MASH UP Madness...

Hi it's Katie informing you of how the mash up went. It may have happened a while ago, but i am not the most speedy person at writing the blog.
I think the mash up went fab. It was one crazy maddness but was still great fun for everyone involved.
We arrived at the Arnolfini just before luncheon so that we could set up our stalls/creation zones ready for the aftrenon. After makig sure everthing was looking prepared we went over our plans for the afternoon over a spot of lunch. The stress levels for me were building by this time as i was imagining hordes of young crazy children screaming, which was not luckily what we saw.
The two stalls that we had set up were: A badge making dressing up mash up and a mental octopus patchwork area. First stationed to the badge making desk, our first challenge was to work out actually how to use the damn machine without messing up all the badges. Once this was working out fine we chilled out slightly until we started to see some families appearing through the Arnolfini doors.

 

 

 

 

 

These are the crazy ass badges we created

Once the badges were being decorated with peoples most lazy food, most lazy animal and other such lazy creations, we got on with the dressing up. The dressing up involved the children dressing up in clthes which made themm feel lazy and then getting into lazy poses. Some of the children were paticularly creative and came up with insane costumes.

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The other stall which we had was one in which the children had to draw their own interpretation of Cosimas giant octopus. With the colourful drawings we patchworked them over a table so that all of them could be seen. The pictures turned out amazingly colourful and brightened up the foyer of the Arnolfini.

The table once we'd finished with it...

The day was one creative collection of colour and craziness. But it was enjoyable craziness and working with lots of deifferent people was an amazing experience for us all. Untill Next time
Au revoir Katie

Jenny Rintoul - Role Play and Mash Up

Yo! Charlie C-T with another YAAC installment. Sorry for the lateness!

On the 15th of February we had a visit from Jenny Rintoul. She got us up on our feet for a change and started us off with some role play. At first I was hesitant, but after a while everyone was well into it. Katie was even sitting in the Arnolfini Bar having a tantrum, which by the look on some people's face, made them feel rather awkward.

This wasn't all for Jenny's personal enjoyment! It got us all thinking about some good activities that we could host for Arnolfini's "Mash Up". We cycled through a series of ideas with the dominant theme of laziness. Settling on the idea of your favored place to be lazy. We decided we would ask the participants of  "Mash Up" to, on a piece of paper, draw/collage/paint/anything their favorite place to be lazy, take a photo of them with their art and project it onto the wall as a slideshow, so throughout the day, the slideshow would slowly grow.

Sadly, I was away for the Mash Up so I couldn't make it to all the enjoyment, but from what I've head from my YAAC buddies, it was a lot of effort, but barrels of fun.

Thanks everyone, C-T out!

Wifi Corner Launch

Soo last Saturday (05/02/2011) was the launch of our fabulous Wifi Corner! It was all very exciting as it was our first chance for YAAC to really gain publicity and show others who we are and what we do. The launch took place in the Arnolfini Cafe (obviously - this is where the Wifi Corner is actually placed) which, as usual, was a very busy and vibrant place in the early hours of the Saturday evening. 3 YAAC members spoke a little about what we do and about our Wifi Corner, which was made up of dental floss, paper bags, gold leaf, felt, and some very lovely looking fairy lights placed in a "Z" shape across the ceiling. Oh, and you can't forget, our little mascot - the golden yack sitting on a shelf in a corner (but shhh I didn't tell you! It's "lost", remember?)

One particular thing to mention, is that part of our inspiration Jordan Mckenzie (live performer of "Drawing Breath" at the Arnolfini for Inbetween Time Festival - shown right) came along to our launch! He spent much of the time  having a chat with Esther (one of our YAAC members) about what we do in YAAC.

Oh and did I tell you that we were all given a lot of free food? Courtesy of the Arnolfini cafe - might have been the best part... (I think they give out free food a lot...*hint hint*)

See yah! Cathryn

In between Time intriguing vinyl...

Helen Cole, the curator of the In between Time Festival, invited YAAC to position some sentences that she had selected around Arnolfini in intriguing places. The texts related to artworks and performances that had taken place at the preview or work within 'What's next for the body', the exhibition at Arnolfini.

As the festivals full name is 'The In between festival of Live Art and Intrigue', we were asked to think of unusual or thought provoking places to hide or reveal the words in Arnolfini's public spaces, allowing new meanings to be created...

There were 10 texts in total and here is some images of where we placed them -

hi, slYAACer here and get ready for a double dip as i am here to tell you about both today and the week before lasts session.

17th of jan!

firstly looking back to the 17th. the session was on monday at school because hannah had a very exciting exhibition up in Edinburgh during the week. unfortunately quite a few missed it because of exams but we cracked on non the less. we pretty much finalised our ideas for the wifi corner to: Anna and Connels big felt clock, katie's paper balloon fairy light covers and sentences cut out of felt. we were still unsure about some other ideas such as the city scape and dental floss stitched into paper bags. Charlie (the other one) and ella got to work on our brilliant flyers which im sure you've seen about.

1st of feb

Today was installation day. We have finally finished the wifi corner and it is looking grand. pictures to come! also me, Charlie (c-t) and ella took pictures of all our vinyl lettering, which has been blessing the walls of the arnolfini for a while now, because it is getting taken down in the run up for cosima's exhibition. http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/883