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HETAIN PATEL: AT HOME 21 APRIL - 14 JULY 2012 MAIN GALLERY It is with great pleasure we welcome Hetain Patel to New Art Exchange. As an artist who has emerged from the Nottingham art scene and is now achieving international success, we are proud to present his much anticipated solo exhibition, Hetain Patel: At Home. This major touring show of existing and newly commissioned works marks an important turning point in the artist's practice. In a departure from previous self-portraiture works, Hetain will no longer be the sole protagonist in the camera's frame, and in some cases, completely absent. Read more

16 June - 11 August Mezzanine Gallery Exhibition KANAVAL Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the streets of Haiti The photographs in this exhibition document the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festivities in Jacmel, a coastal town in Southern Haiti. Leah's photographs register Haiti’s juncture between its history, its cosmology and the present. Gordon’s images document troupes of ‘performers’ acting out mythological and political tales in a whorish theatre of the absurd that course the streets unshackled by traditional parade. Admission: FREE Age range: All are welcome Read more   16 June - 4 August Central Gallery Exhibition Palimpsests of Desire: Gurminder Sikand A palimpsest is a parchment designed to be scraped clean and used again. The traces of previous texts and drawings often remain visible through the layers of mark-making, thus reflecting the history of the documents earlier forms. In this new collection of work, Nottingham based artist Gurminder Sikand uses the concept of the palimpsest to explore the shifting nature of culture, memory and identity. Admission: FREE Age range: All are welcome Read more   Tuesday 19 June, 6:30pm - 8pm In Conversation Haitian Art at Night of Festivals 2012 This event celebrates the arrival of Night of Festivals 2012, which will take over Nottingham’s Old Market Square from 21-23 June. Haitian sculptors André Eugène and Jean Hérard Celeur will discuss their practice and their newly commissioned sculpture created during a residency at City Arts, alongside Kanaval curator Leah Gordon and ArtReach Director David Hill. Admission: FREE Age range: All are welcome Read more

Saturday 23 June, 2pm - 4pm Family Friendly Workshop Kanaval Masks First Floor Theatre helps you create your own weird and crazy masks! Participants will take inspiration from the Haitian Mardi Gras costumes and masks seen within Leah Gordon’s photography exhibition, Kanaval. Admission: £3 for one adult with one child, £2 for additional participants thereafter. Includes light refreshments. Age range: All are welcome All abilities welcome. Read more   Thursday 28 June, 6pm - 8pm Demonstration & Workshop VOCAL: The Art of Tetsudo During this session we aim to raise public awareness of the Tetsudo martial art, and to provide our visitors with a free and interactive opportunity to learn about the benefits of such an activity. Learn with Tetsudo master Balbinder Dhaliwal and five other senior instructors. Admission: FREE (advance booking advised) Age range: All ages & abilities welcome Read more   Saturday 30 June, 12pm - 2pm Screening & illustrated lecture Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: A century of Folk Customs & Ancient Rural Games Leah Gordon juxtaposes Haitian and British folk culture in her exhibition, Kanaval. During this session we explore these gloriously eccentric ‘folk’ happenings in more detail, and investigate how and why these ancient traditions still exist. Admission: £6 (£5 concessions) Age range: All are welcome Read more

Regular Workshop Every Tuesday, 5pm - 8pm YARD Young Actors FREE Read more Regular Workshop Every Wednesday until 18 July, 5pm - 7pm YARD Youth Theatre FREE Read more

CULTURE CLOUD Your chance to vote between 4 June - 5 July! CULTURE CLOUD is the digital ‘open’ exhibition by New Art Exchange, Nottingham, where we ask you to select the artworks to be exhibited in our gallery space. Log in and vote for your favourite piece between 4 June and 5 July and help curate our next exhibition. You will also be in the running to win a voters prize! Vote Now! www.artfinder.com/hello/theculturecloud Read more Culture Cloud Voter Questionnaire Please come and tell us about your response to the experience of voting in the Culture Cloud project. Click Here

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