We have some good news… We have two interesting new freelance jobs to help get the new place up and running.

One deals with the day to day activities of our arts centre and gallery - The Arts Centre Co-ordinator.

The other, will help us to carry out our community / public art events - The Community Arts Co-ordinator.

This is an exciting opportunity to get stuck in at the start of something sensational.

· An arts retail area where artists can sell their work, and people can buy arts supplies;
· Providing workspace, studio and gallery space for those involved in the arts;
· Meeting rooms for local community groups, businesses and organisations;
· One stop shop where information can be provided on the arts sector;
· Arranging events and performances;
· Sessions aimed at the education sector.

This arts space would be unique as it would be run by young graduates, whilst at the same time focusing on inspiring people, especially those from deprived areas, to become part of this community and see art as a viable career.

Further information about Bocs contact us direct at oriel@dafyddhardy.co.uk or 07774 730 325.

Other news, I am looking for a posh venue for a fund-raiser night club event. This kind of work pays!

Thanks, Zack

Press release www.sonicport.net 10.08.2011

Check out this EventThe Good Robot.

Bookings, to advertise with Cyborg Hotdesk-TM and other enquiries call: 0845 467 9272 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

03.08.2010- The Futurist monthly

“Cyborg Hot-Desking is the latest enhancement to the sonicport corporate desktopTM. Your Cyborg control system is your live-line to valuable customers and is completely free and future-proof. Between you and I Cyborgs are the best choice for corporate toy on the market, but don’t just take my word for it, come down to the good robot party at Hendre Hall in October and take her for a spin.”

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10.08.2011- The real jobcentre lobby
Jobs in Gwynedd; Part-Time; Below Minimum Wage

We are currently tuning people up to receive cyborg work suit upgrades for suitable candidates, this would suit many redundant call-centre operatives and customer services enthusiasts as well as those willing to learn. That’s where the work is! Call in to the good robot showroom in October (01.10.2011) and we will test your suitability. Best Regards, the sonicport personnels team.

Bookings and enquiries call: 0845 467 9272 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

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Cyborg Hot-Desking wiki- Cybog Hot-Desking is the combination of municipal wifi, a fusion of man and machine, with executive control which can be subliminal or otherwise(currently the role of control is played by a volunteer executive and the role of Cyborg is played by the volunteer dogs-body).

The output from the Cyborg.
The Cyborg can be used as a public mobile noticeboard and can play podcasted audio and advertising within the boundary of the host community space.
The Cyborg can be set tasks within a given time frame and can be rewarded for achieving them. Reward currency is audio stimulation between data downloads direct to the brain.

The output from the Hot-Desking exec.
The hot-desk is just another day in the office. Put your feet up, press a few knobs and allow your Cyber-friend to do all your work for you. Easy!

Other news…
Kite Project Proposal. To be funded 2011.
Recruit 3 1st year Music Students from Bangor University to learn kite ballet and develop a performance of augmented kite with live exploration of sound design.

What is Augmented Kite?

Can there be a link between Kite ballet and playing String Instruments?
Agenda//Art and health management, Outdoor composition technique, mixed media. Sustainability is key to mobility;
- during the cuts in 2010 my incapacity benefit has been withdrawn as it is being phased out, I had a tough autumn because of Altos Origin health checks as a result of having no money between October and March, this covered a time of potential change as I won a digital commission at The Scala Theatre Prestatyn, but had no special support for my bi-polar disorder, like I would expect from a normal job. The government health checks and my project went out of phase.

I will be on target to apply for arts funding as soon as I start writing about how this project is being undertaken, and express my views on what happens to artists under government funded schemes such as Employment and Support Allowance, under the supervision of a Psychiatrist but going against their thinking by fully supplementing my diet with certain super high doses of vitamins that allow me to sleep and to find grounding in mental health.
I am undertaking this project without a counsellor or any extra support for bi-polar. I have been living in North Wales since 1999 and have been unable to find the right conditions to prosper although my pioneering approach has given me potential energy and focus, it has also been the cause of cuts to my benefits due to false optimism and moments of questions. What do the Government mean by innovation and change, and what is it like to be in a fragile situation and be supported by “progressive” thinking.

Incidently, Gareth is Morgan’s father, and this is the first time in the Eisteddfod’s long history that a father and son have ever been chosen to exhibit at the same time.

Also New Bocs member, Rebecca F. Hardy, opened her first solo , exhibition, “Serch”, at the Arthaus61 in Bangor last night. An exhibition of expressive, primitive, surreal and at times auto-biographical artworks. www.rfhardy.blogspot.com

So all in all Bocs has quite a lot to celebrate this weekend! Congratulations to everyone, well done!

