your noble, overworked and self-sacrificing committee is now able to publish a provisional list of the participants in the
FESTIVAL OF BROWN 2010.


apart from the fixed exhibition of visual art which will remain in situ for the extent of the festival there is also to be a programme of performances, workshops and experiences in the ECO-MUSEU and the castle grounds on the opening weekend, from friday september 3rd to sunday september 5th. these are intended to include experimental music and poetry, (friday night); classical music, (saturday night); and live audio-video mixing (sunday evening).

anyone wishing to participate in either the video/music workshops planned for saturday and sunday or the art experience with João Sá should get in touch as soon as possible with the committee at brownfestival@yahoo.com.

all proposals were gratefully received and have been carefully considered, and the international cast of contributors is confirmed as follows (barring unforseen disasters).

Germany
Sabine Portela
Annerose Schmidt

Portugal
Alice
António Alijó
José Manuel Arantes
Adriana da Silva Barros
Maria Carvalho
Maria João Castro
centoecatorze-espaço de criações artísticas:
Marisa Alves I Marc Brocal I Joaquim Pombal I Felissa Rosado
Ivone Costa
Tânia Duarte
Arlindo Fagundes
António Fernandes
Marta Figueroa
Fátima Gavinho
Generosa
Maria Eugenia Gomes
ICARO
Christina Kalberlah
Carlos Lobato
Aurora Marques
Jorge Paulo Leal Martins
Paula Maurício
Rita Miranda
Barbara Morais
Miguel Neto
Iolanda Parente
Ramir Oliveira
Georgina Queiroz
João Sá
Zé Teixeira
Alberto Vieira
Flávia Vieira

Spain
Eva Casado Blanco
Xaime Piñeiro

The Netherlands
Ben Hengeveld
Mary Hengeveld
Lukkien Hoiting
Mieke Qualm

United Kingdom
Shari Baker
Peter Pick

USA
Mark Valentine Sullivan

all manner of things

things are warming up in the world of brown. the date for proposals for the festival has now passed and the international committee of jurors are preparing for a brutal and extended session of what the politicians love to call "tough decisions" in their remote mountain fastness, cloistered away from the inevitable media glare.

it seems likely now that there will be video and environmental art workshops and a programme of musical performances on the first weekend, a slideshow of international photographers, a rolling programme of videos throughout the three months of the festival and a fixed exhibition spread over three sites featuring sculpture, painting, ceramics and some strange machines.

as the vultures circle lazily in the sky around their monastic retreat, your humble committee turns its attention to the preparation of a truly intriguing and energetic event.

naturally, if it's anything like last year very little of what is now certain will remain true.


"castanho é a cor das árvores que eu pinto num dia de outono"

"castanho é a cor da terra que hoje me alimenta"

"castanho é a cor da minha pele num dia de verão"


"castanho é cor, é energia, é frescura!"





Convido-te para participares no segundo festival internacional do castanho com uma a três obras pensadas na cor e no sentido do castanho .
Até final do mês de Junho gostaríamos de receber as imagens das obras (dimensão de fotos até 1 MB cada) que vais mostrar, assim como também as dimensões e a forma de as expor, as obras não devem ultrapassar 185 centímetros de altura e 140 centímetros de largura (85 centímetros para esculturas) - em peça única - no entanto, dependendo da sua forma e peso poderam ser aceites outros tamanhos.

envia para mail: brownfestival@yahoo.com

O Festival irá decorrer de 3 de Setembro a 15 de Dezembro 2010.

Nos dias 3 e 4 de Setembro haveram experimentações, das artes expostas, com os artistas disponíveis a interagir com o publico.

Nos dias 3, 4 e 5 Setembro haverá um mercado de obras dos participantes.
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chamada para submissões para o festival, com um foco particular na fotografia, pintura, escultura, vídeo e actividades (workshops etc.) para os dias de abertura
call for submissions for the festival, with a particular focus on photography, painting, sculpture, video and activities (workshops etc.) for the opening days.

datas importantes important dates

propostas até dia 30 de junho 2010
proposals until 30th of june 2010
selecção dos participantes até dia 31 de julho
selection of the participants until 31st of july
entrega das obras até dia 27 de agosto
delivery of work until 27th of august
abertura do festival da cor castanho dias 3 até 5 de setembro
opening of the festival on 3rd to 5th of september

todas as propostas podem ser enviadas para o endereço brownfestival@yahoo.com
you can send all your proposals to the following address brownfestival@yahoo.com
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a call for entries

your humble committee is proud and a little amazed to announce that after considering the various options presented to us the second festival of brown will be held from september to december in the ecomuseu in montalegre, trás-os-montes, portugal. this is an exciting new venue equipped with modern video technology set next to the castle in a town most famous for its gatherings of witches. montalegre is set deep in the northeast corner of portugal among mountains and woods, mists and moors on the edge of the gerês national park.

we could not be more pleased about this, it is a venue which will enable us to display not only a collection of fixed objects but an extensive and shifting selection of moving images, music and slideshows. it is for this reason that we now issue an early call for submissions for the event, with a particular focus on photography, painting, sculpture, and video. we intend to collate all entries and make our selection in may and june, giving us time both to assemble an exciting programme and to plan for its most advantageous display. proposals for workshops during this extended period will also be welcomed.

