The 2011 CHE AGM will take place on Saturday, the 24th of September, from 2-4pm at the Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow, G51 3UU. (Opposite Govan Subway Station) Please RSVP if you are planning to attend, so that we have an idea of numbers.
This year’s AGM will be less of a social event than last year, however, there will most likely be folk heading over to the pub across the road afterwards for chats and tea/pints and you are most welcome! Also, please do feel free to bring snack food to share. There will be tea and some bread and hummous and biscuits provided. (It is also worth noting that next year will be the 40th anniversary of the CHE, and plans are afoot for a big shindig to celebrate it! so save your dancing shoes and guitars until then!)

CHE Fellow Alastair McIntosh is curating a Centenary International Conference on the ideas expressed in ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’
by Wassily Kandinsky (1911) in Govan, Glasgow on the weekend 21-23rd October 2011.

In October 1911 the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, completed in German the manuscript of a little book that he called “Über das Geistige in der Kunst” – usually translated as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. This webpage sets the context of a small but international centenary celebration conference, Kandinsky in Govan. It will be hosted by community groups in an area of Glasgow that suffers from high unemployment and many social problems, but which retains a powerful community spirit and much artistic talent. Like Kandinsky’s book the conference seeks not to promote “art for art’s sake”, but like the Russian Peredvizhniki school of “wanderers” or “itinerants”, to explore “art as service”. With keynote speakers including leading art experts and the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, we will be exploring how art can speak in places of poverty today. The conference will challenge the narcissistic nihilism of contemporary art forms that have turned their backs on beauty and, perhaps arguably, lost sight of art’s deepest function.

More information: http://alastairmcintosh.com/Kandinsky.htm
Draft Programme PDF: http://alastairmcintosh.com/kandinsky/Kandinsky-in-Govan-Programme.pdf
Online bookings: http://alastairmcintosh.com/kandinsky/tickets.htm