Christ Church Arts

22/02/2019

‘I would never say I was a fashion photographer. I didn’t buy fashion. I saw the industry as superficial.’

PHASER covers our exciting talk and Q&A with Tim Walker from last night!

‘I would never say I was a  fashion photographer’, says Tim Walker, one of the world’s leading fashion photographers. ‘I didn’t buy fashion. I saw the industry as superficial.’ Surprising, given Walker’s work has always been found in the pages of  Vogue ,  I-D , and&

21/02/2019

T.S. Eliot is one of the giants of 20th Century poetry from whom we’ll be reading this evening in Christ Church Cathedral! Join us at 8pm for what is sure to be a lovely evening of poetry and music.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XibDngCWfgQ

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/283403295686683/?ti=ia

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unred...

19/02/2019

This gallant steed, masterfully assembled by Sarah Simblet, will be up in Christ Church Library this week in advance of our drawing class on Friday! The ballot has closed but you can still pop upstairs to say “hay.”

18/02/2019

"The Wilderness Archive draws out stories that connect different geographies and social contexts around the world, revealing multiple perspectives and creating new visual languages by which we can make sense of nature. By exploring the boundary between human cultures and untouched or seemingly untouched environments, the Wilderness Archive aims to generate debate and tools that contest the binary perspective that sees Humanity above Nature.”

Join the Wilderness Archive (http://wildernessarchive.org/) in conversation with Kate Pritchard of the Oxford Botanic gardens (https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/) on Wednesday!

EVENT REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/forms/R5esfyemnEDwR4mM2

Partners with Fundación Mar Adentro in Chile http://fundacionmaradentro.cl/en/

18/02/2019

Remember to sign up for our Latin dance class tomorrow evening in the Undercroft bar led by the fantastic Oxford Amateur Dancesport Association (https://oada.co.uk/)

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/322786825024191/

18/02/2019

This Tuesday, we'll be in the Christ Church Picture Gallery from 5:00 - 6:30 for a wine reception and tour with the curator, Jacqueline Thalmann!

Highlights of the Picture Gallery's incredible collection include works by Tintoretto, Veronese, Botticelli, and Filippo Lippi. Preview the collection at this link:
https://artuk.org/visit/venues/christ-church-university-of-oxford-7512

**Click "Going" at the event link to book your place now!**
https://www.facebook.com/events/381944845719045/

And be sure to follow us at Christ Church Arts for more Arts Week updates and events!

15/02/2019

CHRIST CHURCH ARTS WEEK 2019 BEGINS TODAY!

We will be kicking off with a talk with Daria Khan of Mimosa House (https://www.facebook.com/events/537940950045584/) followed by our Exhibition Preview this evening (free drinks).

Have a look at our events to see what else is on, including workshops (from limerick writing to natural history drawing classes), tours, talks, and exhibitions! We have many non-ticketed events which are FREE.

A lot of our free ticketed events are already fully booked, but make sure to sign up to those that have some spaces left:

- Latin Dance class https://www.facebook.com/events/322786825024191/

- Wilderness Archive: Conversations about Nature and Culture https://www.facebook.com/events/2280025158938420/

- Tim Walker Talk and Q&A https://www.facebook.com/events/2357398841156887/

13/02/2019

"Thatcherite savage realism knew that the state administered public sphere is something no one really had and no one really wanted that much anyways. But like the falling or fallen tyrants everywhere are being forced to discover, a tyrant called love is coming."

Brian Kuan Wood, a founding editor of the cutting-edge e-flux journal, is speaking during Christ Church Arts Week! Read his thought-provoking article, "Is it Love?" here and join us at his talk titled "Art in a Time of Catastrophe" on the 21st at 5pm!

Article: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59897/is-it-love/

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/972199956307278/

No one lives in the future. No one lives in the past. The men who own the city make more sense than we do. Their actions are clear, their lives are their own. But you, went behind glass.

13/02/2019

"The exhibition The Sleepless Alliance resists the parasomniac dystopias of current political genealogies, as an exercise of non-fiction. Taking the position of the tangible dreamer, invited artists experiment with producing concrete future imaginaries, through fabulation, improvisation and resilient commonality."

During Christ Church Arts Week, we'll be collaborating for two events with Art for the Next Decade. On February 22nd, join us at the preview of The Sleepless Alliance at Pembroke JCR Art Gallery, and on Monday the 18th, we'll be hosting a talk with the curators in the Upper Library!

About the exhibition: https://www.pembrokejcrart.org/events

Talk: https://www.facebook.com/events/290686264942049/

Preview:
https://www.facebook.com/events/753244005055263/

WHAT'S ON

12/02/2019

“I’m mostly interested in life and vitality, but you can only see that by seeing its opposite. I love erosion: I like the way that the death of one thing is the beginning of something else.”

Read this fascinating interview with prize-winning poet Alice Oswald, who is coming to speak for Christ Church Arts Week! Head to our event page to ballot for a ticket.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/22/alice-oswald-interview-falling-awake

https://www.facebook.com/events/2272065723074069/

The prizewinning poet on myths, gardening and why her work is getting darker