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Not many sleeps to go til Halloween now and we at Now Now are even more excited than we usually are. If you are wondering how this is at all possible then wonder no more! It is because the Hairst Festival in Huntly have recruited us to run three events as part of their mega exciting Halloween festival. Woop woop!

Our events will look a bit like this, except instead of being written down on a blog they will be existing in real life with real people and real ground and real sky and everything that goes in between:

1. Performance Art Treasure Hunt – Does exactly what it says on the tin. Get a map, get your bearings, get your culture head on and get hunting. Be prepared to encounter some pretty fantastic creative types doing what they do best in some pretty surprising places. You won’t be disappointed (unless of course you really love obvious and boring art in obvious and boring places, if this is how you roll then you will have a rubbish time for sure).

2. The Guising Booth – If  X Factor: The Auditions had a much less financially solvent little brother in the North East of Scotland, he’d be a bit like this. Come along, don a mask,  do your piece, give back the mask, leave, go to the pub… and for the rest of the evening be happy in the knowledge that nobody need ever know that you cocked up that third verse of Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess or just didn’t do that Coldplay song justice at all. The performances will be screened at a later point in the weekend (exact details to be confirmed, watch this space).

3. Ten Pin Neeping – Visualise a ten pin bowling alley. You there? Okay, cool. Now, in your mind’s eye, swap all the pins for longish thin root vegetables (carrots, courgettes) and all the bowling balls for neeps. You there? Okay good. That’s it. In case you are wondering, the vegetables are not intended to be phallic representations and there are no underhand radical feminist or chauvinist statements at play. We just thought it’d be pretty cool to fling some vegetables at some other vegetables and maybe win a prize.

Anyway, it’s all set to be a great weekend. If you have the time and the inclination then we can almost guarantee that you will have an extremely good time. For a full schedule of events, follow this link to the Hairst’s very own proper website.  It’s pretty swish.

Hopefully see you there!

(BYO fake blood)

(Thank You to) All the Artists Involved:

Perri MacKenzie, Ross Frew, Gemma Mannion, Ryan Hayes, Ruby Pester, Stuart McAdam, Neil Scott, Stefan Bruggemann, Anna Druka, Rachel McLean, Nadia Scullion, Dominic Odbert, Fless Press, Sarah Messenger, Allison Whitehill, Ross Frew, Fleur Donnelly-Jackson, Brian Dickson, Clare MacIntyre, Lori Duncan, Letita Lehner, Ai Kato, Catherine Weir, Nadia Rossi and CELIEMAS.

+ In House Horror Make Up Artiste-Sarah MacInnes.

+ SPECIAL GUEST DJ -Bobby Wilson.

Now Now presents:

The Back Garden Spring Frolic and Romp!

Thursday 28th May

4pm-Late

Music from Annie Accidental, Splash Tetra and Celiemas Seasonal Band.

All Welcome!

NOW NOW PRESENTS:

FINAL REDUCTIONS-EVERYTHING MUST GO

Now Now presents… a night of buying and selling each other’s work

Callout!

The premise of the night is as follows: All work must be hung by 9pm (if you are very prompt we shall give you some home-made soup and bought-in bread to line your stomachs). Trading shall commence at 9pm, and if any work remains unsold by 4am it WILL bedisposed of in some way or another. So the assumption would be that, as the night goes on, if works are going unsold their prices should be reduced (ever watch the QVC home shopping channel?). For this reason, Now Now would recommend that participating artists submit work that they would not mind selling for very small amounts of cash but simultaneously remain optimistic that somebody with fantastic taste might have quite alot of pocket money to part with on this particular evening. Which reminds us, bring some pocket money. And if you don’t have anything you’d like to sell but maybe would fancy enjoying a couple of shandies with some okay-ish people, you are of course welcome too.

