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Looking forward to seeing the BBB’s tonight for one of our favourite Beatles albums!

Gill and I had a fantastic evening at the Brunswick, listening to the Brighton Beach Boys celebrate the album Station to Station by David Bowie and finishing the evening with some of his greatest hits. We have seen them do many gigs over the years all fantastic gigs…  but tonight the 8 piece band were on fire!!

Gill and I enjoyed a fantastic evening of music provided by the sublime Robert Andrews and members of the Brighton Beach Boys performing as ‘Rockin Around’ with and additional two special guests one of whom (Brighton born) Steve Ferrone was/is a ‘Heartbreaker’ visiting from the States . A magical night was had by all in the brilliant Brunswick venue. * members of the BBBs Dave Barnard, Steve…

Multiplex: Art Licks Weekend Performance: 1 Evy Jokhova, Paper, Scissor, Stones Sat 30 Sep, 4pm

Multiplex, Installation view. This image: Gauld Architecture, exhibition structure, OSB, mirror, 2017; Julie Hill, Deserts on the moons of other planets, digitally printed fabric, polystyrene beads, mirror, 2017; Ben Blossom, Villagers, c-type prints, 2017; Mark Siebert, Our Apocalypse!!! Financial Crisis, Lego, 2017; 7. Images: © Ben Blossom/Julie Hill. 

Villagers, a community photography project by Ben Blossom, c-type prints, panel display, archival boxes, audio, 2017

Villagers Ben Blossom

08–22 September 2017 Fri 08 Sep, 6–9 pm: Private view This exhibition will be hosted in the nearby Residents Room managed by the Brunswick Centre’s Residents Association. Directions will be provided from the Passengers exhibition space (address below-left). Due to the running of other community events we may have to alter our visiting hours unexpectedly. Please check the Passengers website before visiting.

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Passen-gers is pleased to announce Villagers – an exhibition showing the results of a community photography project by Ben Blossom.

Villagers explores the ‘village’ concept that inspired the Brunswick Centre’s original architect, Patrick Hodgkinson, by asking residents and users of The Brunswick Centre to document each other using disposable cameras. Each camera, through its various exposures, marks out a network of individuals, known or unknown to each other, linked by their presence in this particular architecture. The result is a collective portrait that aims to capture the social identity of The Brunswick Centre.

Hodgkinson viewed architecture as a humanist profession that could provide a ‘life-giving sense of spirit’. He provided the communities that use The Brunswick Centre with a building that offers a pedestrian ‘street’ and a residential platform with communal areas elevated from the city bustle. These spaces offer stages for interaction that are observed and celebrated through the Villagers project. Alongside the photographs testimonies by project facilitators and participants will be displayed to further reveal the dynamics behind the portraits.

Inspired by the notion of ‘civil inattention’ proposed by American sociologist Erving Goffman, Villagers – as with Blossom’s previous projects such as Free Smile and Bethnal Green Gardens’ Courts –uses the camera as a tool to facilitate exchange and explore the social relations that a place or architecture might foster.

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Villagers is a ongoing project commissioned by Passen-gers, a site-specific exhibition series at the Brunswick Centre. If you would like to get involved please contact [email protected]

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We are pleased to announce an exhibition of our community project Villagers by photographer Ben Blossom which will be held a few doors down in The Resident Association's Residents Room. We hope you can join us for the opening on the 8 Sep, 6–9pm. The exhibition continues until 22 September. 

Further information on the project can be found here.