Upcoming Events
Details of forthcoming HANA events. We try to make sure that timings and locations are accurate but please check with the organiser that details are correct.
Forthcoming Events
Cooking African Food with Akwaaba Delite
Date: 25 February 2012
Time: From 11am
Location: The Community Enterprise Centre, Cottingham Road, Hull
This event is part of the 'Cooking Pot' project which is a partnership between HANA and DOC. This 'Cooking Pot event will be delivered by Akwaaba Delite which is part of the Jama Group, theGhanaian Association of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The event will have demonstrations on how to cook African food and an exhibition of African culture and traditions.The event is free and open to all members of the public.
Free Workshop Presentation Skills
Date: Wed 29th Feb - Thur 1st Mar 2012
Time: 10.00am - 15.00pm
Location: Annex, White Room, Community Enterprise Centre
Workshop - Presentation Skills
HANA's Employability Training Programme offers this FREE workshop to help people from all backgrounds to improve their chances of employment. For further information and registration contact Edina on 01482 491177 or e-mail: edina@hanaonline.org.uk
Czech and Slovakian 'Cooking Pot'
Date: 10 March 2012
Time: 11am
Location: The Annex, The Community Enterprise Centre, cottingham Road, Hull HU5 2DH
This event is part of the 'Cooking Pot' project which is a partnership
between HANA and DOC. The Cooking Pot of Czech and Slovakian Culture will be
delivered by the newly formed Czech and Slovakian Community Group led by Marek Babjak and Bibiana Babjakova. The event will include cooking
demonstrations and hands on experience of traditional Czech and Slovakian cooking style.
Everyone is invited to this event which promises to be a great learning
experience! For further information contact Marek Babjak in HANA on 01482 491177.
Take Me To The Kittens
Date: 30th March - 12th May 2012
Location: Artlink Exchange, Prince's Avenue, Hull
As part of National Pet Month, Artlink presents ‘Take Me To The Kittens!’, a series of 15 large-format photographs by local Chinese photographer, D. Jun-Yu Low.
Printed in Hull using archival pigment inks and the highest quality fine art paper, limited editions of the prints will be available to buy, and all profits from the sale will be donated to the RSPCA (Hull Branch).
In Britain, we dote on our cats: we often think of them as the ultimate in fluffy cuteness and big-eyed defencelessness. We forget that they have lives of their own, and keen survival instincts honed by generations of evolution.
Inspired by a talk given in Cottingham by renowned feline behavior expert, Vicky Halls (www.fabcats.org), Low travelled to the isolated coastal town of Essauoira, Morocco, home to one of the largest populations of stray cats on the planet. There he found - and photographed – an alternate reality for cats, a place where cats are truly left to their own devices.
On one level, taken with an absolute minimum of equipment, Low’s photographs operate like giant holiday snapshots that are beautiful to look at, recording his meetings with various cats as he encounters them. But, informed by contemporary photographers who also take pictures of animals, including Charlotte Dumas, Elliott Erwitt, Pentti Sammallahti and Tony Mendoza, Low’s treatment of Essaouira’s cats is far from casual.
Low follows his cats everywhere: down backstreets and onto building sites; alongside open sewers, and behind rubbish bins filled with rotting food; under busy market-stalls in crowded souks, staying with them from morning till night.
Meanwhile, the complex geometry of the photographs and the relaxed, wordless understanding of their subjects, recall the heyday of twentieth-century photojournalism. Once reserved for documenting and ennobling human life, that classic genre of photography is now put into the service of these most humble strays.
The utmost seriousness and respect with which Low takes and presents his photographs challenge, head on, the playful familiarity and easiness of the exhibition’s title. In doing so, ‘Take Me To The Kittens!’ asks us to look again at our pets; to see them in a whole new light.
About the photographer
D. Jun-Yu Low is a self-taught photographer. Last year, he was appointed as official photographer to Hull’s incredibly popular Larkin with Toads, and his photographs from that project were widely seen in newspapers, magazines and the internet, both in the UK and abroad. Since then, he has exhibited works in libraries across Hull; The Ferens Gallery, Hull; Artlink, Hull; The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton; and London Zoo.
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