Join us at The NewBridge Project for a special opening day event for our new summer exhibition, Habit, Ability! exploring how we might continue to inhabit a damaged planet and the ways we learn collectively from nature’s methods of survival and transformation.
Saturday 9 July 2022
12 pm – 5 pm
The NewBridge Project Gallery Space
1pm – ‘til it runs out. Free & Informal Community Meal
Gallery, Floor 1, The Shieldfield Centre
12pm – 3pm. BioDwelling Sign-Up and Drop-in Activities.
Gallery, floor 1, The Shieldfield Centre
Join the BioDwelling community and contribute to art projects that ask how we feel about bringing living biotechnology into our everyday spaces.
‘Birthing the Mother’ Drop-in
Help to birth our mother SCOBY* and receive your own baby SCOBY to look after and then re-unite as part of an extended family later in the year.
*Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast
‘OME Brew – Swallow Your Words’ Drop-in
Turn bad vibes into good in a cathartic beer making activity. Join Louise, John and Greg from Newcastle and Northumbria University’s Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment in a cleansing ritual where we will shred future fears and hi-tech over-promises, which will be fed to bacteria that – over the course of the exhibition – will transform paper into beer.
2pm – 3pm. Environmental Protest-Badge Making Workshop – Drop-in
The Print Workshop, Floor 2, The Shieldfield Centre
Learn about Risograph a mechanical printing process which uses vegetable-based inks. Making environmental protest badges using left-over/recycled printed matter and Risograph.
Overlay Press is an experimental print studio based at The NewBridge Project, specialising in Risograph workshops, bespoke printing services, and DIY support for communities.
How might we continue to inhabit a damaged planet?
How can we learn collectively from nature’s methods of survival and transformation?
Habit, Ability! is an exhibition with events exploring ways to learn from and ‘be in’ nature. Come to The Newbridge Project, Shieldfield, Newcastle to see survival strategies found in landscapes that are considered uninhabitable by humans.
Seeing survival in these places through long and continuous engagement is a strategy against the common attitude to conquer and extract from nature.
Habit, Ability! begins by looking at Intertidal mud flats, peat bogs, the arctic circle, and the ocean. For humans, encountering these landscapes is challenging. Some of these places are protected by legislation – prohibiting or limiting human access for their preservation, or they are protected areas of scientific study.
The exhibition then turns to look at NewBridge and its new home in Shieldfield, Newcastle, having moved in 2021. Works in the exhibition assess NewBridge and its the environmental impact of the organisation on its surrounding spaces and at large.
For the full programme and more information on the exhibition, visit the exhibition page.
Artists
Angharad Davies & Éliane Radigue
Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen
Dani Admiss & Luiza Prado de O Martins
Dwellbeing & Sarah Cooper
For Solidarity
Rob Smith
Iris Priest & Katy Cole
Katie Pollard
Laura Harrington
Louise Mackenzie
Michele Allen
Michelle Williams Gamaker
The NewBridge Project
Shieldfield Centre
4-8 Clarence Walk (off Stoddart Street)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AL
The NewBridge Project is accessible. You can find out more here, or feel free to contact us prior to visiting if you require additional information regarding access and facilities.
The NewBridge Project is supported by Arts Council England, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund, Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice and the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
