Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Ouseburn Open Studios 2011

Today's xsite is Anna...

This years Ouseburn Open Studios has come round once again, this year taking place on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of November, from 10am till 5pm each day. We will be opening our doors here at Foundry Lane Studios to let you see what everyone based in our building gets up to.

xsite are running tours of 'The Incidental Ouseburn', walking tours of the valley taking in art, architecture and the everyday in 'The Valley'... There will be a tour on both the Saturday and the Sunday leaving from Foundry Lane Studios at 12.30pm. If you work out how to use that new fandangled QR code stuff before coming along there will be additional elements of fun for you on the tour... Please email us to book a place at info@xsitearchitecture.co.uk

As well as touring and projecting our latest work around the building we will be cooking up another 'Pop-up Kitchen'. There will be cakes, biscuits and sweet treats for sale as well as Onion and Gruyere Tarts, tasty Leek Potato and Parsley Soup and Spanish Chorizo Stew to warm you up...

Amy Dover, xsite's latest Creative Resident, is transforming part of the building into a secret room, a hidden world of beast, birds and creatures, with lots of new works for sale. If you don't know her work have a look on her website, it is really beautiful...

Jill Tate, an architectural photographer, will be showing new work, with large and small scale prints and cards for sale. Alex Charrington will be showing new prints and studies from his studio space, as well as new web and graphics work from Morph Creative. Bubblegum Vegas will also be having a stall selling tattoo and 50s inspired jewellery and accessories... With lots going on all around our building and all the other venues around the Ouseburn it would be great to see you over the course of the weekend.

You can find out more about everything going on here on the Ouseburn Open Studios website.







Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Cakebook 2011

Today's xsite is Anna...

We were involved with the EAT! festival again this year, helping to plan out the map for Cakebook earlier in the year and actually baking our own cake entry last weekend. We were joint Cakebook winners last year, so had hoped to retain our crown, but to no avail! The Farne Islands won in the end, the same team that we shared our crown with last year...

We baked, toasted, melted and iced a model of the Toffee Factory, one of our current projects on site in the Lower Ouseburn. It joined a giant map of the North East and Yorkshire, at Gibside, covered in other landmarks that people had created from cake... Here are a few photos of the cake creation process from start to finish...






Saturday, 27 November 2010

Ouseburn Open Studios

Today's xsite is Anna...

Come and have sausage stew, butternut squash tagine, tomato soup and loads of cakes... And see some interesting work from everyone in the building! It's very snowy but we're all here...




Wednesday, 10 November 2010

We are 10!

Today's xsite is Anna ...


We celebrated our birthday in the appropriate fashion with tons of food, an amazing cake, two bands, a fiddle, two bars, a massive disco ball, a customised cocktail, a basement that looked like a really bad nightclub and a drawing office that looked like a banqueting hall...

It went on till the early hours...

and everyone had a very good time...


Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated with us...

Monday, 1 November 2010

10 today

Today's xsite is Anna...

xsite was born 10 years ago today. It was just Tim sat in his back bedroom at first, but a swift move to an office above the Tyneside Cinema a month later and everything began...