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Cake fest in Hackney:

May Daunce Beltane, the return of the Sun

The Hackney MILE OF ART

Mile of Art Photoblog1 
 
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GrassyArtz in London Fields announcement

Passing Clouds party

Gabrielle Motola:  Exhibition of a community exhibiting itself.

July '06 GrassyArtz photoblog 1/
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Mile OF ART 2  1st October 2006. www.hibla.com/mile06
www.mileofart.com    

 

 

YouTube stopped supporting IE Explorer! I have just changed the code I use to embed movies in my site and I think its working again. I may not have changed all the code on every page!

I have made a newpage with all my YouTube movies so far, (some 41! I have been busy!) embedded. The movies seem to to play in Firefox, GoogleChrome, Safari,  and Internet Explorer. Have fun! 

The new movie page is: Hibla.com Joseph O'Kelly's movies on YouTube

Sorry for any difficulties you have been having. 

Much of my most recent content has been put on YouTube. I have been making short videos with the still images I take

at Halloween UNTAMED SPIRITS were at Passing Clouds www.passingclouds.org/

Many had journeyed from Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington some were still wearing their shrouds. On the way the spirits were herded by police on bicycles. Down the Roman Road they marched and then like a swarm  they descended on the Victorian cobbles of Glebe Road  some were only part vizible. 

"for the fourth year running, get ready to celebrate your creative dark side with the HALLOWEEN MARCH as we take over the streets of Dalston for one night. Passing Clouds calls upon all marching bands, flame throwers, luminescent phantoms, whirling dervishes and wailing banshees to burst forth and reclaim the streets of Hackney before rejoicing all night long to a wild vibes party at Passing Clouds. 

The parade congregates at 6.30 at the entrance to Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington. 
At 7pm the parade commences down the Kingsland Road led by KWAME OWUSU and his company of master drummers and acrobats to Debeauvoir Square  (somehow the march never went there) in Dalston where there will be hot broth courtesy of the Treehouse Cafe.

From 7.30: ALL NIGHT HALLOWEEN PARTY at Passing Clouds with wild gypsy magic from THE VAMP, spooky swing from seven-piece outfit THE SMOKEY TAPS led by EWAN BLEACH featuring LOUISA JONES. 5 before 10, 8 after. See images of previous years' marches below 

 

 

2008
hibla.com: March of the Dead '08 Samain Haloween Inner City blood-share, Strangeworks, Passing Clouds

2007
Hibla/ Halloween/Samhain/ March of the Dead - Kingslan d R

 

Dalston's 

I visited the TreeHouse Gallery in Regents Park last Sunday for the preview. It was a feast of performance and fun. there are activities there throughout the rest of July and August. It is well worth a visit.

www.youtube.com/hiblacom 

Hibla.com: The Julian Lage Group featuring Aristides Rivas on cello, Ben Roseth on sax, Tupac Mantilla on percussion, and Jorge Roeder on bass live at Charlie Wrights International, Hoxton, London. Serious Hibla.com: KURT ROSENWINKEL TRIO (U.S.) in London - T WO Music Presents at Road Trip and Charlie Wright's International Hibla.com: Ari Hoenig and Punk Bop (New York) Live at Road Trip London Hibla.com: JANEK GWIZDALA PROJECT featuring JOJO MAYER (drums) Oli Rockberger (keys, vocals) Audun Waage (trumpet) Janek Gwizdala (bass) Hibla.com: WILL VINSON / KURT ROSENWINKEL GROUP (New York) featuring Mike Janisch (bass) and Paul Wiltgen (drums)

 

I have just put the images of the last night of Uncle Sams Jazz Club in Dalston on YouTube as a movie. 

Uncle Sams Sunday Night Jazz night is back at the same pub now called the Haggerston. A movie of the return is in preparation.

Uncle Sams Last night: YouTube movie

I intend webbing some of the pictures  later. You can watch the movie with music courtesy of Brian Edwards Saxophone, who gave permission to use his "A House is Not a Home" which is sort of apt. 
If you were there and want to be added please let me know. J.
Uncle Sams Last Night. The Famous Hackney Jazz Venue

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Rootatroupe presents SUSPENDED UNDRESS.  Saturday 23rd Feb, Millennium Bridge, 1.30pm. 

