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This week Christmas has been in the air and Emma's made some christmas graffiti cards with our volunteer Anthony...

 Next here's our latest edition of Gate Kicks on Resonance FM!

As Christmas is in the air this week's video is called "Good Santa Bad Santa"

Enjoy!

GATE CUSTARD III 22/09/17

Last week the Gate headed back to smash another night out at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, with an awesome performance from all! You can check it out here...

VIDEO DRAMA- The Wrong Wedding

In this episode Leon and Jason think its time they finally found someone to spend the rest of their lives with, so they call the highly reputable Hawkins' Wedding Agency to sort them out with lovely brides to be! Unfortunately the agency aren't quite up to the job this time...

The Gate meets Alan Courtis, 08.03.17.

Leon - I met Alan Courtis on Tuesday and I said hello. We started with taps round the chair and finger pointing and loud and soft then we started to play with him and it sounded really good. It would be nice if he could come again to do some more stuff. He's really good making sounds from instruments everywhere in the room. I was sitting on the chair watching a film before we came on it was good picture they show other films then I was cracking a story after the film. I sat with the others and listened to what he had to say and I looked back at the screen and they were playing good music on the film. It was good from the start. Oh yeah, Alan played as well right at the back on different instruments but we had to slow down and back fast we had to take turns round the room. I had to wait for a bit but I looked everywhere just in case it comes back there then it came but the whole thing was great. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS GIG AND THANKS TO ALAN FOR COMING PLEASE COME BACK IT BE NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. CHEERS MATE.

Labake - Alan Courtis came to the gate and showed us how to play great music and we had a great time and we learnt haw to play different instruments it was great, everyone had fun  it was fantastic, everyone played something. I enjoyed playing the drums something I've never done and now music is is all I think about, I write and sing my own songs and I did what i do best, I sang.

Jason - Alan was a pretty cool guy, I'd like him to come again. I liked the talk he gave about people with disabilities because he showed pictures of people with learning disabilities playing music.

Kashan - It was very nice music. Alan was very good.

And here's our radio show featuring music from the show and interviews with Alan and various audience members -

Wayne's Work at the Masbro Centre

Wayne has been attending the Masbro Community Centre's Pottery workshop over the last few months making some lovely pieces of Sculpture, pottery and paintings too. Here's a few pictures of what he's made...

H&F Artsfest The Gate Gallery Opening, 6/6/16

"Quite a lot of of people went and the artwork was really nice." Duane.

"This is me explaining to somebody about my art, I thought the exhibition was a good way of showing how people with learning disabilities can do things for themselves." Labake.

"Louise talking with Margaret." Duane.

"This picture is an idea for an album cover for Collective Strike, A hip-hop crew made up of members of the Gate." Darren.

"This is Louise, she likes crisps and rock music, I Like Louise cos she's cool." Shivesh.

"Pat with her work, I think the flowers are nice, I like the colours, they're very nice." Duane.

"Pat's art is a floral selection, they're absolutely beautiful." Darren.

"This is a nice picture of flowers on the wall and a lot of people came to see it and they thought it was really good." Mary.

"This is me with my art work, it's very good." Pat.

"Carol dished the wine out for everyone who came for the exhibition." Duane.

"Picture of Wayne taken by me. Wayne's artwork is in the style of Jackson Pollock and his music is very experimental. Wayne is very friendly and polite." Darren.

"This is a sea monster, it goes in the water and I made it." Mary.

 

"These are my dolls that are stuck together to symbolise how i feel about life, they're chained up to show how I feel about myself." Labake.

"This is Mandy's work. Mandy is very political and is very fond of animals." Darren.

Photos  below by Carol.

 For more of the art displayed at this exhibition please visit: http://artatthegate.blogspot.co.uk

The Gate Gallery Opening Party

We've been working hard here at the Gate to get our Gallery space up to scratch for this year's 

HF ArtsFest, and we think it's looking great.

Please come down to our exhibition on the 6th of June at 6 -8pm for our gallery opening. After this the Gallery  will remain open to the public from 11-4 until Friday. 

216 GoldHawk Road

Featuring many mixed media arts, sculpture, interactive videos, sound projects, and a 20ft feature wall painted by our very own Wayne. Below the poster you can see a picture of him working (It's finished now and looks truly spectacular).

We hope to see you all there...

Dolly Mixtures, Nunnery Gallery, Private viewing 7/4/16.

Friday, April 8, 2016 - Sunday, June 12, 2016 

The Nunnery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ 

http://bowarts.org/nunnery/dolly-mixtures

All of us here at The Gate were dead chuffed to have been invited to take part in the above exhibition (thanks Mandy). Please see below for some pics of our guys and their work at the private viewing and of a live painting that Wayne did on the night.

MANDY.

JACKIE THE RIPPER.

 WAYNE.

LEON K.

 LM DUBZ.

LOUISE.

NICK.

CLARE.

MARY.