Jarvis named Cultural Ambassador for Eurostar

Jarvis Cocker is the inaugural cultural ambassador of Eurostar’s Culture Connect initiative. Beyond the generated hype, Culture Connect serves to promote the Eurostar service for cultural trips to the continent and Eurostar ticket holders get 2 for 1 entry in any of the museums participating in the scheme. You can find details of the scheme here and the participating museums and institutions. So if anyone out there, is getting sick of the London Art Scene, you can pop over to Brussels or Paris and check out what’s going on there.

A veteran of rail channel crossing, Jarvis regularly travels twice a week between Paris and London, and still moans about the price of the sandwiches. He’s passionate about destroying the elitist myths behind culture and art though, and is stressing the benefits of visiting museums, galleries and gigs in Brussels, Paris and London. There’s another important issue for Jarvis regarding train travel – the environment. He spoke of how everyone should be looking at reducing their carbon footprint and doesn’t consider himself as an artist above those concerns; a breath of fresh air when you consider self righteous eco-celebrities (and private jet junkies) like Sting.

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Tomorrow night is the opening of a exhibition of modern, urban art in Brighton at the Geisha Arts Centre.

Its promising to be a definitive exposition of the urban genre with artists of the calibre of Matt Small, Zac Walsh, Rob Sample and Goldie exhibiting. There’s a real energy about this exhibition, and its been eagerly anticipated by many in the know. The exhibition, in aid of the International Childcare Trust  is taking place as part of the Brighton fringe festival and there are events all weekend. On the 30th there’ll be live graffiti art, workshops and open forums for art discussion. There’ll also be a kids workshop, where children are encouraged to make their own drawings or paintings that will appear in an exhibition.

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