Events
Subversive Artist Walk
Sunday 11 October
11am - 12.30pm; Price: free; Where: meet at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Gallery Reception; Booking: not required. For more information contact the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593649 or email
Enjoy a fascinating walk as part of the Subversive Spaces season, led by artists Townley and Bradby. Explore and subvert the spaces in and around the Sainsbury Centre and Norwich city centre, and find out more about surrealist ideas! Please wear outdoor clothing and sensible footwear.
Creative Studio: Surreal Ideas
Saturday 17 October
10.30am - 4.30pm; Where: Sainsbury Centre Education Studio; Price: £25, £17 concessions; includes materials; Booking: essential. Contact the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593199 or email
Creative Studio offers you the chance to learn and share skills, develop ideas and put them into ptracctice, and meet like-minded people.
Find out more about how surealist artists such as Salvador Dali and Max Ernst generated their ideas, and use these methods to develop your own artwork. You will have a chance to try a range of techniques, such as automatic drawing and writing, desgned to inspire creative ideas afrom the subconcsious mind.
Subversive Spaces Film Special: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Monday 26 October
Film starts at 8.30pm. Where: Cinema City, Norwich. Price: £7.50, £5 concessions. £5.50, £4 concessions for Cinema City members and Sainsbury Centre Friends. Booking: Cinema City 0871 704 2053, http://www.picturehouses.co.uk
Director: Luis Bunuel
Celebrated absurdist farce: six characters in search of a hot meal whose consumption is endlessly deferred while anarchy and violence break out all around. Dreams merge with dreams, dining rooms are transformed into stage sets and the French army breaks off from battlefield manoeuvres to help carve the joint, severely taxing the tact and breeding of Fernando Rey’s heroin-dealing diplomat and friends.
Introduced by Chris Rodden.
Programmed by Cinema City and the Sainsbury Centre.
Subversive Artist Walk: Unexpected City Centre
Saturday 7 November
11am – 12.30pm; Where: meet inside the Forum main entrance; Price: free; Booking: not required; Not suitable for children under 12 years; For more information contact the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593199 or email
Enjoy a fascinating walk as part of the Subversive Spaces season, led by artists Townley and Bradby. Explore and subvert the spaces in and around Norwich city centre, and find out more about surrealist ideas! Please wear outdoor clothing and sensible footwear.
Subversive Spaces Film Special - Eraserhead
Monday 9 November
Film starts at 8.30pm; Where: Cinema City, Norwich; Price: £7.50, £5 concessions; £5.50, £4 concessions Cinema City members and Sainsbury Centre Friends (show membership card at box office); Booking: Cinema City 0871 704 2053, http://www.picturehouses.co.uk
Director: David Lynch
David Lynch’s first feature and cult-favourite, an inimitable, brooding fantasy with bizarre, sometimes repulsive imagery telling a nightmarish story of a timid, alienated misfit anxiously flitting through an industrial city, the shrewish girlfriend he’s obliged to marry and their all-devouring, half-human offspring.
Introduced by Chris Rodden.
Programmed by Cinema City and the Sainsbury Centre.
Subversive Spaces Film Special - La Antena
Monday 23 November
Film starts at 8.30pm; Where: Cinema City, Norwich; Price: £7.50, £5 concessions ; £5.50, £4 concessions Cinema City members and Sainsbury Centre Friends. Booking: Cinema City 0871 704 2053, http://www.picturehouses.co.uk
Director: Esteban Sapir
A remarkable fantasy from Argentina, fashioned as a silent film (it’s set in a city whose inhabitants cannot speak) and full of handmade expressionist special effects and animated subtitles that give it the look of a black-and-white illustrated pop-up book. The story tells of a group of freethinking rebels who fight back against the evil Mr TV, who controls via his hypnotic television broadcasts. Lovers of Tim Burton, Guy Maddin, Terry Gilliam and cinema’s early experimenters such as Georges Méliès and Fritz Lang won’t want to miss this ingenious flight of fancy.
Introduced by Chris Rodden.
Programmed by Cinema City and the Sainsbury Centre.
Subversive Spaces Symposium
Friday 4 December
10.30am – 6pm; Where: meet at Gallery Reception; Price: free; Booking: essential. Contact the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593199 or email
This one-day symposium explores the themes in Subversive Spaces with talks and papers linking to work by artists in the exhibition. There will also be a chance to take part in discussions on surrealism and how it has influenced conceptual artists today.
Programmed and funded by the Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies.
Refreshments and exhibition entry not included.
Creativity and the Subconscious Mind
Wednesday 9 December
6.30pm – 8pm; Where: Education Studio; Price: £7, £4.50 concessions; Booking: essential. Contact the Sainsbury Centre on 01603 593199 or email
How far does creativity explore the subconscious? Two exemplary artist projects will be introduced at this participatory event, exploring the links between art and psychology.
Artistic partnership Hedsor will introduce their ground-breaking project, which explores extraordinary and unexpected connections between objects, while Krzysztof Fijalkowski, senior lecturer at Norwich University College of the Arts, and artist Kathleen Fox will talk about their forthcoming exhibition, Space and the Unconscious, planned for the Freud Museum, London, in 2010.