An absurd social “happening” Suspended Undress is a temporal art event that challenges traditional notions of art and provides a playful environment to publicly demonstrate the empowering nature of collective play and physical exchange.
Girls should wear only Red garments and meet at the South side of Millennium Bridge (Tate Modern) while boys must be wearing all Green and meet on the North side (St Paul's) of the bridge. There will be a collective undress and exchange on the unifying symbolic structure of a bridge. If you are prudish make sure you wear your long johns, granny knickers or Michelin man inspired layers. there is more information at toomuchneverenough.
I will be there to take pictures and watch the fun!

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hibla: Theatre Design for Performance from Saint Martins

The less said about my performance the better!

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I have just launched a Youtube channel. I hope you enjoy this new way of looking at my images

Have a great and wondrous New Year.

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My pictures of Samhain Halloween march with ghosts vibrant from Hoxton to Kingsland are now on the web.
Congratulations and thanks to Strangeworks and Passing Clouds for organizing such a fantastic evening.

From his secret resting place beneath a basement in Curtin Road, near to where Shakespeare had his first theatre the King emerges to..

click to go to hibla.com and see the pictures of the march
www.hibla.com/news/071031-Haloween-march1.htm
 

click to go to hibla.com and see the pictures of the march
www.hibla.com/news/071031-Haloween-march2.htm
 

click here to watch the video  of the march watch the video 


Have fun
Joseph

 

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The preparations for the Samhain March of All Halos have begun. Ghosts partmaterialized  with living for the March on the old Roman Road to Lincoln now known as Kingsland Road. The masks  of old inspiration and direction are being made. Later the Flags and the Lanterns. Mr. Bock, He of egg-birth was beside himself directing:

Click for the pictures of the Lantern making workshop Enlarge Picture  Lantern making workshop 0n Sunday 21st October

 

Mr. Bock was beside himself Enlarge Picture Mask making workshop on 14th October

As the cock crowed the dead and the undead gathered in the Boy's Club to make masks for the March of the Dead '07
Some pictures of the Mask making are now webbed:
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In cobbled Vyner Street within sight of the gasworks  in the land of Hackney the EEL and Le Gun gathered
 to celebrate the now  annual Punk Olympics. This stranger than fiction event is now pilgrimed by the merry
 who love to fiddle and the  merry that love to dance.
 
I am going to enjoy hitting you with this  I am the champion.    See the pictures

or watch the movie

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Anna dances to Bhangra beat at Art Vynyl Gallery in Broadway Market 29th July 
The Art of Bhangra is part of From Soho Road to the Punjab a groundbreaking visual arts exhibition

Anna dances to Bhangra beat at Art Vynyl Gallery in Broadway Market 29th July.  (4 mb vidio file) Exhibition
Anna dances to Bhangra beat at Art Vinyl Exhibition in Broadway Market. Saturday 28th July.
Anna dances to Bhangra beat at Art Vinyl Exhibition in Broadway Market. Saturday 28th July (low resolution).

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Stop news: 18th July, 5pm Radio 4: A living donor is giving Andy Williamson  seen here one of his kidneys. 
 Read the blog  on Radio 4/PM  Wishing you both well.

hibla: Pleasance Theatre in Islington, London, a very ordinary group of people  presented themselves for a photo shoot. What they had in common was kidneys and kidney transplants! Some were waiting for a donor; some had given; and some had received.
hibla: Pleasance Theatre in Islington, London.
Pleasance Theatre in Islington, London, a very ordinary group of people  presented 
themselves for a photo shoot. What they had in common was kidneys and kidney 
transplants! Some were waiting for a donor; some had given; and some had received. ....

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Keziah Jones truly electrified Melange Social Club in Dalston on 7 7. 
I have just webbed some of the photos I took as a movie file. Have fun. It's about 6mb 
and may take a while to download.

