re:location - travel - official web-site for the major international project by artists in Smethwick.

SEEING THROUGH ART :: 100 ARTISTS TAKE OVER AN OLD X-RAY FACTORY


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Random pic - from the gallery above.


ABOUT re:location

	WHAT: about the project

	WHEN: a timetable for summer 2003

	WHERE: maps & travel to Smethwick

	HOW: images of the site's renovation

	WHY: see the a r t we're making



	HISTORY: of the site & x-ray factory

	HISTORY: of the SOZO Collective

	HISTORY: of The Public



	CONTACT: how to contact us

	LINKS: local & community web-links

3D BUILDING MAP:

re:location CREATIVES:




A:	Archangeldeb \| Tony Appleby & Claire Wearn (Artists/Building Restoration) \| Nigel Amson (Video, It's About Time)

B:	Wayne Bartlett \| Lekan Babbalola \| Vanessa Bartlett \| Byron Bailey \| Catherine Bate \| Fred Barnfield \| Bobby Bird \| Geoff Broadway \| Jason Bromhead \| Tim Branston \| Ashley Branston \| Alice Branston \| Brown \| Betty \| Julian Bull (Marketing) \| Naomi Bull \|

C:	Emma Chetcuti (Project Management & Fundraising, The Public) \| Carlos Cortes \| Louis Campbell \| Alan Cheeseman \| David Checkley \| Faye Claridge \| Emily Clay \| Constence & Perrine \| Phil Crompton \|

D:	Dave \| Deep Dhudwar \| Brown Degeneracy \|

E:	Ed (Project Manager) \| Tim Edensor \| Avril Elward \|

F:	Angela Foy \|

G:	Ghostly \| Mayelle N Gay \| Sabine Gollner (Video, It's About Time) \| Helen Grundy \|

H:	David H (Web-site) \| John Hammersley \| James Hepburn \| Hina \| Martin Humphries \| Peter Hadfield \| Ernie Hudson \| Rob Horrocks \|

I:	I@n \| Rob Irving \|

J:	Parminder S. Jutla (Community Liason) \| Michael Johnston \| Dick Jones \| Mark Jonson \|

K:	Sam Knight \| Sylvia King (Chief Exec, The Public) \| Matthew Krishanu \| Moshen Keiany \|

L:	Louise \| Kate Luxmore \|

M:	Marlene & friend \| Graziano Milano (Artist & Catalogue, Publicity and Poster Design, The Public) \| Julie Marsh \| Leanne Martin \| Susan McNally \| Susan McClure \| Pumpkin McKay \| Fuki Matsushita \| Gregoire du Mas de Paysac (Artist & Building Restoration) \|

N:	Nick Slater (Arts Council West Midlands) \| James Shanahan \|

O:	--

P:	Dave Pollard (Curator) \| Joseph Potts \| C.M. Peet \| David Papadopoulos \| Chris Poole \|

Q:	--

R:	Dave Reeves \| John Rogers \| Betty Rowson (The Public) \|

S:	Sabine & Nigel (Video) \| Anita Soni \| Martin de Sey \| Louise Sutton \| Marlene Smith (The Public) \| Ian Shortland \| Andy Scholes \|

T:	Diane Taylor (Cafe) \| Keiko Tilly \|

U:	--

V:	--

W:	Kirstin Wood \| Pamela Wells \| Carol White (Marketing, The Public) \| Alan Wickman \|

Y:	--

Z:	--

:: LOCAL & COMMUNITY LINKS

NEWS & MEDIA:

Smethwick Today web-site.
Smethwick on Google News UK.
The Express & Star newspaper.
Afternoon Zoo - the drivetime radio show for Smethwick on 87.7 FM.
Smethwick Sound - community radio station on 87.7 FM.
AcM - 'affordable web-sites for media professionals'.

VOLUNTARY GROUPS & ORGANISATIONS:

Smethwick Bangladeshi Youth Forum
Smethwick Rotary Club.
Smethwick Cricket Club.
Lesbian & Gay Switchboard: Smethwick.

RELIGION:

Smethwick Vaisakhi (Sikh New Year) Festival.
A summer of passion in Smethwick - Christian youth activities in Summer 2003.

ART, WRITING & CREATIVES:

The Smethwick Mural.
Smethwick Photographic Society - one of the top photographic societies in the country.
Colin Gale - Smethwick painter & artist.
Charles Grigg (aka 'Chas') - cartoonist. He did Desperate Dan in the 50s!
Punam Verma - award-winning singer and voice-over artist.
Achanak - famous bhangra band.
Goats Don't Shave - Smethwick band of the 80s, reformed in 2001.
Darryl Georgiou - he made a major series of artworks at Handsworth Booth St. metro station in early 2003.
Kenneth Goldsmith - an American poet who completed a major art commission in Smethwick.
"Come straight home" - short story, about returning to Smethwick after years away.
Memories of life in the streets around Black Patch Park.
Bearwood Jazz - Andy Hamilton's Jazz club at Bearwood Corks Club in Smethwick.

REGENERATION:

Soho to be the site of a hi-tech business park. The new £550-million scheme at Soho will develop new canalside homes and commercial developments, plus a new Soho Technology Park.
Smethwick's booming property prices.
New-media training courses at Smethwick College.
Black Country Tourism.

HISTORY & HERITAGE:

"Spacialities of Dereliction": Foundry Lane, Soho, Smethwick & more history which is specific to the re:location building.
Smethwick Heritage Trust.
Smethwick Local History Society & their brief history of Smethwick.
Galton Valley Heritage Centre.
Avery Berkel & Avery Historical Weighing Museum. Founded in 1927, the Museum is known to scale and weighing scholars world-wide as one of the most comprehensive reference sources. It has a large collection of weighing artefacts and records - some of of the scales and weights on display date back to the first century. The Avery Berkel factory is also the same site (the 'Soho Foundry') where Matthew Boulton & James Watt developed and mass-produced commercial steam-engines for use in the Industrial Revolution.
What/where is "The Black Country"?
The Black Country Society.
BBC Black Country.
Black Country Canal Songs.
Local Distinctiveness - methods, tools & ideas for documenting communities & places.
Black Country Tourism.