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• Book your Health and Detox Spa today!

  Interested in an early summer break in beautiful Austria? Then call and speak with renowned healthy living specialist, Hermie Kandler about the possibility of joining her and around 20 others to beautiful Salzburg and the Health and Detox Spa break of a lifetime. Places are limited, first in first reserve! See Hermie's article in Watford flea: http://watford.theflea.co.uk/magazine/213/welcome_to_hermieopathy. Local workshops also available.

  seasonal dates apply
  Filed under: Education, Food and Drink, Further Education, Health

  Location: Salzburg, Austria and Aldenham, Hertfordshire
  Name: Hermie Kandler
  Telephone: 01923 151000

• VALENTINES DAY and A Secret View

  Images of South America from Roger Plummeridge. A Secret View collected after the photographer set out on a voyage of discovery upon realising he had been suffering from Aspergers Syndrome all his life. Enlightening and inspirational are some of the comments. 7pm until 9pm.

  14th February Preview evening - booking essential.
  Filed under: Art

  Location: Radlett Centre, 1 Aldenham Road, Radlett, WD7 8HL
  Name: Roger Plummeridge
  Telephone: 07804 038570

• Zoe Leonard turns Camden Arts Centre into a camera obscura

  This spring, New York artist Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) will transform Gallery 3 at Camden Arts Centre into a ‘camera obscura’. Daylight will filter in through a lens projecting an image of the world outside onto the floor, walls and ceiling, creating a spatially immersive experience. Alongside this, Gallery 1 will be filled with a new series of photographs depicting the sun together with a sculptural installation of found images in Gallery 2. Across all the galleries this major exhibition engages three distinct forms of photography – experience, image, object – and in doing so pushes at the boundaries of photography as practice and medium. The experience of Leonard’s camera obscura is durational in a way that invites comparisons with film and video. As the ephemeral panorama unravels continually inside the space the viewer’s attention is drawn to the shifts in movement and light – some dramatic, others barely perceptible. The north-south axis of Gallery 3 will provide constant light throughout the day, giving rise to a continually shifting, cinematic event. Leonard is harnessing the phenomenon of the camera obscura to think about ways of looking, recording and experiencing time and space as well as broadening current conversations about what photography is or can be. Leonard’s new series of photographs of the sun defies one of the cardinal rules of traditional photography - not to shoot into the sun – and challenges the possibilities of photographic representation. Photography customarily depicts the colour, form and spatial extension that the light of the sun allows us to discern, rather than the sun as subject itself. These images combine subject and process, retaining the glare and flare on the lens, the grain of the film in the enlarged print and the evidence of the artist’s work in the darkroom. The third work, an installation of found postcards, continues Leonard’s practice of attending to the world around her as a source of material, reframing or representing already existing images so as to refresh our own act of looking. Tying all Leonard’s work together is her constant concern with perception and visual experience. Leonard explores photographic seeing, how we relate to the mediated image and how we perceive the world around us and that affects our emotional, political, or psychological experience.

  31st March 2012 - 24th June 2012
  Filed under: Art

  Location: Camden Arts Centre
  Name: Camden Arts Centre
  Telephone: 020 7472 5500

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