Art Beats Festival 24

Festival Programme

Art Beats 2024

Opening Ceremony @ Margaret Fell LT - 23rd August

Date: 23rd August 2024

Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm

Venue: Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre (Lancaster University LA1 4YW)

Reception & Exhibition

Date: 24th-25th August 2024

Time: 11:00am-5:00pm

Venue: Peter Scott Gallery (Lancaster University, Lancaster Arts. Bailrigg LA1 4YW)

Featured Artworks:

Photography and Paintings

Submerge – Ailsa Madill

Flood Story – Gerry Davies (Special Feature)

Bloom & Entangled Growth – Isabel Crabtree Parker

Confluence of Canvas and Nature – Md Masudul Islam Khan

The Pursuit of Happiness – Mohammad Ghorbankarimi

Bug Life 2 – Nikita Andrejev

The Beauty and Ugliness – Peggy Pui Kwan Yiu

Study of A Lizard – Phisenukwat Chai

Video Art

Sasamben Budak Bujang (As A Boy’s Arena) – Belva Atsil

How Amazingly Unlikely Is Your Birth  – Clare Samuel (Special Feature)

House Viewing – Gregory McCool

Bale and Breeze – Hamideh Javadi

Diagonal – Ian Hunt

A Toad’s Perspective On A Summer Day – James Kachan

flight, as it feels – Leo Mercer (Commissioned Work)

Amor Ing Acintya (Rest in God’s Light) – Made Virgie Avianthy

Dead Bodies, Moving Bodies – Sky Fong

A Broken Voice – Xiaohan Luo

Award Ceremony @ The Dukes - 24th August

Date: 24th August 2024

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Venue: The Dukes (Moor Lane, LA1 1QE)

Screening @ The Dukes - 24th August

Date: 24th August 2024

Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Venue: The Dukes (Moor Lane, LA1 1QE)

Rundown:

The Quiet Years (Dir. Noelle Richards) – 19:56

Chuang Mu 床母 (Dir. Yi Chieh Huang) – 07:25

Moth (Dir. Yun Han Chew) – 14:58

Smoke & Stars (Dir. Lorna Brierly) – 10:47

Out Of My Place (Dir. Sky Fong) – 15:15

Without (Dir. Enni Red) – 12:26

OCULUS (Dir. Samira Shaaban) – 05:06

The Way I See The Red (Dir. Shelvira Alyya) – 10:09

ADWAR – The New Dawn of Discovery (Dir. S M Monowar Kayser) – 04:05

Broken (Naomi Onakunle) – 05:26

Screening @ Take 2 Cinema - 25th August

Date: 25th August 2024

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Venue: Take 2 Cinema (Bowland Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YT)

Rundown:

Together Apart (Dir. Matthew Kowalski)  – 17:25

Retrospect (Dir. Jessica Broad) – 06:56

The Story of DARAK (Dir. Setayesh Nejadmohammad Namaghi) – 15:06

Seagarette (Dir. Ken Ho) – 12:56

Kurangkan Maju (Dir. Shu Jun Ng) – 15:31

Thank You For Your Service (Dir. Dawid Stasiak) – 12:02

FLEAS (Dir. Maria-Ella-May Hill) – 13:07

The Female Curse (Dir. Alexia Bazavan & Flora Ng) – 06:19

TRACK (Dir. Ruby Saunders) – 04:51

reminiscence (Dir. Vanesse Tsang) – 06:54

Forbidden (Dir. Charlotte Vacková) – 13:37