On The Vine

20.01.12 More of our friends

Well our chums seem to be making a bit of a name for themselves recently. One of Lotte’s oldest friends George Mann is bringing his award-winning play to Cornwall. Quoted as being ‘Easily the best thing in Edinburgh this August’ Translunar Paradise sold out at the Barbican this week but you lucky people in Cornwall can see it at The Tolmen Centre in Constantine on Sat 28th Jan. Check out this review from The Stage .

18.01.12 Friends of The Vine

We are very pleased to announce that Telltales and its founder Clare Howdle have been popping up all over the place this week, from The Sunday Times to The Good Times newspaper, created to cheer up commuting Londoners on Blue Monday earlier this week. If you haven’t already got your hands on Issue II of The Parabola Project then you better hurry before they are all gone.

13.01.12 Mad Men Returns

There was a buzz around The Vine office earlier this week when we saw that Mad Man would be coming to our television sets in March. Let the count down begin!

06.01.12 Happy New Year

We want to wish you a very Happy New Year. We have been having a look back at 2011 and wanted to share this video with you from the first annual London Surf Film Festival, which took place in October. We think you’ll agree that our friends at Venn Creative did a beautiful job of branding of this rather brilliant festival.

15.12.11 Christmas Movie Gold

So I (Lotte) watched Home Alone recently which filled me full of Christmas joy and a desire to watch every John Hughes movie ever made (luckily I own most of them). I thought I’d share the Christmas joy by digging out a few snippets of festive filmic loveliness!

09.12.11 Christmas comes to The Vine

As you may of guessed from our photos on Facebook and Twitter (primarily of James Dean and the Christmas tree) Christmas hit The Vine HQ this week. With this year’s HO HO Soul playlist singing out and a mad 15 minutes filled with tinsel, baubles and cut-out snowmen the office was transformed into a festive wonderland.

Also this week a flurry of On The Vine in December newsletters appeared in inboxes across the land. If you missed it never fear, you can have a little peek just here.

24.11.11 The Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening

We are very pleased to inform you that after smashing its Wefund target The Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening has been sent to print and will officially launch on Tuesday (29th). If you like mince pies, winter Pimms and a good story we suggest you head down to The Rum Bar at 7:30pm to help celebrate the rather remarkable talent that The Parabola Project showcases. Oh and not forgetting that this will also be your first chance to get your hands on a copy. See you there.

11.11.11 The Ecstasy of Memory

If you’re in London around the end of the month we suggest you pop into the Vyner Street Gallery in East London to see a fascinating exhibition of work by visual artist, Lisa Snook. The Ecstasy of Memory exhibition will showcase Lisa’s latest work, which draws from a deep interest in Thanatology, the study of death. The exhibition will add a powerful voice to our cultural and social understanding of mortality and Lisa will be talking about her work at the gallery on the 2nd of December at 2pm. So if you’re in need of a healthy dose of culture head to East London between the 29th of November and the 4th of December. Oh and one more thing, it is absolutely free!

Opening times: 11am - 5pm daily (Thursday 1st December open until 9pm)

04.11.11 Here’s a date for your diary

This December there will be yet another opportunity to dust off your dancing shoes as The Frootful Art Ensemble go on a whistle stop tour, bringing their unique brand of 60s inspired soul jazz to London, Penryn, Bath and Liverpool. Expect sharp suits, a knockout vocalist, and a swinging soul / jazz / soul / R&B / Latin / ska set aimed squarely at the dance floor.

Nick Radford (AKA Frootful) is keen to fuse his two passions, illustration and music. And sorunning along side the fruity tour will be exhibition of his artwork and that of illustrators Bobby Telegramme and Millie Marotta in the howies store on Carnaby Street, London during November 2011 and will move to the Hand Bar in Falmouth, Cornwall for December. This collection includes limited edition screenprints of tour posters by each artist.

The Dates:
7th Dec LONDON - The Bowery
10th Dec PENRYN - Miss Peapod’s
14th Dec BATH - Chapel Arts Centre
15th Dec LIVERPOOL - Mello Mello
PLUS a secret gig to be announced on Twitter follow @frootful or #FrootfulOnTour.
Tickets are available online.

28.10.11 The Vinettes attend the CIPR PRide Awards

Last Friday we made our way up to Bristol for the CIPR PRide awards. As you may remember we were nominated in the category of Best Campaign Under £10,000 for our work on Open Studios Cornwall. Sadly we didn’t win but had a great night, with Chelsea Rose cocktails served in teacups and spending much of the night on the dance floor and in the pop up casino!