Where were we? Five minutes up yet? Time to play…. we’re evolving again, until we throw out an anchor and settle on a new space, Cultivate will roam around, pop up, do things in strange spaces, not so strange spaces, conventional spaces, not so conventional spaces The first event of 2015 will be an…
Cultivating is a punk rock state of mind, all about getting out there and doing it,, making it happen, art events should be exciting and alive…. Cultivate is about artists doing it ourselves “So when are the five minutes going to be up?” she demanded, “I’m pretty sure it has been more than five minutes…
What’s going on Cultivate wise|? Well the book is quietly flowing, more on that soon. The old building is being torn down along wit the heart and soul of the city and we’re working on new spaces and events… Meanwhile, while we work on a new spaces ourselves 9and books), the #365ArtDrops goes on,…
Happy New Year people, the walls of the old place really are coming down now, or at least the guts are being ripped out of the old building (and some might say the whole of Vyner Street), last time I was there the first floor had all been ripped out and place was looking more…
2014 then, what are we to make of all that? End of the year or just another day coming to an end? It does bookend things neatly, well it does this year. 30th December right now, we spent yesterday clearing out the old Cultivate building, it all comes down in January, will they pull it…
Really positive meeting at the printers today, we’ll hopefully be kickstarting the Cultivate book any moment now. Three years of running an artist led space right in the middle of the thing that was Vyner Street. An A to Z of the artists, the art, the shows, the events, the tales, the colour, the people,…
A Cultivate update? So what’s going on? We’re busy plotting things for 2015, right now, the immediate news is that some of us Cultivate artists will be having what is probably our last art outing of the year at the ANGUS HUGHES GALLERY XMAS BAZAAR on the borders of Lower Clapton and Hackney, up in…
“Hi Sean, I hope you are well. I’m contacting you on behalf of a-n The Artists Information Company regarding a piece I’m writing on open submissions. I’ve just been reading your post on Cultivate Vyner Street and wondered if you would like to contribute to the article by answering the following questions?” said someone called…
First Thursday then, for the last thirtyseven in a row, my First Thursday was spent on a busy corner halfway down Vyner Street, frantically Cultivating. Haven’t been able to get out and properly explore an East London First Thursday for over three years now. First Thursday for me was always about just heading out and…
M is for Maddison, McFarley, My Dog Sighs, MOB, Mildenhall and more… G is for the Glue Bucket incident and… F for Flexhed, Fenton, Folkestone, Fitzpatrick, Fitzgerald, Free Art Thursday and Friday and…. S is for Shoes in The Gallery, Stinging Netil, Six One Six, Madeleine Strindberg, Tim Skinner, the Spring show, Suck and….…
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