Friday, 28 February 2014

Location

When considering location it was hard to find a place to start! The world was our oyster and that was a daunting thought. As a group we decided we wanted to host outside the UK and take full advantage. We began to throw some ideas around for the typical places, Paris, New York, Milan etc but thought these were a bit overdone.

Luckily we had decided on an initial starting theme of culture and in a group talk the 'Capital of Culture' came into conversation. It was previously held in Liverpool in 2008 which is how a few of us were aware of it. We decided to investigate if and where it would be held in 2014.




After a quick search online we discovered Umea in Sweden was named along Riga in Latvia. We decided to go with Latvia and then began out search for a venue!

Our next step was to find a venue in Riga to hold the festival. This was proving difficult at first, and as a group we decided to move on and research this at home and bring all the ideas to the Facebook group. In the end we decided to go with a venue Rachel had found.Riga City Exhibition Hall "Riga Art Space" It had three great rooms we could make great use of and also where it was set, we could possibly have an outdoor exhibition.

Rental Information:
Riga Art Space also offers venues for various activities:


Riga Art Space also offers venues for various activities:
  • Concerts and performances
  • Seminars
  • Meetings
  • Exhibitions
  • Fashion Shows
  • Outside View

Riga Art Space is a multifunctional exhibition hall which is primarily aimed at popularising and supporting the contemporary visual arts at the local and the international level.


 

Riga Art Space is a multifunctional contemporary art space, which in its activity strives not only to the contemporary visual art representation but also to the production of world level art projects by taking relevant and professional organisational measures.

http://www.makslastelpa.lv/en/partners 

We decided we will hire out the main room to hold all 60 images.

Were also going to hire out one other room for the social side of the event and to hold all the small prints on sale. 


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