Twelve of us went to see Sweeney Todd

Feedback from members of the LIFE group...

"I've never been out for years and years, so seeing Sweeney Todd was great, brilliant, it was really entertaining The way the story came together was good. It must be hard doing that night after night. The set was amazing. I have never been to Dundee Rep before, I’ve only ever been the Whitehall theatre. I’d go again. It was special because I have been at home for years and never going out.

It’s been a new start for me going out and that."

Michelle

"Overall I found Sweeny Todd to be a great play funny, exciting and keeping me on the edge of my seat listening to the lyrics of each story/song with great delight. I had a really enjoyable night it was really funny kept me really amused and wanting to try and catch each lyric so I could piece together the story which I already vaguely knew but I was really surprised at it normally I wouldn’t want to watch a “musical” but this was far better than any musical I had ever seen it was a great night out which I really enjoyed and would recommend to anyone if you haven’t seen it then I suggest that you go see it!!!"

David

Nine Critiques from Dundee 9.

.....IS IT ART?

"Sometimes when you go into galleries I think 'I don't get that', 'I don't get that' in fact I think, 'I don't get any of this'. This is because we have been brought up to think something else is art, so when you go out to see proper art in galleries you don't understand it. Art to us is 'arts and crafts' and Art Attack TV programe, making things out of pebbles and big photos, collages, or a painting or sculpture, but now we know that it doesn't need to be that at all. It could be anything, someone could go and paint a strip of your fence or throw paint on the fence and half on the ground it can still be art. It could have a meaning to somebody, you can look everywhere and art is there, it's just a different kind of art."

"I don't have to 'get it' for it to be art. Art is also about having your own opinion. Everybody doesn't have to have the same opinion as you. 95% of art might be crap, nonsense, you won't understand it, but 5% will be class, you will love it. It just depends, what speaks to me might do nothing for you, but that doesn't mean it's not valid. This applies to other things in life not just art, it opens your eyes about other cultures and languages. Just because I don't understand it it doesn't mean that it's not any good. " Billy

"My idea of what is art has definitely changed, to tell you the truth I just thought about stuff in gold frames, Michelangelo, Piccaso, Van Gogh etc. Now I see it can be put in totally different context like drawing over text in colouring books or urban interventions. It has just really helped me understand there are all different types of art and has made me look at it from a different perspective." Bruce

The most popular library in Scotland

I told you it was good here....

Designs for the box

Alistair's latest designs on paper for his Tagtool.

Portraits

Lewis the photographer came in and took our photos whilst we played around creating our portraits on the Tagtool.

Spacemakers week 2

Some images from this weeks Spacemakers a series of six Thursday evenings held at Hannah Maclure

Mystery photo

On the subject of what artists get up to in libraries Alex Stephenson created Mystery Photo a set of books that exist as twenty five copies in the permanent collections of libraries and archives.

The books feature ninety photographs of 'mysterious content', submitted by the general public to Nottinghamshire libraries in 2006. Alex sorted them into Dewey categories, aware that the subjective scrutiny of the Dewey Decimal system allowed for multiple readings of each image.

Alexander Stevenson