16th Leeds International Artists’ Book Fair

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at this year’s International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair on Friday 8th & Saturday 9th March in The Parkinson Court, Leeds University.

 For further information: www.leedsartbookfair.com

Surrealists & Cinema

A selection of elusive and rarely-seen short films presented with introductory talks by Leeds Surrealist Group.

featuring L’Invention du monde and other short films by Michel Zimbacca from the forthcoming English DVD release by Choses Vues

at the Star & Shadow Cinema in Newcastle Upon Tyne at 7:30pm on Thursday, 18th October 2012

Manchester Artists Book Fair 2012

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at this year’s Manchester Artists’ Book Fair on Friday 12th & Saturday 13th October in The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Cavendish Street, All Saints, Manchester. M15 6BR.

 For further information: www.hotbedpress.org

Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair 2012

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a stall at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday, 23rd June - with Surrealist Editions titles, plus Phosphor and Manticore available.

Further information on the bookfair can be found at Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair

Ante Bookfair 2012

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a stall at the Ante Bookfair on Saturday, 5th May - with Surrealist Editions titles, plus Phosphor, Prehensile Tail and Manticore available.

Further information on the book fair and other Ante events can be found here.

Other Air

2012 International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a Surrealist Editions table at this year’s International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair on Friday 9th & Saturday 10th March in The Parkinson Court, Leeds University.

 For further information: www.leedsartbookfair.com

Other Air

Several members of the Leeds Surrealist Group will be participating in the OTHER AIR exhibition organised by the Czech-Slovak Group of Surrealists, which opens on 9th February 2012.

From the OTHER AIR catalogue:

OTHER AIR

“Close your eyes and open the window.”

This retrospective exhibition, OTHER AIR (1990-2011), presented from the 10th February to the 4th April 2012 in The Old Town Hall in Prague, spontaneously observes a certain time pattern: since it was exactly twenty years ago that the exhibition THE THIRD ARK of the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovkia took place in Prague’s Mánes gallery which, at that time, mapped the whole previous twenty years of the group’s activities (1970-1991). The constituent turning point for collective presentation was represented by the exhibition, with international participation, SACRILEGE – THE MARVELOUS AGAINST THE SACRED, held at the Salm Palace in Prague in 1999. The present-day Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists now has a modified and enlarged make-up of individuals. Due to the circumstances after 1989, the group was able to emerge from underground publication and open up their activities to the public sphere. They now collaborate with individuals from France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Romania, Greece, USA and other countries, whose creative work, also presented in this exhibition, confirms the international dimension of surrealist activities. So much for the fragment of history. Let us say, here and now that this other air is a desirable element, or even an element indispensable to man. This exhibition attempts to map the aerial currents and open, perhaps more and more effectively, these living, breathing air holes – windows that are always, again and again, being closed in vain.

FRANTIŠEK DRYJE – BRUNO SOLARIK - MARTIN STEJSKAL - JAN ŠVANKMAJER

Further information on the exhibition can be found in English here and in Czech here.

PHOSPHOR – Launch Invitation

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will present the third issue of PHOSPHOR at The Space Project at 7.30pm on Wednesday, 7th December 2011 with discussions and a special screening of Jan Svankmajer’s Surviving Life.

Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 2011

LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP will have a stall at the Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday, 3rd December - with Surrealist Editions titles, plus Phosphor, Prehensile Tail and Manticore available.

Further information on the bookfair can be found at Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair.