11^th September, 2pm at Hackney Marshes

COOLTAN ARTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH TWO2GO…

Join CoolTan Arts for an urban exploration walk of the area where the Olympics and Paralympics will take place in 2012; find out about the place, people and local community, and how the Olympics / Paralympics affect the everyday lives of Hackney community. It will be entertaining, with lots of quirky details and facts you never knew before!

Experience the clash between the former industrial area and the funky artistic area Hackney has become, and how it changed with the preparations and constructions for the Olympics.

At the entrance of Tate Modern on 19^th June 2010 at midnight, walkers-by were surprised by an unusual gathering of a good 60 people. People were meeting for CoolTan Arts Summer Solstice Midnight Largactyl Shuffle, a guided cultural walk from the powerhouse Tate Modern to the home of contemporary psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital.

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“2012 OLYMPICS IS COMING TO COOLTAN”

Arts2Go 24 July and Largactyl2Go 11 September….

COOLTAN ARTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH TWO2GO…

With the fever of the World Cup over, the countdown for London 2012 Olympic Games has started. On the Olympic Open Weekend from 23-25 July 2010 Londoners will be able to celebrate a two years countdown to the London 2012 Games.

CoolTan Arts is promptly gearing up towards the London 2012 Olympics and partnering with Two2Go. The partnership between the two organisations offers an exciting opportunity to promote physical and mental wellbeing, to endorse the aims of the Olympic and Paralympic legacy and increase sports participation and healthier lifestyles.

Are you interested in architecture and London’s hidden stories? Then this walk is for you! Join CoolTan Arts on 17 July for a leisurely and informative shuffle through South London. As we meander and stroll from the Maudsley Hospital to the Tate Modern, participants will learn about local history and familiar landmarks, look at buildings designed by world famous architects and explore the connections between physical and mental wellbeing.

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle is a guided cultural walk designed to encourage mental and physical well being, through art, exercise, humour and history, de-stigmatizing mental distress.

Relax and find a balance beetween mind and body. Join our tester classes on every tuesday from 2pm till 3pm, here at our office, Unit B 237, Walworth Rd, SE17 1RL.

As part of the class, we ask for a £1 donation, which would go straight to the charity.

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Click here to read the Original article (pg 4) on South London Press

If Philip K Dick, Isaac Asimov, or George Orwell saw the world now, a world born from the pages of their electric futures that they so vividly predicted, they might feel slightly nauseous. Great Briton has become an island of dystopian distrust and double edged support networks, one hand feeding whilst the other takes away. Science fiction doesn’t get much richer than this and our country has been crafted into the perfect backdrop for the oncoming enactment of Orwell’s 1984.

Are you interested in London’s hidden stories? Then CoolTan Arts’ unique guided walks are for you. A cultural arts walk through the Borough of Southwark, from Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill to Tate Modern, that uses art, humour, architecture and local history to promote physical and mental well being.

CoolTan Arts runs a walk every third Saturday of the month, each with a different topic.

Walkers meet at 12noon at the main entrance of Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AX.

Upcoming dates:

17 July 2010 – Architectural walk

21 August 2010 – Family Treasure Hunt/Quiz

18 september 2010 – Artist Austin  Spare – The 20th Century Blake

9th October 2010 - Sponsored walk at 11:30am

20 November 2010 – Made in the Mad House?

CoolTan Arts and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London (KCL) host a Film screening of ‘The Largactyl Shuffle’ (named after an anti psychotic drug that has extreme physical side effects), followed by a panel discussion with CoolTan participants and speakers from the IoP.

All welcome. You will be entertained, intrigued and enlightened.

Date and times: 24^th June 2010, 1pm start – 2pm

Venue: IoP, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF

RSVP essential – Please RSVP to info@cooltanarts.org.uk by Monday, 21^st June 2010.

As part of the Food for Mood project, there will be three great
workshops around the topic of food, using drama and storytelling
as well as ‘cross arts’ techniques. Come and make collages, explore memories, talk tastes.

