N55: WALKING HOUSE - EXTENDED - 23 DECEMBER

WALKING HOUSE Open seven days a week until 30 NOVEMBER Mon - Sun 12-5pm FREE

1 DECEMBER - 23 DECEMBER The Walking House remains Open Mon -Fri ONLY 12-5pm. From 1 December Wysing will be closed at Weekends.

24 DECEMBER until 16 JANUARY Wysing is CLOSED for the Season. We re-open Sat 17 January 2009 with the new exhibition
Wysing Arts Contemporary.

A LIFE SIZE WALKING HOUSE COMES TO WYSING ARTS CENTRE

Walking House is a modular system developed by Copenhagen based collective N55 that allows poeple to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape with minimal impact on the environment. Walking House will be in Wysing's grounds for five weeks and an accompanying gallery exhibition will examine how the project was developed alongside a community of people from traveller origin in Cambridgeshire. Admission is FREE to the exhibition and there are self-service refreshments in our reception building. Come along and take part.

Visit N55's own website for a Manual for Micro Dwellings: www.n55.dk

FAMILY FOCUS at WYSING :

URBAN ORIGAMI
Artist Simon Woolham has worked with three of Cambridgeshire’s Arts Venues, Kettles Yard, Ruskin Gallery and Wysing, to create a participatory activity for the Big Draw.
Urban Origami encourages you to transform paper into small sculptures that can find new homes in any environment, record these mini interventions and upload the results to a growing BLOG site. http://www.urbanorigami.blogspot.com/

Urban Origami will be available at Wysing Arts Centre throughout the N55 exhibition and will be our Art Trolley activity for October

WALKING HOUSE IN THE NEWS:

See it take its first steps on You Tube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxIB83Y0PA

Read our review on 24 Hour Museum site :
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART60364.html

Visit article at The Daily Telegraph :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3235261/Walking-house-can-escape-floods-or-unruly-neighbours.html