Keziah Jones  performing at Melange Social  Club in Dalston  Click to watch movie file
www.hibla.com/news/keziah-jones-melange-070707.htm
 

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Sunday night, at Uncle Sams on the Kingsland Road, Dalston has long been part of the London jazz scene.
 It was there that I met Djanan Turan.
I have just webbed some of the photos I took as a movie file. Have fun.

Djanan Turan Singing at Uncle Sams in Dalston  Click to watch movie file
www.hibla.com/news/unclesams070624.htm

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These are a few of the pictures I took of Missy Macabre at the  regular 
Sunday Stranger Than Paradise gig at Favela Chic, 91-93 Great Eastern St.

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Recent News Files: open in new window  

To avoid the links just opening in this little frame press Ctrl at the same time as the link.

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All About The Arts- Launch party at Sketch Parlour Café London in Conduit Street (Mayfair) 21st May 2007

All About The Arts- Launch party at Sketch Parlour Café London in Conduit Street (Mayfair) 21st May 2007, Click on picture for more
http://www.hibla.com/All_About_The_Arts-launch-party

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Whitechapel Factory  19th May. Everyone was dressed in fantasy.
I have just webbed some of the images as a movie file. It's about 11mb and may take a while to download!

Whitechapel Factory  19th May, Click on the image for the movie.
hibla.com/news/WHITECHAPEL_FACTORY-2.htm
 

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Stranger than Paradise performance at Melange on 27th May wmv files.
hibla.com/news/melange-strangerthanparadise1.htm 

Stranger than Paradise performance at Melange on 27th Ma ,click on the image for movie

 

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They gathered in Queens Wood in Highgate erected the May Pole and celebrated Beltane in the rain. 

They gathered in Queens Wood in Highgate erected the May Pole and celebrated Beltane in the rain.
Maypole-Highgate 1
Maypole-Highgate 2 
May Daunce Beltane, the return of the Sun
Hibla Maypole-Highgate Movie

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Melange, Social Club,  A night of vibrant meeting and of cabaret; the revelers danced into the night.


Melange, Social Club,  
A night of vibrant meeting and of cabaret; the revelers danced into the night.
  
Or watch the movie

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 Planetman's The Sweet Sunday Jam Session which started at the Clouds has gone on tour!
My images are at http://www.hibla.com/news/sweetsundayjamsession.htm

There was magick in Charlie Wright's in Hoxton that night
Nice one! But nicer still it's to be on every Sunday for a while.

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I have just webbed some of the images of the Soothsayers I took at the Vortex gig on Friday 13.
They are at   http://www.hibla.com/news/soothsayers.htm   

 

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Happy New Year to all

I never like to wander too far from base on NYE,
and there are two exciting parties within a stroll.

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 Clouds:

  I have linked an earlier event the launch party. 
More recently there was UNDEAD SECRET-BANQUET
This event is described as "Planet and the cru will be playing at the spectacular PC private party with Latin vibes upstairs. " 

Melange, Social Club
, 281 Kingsland Road, E2 8AS a continuous party from  19:00(31/12/06) finish 21:00 (01//01/07). that will take stamina! I notice  friend, Baronessa among the  star appearances. Also Robert Owens, Frankie Valentine, Simbad & Freddie McQuinn, Gower Ramsey and Alex CoRR (soul Pervert) Rich NxT too.

Such temptations. How can I be two places at once. 
The clone is needed............ More to come

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The Yoni Group Launch party was truly fantastic.
The Irrepressibles unique sound filled the lofty brick space:

Irrepressibles. The movie file is about 5mb and may take a while to  download on a slow connection.

Hibla-Yoni Group- The Irrepressibles

Irrepressibles. The movie file is about 5mb and may take a while to download on a slow connection.

 

 

Marianne_Cheescake. The movie file is about 5mb and may take a while to download on a slow connection.
In another chamber Marianne_Cheesecake burlesques. 

                       
there is more to come...

The Yoni Launch Party: The Ghost of Shadwell Stair

 

A site specific work inspired by Wilfred Owen's poem. The Ghost of Shadwell Stair

Sunday 17th of December, 6.30 pm. 
Secret location - EC1 (Old Street Tube)

More details: The preparations began at a secret location in Shorditch: See the pictures. 