Share your tips for where to shop and eat in the local neighbourhood; think about what your perfect meal would be – and who you’d share it with!  You can turn up to just one of the workshops, or all three.  There should be some actual food involved, as well as lots of chat and craftiness. The event will happen at our offices at Unit B, 237 Walworth Rd, London, SE17 1RL.

Join CoolTan Arts for a unique Summer Solstice Midnight walk, explore the urban psycho-geography of South London, and learn about local history and familiar landmarks in a light you have never seen them before.

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle is a guided cultural walk, designed to encourage mental and physical well-being, through art, exercise, humor and history, and de-stigmatizing mental health. Along the way walkers are given the sort of information you won’t find in guidebooks – site specific insights into, for instance, the time when Charlie Chaplin’s mum was sent to the asylum for being a single parent; or a fresh take on the development of the technology behind the ECG brain scan.

Join CoolTan Arts Mad Hatters Tea Party on 12 June 1pm-5pm.

Havea fun day out, meet like-minded people and make friends. Create your own bookmark, design a T-Shirt for the Midnight Walk, join taster workshops in Batik, podcasting, screen printing and Ikebana (the art of Japanese flower arranging, facilitated by Annie Lau).

Join us at CoolTan Arts’ centre for some chit-chat, tea, coffee and cakes.

An exhibition of the work of the people who teach CoolTan Arts’ workshops. The exhibition has been extended until 28^th June.

Venue: OH! Gallery in Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG.

Thanks to Suzie at Oxford House for organising the exhibition with CoolTan and Ben Sawyer and The Sun Inn for sponsoring the exhibition event.

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Have fun, meet new people, gain new skills!

CoolTan Arts will run free arts and multimedia workshops open to all Southwark residents over 19.

Places are allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Workshops start from March and run until July 2010, and Southwark residents can attend one course of 10 hours.

To make a booking, please return the enrolment form to CoolTan Arts, along with a deposit of £10 (unemployed) or £20 (employed). Cheques need to be made payable to CoolTan Arts and will be returned upon completion of the course. Tuition is free but materials re not included.

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle

Gay History Walk

Date: Saturday 20 February 2010

Start: 12noon, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill

Did you know that London’s first gay disco was in Camberwell? (The Father Red Cap)

Or that Brixton Gay squatters / Brixton Radical Faeries in the 1970s set up the UK’s first gay centre in Brixton and a series of nearby squatted houses?

Sashay around South London with CoolTan Arts’ Largactyl Shuffle and find out 101 little-known facts about London’s most under-cover borough.

It’s LGBT history month in February, which celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community, its diversity and that of the society as a whole.

By Liz Scott

The Largactyl Shuffle, one of London’s Top Ten Walks as voted by Timeout magazine, took to the streets of Southwark on Saturday 21^st November with an All Saint’s Day theme. Run by CoolTan Arts, the walk is as much of a journey into Southwark’s past as a celebration of mental well-being and how this can be promoted through art, exercise and history.

The walk takes its name from the side effects caused by an anti-psychotic drug used to treat mental illness. Southwark has a legacy of mental health and the starting point for the walk was Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, the first purpose-built psychiatric hospital for treatment and research.

CoolTan Arts is looking for volunteers to provide general IT support which is crucial for the smooth running of the office. Duties include: ensuring back up of computer systems and data, general maintenance relating to hardware and software, creating strategies and advising staff on efficient IT use, helping to obtain funding for IT resources, informing staff or volunteers of best practice IT, any ad hoc duties. If you are interested, please contact us at volunteers@cooltanarts.org.uk or 020 7701 2696.

Download a pdf copy of CoolTan’s monthly newsletter.

CoolTan Arts September 2010 E-Bulletin

In this podcast Kathrin Kirrmann gives details of the major events of 2009.

Cooltan Arts runs web design, web construction and web authoring workshops, and has created many live websites on the Internet. Below are a list of links to some of the websites that have been made.

Poetry, Art and Writing on the blog at:

• a funny farm

Women only digital arts technology workshop website

• women make digita lart

Sound and Poetry and Animation website

• poetry at your finger tips

Online animations and video clips website

• the arch developers