25th March 2010

The Scala Cinema and Theatre in Prestatyn will host a performance for poetry and music with dynamic graphic score produced by students of Glyndŵr University Wrexham.
The cinema will project a score made up of material based on the concept which develops during the workshops taking place at the University from 14th to 16th February 2011.

Exhibition by Gethin Wavell at Oriel Dafydd Hardy, Caernarfon. Private View : Wednesday 3rd November (7-9pm)
Then open to public 4th - 26th November 2010
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 10 am – 4pm (Saturday 10am -1pm)

I graduated from Cardiff UWIC in 2007, where I studied fine art. The work that’s on show is work that I have produced in the last two years. I enjoy looking at a wide range of artists, from Guston to Goya. I also have a fondness for literature and films. I see my work as the final image of encounters and reactions that I’ve had, or am ever going to have. Therefore, I rely heavily on my imagination, and memories. With these tools I’m able to construct a piece of work that is highly personel and corresponds to what I surround myself with.

G. WAVELL

Looking At Faces is an exhibition of recent work by brothers Morgan and Ioan Griffith.

With both artists working on a similar theme with contrasting approaches, Morgan’s work is painting and collage based, whilst Ioan has produced a slide projected installation using a penry facial identification kit.

Humour is a strong element in both artists work.

“Since every human contact in every area in our existence begins with a meeting of faces, an understanding of them is, or should be, everybody’s business.” Jacques Penry

Contact Ioan : 07880 846 892 griffith.ioan@googlemail.com and Morgan : 07885 853 547 sonomano@gmail.com www.sonomano.blogspot.com

MYMPWY

Recent work by SIÂN GREEN

Opening Friday Night 13 August (6-8pm) 14 - 27 August 2010 Oriel Dafydd Hardy, 12 Y Maes, Caernarfon LL55 2NF

14 - 27 August 2010 Oriel Dafydd Hardy, 12 Y Maes, Caernarfon LL55 2NF

Anthony Lee Morgan
Duel
July 16 - August 6

Anthony is one of the local young artists that Oriel Dafydd Hardy has followed from Sixth Form through Foundation to Graduation from Leeds University.

Anthony made a big impact in the early days of Oriel Dafydd Hardy by staging a solo show at just 17 years old, whilst still studying at Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen. “Oddi Wrth Y Wal” / “Off The Wall” was an light and sound installation blacking out the basement and providing visitors with torches as they stepped down into the noise of graffitied New York Subway. He was featured in the S4C programme Uned 5.

Subsequently, whilst doing his foundation course at Coleg Menai, Anthony joined three other ex-Syr Hugh Owen pupils to stage ” Wylit Waed ” - an exhibition exploring the anger of 21st Century young Welsh people today with that of Gerallt Lloyd Owen’s 1960s generation. This exhibition again had extensive national media coverage.

Returning now, after completing his degree in Fine Art at Leeds University, the focus of 22 year old Anthony’s exhibition “Duel” is two life-size steel figures……standing back to back.

Anthony says ” We all fall into the trap of a “Duel” everyday….whether we duel a friend, or family, the world and more frequently ourselves. Now that you know, ask yourself why?”

Through the influence of Peter Prendergast upon the structure of Coleg Menai’s Foundation course, and his strong belief in drawing as the means by which a subject may be grasped, it is not unsurprising that Anthony leans heavily towards Giacometti for inspiration.

“My entire portfolio consists of large scale figurative 3D projects and I now have the problem of where to store them….I think they will have to go in the garden of my parents’ place in Maesincla for the time being!”

“I’d love to do a series of public sculpture for Caernarfon….I would be prepared to carry out the work for little or no fee, so long as the materials were provided…I’d consider it a such an honour. I want to try and contribute to making Caernarfon a centre for art, a national symbol of Welsh culture. I’d like to add colour to the town…something make tourists want to come back here again and again. Imagine a series of red Welsh dragons around Caernarfon…with one perched on top of Twthill…imagine the impact this would have on the tourist industry!”

Anthony can be contacted on 07779 946 158

The Voice of Youth

This project is a partnership between Academi, Gwynedd Council and Oriel Dafydd Hardy to celebrate the new Maes in Caernarfon. The Voice of Youth was an opportunity for local children to express their feelings about this new development in their town through workshops with the bard, Meirion Macintyre Huws.  The schools who took part in the project were Syr Hugh Owen , Hendre, Maesincla, Gelli , Santes Helen and Pendalar.

Gwen Lasarus Literature Promoter for Gwynedd said:
‘ I’m very happy to see the fruit of the children’s creative writing work in poster form with local artist’s original art work being presented to the children from each school. These children will remember this experience for a long time.’

Members of bocs were invited to transcribe the children’s poems into posters.