The perfect chance for some last minute Christmas Shopping Joy and the BBB's final farewell for 2008!

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The December Bicycle Basket Bazaars will amuse and
delight you as we harness a tradition flavour of Yuletide. We end the year with good cheer as we bring to you A Muppet Christmas Dickens. Bless us one and all… and remember it is better to give than to receive…

Sugar Skull Cycles in association with Hoolala are proud to present the World’s First Bicycle Basket Bazaar. We have discovered dozens of exciting local designer-makers who create beautiful and cutting edge handmade goodies for your delight and delectation, mouth watering homemade and home grown provender and lots of vintage treasures you will not find on any High Street either here or abroad. We also have a brand new Pashley Sovereign bicycle to raffle off over the three Saturdays – tickets will be available to buy for just £1 each at For England and St George in the Fishmarket. So come and join us in our revelry of bicycles, frippery and all things handmade…

Goods allowed for sale
Handmade goods - Vintage and collectable (20 years or older) - Home grown fruit and vegetables - Homemade cakes and biscuits - Christmas Carols

Goods prohibited from sale
Live animals - Body parts - Humbugs - Cold Hearts - Cold Feet - Cold Turkey

WEEK TWO OF THE BBB CHRISTMAS COUTDOWN!

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The December Bicycle Basket Bazaars will amuse and
delight you as we harness a tradition flavour of Yuletide. We end the year with good cheer as we bring to you A Muppet Christmas Dickens. Bless us one and all… and remember it is better to give than to receive…

Sugar Skull Cycles in association with Hoolala are proud to present the World’s First Bicycle Basket Bazaar. We have discovered dozens of exciting local designer-makers who create beautiful and cutting edge handmade goodies for your delight and delectation, mouth watering homemade and home grown provender and lots of vintage treasures you will not find on any High Street either here or abroad. We also have a brand new Pashley Sovereign bicycle to raffle off over the three Saturdays – tickets will be available to buy for just £1 each at For England and St George in the Fishmarket. So come and join us in our revelry of bicycles, frippery and all things handmade…

Goods allowed for sale
Handmade goods - Vintage and collectable (20 years or older) - Home grown fruit and vegetables - Homemade cakes and biscuits - Christmas Carols

Goods prohibited from sale
Live animals - Body parts - Humbugs - Cold Hearts - Cold Feet - Cold Turkey

Because you have been such good boys and girls this year you shall be treated to not one but three BBB's this December. Lucky You!

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The December Bicycle Basket Bazaars will amuse and
delight you as we harness a tradition flavour of Yuletide. We end the year with good cheer as we bring to you A Muppet Christmas Dickens. Bless us one and all… and remember it is better to give than to receive…

Sugar Skull Cycles in association with Hoolala are proud to present the World’s First Bicycle Basket Bazaar. We have discovered dozens of exciting local designer-makers who create beautiful and cutting edge handmade goodies for your delight and delectation, mouth watering homemade and home grown provender and lots of vintage treasures you will not find on any High Street either here or abroad. We also have a brand new Pashley Sovereign bicycle to raffle off over the three Saturdays – tickets will be available to buy for just £1 each at For England and St George in the Fishmarket. So come and join us in our revelry of bicycles, frippery and all things handmade…

Goods allowed for sale
Handmade goods - Vintage and collectable (20 years or older) - Home grown fruit and vegetables - Homemade cakes and biscuits - Christmas Carols

Goods prohibited from sale
Live animals - Body parts - Humbugs - Cold Hearts - Cold Feet - Cold Turkey

Local youth charity LOWDOWN present a unique Christmas Gift Fair which kicks off four weeks of spectacular alternative Christmas shopping at The Fishmarket.

This free one off event will offer gifts of all types from the edible to the wearable with mince pies, mulled wine and christmas cheer. All this for a fantastic local charity.

"The Lowdown is a voluntary organisation providing a multi-disciplinary support service to young people aged 12 to 25 years. Our belief is that no young person should experience mental or physical ill health unsupported. We provide a safe, friendly, non judgemental, confidential place for young people, enabling them to make decisions and choices to fulfil their potential and make their lives happier, through various free support services. "

For more information about LOWDOWN and its work visit
www.thelowdown.info

Amelia Quiabao is a fashion designer in London designing for some of the major labels such as DKNY, Boatang and Ungaro.

Amelia Quiambao is a women’s wear fashion label that specializes in unique & one off dresses. ALQ ASSOCIATES is launching ‘Amelia Quiambao’ autumn/winter collection of dresses, in the Fishmarket on 8th November with two showings of the same show at 1pm and the other at 3pm.

There will be the opportunity to order dresses on the day
and each dress will have 2/3 different colors and fabrics you can order it in. The collection is called ‘ALL LACED UP ‘the collection will be incorporating Jersey, Knit wear and Lace. There will also be a selection of HOOLALA jewellery showcased alongside the collection, HOOLALA is available from For England and St George in the Fishmarket.

Printing on tshirts and cakes of all sizes, handmade cloth rag dolls and boys in disguises, old vintage bicycles with shiny bells that ring -these are a few of our favourite things.

This months spectacular spectacular celebrates Made In Northampton. We are rightly proud of Shoe Town and of you know where to look you can find some absolute diamonds. We are lucky enough to know at least fifty odd and they are all here with their bicycles stuffed to the top with handmade goodness, vintage treasures and home made provender.

We invite you to join us in our revelry of bicycles, frippery and all things handmade at this incredibly exciting celebration of out home town - Northampton.

Sugar Skull Cycles have joined forces with Hoolala to create the World’s First Bicycle Basket Bazaar. We have found some of the most exciting designer-makers who create beautiful and cutting edge handmade goodies for your delight and delectation. Delicious homemade and homegrown provender and lots of vintage treasures all of which you will not find on any High Street - either here or abroad."Each of our unique events is a cross between the most cutting edge craft fair and the best flea market you have ever been to, with a little bit of village fete thrown in for good measure.

We would like you to load up your bicycle basket with the finest produce, whimsical curiosities or handmade goods. Yout stock must be either: handmade, vintage or home grown by the seller. We will not accept any new goods. This is an unique opportunity to clear out your drawers or empty your pockets and sell your unwanted junk, beautiful handmade treasures or surplus home grown produce whilst remaning carbon neutral."

If you would like to take part in the next BBB then see Sam in For England & St George (shop by the café) or visit

www.bicyclebasketbazaar.com

Image courtesy of Bill Pollard

The Pendered Centre is a local in-patient mental health unit in Duston, for people who are experiencing acute mental illness or distress. As many as 1 in 4 of us experience mental health difficulties at some point in our lives, and the unit is part of a wide range of mental health services within the County, providing intensive treatment for individuals to allow them to return back to their day to day lives. An important part of treatment interventions provided by the occupational therapists and nurses within the unit focus around meaningful activity and occupation, based on the foundation that what you do affects how you feel and visa versa.

The unit uses the skills and experience of staff to facilitate activity based sessions, but is also involving local creative artists to bring their skills and talent into the hospital environment to provide a more interesting and enriching experience. As part of the national 'Big Draw' month Clive Francis, a cartoonist, will be providing 3 days of cartooning for a laugh sessions at the Pendered centre (14th, 24th and 29th October). His approach is that everyone can draw, and by the end of a session with Clive you will be able to create simple doodles and cartoons, and importantly have fun in the process.

For the afternoon of 24th October, the Fishmarket gallery will become the venue to continue Clives' sessions, as a means of bringing what we have achieved at the Pendered Centre back into the local community. Staff, service users and members of the public are invited to attend for informal cartooning and doodling fun from 1.30 - 4.30pm. Not only will this be a forum for encouraging more people to have a go at doodling and drawing, it will provide the opportunity to break down the stigma about who uses mental health services, and bring us all together through the humorous side of art.

1.30 - 2.30 Clive will host a step by step master class.

2.30 - 4.30 there will be the opportunity to doodle and cartoon whatever takes your fancy, with the expert guidance of Clive. Drawings and doodles will be displayed within the gallery space for the afternoon.

The Big Draw is a nationwide campaign that shows that drawing is the perfect medium for observation, self-expression and fun. Wide-ranging events and themes for all ages span art and science.

This event is open to everyone - for more information about The Big Draw visit www.campaignfordrawing.org

The Fishmarket is proud to welcome artists from Workplace Gallery in Gateshead for a special group show.

TANYA AXFORD Hula Hoops incessantly in a pitch-black room. Randomly exposed by oversensitive ‘slave’ camera flashes triggered by an intermittently firing strobe she circumnavigates performance, photography and sculpture.

Well known for his eclectic use of material ERIC BAINBRIDGE has spent his career reconsidering modernism. In Untitled 2008 Sausages and Melamine combine to revel in their own redundancy – visually heroic yet utterly futile.

Old TV sets play DARREN BANKS' re-cut videos from found movies in which Public Sculpture and Armageddon emerge as dominant themes for the present.

Christina Is Not Well after a heavy night out In Sunderland in SOPHIE LISA BERESFORD'S film, which inadvertently explores biography, social commentary and visceral sculptural presence to loud effect.

Human presence is the basis of CATHERINE BERTOLA'S archaeologies. In Flights of Fancy she re-inhabits found C19th glass photographs, posing as a middle class Lady in a Victorian interior.

CATH CAMPBELL presents the interior and exterior space of architecture as one through her intricate perspective drawings on paper that move from object to image to object again via her precise cutting away with a scalpel.

HUGO CANOILAS' arrangement of found and painted objects combines figuration, abstraction and political symbolism to resurrect the energy and ideology of the original avant-garde.

JOE CLARK'S film Gateshead Light Sequence features the humble street lamp shifting through degrees of luminescent intensity via an animated sequence of still photographs at night.

In 'Cadences' MARCUS COATES takes the last bars at the end of pastoral symphonies to construct a new audio landscape.

JO COUPE'S centrifugally cast bronze works fuse high precision jewellery techniques with botanical expertise to explore a complex relationship between beauty and decay.

JENNIFER DOUGLAS brings together carefully selected materials to create a discourse between the material world in which the work exists, and the imagined worlds that form the basis for her sculpture.

ASHLEY HIPKIN'S sculptures examine the memory and ethics of function and use through the combination of reconstructed objects from the past cut up, replicated, reformed and painted with the obsolete colours of yesterday.

Like a Polaroid fading into focus the identities of the subjects of LAURA LANCASTER'S paintings are never clear. This state of flux and fluidity allows the works to exist in a temporal, ambiguous space reaffirming the anonymity of the found photographs that she works from.

RACHEL LANCASTER takes photographs of seemingly insignificant passing shots from ‘cult’ films and television programmes. Her paintings from these photographs interrogate the seemingly unimportant moments of a greater narrative - a blurred portrayal of a corridor from Teenwolf or a car bonnet from The Sopranos. Divorced physically from the story her paintings maintain a mysterious connection with ‘the event’ and a cinematic monumentality.

ANT MACARI'S drawings function at once as a schematic, developmental process and constitute the resolution of ideas themselves. Through drawing and writing he communicates a tacit understanding of the culture that has made him.

PAUL MERRICK combines painting with sculpture, and the made with the ready-made. Investigating colour, shape and architectural arrangement whilst consistently referencing back to Painting as a subject and discipline in and of itself.

PAUL MOSS' work responds to the particularity of the urban environment by conflating hand-made processes with manufactured materials to form motifs that reference the information culture that we live in and also pure abstraction and modularity.

GINNY REED'S photographs are residues and remnants of performance events. Party Hard is incidental, monumental and autobiographical in the same moment, finding a new position between documentation and the authoritative image.

RICHARD RIGG'S work resonates within its own solipsistic self-referentiality. The work is its own context. Object, function and aesthetics combine to find a reductive equilibrium through which he re-examines the minimal strategy in art, moving its flawed logic towards an aesthetic endgame.

Using herself as a template for the individual and challenging the notion of self in today’s media-obsessed society through mediated mainstream reportage

CECILIA STENBOM presents the ideal of the perfect person as an unachievable but self consciously striven-for entity.

MILES THURLOW'S work is deliberately paradoxical - at once conceptually sophisticated and aesthetically bare. Referencing the demise of modernism and the rise of quick fix, cheap alternatives his work investigates the architecture of modern day living and our relationship with the products of consumer culture.

WOLFGANG WEILEDER'S long exposure photographs are of the sculptural rebuilding of specific houses and architecture. Constructed and deconstructed one façade at a time Weileder’s architectures are displaced and isolated through location, labour and time. These ephemeral, time based events become translucent images of urban regeneration portraying haunting civic visions of a possible future.

Image "It's Not The End Of The World", Darren Banks, 2007, Single Channel Video.

www.workplacegallery.co.uk

Following the success of intimate and unique performances by mavericks such as Tony Conrad and Calvin Johnson, The Fishmarket is proud to present a very special performance by Felix Lajko. One of only two UK dates on this tour, this promises to be an incredibly special event that will work in particular harmony with the unusual structure and acoustics of the Fishmarket’s spectacular main gallery.

Straight from the soul, raw and untamed fire music from the Balkans.
Félix Lajkó is a Hungarian-Yugoslavian virtuoso of the violin and zither who is renowned for his beautifully intense, soaring and wild live performances. He skips effortlessly between European folk traditions, conservatoire-trained classicism and feral string symphonies, intoxicating all kinds of audiences with his dazzling music and the force of his personality. Whether performing at world music events, rock shows or festivals, his performances in the UK are a very rare occurrence and are to be savoured.

He has performed all over the world and has collaborated with the Romanian violinist Alexander Balanescu, Boban Markovic's gypsy brass band, the Dresch Quartet and the Japanese bhuto dancer Min Tanaka. The renowned Hungarian film director Miklós Jancsó (whose other subjects include Fellini) was fascinated by his passion and integrity and made a film about him in 1999 called 'Play, Félix!'

Warren Ellis (Dirty Three/Nice Cave) can't stop waxing lyrical about his uplifting, free spirited music and invited him to play at Dirty Three's All Tomorrows Parties in 2007, where he stole the show. "He is a fiddle player from Hungary and is one of my all time favourite players. His first album, 'Lajko Felix Es Zenekara', was given to me years ago after a concert in Berlin and is long unavailable. I listened to it non-stop through the making of 'Ocean Songs' and it is one of those albums you just find yourself coming back to...He is a reminder that the fire is still there."

"I had heard that Lajkó is regarded with awe in the Balkans, but was still unprepared for the impact of hearing and seeing him at such close quarters.... he attacks his violin with such ferocity that broken threads cascade from his bow during each number. There is a tendency for Balkan musicians to fit into one of several generic categories gypsy, folk, Klezmer, etc but Lajko seems to have invented a style of his own, and any reference to existing genres would be misleading. Each of his instrumental songs had a clear structure, and yet each seemed open to the spirit of the moment."
Charlie Gillett, BBC LDN (on Lajko's 2003 Barbican performance

Following a day of music and performance in the Market Square, The Fishmarket is delighted to invite you to gather in the gallery for the start of the Diwali Parade which will travel around the town centre.