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<p>Happy New Year</p>
<p><b>First Fridays</b><br>
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<p>Our first "First Friday" of the year will be on Friday 7th
February and will be a "Four Corners" event. It's a while since we
have had one of those. For newer members I point out that these
involve four different small demonstrations that you can visit at
will. I'm going to keep you guessing what the four are - those who
have already paid their subs will know. We want to continue the
habit of starting the evening earlier at 7.30 pm with a chance to
talk to other members. We would also like to continue with the tea
rota - men and women equally - to reduce the strain on the long
term helpers.<br>
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<p><i><b>SO PLEASE re-join now and support your Art Society</b></i></p>
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<p>We have put back the AGM until our March meeting to align better
with the tax year (and our treasurer's role in it). In March we
shall also have a bring and buy sale. Details to follow. <br>
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<p><b>An Exhibition! </b></p>
<p>The BAS Spring Show at Ripley will run from 24th March to 2 May
2020 with an Open evening 30 March <br>
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<p>Handing in will be on Monday 23rd March 2-5pm, collection of work
on Monday 4th May 9.30-10.30. <br>
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More details to come in the next few weeks but in the mean time if
there is anyone who would like to exhibit 3 dimensional work can
you please contact Deborah on the email below so she can assess if
there is sufficient interest to use the cabinet again. <br>
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<p>Exhibitions email - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:basexhibitions@gmail.com">basexhibitions@gmail.com</a><br>
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<p><b>Your chance to star</b><br>
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<p>Deborah is also looking for some high quality photos of Art work
that you are planning to exhibit - preferably from someone who
hasn’t had their work used before. We need images for the Ripley
and Bromley Art Society websites and our social media sites.
Ripley is looking for about 5 images ASAP so they can be added to
the exhibition publicity on their website - so if there is anyone
who can move quickly we would be very pleased to receive some
images. NB please note that if you share images you will be
giving us permission to use them across the different sites, we
aren’t planning to do anything untoward with them but e.g, it is
not always possible to have a clear attribution of Artists name
due to the way that some of these sites work and we may need to
crop the image.</p>
<p>Exhibitions email - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:basexhibitions@gmail.com">basexhibitions@gmail.com</a><br>
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<p>A number of new exhibition venues were suggested by people at the
Christmas Party which we are following up but if there is any
thoughts at all then please contact us. <br>
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<p><b>Give us a hand</b><br>
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<p>Some committee members are stepping down and we can always use
extra help on the committee. Please consider joining the
committee. Yes there is some work to do - quite a bit in some
roles - but we also have fun doing it. Any similarities to Vicar
of Dibley are accidental.<br>
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<p>Other committee members are willing to continue but all will have
to stand for election at the AGM.</p>
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<p>See you soon!<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b>Adrian Fowle</b></div>
<div class="moz-signature"><b>Chairman, Bromley Art Society<br>
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