Green Man, Romany Dear, Paddy McGuiness, Hindle Wakes

Hwyl Festival Starts 2pm to midnight on Saturday 28th February 2015

Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London, NW1 7AY - nearest tube Camden Town.

Tickets £25, / 0844 888 9991 and available on the door

Dancing in a circle is a reminder that we are part of the whole

A schedule of performances and reading groups will accompany the exhibition.

Dancing in a circle is a reminder that we are part of the whole | Romany Dear











About CCA:



CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for creative activity. The building is steeped in history and the organisation has played a key role in the cultural life of the city for decades. CCA’s year-round programme includes cutting-edge exhibitions, film, music, literature, spoken word, festivals, Gaelic language events and much more. CCA also provides residencies for artists in the on-site Creative Lab space, as well as working internationally with residencies in Norway and Canada. CCA curates six major exhibitions a year, presenting national and international contemporary artists, and is home to Intermedia Gallery which showcases emerging artists. www.cca-glasgow.com



About Romany Dear:



Romany Dear graduated from Glasgow School of Art, from the Environmental Art department in 2011 and currently lives and work in Glasgow. Romany has recently performed at or exhibited in: Live work & video, The Northern Charter, Newcastle 2014, Continue without loosing consciousness, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 2014, The Glasgow Weekend, Berlin Art Week, Berlin 2013, Dance is a Language That We Speak, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow 2013, Studio 58: Women Artists Since World War 2, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow 2012 and They Had Four Years, Generator Gallery, Dundee 2012.



About Glasgow Open Dance School:



Glasgow Open Dance School is a not for profit organisation that programs and facilitates free dance and movement related workshops and events in and around Glasgow. G.O.D.S was set up in 2011 by Julia Scott, Ashanti Harris and Romany Dear to be an open group, intended for anybody with a desire to move, dance, learn and share. G.O.D.S strongly believes that everyone is a dancer! In 2014 G.O.D.S ran a six week project at Market Gallery comprising of a free bookable dance studio and audio visual and text based resource rooms along with a programme of regular and one off workshops. They also facilitated a four week programme of dance workshops and film screenings for Black History Month between CCA and Kinning Park Community Centre. To find out about all future events join the mailing list by sending an email togetthebodyofagod@gmail.com. www.glasgowopendanceschool.co.uk

TVV @ CCA OMG!

As Simon Reynolds spends most of Bring the Noise trying to explain, the best music is impure. Never mind the clinical precision of that X-Factor cover version: it's the grubbiness, the taints and hints that give a song its meaning. I didn't realise how good Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Power of Love was until someone ruined it by removing the awkwardness for an advert.

This is one reason why I am revisiting Tricky's Maxinquaye this festive season. There aren't that many albums that expose the workings of a sub-dom relationship before launching into what could be a black feminist anthem. And it's why I'll be down the front for Tut Vu Vu's Christmas show. 

Unless Raydale Dower, Matthew Black, Jamie Bolland and Iban Perez roll up on stage wearing santa hats, there is unlikely to be much crass Christmas commercialism at the CCA show. As one of the three bands to evolve from the aftermath of Uncle John and Whitelock, Tut Vu Vu are the most restless band in Scotland - if they changed their name to The Post-Modern Jazz Quartet, they could persuade Creative Scotland to fund them into eternity. When most outfits are struggling to master one genre, Tut Vu Vu have absorbed the spirit of free jazz - they don't just trade riffs, they trade instruments - and slipped in the dissonant edge of musique concrète, tying it together with the black steel of blues bass.

Even the added bonus of a set by The Gummy Stumps is sadly overcome by the promise of Romany Dear's march your legs up and down, this has the potential to become a very political exercise. Apart from being a winner of The Skinny and CCA Award for 2012, Dear is interested in the way that people respond to space, and she has recruited Ashanti Harris, Daniela Corda, Sinead Hargan and Zephyr Liddell to get their groove on. Dear is calling this a "choreographed group performance," which nicely sidesteps the whole dance/physical theatre conundrum. Whatever, it's another example of how Glasgow visual art is not playing lazy with categories.

Although a set by Tut Vu Vu is never predictable - they have enough of that improvisational skill to switch at will from sinister melody to overwhelming rock assaults - it's unlikely that this will be anything less than unforgettable. It might even wash the sound of cash-tills and suspect pop stars preaching goodwill to all men who can afford to shop in the town centre.

Tut Vu Vu @ The CCA, 20 December 2012