(As it happened) with pictures! Strong winds at high altitudes mean that we have had to cancel Sunday’s flight. We (Andover Space Programme) will still be LIVE on the a-Fest livestream, tomorrow at 11.20am Tune in here on Sunday 6th September to enjoy an interview with Andover Space Programme Flight Director Tom Mansfield. For now, […]
The countdown begins!
After almost a year of planning and dreaming, we’re all set to finally launch the Andover Space Programme’s spacecraft, Spayce McSpaceFace, this Sunday around 11.20am. I’ve spent this morning testing a new GPS system to go on board the ship, so that hopefully we’ll be able to find it when it falls back to Earth! […]
Andover Space Programme; the balloon game from Upstart Theatre
Join in with the fun, innocence and adventure of flight ‘One Red Balloon’ a game for Andover Space Programme by Tom Mansfield, Upstart Theatre When we were first planning the Andover Space Programme launch last year, it felt exciting. Launching a balloon full of people’s memories and hopes, and sending it to the edge of […]
CAS:AIR Space is partnering with Andover youth festival A-Fest to launch spacecraft
Andover Space Programme is an idea devised by Tom Mansfield for Chapel Arts Studios who offered him a 2019 Artist In Residence project ‘CAS:AIR There’s a Bigger Picture Out There’. CAS:AIR is an annually repeating programme focused on engaging local people in the arts. Mansfield worked with Andover Young Carers and the Picket Twenty Fillies […]
Mission successful
CAS:AIR There’s A Bigger Picture Out There led by Tom Mansfield of Upstart Theatre successfully recovered footage from cameras sent to the edge of space! Click image for more.
Yes, It’s F**king Political
by Amanda Bates (for CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for Dissent, August 2020) This is a song by the British rock band Skunk Ansansie. It was the first song on their debut album, released in 1996. As such, it was evidently intended as a statement: Yes it’s fucking politicalEverything’s politicalYes it’s fucking satiricalEverything’s satirical Do […]
Dissent Origins?
From Puritanism to Dissent 1660 – 1700 by Anne Hitchcock for CAS Research Group 2020; Drawing Languages for Dissent I have struggled with the term ‘dissent’. It has felt to me that it connotes so much more than just disagreement. In researching the word I found the following passage by John Spurr: What happened to English […]
CAS:AIR Themes of Life
Follow the journey so far! (click the image)
Dates announced for long-awaited Andover themed art exhibition
CAS Curator Susan Francis is pleased to invite you to enjoy the culmination of CAS:AIR Themes of Life from 27 September. A repeating, annual, community programme focused on involving Andover people in the arts, the CAS:AIR project this year saw Scottish artist John McDonald lead a group of local artists to explore the social history […]
Amanda Bates on different forms of carbon in art and science
CAS Research and Drawing Group 2020; Drawing languages for Dissent Session 5; reading Miriam Cahn I was thinking about Cahn’s softer lines and the indeterminate gender of some of her figures. I tried to draw a figure that was neither male nor female and I used (blue) soluble graphite* and splashed it with water and […]