But bear in mind (on the off-chance that you won’t be submitting work because you think you don’t have anything) here’s alist of things that we would happily hang up on our walls (purely suggestions):

Drawings/Doodles/Photographs/Photocopies of Beautiful Oil Paintings you’d prefer to keep safe and warm somewhere else/Paintings (Finger or Brush)/Papier Mache Sculptures/Vegetable Sculptures/Home Baking/”Skip Art”/Homemade Activity Packs/Grass Wigs/CDs/Tapes/Printed Literature/Individual Performances/Fanzines/Loveletters/Altered Clothes/DVD Of The Person Who Lives In The Flat Opposite You Watching Telly And Drinking Beer

Which reminds us again, Now Now will take no responsibility for any laws broken with regards to copyright/privacy infringement, libel,documentation of crimes being committed. We will just provide the venue, plastic cups and maybe some ice until it runs out (we are not made of money!), all sales are between the vendors and the vendees. So hopefully see you there!

RSVP to nownow@email.com for more details of how to get here and so we know how much blue tack to buy in.

FINAL REDUCTIONS-EVERYTHING MUST GO: THE EVENT

SAT 25TH APRIL/456 VICTORIA ROAD

Curry, hanging, modeling and initial pricing.

Haggling begins and the buying and selling gets underway.

A big thank you to all the artists and customers. Enjoy your purchases!

Big THUMBS UP to our friends A WEE TASTY, they put on a super scrumptious occasion last week in Stereo. Now Now set up shop with the lovely Ann-Marie Faulkner, a London based maker and designer who runs her own made to measure glove label ‘Labour of Glove‘. Visit her shop  of wonders here - ANN-MARIE FAULKNER.

The shop included work by Helen Shaddock, Ruby Pester, Allistair Burt, Nadia Rossi, Rachel Levine and Ann-Marie Faulkner.

Thank you to all the artists and designers who contributed to the shop.

If you would like to get involved in the NOW NOW traveling shop please send an email to us:

nownow@email.com

NOWNOW PRESENTS:
MAKE IT BREAK IT

This record breaking and making night (think Guinness meets Roy Castle and then goes out for dinner with Itsa Bitsa) featured works by artists either attempting to break existing world records or just making whole new records of their own. The show comprised of a whole host of feats, including “Most Brussel Sprouts Eaten In A Minute”; “Most Comme Des Garcons Clothing Worn At One Time”; “The World’s Smallest Biennale” and “The Smallest Biggest Welcome”.

OPENING EVENT/FRIDAY 20TH MARCH/7PM

Duncan Allen, A Collection of Achievements (Live Performance, Certificate, Beard, Wrestler for a Day)

CLICK HERE! Record Breaking LIVE Performance by Duncan Allen

Euan Taylor, The World’s Largest Miniature Pallet Tower

Catherine Weir, The World’s Biggest Smallest Welcome

Laurence Payot, World Record 18 Spoons/Huge

John Fanning, Le Petit Biennale (The World’s Smallest Biennale)

NeDo, World’s Longest Distance Simultaneous Sculpture

Alex Hetherington, Most Comme Des Garcons Clothes Worn Simultaneously (Attempt 1)

Nadia Rossi, “Yes or No?” (Most Tins of Mystery Food Sold on a Friday Night/Make a Choice!Make a purchase! 20p a tin)

Neil Scott, The World’s Tallest Wearable Hat

Fless Press, Totem Pome (The World’s Only Tower of Poems)

Ross Hamilton Frew, Present For The Pope (Most Circles Drawn In Order To Achieve A Perfect One)

Ruby Pester, Contemporary Gifts (Highest Number of Contemporary Gifts Distributed)

Stuart McAdam, Making A Record by Engaging in Conversation and Drinking a Crate of Beer

68/70 Gallowgate- Modern World Discount Store, is about a ten minute walk from St Enochs subway station. Just walk up Argyle Street onto the Trongate and then cross the road at the Tollboth onto the Gallowgate and the shop is just under the bridge.

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