An Evening with Spaghetti Club
Event
An Evening with Spaghetti Club
29 October 2024
6 - 8 pm
Castlefield Gallery
This event is for Castlefield Gallery Associates only.
This is a blended event:
- In person at Castlefield Gallery
- Online via zoom
To book: Please follow the link in the latest Associates events mail-out
Join us for a one-off event with the UK’s most hilarious after-school club – Spag Club!
Initiated in 2018 by artist Michael Crowe, Spaghetti Club started as a creative writing club for kids where they could use creativity to think through complex (and sometimes impossible) problems alongside goofy nonsense. Dedicated to fun and play, the club has evolved into a wider set of exercises and activities involving drawing, dance, sculpture, photography and much more.
In this Castlefield Gallery Associates session Michael will explain the roots of Spaghetti Club, its methods, publications, and inspirations. We will then try some of the exercises and consider how this alternative educational model and playful approach might help us to free up aspects of our own artistic practice.
This session will be hosted by artist, educator and facilitator Olivia Glasser.
This event is supported by Engage.
Michael Crowe is a writer, artist and teacher based in London. His most recent book An Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Grand Theft Auto was published by Studio Operative. Michael’s work (covering video, sculpture, text) has been exhibited at LACMA, St Gallen Switzerland and Le Plateau, Paris. He has given talks internationally, most notably at the New Museum NY and the BFI London. He teaches creative writing at Grasmere Primary School with “Spaghetti Club,” which was voted “Best 10 Exhibitions in UK/Ireland for 2020” by Frieze Magazine.
Olivia Glasser is an artist, educator and creative producer, who creates frameworks for people to use art as a tool for situating themselves within, and asking questions of the world. She has 15 years experience in the sector and creates opportunities for children and young people to collaborate with artists on ambitious work, which emerge through problem solving, play and engaging with unconventional materials. She has co-created large-scale artworks with primary school collaborators for Art Assembly and Chester Contemporary and has been interviewed about her work on Art Fund’s Meet Me at the Museum podcast.
