folly is a fabulous digital arts organisation, based in the North West of England.
We reach all over the world though, leading digital culture, and our website www.folly.co.uk is one of the main places to find us. folly is committed to enabling new audiences to explore art through technology.
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News
Portable Pixel Playground returns to Ulverston
6 June 2009. 10am – 4pm
Admission free
Portable Pixel Playground will return to Lanternhouse, Ulverston on 6th June. Portable Pixel Playground is an amazing new play space for all ages created by artists working with digital technology. 'A bit like an adventure playground, a bit like a work of art, and a bit like a computer game', the playground has been designed to allow young people (and inquisitive adults!) to use everyday technologies in fun and creative ways, providing them with new, interactive and hands-on experiences of art
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Gateway to Digital Culture Workshops
Throughout May 2009
folly has commissioned artists John O'Shea and Neil Winterburn to deliver a participatory project for Lancashire, exploring the the idea that libraries are public gateways for accessing culture.
During May a series of artist-led workshop sessions will take place within libraries and public spaces across Lancashire, enabling various community groups (library staff, library users, young people and non-library users) to map out their relationship to 'digital culture.'
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Abandon Normal Devices
Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture
folly, FACT and Cornerhouse are embarking on an exciting joint venture to deliver a collaborative programme across the region; AND (Abandon Normal Devices) is an annual festival of new cinema and digital culture in the North West, taking place in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with a distributed programme in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire.
Visit the AND website now by clicking here for details of upcoming trailblazer events and calls for submissions.
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New ArtCast podcasts from folly and moves09
new series online from 24th April 2009
ArtCast is folly’s ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a platform for public access to new, innovative sound & video art.
For this series, in association with moves09, we have selected five of the best new video works made by students based in England's Northwest, in response to the theme of moves09 - “Beyond Movement... What's Your Story?â€
This is a series of five videos. Starting on 24th April 2009, a new video will be released daily, throughout the Moves festival.
The current program is:
1: Heartbeat / Bones Can Break by Charlie Allan released 24th April
2: Leonard and Maudlin – Fishers of Men by Phil Martins released 25th April
3: Maschinmensch by Stephanie Green released 26th April
4: What I Do All Day by Anna Corbould released 27th April
5: Lab Specimens by Stephanie Green released 28th April
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Opportunities and competitions
Art of Digital
Art of Digital is a partnership project between Arts Council England, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and folly helping to promote the use of digital tools within arts organisations.
The programme comprises a series of Learning Labs focusing on cultural, organisational, personal and global aspects of digital technology and a conference on the theme of Digital for the Arts Sector. Events will take place throughout the North West region.
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Support folly
Why Support folly?
folly's goal is to reach people with digital art, we're busy enlightening and delighting people, equipping them to live as active citizens in a newly digital world.
Our ethic is one of participation, inclusiveness, learning, production and celebration. We work with people of all ages and from all backgrounds.
Best of all, almost everything we do is FREE! And that's why we need your support.
Being free and fabulous takes money. Our funding by public bodies (local councils, Big Lottery and Arts Council England) does not make up all of our income. We have to find a large part of it ourselves in order to fulfil our mission.
Please browse the different ways you can support folly below.
Donate to folly today!
Whatever amount you give will make a difference by helping us continue to deliver first-rate workshops, exhibitions, film nights, software art, sound art, research into open-source technologies and to our yearly festival of digital culture.
You can now donate to folly using the secure Charity Choice website in co-operation with the Co-operative Bank.
You can also raise money for folly without it costing you a penny!
Everyclick is a great new search engine. It works just like other major search engines but it also generates cash for charity. It doesn’t cost you or us a penny, so it is a great way to help folly every day.
Join as a fundraiser for folly at Everyclick and raise money every time you search the internet!
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