ITALIAN NIGHTS - FLUIDCITY

FLUID CITY

PHOTO COMPETITION

fluidcity@italiannights.org

Italian Nights is grateful to our creative photography consultant/artist Nigel Coke for his advice and assistance on the Fluid City project.

Topic: urban motion in the fluid city.

Meaning: The City and its perpetual motion - physical, human, social...

Jpg, bmap and tiff formats welcome, including snapshots taken on mobiles. You will have the right to submit up to 5 entries. Italian Nights requires only a donation of £5 regardless of the number of pictures submitted to fluidcity@italiannights.org .

Deadline to submit your pictures: 25th April. A panel led by professional photographer Nigel Coke will select your photos sent via Italian Nights’ email. The lucky shots will be put on display at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX, on May 12 in conjunction with an evening of jazz performed live by the Tommaso Starace Quartet, The final winner will be selected by the audience and will receive a prize.

Send your photos to fluidcity@italiannights.org attaching the receipt number you will be sent by Pay Pal on completion on the donation process.

Prize: a 1 to 1 session with Nigel Coke and books from the Italian Bookshop.

Nigel Coke: After leaving the Royal College of Art in 1976 Nigel Coke lived and worked in London, New York and Chicago as a freelance photographer. During the 80s and early 90s he was a partner in AdCo Associates concentrating on graphic design. In the mid nineties he became a freelance Art Director and worked in London and Asia. Since 2001 he has lived in London and now devotes himself exclusively to Photography. He has had one-man exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Paris and London. His work is held in several private collections, and is exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. read more

Fluid City artistic consultant

Rebecca Wallersteiner lives and works in Notting Hill. She has helped to organise international exhibitions of the artist Lucian Freud and owns a collection of works by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, who she knew well. Rebecca worked with Dr Thomas Stuttaford for The Times for ten years and now as a freelance journalist published by The Telegraph and Net Doctor.

Following a sold out performance at the Blue Note in Milano, Tommaso Starace brings up to London for the first time his Italian Quartet with whom he recently recorded the new debut album 'Tommaso Starace Quartet - Don't Forget'.

The recording 'Tommaso Starace Quartet - Don't Forget' is the result on a one year collaboration with the band. Performances took place in various jazz clubs and festivals in North Italy including Le Scimmie, La Schighera, il Nord Est, Jazz al Doria in Milano, Jazz alla Galleria Rudh in Rozzano, Art Blakey Jazz club in Busto Arsizio, Borgo Jazz club in Genova, Jazz al Laurin Hotel in Bolzano and more.

Across the months each band member wrote new material to include in the concerts and the CD; the end result is a recording that already has a distinctive sound emphasized by swing, groove, and lyrical tunes.
The band's repertoire stretches from rearranged and less known standards to original compositions in odd time signatures to arrangements of compositions by living composers and musicians such as Stevie Wonder and Ennio Morricone.

" As a composer I have always made a point of exploring and pushing the boundaries of my own writing, trying to create different moods within my pieces by combining traditional and more contemporary harmony and focusing on a strong use of melody and groove with the additional use of odd time signatures.

Composers and musicians from Maurice Ravel and Cannonball Adderley to Ennio Morricone, Joshua Redman and Stevie Wonder are a continuous inspiration for what I'm trying to achieve musically.

To me a composition is powerful and magic when it sets immediately a mood, takes the audience on a journey creating vivid images in their minds: that's when I personally get moved the most and the music stays with me for a long time and this is the goal I strive to achieve each time I start a project and complete a recording".

'Anyone who has experienced a glissando of language on the streets of Italy will understand the utter exuberance with which Italian-born Starace attacks and runs with the language of music'