JON HANNAN

For OWT creative’s recent event at Cord Bar we set the theme of ‘Exchange’ and asked people to bring something to the theme that could fit into a slide case. Well here are all the ones we received, thanks to everyone who took part. It was great to see something constantly evolve and grow as the night progressed as more and more things were brought to us. I’m currently in the process of collating the best slides received into a publication. The zine will not be available to buy, instead it will only be available for exchange. More to follow.

A big thank you to everyone who came down last Thursday (10th) for the opening of our two week exhibition at Cord Bar. We had worked solidly for four or five days leading up to the night itself so it was good to see all the hard work pay off with a great turn out. I won’t go on too much, I will be blogging about the projection zine later so another big thanks if you contributed to that. Here are some photos of the evening taken by Jodie Guest. There is a link to the entire set on Flickr HERE. The exhibition runs until the 24th of Feb, if you’re in town pop down into Cord’s basement and have a look.

It’s been a couple of busy months for OWT, but we’re pleased to finally announce that issue #4 Direction is now on sale. It features the work of the five OWT members as well as twelve other North West creatives and their interpretation of the word ‘Direction’. A lot of effort went into this issue with us clocking up over 900 individual screen-prints putting together the one hundred and twenty five issues and we’re really proud of it. You can purchase issue #4 from HERE.

We’ll be putting up a new call for entries for issue #5 and a review of our unbelievably successful first exhibition shortly.

A showcase of work featured in zines 1-4.

Feb 10th - 24th at `Cord Bar, NQ, Manchester

Opening night Feb 10th 7pm

Launch of Issue #4 ‘Direction’

Theme - ‘Exchange’

Alongside the exhibition we would like to invite people who attend the opening evening to bring a small piece on the theme of ‘Exchange’ that will become part of the exhibition. The piece must be small enough to be clipped into the frame of a projector. It can be a clipping of a magazine, a piece of coloured film, a photo or anything else as long as it’s flat. This is by no means compulsory, but if you bring us something you may receive a small something in exchange.