festival of brown 2009

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now that we are gone

the brown world has moved away, back to its various apartments, and we are slowly recovering. sabine portela and peter pick undertake a new adventure, carrying brown offerings to paradela do rio where they will hold a joint exhibition of paintings, video, music and photography without all the attendant distractions of the festival. this exhibition will open on the 3rd of october at 17.oo and continue on sunday 4th at arte da terra, http://www.clayarte.com/ .
sabine will be showing a series of 15 entirely previously unseen pictures with a startling surface density. she has also promised us a little brown shrine. peter will play his brown water video and reveal other musical adventures, display new photographs and may also read his poem things to say about brown, if bribed suffficiently heavily.

you will all be very welcome and may be awarded special chocolate if you are lucky.



sunday



was a more relaxed experience for all of us. apart from the permanent exhibition and the continuous slideshow from international photographers an outdoor workshop in paint and clay supervised by maria carvalho and sabine portela was enjoyed by many children, adults and people in between. strange and extraordinary clay sculptures were produced and 3 primary colours were mixed together to create both brownish and decidedly un-brown prints on a sheet of brown paper about 7 metres long. much fun was had, and much smearing went on. children played draughts (checkers to you) and spillikins (mikado to you. or pick-up-sticks) in the back room where the schools library service set up a display on the theme of a rainbow of brown. towards evening peter pick showed his own brown slideshow with music by richard miles and himself, and then played his video again, this time not quite so loud. there was more african music.

eventually, everyone started to go home and various sabines and their friends tried to eat delicious cold food in salle 1 before the children ate it all. no easy task.


the artists and works featured were
iolanda parente - paintings
sabine portela - painting and persephone.
josé teixeira - "poeta", ceramic installation with lights.
maria carvalho - ceramics, "ao vento" and "luas"
richard miles - painting and stringed instrument.
eugénia cavaca - earth paintings on glass and metal.
mário rocha - painting, "another view".
francisco araújo - traditional wood carvings of religious subjects.
rodrigo brito - photography. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodrigobrito/
peter pick - poetry, music, video, photography.


photographs for the international slideshow were loaned by these artists

imagemkr1 (jacqueline), usa.
sisasola (anja), germany.
FiatTipoElite, galicia.
AH in Pgh, anne, usa.
casually krystina, krystina stimakovits, england.
Gabri Le Cabri, gabrielle cabri, france.
mark valentine, mark sullivan, usa.
the unbearable brightness of seeing, andré van der ree , the netherlands.
janberckmans, Jan Berckmans, belgium
BisyBackson, marion, the netherlands.
jurek d., Jurek Durczak, poland.
sonofsteppe, Csaba Molnár, hungary.
TiC's wonderland, Daniela Huser, switzerland.
tlate hiin, Takako, usa-japan.
Carlo Pedretti, italy.
athena glow
ubych, edyta, poland.
j neuberger, usa.
Steffen Tuck, australia.
bueno-antonioaugusto, Antônio Augusto Bueno, brazil.
tossthecam, germany.
j@cqued@nck , jacque, brazil.
floebee, Shari Baker, england.
sabine portela, portugal, england.
125ième f 5.6 , france.
robert ragan, slovakia.
HWSH, ireland.
Ryan Brookes, india.
Hk-l, japan.
finsmal, Mike Lusk, usa.
Life Pilgrim, usa.
Miriam HMello, Miriam Homem de Mello, brazil.
peter pick, england.
Greenmonster, svetla, bulgaria.
citlali*, usa.
Alembisque, John Daniels, england.
Robert in Toronto, Robert Wallace, canada.
John Reiff, John Williams, usa.
rusted_flower, Susan, canada.
dontaylor, Don Taylor, usa.
fernandoprats, Fernando Prats, spain.
spezoid, Steve Teso, usa.
*L, Luísa Cortesão, portugal.
htakat, Hercules k, greece.
Jo Casson, Johanna Casson, england.
Mr November, James Berry, england.
m@pestaartje, Maartje Jaquet, the netherlands.
l'homme de l'autre rive, jean-marc barrier, france.
longhairbroad, Cynthia, usa.
blopsmen, Pablo, england, galiza.
antmot, thailand.
iacubs, spain.
ImaginationAlone, Jade Arthur, usa.
Samm Bennett, japan.
mksd, Markus Diedrich, germany.
Guy Batey, germany.
nouredine, نورالدين , germany.
piblo (piblokto), Thomas, sweden.
giarcffej, Jeff Craig, usa.
workers' opposition, Rohan Quinby, usa.
brombromp, italy.
Bruce Grant, usa.
xamaxblue, christine, germany.
Dead Slow, Christopher Hall, usa.
hphettich, hans-peter hettich, austria.
isoldt_bunny, australia.
stormodig, Catherine Lundmark, sweden.
farmor2001, inger hansson, denmark.
erdmöbel, germany.
pogonophobia, david swanson, england.
littlevanities, Zichuan Lian
akiruna, Annemie Hiele, the netherlands.
Rainer, germany.
linthesky, france.
gatalinkica, Vera, serbia.
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