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Hi. Welcome to the garden of Scrawly delights.

Yes, it’s the time of year when every gallery, artist group and chancer decides to have a street art xmas pop-up. Perhaps it’ll be amusingly titled with a festive pun? Only mens barbers it seems have a greater capacity for word play than the people that name Xmas pop-up galleries; If you detect a hint of world weariness in my tone that’s because it’s there. This coming from the man who named his one and only xmas pop-up experiment in 2009 ‘KIN. (At least it wasn’t a xmas themed pun).

Surely, anyone who makes a statement like the above can’t in his next breath announce a street art pop-up shop called “Christmas Spray” or something equally horrendous? And you’d be right! Nevertheless we will not be entirely inactive over the festive period, it’s just we’ve decided to cram everything in to one weekend and help out some compadres into the bargain.

Village Underground is the venue that hosted our hugely successful Elephant Technique show in 2006. Anyone who visits the Spitalfields / Hoxton area of London will be familiar with it’s tube carriage studios overlooking east London and it’s ever changing walls of street art. We are currently involved with their project to raise money to turn the exterior wall of VU that backs directly on to Commercial Rd into a permanent outdoor artspace by encasing the 4 main naturally framed recessed brick areas with toughened glass. This will enable a wider variety of art and art practices to be displayed than the current bare brick allows. A kickstarter campaign is underway to raise the necessary funds for this project and part of this will be a day of live painting and art sales at Village Underground on 4th December. Will Barras and Mr Jago will be keeping up the Scrawl end on the live painting front joining such luminaries as SheOne, Toasters and Insa to paint large scale murals that will be auctioned off in sections at the end of the day. Along with the live painting we will be joining the likes of Black Rat Press and Pure Evil for an art market where we will be selling all sorts of exclusive goodies from prints and drawings to canvasses by all the usual Scrawl artists you know and love. Please come down and support this event, over it’s few years of existence VU has become a vibrant and essential hub of the local arts scene and this project will enhance that and bring in more disciplines and media to enrich the area, giving a vital platform to practitioners across the spectrum.

So that’s Village Underground, 4th Dec.

To visit the Kickstarter campaign and pledge a donation in return for some pretty nifty gifts follow the link below.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1656940722/the-wall-londons-most-public-gallery

Sampled: Sample sale Bar Musichall, 134 Curtain Rd, London, EC2A 3AR

On 3rd and 4th December, starting at Midday each day we will also be at Sampled, joining brands such as Alife and Stussy for a one weekend only market where we will be selling all our usual prints and stuff we’ve made to the discerning high end street wear afficianados that will no doubt be laying waste to the clothes rails.

So, that’s two Scrawl Collective art and shopping experiences in one weekend on 3rd and 4th December and not a xmas pun in sight. As far as I’m concerned that’s progress!

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