Very sad news that our friend Emma Calder passed away.
AND LIFE WENT ON
Our first ticketed event with special guest Maryam Mohajer and featuring an anthology screening of work by London Animation Club stalwarts has been rescheduled for Monday 7th October at 8 pm at the Garden Cinema, 39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ.
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Due to a gas leak at the cinema on 16th September, the original day of the screening, our event got cancelled about 15 minutes before scheduled curtain time. However, the cinema staff were all really great throughout and filmmakers and guests adjourned to the Wetherspoons across the road.
Were you there? Our bemused audience sheltering at the fire point across the road from the Garden Cinema.
Welcome to London Animation Club
London Animation Club as visualised by Dennis Sisterson. Left to right: Francesca Pich, Catherina Rowland, Mal Hartley, Tom Lowe and Emma Calder.
Philosophy:
“I think it’s very essential that artists meet other artists… and we can have a good moan together.”
– Bob Godfrey, 2006
London Animation Club is a monthly event for animators and people interested in animation in the capital, created and curated by Martin Pickles. Club members and regular guests meet and present their work in informal surroundings conducive to talking and sharing ideas. Our guests range from well-known figures, such as Phil Davies, the producer of Peppa Pig, and Peter Firmin, the co-creator of Bagpuss, through to award-winning independent animators like Emma Calder, along with experimental filmmakers and academics, with much in between.
During Covid, the club moved to an online event, but this broadened its range and led to some exciting intercontinental link-ups. To keep the social side also going, we also introduced regular Zoom parties. In October 2021, we did our first face-to-face event since March 2020 and continued our live presence in 2022.
The live events generally take place at the Green Man, 36 Riding House Street, Fitzrovia.
Contact Martin at gmfilm @ hotmail . com
Some London Animation Club links:
Animators’ Zoom Party, 15th June 2020
Our last “live” event before Lockdown, at The Green Man W1, 2nd March 2020
Hearts Loop created for London Animation Club by Steven Woloshen (2016)
LACers Martin Pickles, Una Marzorati, Philip Green, Rosemary Norman, Stuart Pound, Steven Ball, Kate Jessop and Ben Fox at the Turbine Festival, Tate Modern, 25th July 2015. Photo by Esther Johnson.
