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IF YOU go bottomward to City Screen today (or any day over the abutting month, appear to that) you're abiding of a nice surprise.
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Fresco Chalkboard Messages wallpaper - 20% offer now available ... | chalkboard wallpaper ukThe accomplished of the cinema's aboriginal attic aisle has been angry into an art gallery, the bank covered with canvases, acrylics, photographs and afflicted watercolours.
That's not unusual. But this is a actual appropriate exhibition.
A huge acrylic by artisan Donna Collins anchors the show. It's a splurge of ablaze reds, yellows and greens, assuming sunflowers in a advanced acreage below an orange sky. Stretching forth the bank to either ancillary of it are abstruse pieces; layered acquainted assignment that has an about 3-D quality; assets and photographs.
Every distinct allotment is an aboriginal assignment of art. All accept been donated by able artists, accomplished amateurs, and bodies who accept been complex with brainy bloom casework in York so as to accession money for two bounded brainy bloom charities - York Mind and Amend Brainy illness, York. They're all based about about the abstraction of 'change' - the affair of this year's brainy bloom acquaintance week. And over the abutting month, they're all up for bargain in what organisers Lowra Kitchingman and Holly Bilton are calling a 'silent auction'.
Lowra Kitchingman at the Change art exhibition
The abstraction is that you go forth and accept a look. If a accurate assignment of art catches your eye, aloof booty a behest blooper (you'll acquisition them in a baby envelope afraid on the bank below an 'Art Auction: accepted aerial bids' chalkboard), and ample in your name, acquaintance details, the cardinal of the painting, and the bulk you'd like to offer. You again column your bid into a appropriate 'bid box' blind on the wall.
Every brace of days, either Holly or Lowra will appear in, attending through the bids, and book the accomplished bid for anniversary painting up on the chalkboard, so that those authoritative approaching bids apperceive how abundant they'll charge to pay. And back the exhibition ends on November 26, the being authoritative the accomplished bid for anniversary artwork will get to booty it home afterwards handing over the amount agreed.
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magnetic blackboard wallpaper by sisters guild ... | chalkboard wallpaper ukIt's a bit like behest for article on ebay, says Holly - except you accept to physically appear along, attending at the paintings, again column your bid in the bid box.
It's a abundant way to get a allotment of aerial affection aboriginal art to adhere in your home, says Holly, a association fundraiser for York Mind.
"And every bid is finer a donation to acknowledging bigger brainy bloom in York," adds Lowra, a advance with Amend Brainy Illness.
Holly and Lowra staged a agnate exhibition at City Screen in May aftermost year. That one aloft £2,000, which was aggregate appropriately amid the two charities.
This year's bargain runs for best - a abounding ages - so it could accession alike more.
Centrepiece: Heaven is a Abode on Earth by Donna Collins
It may not complete like a huge sum of money, says Holly: but it can accomplish a absolute aberration to baby bounded charities. And the exhibition is a abundant way of adopting the contour of the two charities too.
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Wallpaper Republic Chalkboard Beer Wall Mural, available at ... | chalkboard wallpaper ukThe artworks - all 51 of them - were afraid bygone morning by a accumulation of volunteers who came forth to the cinema specially.
They'll abide in abode until Sunday November 26, back the acceptable bids will be revealed.
So if you adulation art, and would like to admonition abutment two actual advantageous bounded charities, accomplish abiding you get forth to City Screen some time over the abutting ages to analysis the exhibition out...
The two charities which will account from the exhibition and art auction
York Mind
York Mind, formed in 2011 through the alliance of York & District Mind and Our Celebration, is an absolute bounded brainy bloom alms which aims to admonition bodies experiencing brainy ill bloom to activate the adventure to recovery.
The alms offers a ambit of casework for bounded people, including:
The alms additionally campaigns to accession acquaintance of brainy ill bloom and to action stigma.
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Rethink Brainy Affliction - York group
Rethink Brainy Affliction is a civic alms which helps millions of bodies afflicted by brainy affliction by ‘challenging attitudes and alteration lives’.
It offers advice, advocacy, carer support, association support, nursing and residential care, housing, brainy bloom training, and abundant more.
It additionally has a arrangement of added than 100 abutment groups beyond the country - including the York group.
The groups action a ambit of support, including
To acquisition out more, appointment www.rethink.org/
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