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<p>Dear Members,</p>
<p>We have busy organising events for you over the recent months.</p>
<p><b>Art Matters</b><br>
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<p>Firstly we have our Art Matters online Zoom discussion this
Friday at 7pm. This week the theme is "MAPS". There are many
artists that have been inspired by cartography in for portraits,
sculpture and imaginary worlds. Join us and share your work or
just come along to participate in the discussion. Zoom link to
follow.</p>
<p><b>St Mary's Exhibition</b></p>
<p>I would like to thank Deborah for organising our first exhibition
of 2022 at St Mary's and all those that participated, helped with
the stewarding, setting up and taking down and those that visited.
This takes an enormous amount of work to organise and we are very
much dependent on members participation. This was particularly so
as the church, whilst it has some fantastic architecture, stained
glass windows and fresco paintings, was in a difficult location
for parking. This, although the exhibition was therefore "quiet",
with Deborah's determined organising skills and help from a few
members, it helped forge our first exhibition this year. The
church made us very welcome with organisation, tea, cake and
biscuits and I almost became entangled in a knitting and natter
session. Thank you to every one involved. <br>
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<p>Paul Stringfellow.<br>
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<p><b>BPP Exhibition (which was very successful last year and
organised again by Deborah with Emily)<br>
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class="">As you are probably aware the Beckenham Place Park Art
Show has become an annual event. This is not a BAS exhibition
though many members have taken part. You will find below links to
the form to apply to take part in this year’s exhibition on Sunday
31 July. Previous exhibitors will be given priority but there are
still spaces available. </div>
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the links below by the 31 May so we can let successful applicants
know well in advance. The form includes all the information
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class=""><b>and finally after about two years .. an invitation to
return to our live 1st Friday events at Ripley Arts Centre, </b><b>Friday
10th June at 7pm - 9pm (doors open at 6:45pm).</b></div>
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class="">We are in the final stages of planning our come back to
the 1st Friday's at Ripley on 10th June at 7pm - 9pm (doors open
at 6:45pm). As we have not had the opportunity to meet members in
person for a while we decided to make it an event made up of
solely members in a "four corners" style event. We will have
members demonstrating their specialities including Jo Harvey's
Batik, Pencil drawings by Colin Barnett and art imaging and
projection techniques by Richard Waldron. We also plan to have a
table of interesting artists paraphernalia for you to try maybe a
black mirror used by Atelier artists, a camera obscurer, red
filters to focus on contrast and tones, concave lenses to create
thumbnail images in the field. If you have any interesting art
equipment that you use please bring it long and share for the
evening*.</div>
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class="">Members of the committee will be there to meet and chat
to. We plan to have an extended break were we can socialise and
meet each other in person again. We are not sure of numbers at
this stage so we have opted to hire just the Music room with a
table at the back for refreshments and access to the garden. We
will make tea, coffee and biscuits, cups and saucers available on
a self service basis. For those that prefer to bring their own
cups and refreshments please do so otherwise there will be
disposable cups for those that want to avoid using the available
tableware and washing up!</div>
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class="">More to follow on our return to Ripley but for now we
need to gauge how many people will be attending so please respond
to this invitation directly to me at<b> Paul Stringfellow
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:membership@bromleyartsociety.org.uk"><membership@bromleyartsociety.org.uk></a> </b>Please let us
know if you will or will not be attending.<br>
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class="">* If you have any interesting items you would like to
bring along please contact me at Paul Stringfellow
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:membership@bromleyartsociety.org.uk"><membership@bromleyartsociety.org.uk></a></div>
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