Street Summer streetart competition

I love Cheba, he's a great artist and a lovely bloke, so when I was sent this, of COURSE I am happy to send it out! Everything in italics is from the press release... If you don't like it, you don't have to enter, right?

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Street artists, writers and vandals join Channel 4’s Street Summer here! Enter your work to win!

Don’t Panic is running a design competition on the Don’t Panic site for all budding designers, graffiti and street artists to come up with a creative design. The winners of the competition will have their design used as an advertisement for Channel 4’s Street Summer schedule of programming, as well as having their design printed on postcards and the Don’t Panic Poster to be distributed around the UK.

The regional winner will have the opportunity to work with top Bristol graffiti artist Cheba, and the national winner will receive various prizes including their work printed onto 80,000 posters and distributed nationwide.

Working with Cheba would be a massive opportunity for any up and coming street artist, he founded the Weapon of Choice gallery and his shows always sellout. Some might say he’s the corner stone for the Bristol graffiti community, working tirelessly giving people opportunities working alongside more established artists, which he's done with weapon of choice for years. Bristol's graffiti uncle of the moment.

The focus of the competition is to find new talent to help promote Street Summer across the UK in the only way which makes sense; using the competition winners’ designs as massive outdoor advertisements.

The winning entries need to represent one of the five elements of street culture which the Street Summer season is featuring: street dance, urban sports, spoken word, hip hop and street art.

Entrants will represent their region and the winning piece for each region will appear in a major city from their part of the UK.

The 7 competition regions are:
London
South East
South West
Midlands and East
Wales
North
Scotland

Prizes include:

- Winning entrants will be paid £300 for the use of their artwork
- Winners will have their design displayed on a premium outdoor space for two weeks (04th August to 18th August)
- Winners will get the opportunity to work with an established street artist from their region of the UK
- Winners’ work will feature on the Don’t Panic Poster and on postcards which will be distributed across the UK in Don’t Panic Packs
- Winners will be featured in a short film about their work

The competition will run from 13th June to 17th July. Voting will run from 01st July to 17th July.

Watch Cheba's video

Cheba

Cheba, originally uploaded by knautia.

Weapon of Choice Gallery - next show opens 13th June

June 13th Group show, originally uploaded by cheba.

The next show at the Weapon of Choice Gallery opens on Saturday 13th June 5-10pm. Free entry
Exhibition runs until the 5th July 2009

14 St Michael’s Hill Bristol BS2 8DT
http://www.weaponofchoicegallery.co.uk

Featuring a lot of great talent - click on the flyer to go through to Cheba's flickr and see more details

Lokey, Nikill and some dubstep at Weapon of Choice!

woc-june-09-fly-no-bleed, originally uploaded by cheba.

Next WoC at Mr Wolf's 9th June, with added braking from Smurf! Click the flyer to get to the lovely Cheba's page and see more details

Weapon of choice gallery

Weapon of choice gallery opening, originally uploaded by cheba.

I've always had a massive soft spot for Cheba, and his Weapon of Choice nights at Mr Wolf's are things I always regret missing (Tuesdays = school nights!) so I'm really looking forward to him opening his gallery/shop/art space/empire.

1st show opens 8th May, and runs to 2nd June. Live painting on 8th, and check the wide range of fabulous the shop with do: Vintage & artist made clothing. Posterman pens. Fairtrade tea/coffee. Books

14 St Michael's Hill, Bristol, BS2 8DT
Tues/Wed/Fri/Sat 11-6, Thursdays 11-7, Sunday 12-4
opening 6-10pm

There'll be a proper website here, and you can sign up for the mailing list there too

Flyer pinched from Cheba's flickr

Weapon of Choice - Jody and Jef Row - 10th Feb, Mr Wolf's

woc-feb-09-fly, originally uploaded by cheba.

I have to admite, although I always want to, I've never been to a Weapon of Choice, seeing as it's on a schoolnight. But this one, this one's special. Jody is just incredible - really amazing graff from way back. I saw a whole load of photos of his stuff for Children of the Can - and his pages are some of the best in the book. And I always love Jef Row's stuff - it was his monkey stencil that made me really start looking at graffiti - it's because of him I started to love it, and take photos and get hugely obsessed... So it should be a good one, and I can't wait. Here's to workday hangovers!

Flyer stolen from Cheba, the man behind Weapon of Choice, and all-round superstar

Bristol Festival Graff Exhibition

Chu, originally uploaded by knautia.

Fantastic exhibition of graff from the Bristol Festival - it's so, so good. The space is amazing, the graff looks fabulous, and you can bid to buy all of the pieces, with profits going to Great Ormond Street Hospital. The exhibition is open 12 noon to 7pm every day until 2nd November. You really, really, really need to get down there!

Weapon Of Choice presents: The Bristol Festival Exhibition

Weapon Of Choice presents: The Bristol Festival Exhibition, originally uploaded by cheba.

Cheers Cheba!

The BRISTOL FESTIVAL
Exhibition

The largest collection of street art and graffiti from over 50 of Bristol’s most influential urban artists. Featuring:

INKIE
CHU
FLX
Kato
Cheo
SOKER
LOKEY
MR JAGO
TCF CREW
China mike
KTF crew
Nikill
Cheba
+ many MORE

A unique opportunity to purchase works created at the Bristol Festival & hugely successful Weapon Of Choice club night, through sealed bids. Profits going towards next year’s Bristol Festival Art Fund and Great Ormond St Children’s Charity.

With Bar, Live Painting, DJs, Projections
Canvases and YrWall Digital Graffiti Wall
Opening Night Fri 24th Oct 7pm
Sat 25th Oct - Sunday 2nd November Open everyday noon-7pm
or by appointment. further info: www.thebristolfestival.org/exhibition

Lynwood rd, Bedminster, BS3 3HH
Also showcasing artist studio space available after the exhibition. Contact Christopher Collins on: 0117 9736948

Bristol Festival 1

Bristol Festival 1, originally uploaded by knautia.

Mr Jago, Cheo, Kato, Soker, Feek & Ponk

Fabulous graff at the Bristol Festival, organised by the lovely cheba... more here on my flickr!

things to watch

you are being watched...., originally uploaded by knautia.

ok, so this isn't graff, but it's at the site for this huge, amazing, huge show that's taking place in Bridewell, the empty and abandoned police station, starting on Friday 7th December and lasting til 22nd December.

www.12daysofxmas.co.uk

Check it out

Other shows in the next fortnight:

30th December (eek! that's today!): kuildoosh/wet shame show

Now until 30th December: Guerrilla Gallery, 140-142 Gloucester Road
Lots of lovely things from inkie, ziml, cheba, ghostboy, dan, leon, flx, dicy, rowdy and many more

6th December: launch of the new book on Banksy in Bristol - 6- 8 at Arnolfini, 8-12 at the Apple, with live graffiti

7th December: Matt Sewell show at Workshop

so much to do!

cheba

cheba, originally uploaded by knautia.

chebas

chebas, originally uploaded by knautia.

cheba pasteup

cheba pasteUP, originally uploaded by knautia.

one of the things i love about pasteups is the fact they get into such weird palces. This directly above my head, standing on some manky concrete stairs by a carpark.

sums and cheba

sums and cheba, originally uploaded by knautia.

saw this for the first time on Saturday. It's huge,so colourful, the texture's all warped and rough, and it fits perfectly