50 /cons £5
Address
- 2-10 Hertford Road
- London
- N1 5ET
- United Kingdom
Talk and screening with inter-disciplinary artist and founder of the Welsh Space Campaign and Cosmic Colliery Hefin Jones
About
19.00-20.30 Talk and screening with Hefin Jones - inter-disciplinary artist Hefin Jones is founder of the Welsh Space Campaign and Cosmic Colliery - initiatives that offer a cosmic context for Welsh culture, traditions and skills, revealing the capacity of Wales to explore outer space. Hefin combines traditional crafts and local heritage with the rich iconography of space travel to celebrate the ambitions and hopes wrapped up in man’s enduring desire to conquer space.
Tickets: £6.50 /cons £5
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This event is part of our London programme of activities running through until 20 September...
The Floating Cinema: Extra-Terrestrial London Programme: 21 August — 20 September
Our Extra-Terrestrial programme highlights include:
*Two Open Air Weekenders: Three Mills, Bow and Granary Square in King’s Cross exploring ‘Others on Earth’ and ‘Humans in Space’
*Open Air Premiere: Michael Madsen’s 2015 The Visit, 23 August
*Events / Workshops: get hands on with slime-mould with Heather Barnett; be inspired with a sense of awe and wonder about the universe with on board sky-gazing with super/collider; draw on your artistic talent in our comic workshops with House of Illustration; immerse yourselves into other worlds through screenings of space-comic classics; build your own costumes to create an alien invasion!; and DON’T MISS our sci-fi spectacular fancy dress screenings — Flash Gordon and The Day the Earth Stood Still…
*Open Air Screenings of artist Shezad Dawood’s 2013 film Piercing Brightness and sci-fi cult classics The Day The Earth Stood Stilland Flash Gordon (a fancy-dress must).
FULL DETAILS: http://bit.ly/Extra-T
REVIEWS: "A magical idea...The Floating Cinema is hard to beat." The Observer; "From art shows to films, our canals are awash with culture." The Daily Telegraph; "Super eclectic and thoughtful." Time Out
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