5. Mint Art Gallery at the Mango Room
Finally, tonight sees the launch of artist Amanda Holiday’s “The hum of history continues” at the new Mint Arts gallery above classic Camden Town Caribbean restaurant Mango Room.
Artist and film maker Amanda Holiday was born in Sierra Leone and came to live in the UK at the age of five. Active in the black political art arena, The Hum of History is an on-going series of large-scale works on paper that thread together varied social narratives.
What’s also interesting is that MintARTS, in collaboration with the Mango Shack (the new Camden Road restaurant) and Mango Room, is establishing two new exhibition spaces in north London.
“We want to create a sensual and sensory experience so that people can enjoy two of the greatest pleasures in life – eating and art,” says MintARTS director, Flora Teh-Morris. “At Mint Art Gallery, art not only complements the menu but is in fact the crucial ingredient. Our art provides the talking point that shapes a delightful meal.” Sounds fair enough. 10-12 Kentish Town Road NW1
Two more Pinboard stories? A brand new K-Town mural by Mr P here; and an interview with new Camden “rock ‘n’ roll” mayor Jonathan Simpson right here.
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5 thoughts on “Pinboard: a date set for Kentish Town Carnival – and other spring festivals”
10k! Woah!
So now they start asking for 10k to put it on?
Why so much money? I’m sure that other events (e.g. the Alma Street Fair) don’t cost anything like that.
I also have the echo the surprise at £10k. Good luck to them, they’ll need it.
There used to be a decent summer festival/fayre in Talacre Park a few moons ago. Before they built the sports centre.
I can rememebr one in Talacre in 1973.
They currently have £145 of the £10,000. Surely it would be better to have had most of the funding in place a lot sooner. To put on a disastrous event would do more harm than good. It would be better to start planning for 2014 and avoid a fiasco in 2013.