The Yoni Launch Party:  The Ghost of Shadwell Stair Enlarge Picture

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Strangeworks Collective, the strange-birth banquet  at Passing Clouds in Dalston

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Milli Moonstone saves the trees.

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Little Georgia is reborn at 87 Goldsmith Row E2 8QR, 12th February 2007

Little Georgia is reborn at 87 Goldsmith Row E2 8QR  Little Georgia is reborn at 87 Goldsmith Row E2 8QR, 12th February 2007

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Snow

snow falls on London Fields Jan 24 2007

There was more snow on 8th of February. More pictures soon.

Snow quietens and brings out rituals like photographers taking iconic images in snow! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strangeworks Collective, the strange-birth banquet  at Passing Clouds in Dalston

 

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Milli Moonstone saves the trees.

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Little Georgia is reborn at 87 Goldsmith Row E2 8QR, 12th February 2007

Little Georgia is reborn at 87 Goldsmith Row E2 8QR  Little Georgia is reborn at 87 Goldsmith Row E2 8QR, 12th February 2007

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Snow

snow falls on London Fields Jan 24 2007

There was more snow on 8th of February. More pictures soon.

Snow quietens and brings out rituals like photographers taking iconic images in snow! 

 

 

Baronessa Dominique accompanied by Mademoiselle Monika 
and Belle de Nuit's visuals...

Enlarge Picture Baronessa presents 'Un Moment au Carnaval', a journey to a lost and faraway carnival through Chanson Francaise, live accordion, charming puppets from the Marionnettears and beautiful art installations to ease you into a world of dream and fantasy.

there is more to come.

Wednesday 20 December, 8pm.

Melange Social Club, 281 Kingsland Road, E2 8AS

Enlarge Picture

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UNDEAD SECRET-BANQUET Strangeworks

Enlarge Picture
These are the ghosts of Who that I see before me?

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Photo report of the MARCH OF ALL HALLOWS From Hoxton to Dalston, A Strangework indeed.

Enlarge Picture

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STRANGEWORKS: THE CORPORATE UNDEAD VERSUS 
THE FERAL PAGAN SPIRITS MARCH OF ALL HALLOWS PREPARATIONS

Testing a cloak of invisibility. 

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Planetman & The Internationalz  at Passing Clouds

Enlarge Picture 

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Watch animation of Atsuchi Kitani footing it featly (1.6 Mb)  
Japanese design comes to Ada Street Gallery, London E8. 16 September - 24 September 2006

click thumb to watch movie, or Iconoclasm.jp for more information.

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The Hibla stone : Hibla is the largest cut architectural stone in the world. It is near Baalbek, Lebanon: one of the most ancient and cultured settlements in the world.

Is there anyone living in Baalbek who wants to update me?

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Mile OF ART 2 CANCELLED -- more soon

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Little Georgia  from Broadway Market  past,, with the incredible and 
most peculiar Strangeworks Collective will be at Passing Clouds Foundation on Friday 15th September. Photos to come soon.

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Mile OF ART 2 Will be on 1st October 2006. www.hibla.com/mile06 and  www.mileofart.com
Mile OF ART 2 CANCELLED

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July '06 GrassyArtz phtoblog 1/
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Gabrielle Motola, photographer Exhibition of a community exhibiting itself.  
The exhibition will run from the 28th July - 20th August, 2006. Visit  More information to be announced soon.
See also: http://www.gabriellemotola.com/
motola/news.php
and Seven Seven's homepage.

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Graffiti artists from Tokyo and London come indoors to paint the East wall of 
Passing Passing Clouds as the sun goes down

Announcement: Free Summer outdoor exhibition of the visual arts, 
GrassyArtz in London Fields  Sunday 16th July 2006
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Passing Clouds Foundation,  East London's new arts club opens in the heart of Dalston.

 Portaproject in Broadway market wified Photoblog April 24 -May 1 2006 
public performance.
 

Geoff Gunby: Exhibitition: When the levée broke thru    3 March - 9 March, 2006

Hibla images are available printed

 

 

  

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