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Thursday 21 January - Friday 21 March
SUNDAY 21 March 2-6pm - A PERFORMANCE EVENT BY BROWN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE THE LIVING NEWSPAPER

Brown Mountain College – artist Mel Brimfield, curator Ben Roberts and writer Sally O’Reilly – are reviving the avant-garde ethos of collaboration between artists, actors, filmmakers, political activists and comedians.

In this special performance for Wysing they will echo the fragmentary format of Zhivaia gazeta, or Living Newspaper, which began as a way to bring news stories to the illiterate Red Army soldiers of Soviet Russia and was further developed into full-scale theatrical productions that were part broadsheet, part music hall.

The Brown Mountain edition of The Living Newspaper will follow the original remit, combining public entertainment with the delivery of cultural, political and documentary information, in an event that will in turn inform, engage and provoke.

Comedy improvisation team Grand Theft Impro will present a series of satirical sketches, scenarios and improvisations on notorious and less well-known headlines from current and archaic newspapers. Comedienne Rachel Pantechnicon will deliver a series of monologues in response to readers’ letters to the newspaper’s resident agony aunt. Other events will feature advertisements and the racing pages.

The event is FREE and will begin at 2pm and end at 6pm, although it will be possible to also drop in later in the day, as individual elements of the performance start at 3pm and 4pm. Food will be provided and we are grateful to The Potton Brewery Company for sponsorship of the event with a barrel of real ale.

Please note that this event is aimed at adults.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 6 & 7 March, 12-5pm SPECIAL EVENT - France Fiction Paris based artists’ collective France Fiction (Stéphane Argillet, Marie Bonnet, Eric Camus, Lorenzo Cirrincione and Nicolas Nakamoto) invite you to join them in a ceremonial hole digging event. As France Fiction say "looking up to heavens sky we remain in ignorance of what lies beneath our feet”. Come and help France Fiction find out what lies beneath Wysing and join them in burying some specially created artefacts that may, perhaps, be dug up at some time in the distant future.

As well as being part of the event, you will be able to sit in the spring sunshine enjoying tea and cakes made especially for the occasion. This event is suitable for all ages and is FREE. All you need to do is turn up and join in. Sturdy footwear is essential.

THURSDAY 18 February, 6-8pm FILM SCREENING Mike Sperlinger, Assistant Director of LUX – the agency for artists' moving image - introduces the film Invasión, 1969 by Argentine Director Hugo Santiago. 123 minutes. English sub-titles. Invasión – a gem of south American cinema - is the metaphysical and poetical tale of the besieged city of Aquila. Following a chequered history that saw it banned by the Argentine authorities in 1974, at which time the film negative was stolen and suppressed until its restoration in 2000. Written by Jose Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares Invasión is ultimately about resistance. In the words of Bioy Casares “Homer will forgive me: the heart is always on the side of those who resist.” The screening will be followed by a short discussion.

THURSDAY 4 February, 6-8pm READING & CONVERSATION Writer Tom McCarthy reads from his best selling novel Remainder, a novel to be read for the existential discomfort that it leaves you with. It attempts to re-enact the soul and its connection to the material world, and cleverly poses the question who is observing who and what is the real self. Mark Aerial Waller reads from GK Chesterton’s early 20^th century classic, The Man Who Was Thursday – the book that inspired his recent film commission for Wysing. Readings followed by a conversation between novelist and artist.

THURSDAY 21 January, 6-8pm EVENT The Wayward Canon Presents: La Société des Amis de Judex III. The Wayward Canon, founded by artist Mark Aerial Waller in 2001, is a shifting platform for the re-evaluation of cinema. La Société des Amis de Judex III is a provocative reconsideration of Surrealism. It aligns Guillaume Apollinaire’s poetry, 1960s Batman and Louis Feuillade's Judex with a smoke machine. Previously presented at Tate Modern, FACT, Liverpool and Objectif, Belgium.

All listed events are FREE and have been curated by artist Mark Aerial Wllaer as part of his project The Cassiopeia Plan.

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