Hello all,
Here's the listings for this weekends FREE 'Full Circle' event at the Upper Space gallery in the Northern Quarter, we have been wanting to release the line ups for a while now but we had a few special guests to confirm, here goes...........
//FRIDAY 15TH AUGUST - 'FULL CIRCLE' EXHIBITION LAUNCH
9PM - 12PM
Audio from G-Kut
We hope you can join us as we launch our most anticipated show to date, you may of read about it in the newspapers or heard it on the radio....this one is not to be missed. Featuring the best graffiti writers from across the region for their first group show.
// 10PM - 4AM
AFTERPARTY @ THE MINT LOUNGE
FEAT: FRIENDS & FAMILY vs HOYA:HOYA residents soundclash
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//SATURDAY 16TH AUGUST - 4 ELEMENTS
'Barely Legal' Graffiti Jam
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30 GRAFFITI WRITERS PAINTING LIVE ALL DAY
Includes all artists that are exhibiting their work inside the gallery, this is a really rare chance to see these nocturnal heros painting live!!!
'4 Elements' Listings - 4 Turntables and a beat machine
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Hosted by Frisko (Freestyle fridays)
// 2:30PM OMAS
// 3:15PM KWINZOLA
// 4:00PM ANDY PEEK
// 5:00PM WOLZ & TNC (live)
// 5:30PM HERROTICS (live)
// 6:00PM KONNY KON (Broke 'n' English)
// 7:00PM LEE MAJORS & DIDJIT
// 8:15PM ASSMATICS
// 9:30PM PETER PARKER (Fingathing//Real Dolls)
MC support from the best MCs that Manchester has to offer, expect some special guest freestyles..............
// AFTER PARTY
We have teamed up with our compadres at COMMON in order to keep the night going.......
10PM - LATE
FREE (tickets available from Upper Space)
WWW.APLACECALLEDCOMMON.CO.UK for more info
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// SUNDAY 17TH AUGUST - FILM SCREENING TIMES
Inside the Bar - Past
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// 4PM - 5:10PM STYLE WARS (1982)
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's historic PBS documentary Style Wars tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the peak of its popularity, graffiti was as much a part of B-boy culture as rapping, scratching, and breaking.
// 5:30PM - 7PM WILDSTYLE (1983)
Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. This movie is *the* classic hip-hop flick, full of great subway shots, breakdancing, freestyle MCing and rare footage of one of the godfathers of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash, pulling off an awesome scratch-mix set on a pair of ancient turntables.
// 7:30PM - 9PM BREAKIN' (1984)
Directed by Joel Silberg, this is the definitive breakdancing movie from the golden years of hip hop cinema, expect Ice-T's debut film performance and see if you can spot Jean Claude Van Damme......this one really is too good to miss!!!
// 9:30PM - 10:30PM THE HULME ESTATES
1989 and Manchester is the scene. The real epicentre of this bacchanalian action is not the Hacienda though, the real raw beat central is just down the road from the legendary club, in the concrete wasteland of the council high rise of Hulme. From 1992 - 1998 kElzO and fellow writers covered the Hulme estates with graffiti turning the area into one of the biggest outdoor graffiti art galleries in the world. This is a unique chance to see archive footage of the murals and productions that covered the walls of the estate and hear the graffiti writers recall their memories as we explore the development of graffiti culture in Manchester.
Inside the Gallery - Present
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// 2PM - 2:45PM KINGS & TOYS
Providing an indigenous insight into the underground graffiti scene, this film incorporates unique footage from a graffiti-driven journey between the main cities of the world. Spreading the word in this documentary are some of the most important graffiti artists of the 20th Century including Futura 2000, Seen, Mode2, Case2, Delta and Loomit.
// 3PM - 4:30PM FREESTYLE THE ART OF RHYME
From neighborhood ciphers to the most notorious MC battles, "Freestyle: the Art of Rhyme" captures the electrifying energy of improvisational hip-hop, the rarely recorded art form of rhyming spontaneously. Shot over a period of more than seven years, it is already an underground cult film in the hip-hop world. The film systematically debunks the false image put out by record companies that hip-hop culture is violent or money-obsessed. Instead, it lets real hip-hop artists, known and unknown, weave their story out of a passionate mix of language, politics, and spirituality.
// 5PM - 6:30PM SCRATCH
A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers wax poetic on beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl. This is one for the crate diggers and all music lovers as we see the progression of this art form over the last 3 decades.
// 7PM - 8:20PM DIRTY HANDS
This documentary features hardcore train graffiti train painting from across the globe including locations in London, Paris, New-York and Berlin. This film will give you the chance to see the extreme side of graffiti where writers choose to paint trains and trains alone. This documentary features scenes that some viewers may find offensive.
// 8:45PM - 10:15PM NEXT: A PRIMER ON URBAN PAINTING
"NEXT, a Primer on Urban Paintingโ is a documentary exploration of a phenomenon that was born on the streets of American cities and has come to influence youth culture all over the world. Combining verite visual moments and interviews with painters, journalists, collectors, sociologists, DJโs, art critics and other participants within the subculture, the film will convey the dynamism and creative brilliance of this important emerging artistic movement in todays popular culture.
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This is gonna be our biggest exhibition launch to date and is a first for Manchester, we look forward to seeing you down here for a weekend of free hip hop culture,
Upper Space
