{"id":6139,"date":"2012-03-27T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2012-03-27T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:36:11","slug":"abingdon-arts-festival-at-john-mason-and-larkmead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Arts Festival &#8211; John Mason and Larkmead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032802.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason and Larkmead\" \/><br \/>\nI visited John Mason first to see their art exhibition, but having forgotten to bring a photo id had to be shown through to the O6 Gallery by a member of staff rather than a pupil. The exhibition had been taken down apart from one piece &#8211; an old cabinet recovered from a tip &#8211; seen here with\u00a0a sun-projected O6 from the window.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032803.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason and Larkmead\" \/><br \/>\nThe cabinet was well worth seeing &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032804.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason and Larkmead\" \/><br \/>\nIt was full of things that would normally be thought of as the lowest of the low: Dyson fluff, tumble drier lint, Dyson powder, floor sweepings &#8211; all neatly displayed in\u00a0thrown away\u00a0jars and\u00a0labelled as if they were\u00a0really important exhibits\u00a0at the Pitts Rivers in Oxford.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032807.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason and Larkmead\" \/><br \/>\nAt Larkmead the\u00a0staff member\u00a0at the studio remembered my surname\u00a0from our children. She asked after both of them by name &#8211; not bad given they are now 25 and 23.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032805.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason and Larkmead\" \/><br \/>\nThe exhibition here was of mono-prints by a graduate from Brookes University who had worked with Year 10 &#8211;\u00a0that is\u00a0\u00a0the 4th year in old currency.<\/p>\n<p>Very good to see both schools taking part in the Abingdon\u00a0Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Larkmead\u00a0also\u00a0had an Indian Cultural Arts day with workshops including Rangoli, Henna tattoo, tabla drumming, Bollywood dance, yoga &amp; Indian cooking.<\/p>\n<p>John Mason also had a Family Learning day with Visual art, animation, movie making, cooking, sport and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Then again Larkmead had Candoco Dance hosted by a contemporary company who integrate disabled and able bodied dancers.<\/p>\n<p>And on another occasion\u00a0Larkmead hosted the Trestle Theatre Company doing a workshop and subsequent theatrical production using masks and characterisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited John Mason first to see their art exhibition, but having forgotten to bring a photo id had to be shown through to the O6 Gallery by a member of staff rather than a pupil. The exhibition had been taken down apart from one piece &#8211; an old cabinet recovered from a tip &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}