More Allotted coverage

We're in the Bolton News again today - 29/6/2016 -in Angela Kelly's column

It's a great endorsement....

We were hoping to have a visit from a Granada TV crew yesterday, but they also wanted to do some filming on an allotment site (we were going to take them to Harpers Lane), but then the weather turned and they postponed. The weather's no better today and we've not heard from them. We'll keep you posted.

As Dave said "Once more the Gods of Destiny vomit on the duvet of my existence"

Putting up the exhibition

Here are a few images from the tasks of putting up the exhibition on Monday and Tuesday

Carol Barlow's piece of stained glass was one of the first pieces to be hung

Dorothy Ellins' piece has been half-installed

Maggie Hargreaves' mobile was a complex piece to install

Jason and Ged putting up Kevin's photographs 

Margaret surveying the progress

A view through part of Susan and Jennifer's installation

Hope the pictures make you want to come along to the exhibition, there's a lot more to see yet

The Slug Society and 'Allotted' are in the Bolton News today (27th June)

4 pictures and an article - a whole page and right hand side too (apparently this is very important!)

PRESS RELEASE - 20/06/16

‘Allotted’ - Art and Allotments

Allotments, food growing, wildlife and nature are all fertile soils for the creative impulse.

A new exhibition - ‘Allotted’ - shows how the 9 very different artists** who form part of the Slug Society have responded to the ‘allotment experience’. The resulting work, displayed at neo:gallery27 in the Market Place, Bolton, covers a range of media from stained glass through paintings and prints, photography and video to 3-D and installations.

Three writers*** are also members of the Slug Society and they have produced a 32 page booklet ‘allotted - the back of the seed packet’ – containing essays, stories, interviews and poems inspired by allotments. (The printing of this booklet has been funded by the National Allotments Gardens Trust.)

The exhibition will be open from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Thursday to Sunday, each week between June 30^th and August 7^th. The exhibition has been partly funded by a grant from Bolton Arts Forum.

The Slug Society can be contacted at slugsoc2015@yahoo.co.uk or by phone at 07767 220391(David Jackson)

There is a blog-site chronicling the ‘Allotted’ project(s) at http://allotted2016.blogspot.co.uk

** The 9 artists are: Carol Barlow, Janet Brady, Dorothy Ellin, Jennifer Gilmour, Maggie Hargreaves, Margaret Jackson, Kevin Shipley, Steph Shipley and Susan Syddall

*** The 3 writers are: Ros Davis, Robert Eldon and David Jackson

Weekly Update

Margaret checked the proofs of the allotted catalogue yesterday - all is now clear for the catalogues to be delivered on Thursday 23rd June

The final proofs of the writers' booklet were approved today and that booklet too should be here by the end of next week

Forms for submitted works have now been sent out to all participants

Work on Press Releases etc. will start tomorrow

It's all getting closer

The Book's Away!!!

Just an update to tell the world that this morning we sent off the (we hope) final version of "allotted- the back of the seed packet" - to the printers.

It should be back w/c 20th June.

Ged has produced the second draft of the artists' images catalogue - "allotted2016" Ged just needs some final details from one artist on medium and size-  He and Margaret are having a final design meeting this week and then that can go too.

Ros is working on an exhibit to replace the sound recordings - we all proved ourselves to be pretty bad actors - David aims to get a comedy sketch out of the (abortive) recording session.

Funding Arrives!!!

Good News !

The funding from the National Allotments Gardens Trust has come through.

The text booklet is off to the printers tomorrow.

It's a great relief.

Dave