We are seeking a voluntary online content manager with experience of designing and maintaining websites. The ideal volunteer must have a passion for visual art, self-publishing and zines, as well as the technical knowledge required to develop our website in accordance with the growth of Yuck ‘n Yum.
He/she will be responsible for compiling each new issue of the zine online, as well as cultivating our online back catalogue/archive. He/she will also develop YNY’s presence and visibility on social media platforms; update the website with regular news; and work in partnership with the rest of YNY to design and update the website alongside developing micro sites on a project-to-project basis.
We envisage that this commitment will be no more than a few hours per week and are ideally looking for someone who will commit to a year within the role, with option to extend.
To apply please send letter of interest and CV to info@yucknyum.com headed Online Content Manager Application no later than 5pm Friday 25th February.
Ho, ho, ho! Gather round all you boys and girls, because this Christmas
Yuck ‘n Yum will be hosting our very own SANTA’S GROTTO. Santa’s sack will
be full of art made by YOU, whether it’s a sketch, a DVD, a teddy bear or a
multiple… just hand it to us by December the 8th and it’ll be given out at
our festive winter launch! Merry Christmas!
Send packages to 25 Ancrum Road Dundee, or alternatively get in touch with YNY to arrange pick up.
The latest issue of Yuck ‘n Yum will launch on Friday October 15th at
Dundee’s Hannah Maclure Centre way up on the top floor of Abertay
University. Come along and not only do you get FREE instant access to cultural capital. You can also pick up a copy of the zine and maybe get some badges too. There’ll be an exclusive live performance from Scotland’s most garlanded band of geriatric allotment fanciers the Deliberate Crumbs, plus international superstar DJ Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson will be worrying everyone’s ears. Be there!
But fear not, Your life is not completely meaningless. You still have a chance of redeeming yourself as the deadline for the next issue is on the 1st of October.
Many thanks to all who attended Yuck ‘n Yum’s inaugural AGK. Special thanks go to all the video makers and performers, because without them there would be no karaoke. We’d just have an AG and that would be no good whatsoever. An ultra special gold-plated THANK YOU in big shiny capital letters to our sponsors: Central Station, Huntly Hairst, Hannah Maclure Centre, The Skinny, MAP magazine and Electric Circus.
For those losers who did not attend, now’s your chance to pretend you did by viewing the winning videos. A complete selection will follow in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
The videos were judged by representatives from Central Station Hannah Maclure and Yuck ‘n Yum.
The top prize for best video and the title of 2010 AGK champ went to Rachel Maclean. She won £300 and a mini residency at the Hannah Maclure Centre performance and cinema space for her supercool video I’m Your Biggest Fan (Paparazzi).
“I’m Your Biggest Fan sucks the viewer into a morphing toy town, a sexy sugary space which reinterprets ‘Lady Gaga’s’ hit ‘Paparazzi’. Alluding to the recent internet scandal questioning her gender.”
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Runner up prize for best video went to Andy Sim for his ‘Debaser’ which featured a unique take on the pixies classic with his band Fear Wasabi. He walked away with a 2 year subscription to MAP magazine.
“We’ve made you a movie and we want you to know, we’re sewing up eye balls, we’re seeing the words we’re (not the Pixies) fitting our dogs with lasers, don’t know about you but we are debasers.”
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The Yuck ‘n Yum team judged the best performance on the night to be The Deliberate Crumbs who enchanted the audience with their moving and heartfelt ode to the tribulations of allotment management for elderly characters. Sinead Bracken was runner up in the performance category she stole the hearts of the audience dressed as Milky the Milk Carton.
The AGK was describe variously as being “best night out by far in ages. made me glad to be in Dundee ”, “twas rad so it was” and also “strangely erotic”.
Featuring: Helen Flanagan, Darren Banks, Gucci be good, Steven Helm, Ellyce Moselle, Ben Robinson and Stephen Bloe, Ivan Grebershikov, Emma McIntyre, Alex Hetherington, Frank Marra, Catrin Jeans, Greer Pester, Gayle Meikle, Viktoria Begg, Morgan Cahn, and Kevin McPhee.
We are always looking for submissions for future issues of Yuck 'n Yum. We invite anyone to submit work for consideration to submissions@yucknyum.com
Yuck ‘n Yum is a not-for-profit group and the zine is free, so work is accepted on a voluntary (i.e. unpaid) basis. By sending us your work, you consent to our publication of it in print and online. Free paper editions are available at our launches, and are sent out to several galleries and distributors (see our list of distributors, below). PDF versions are always available online for you to print out yourself.
Yuck ‘n Yum is distributed as a physical on-paper zine, but is also made available in an online edition. You can submit a single piece that will be included in both editions, or you could take advantage of the internet medium to produce alternative work for online publication. Our print edition is entirely black and white, so you could, for example, provide an alternative colour version for the online edition. Alternatively, you could send us totally different media: an audio project, a short video or animation for example. It’s totally up to you.
Format guidelines: The printed image will be black and white, and quite high contrast - bear this in mind. Each page in the zine is A5. Images should be 300dpi resolution. We prefer to receive images as jpegs (if a photograph) or pngs (if a line drawing). If you send us something low-res and we want to include it, we will probably get in touch to ask you for a high-res version before the zine goes to print. Written articles should be saved in a format compatible with Microsoft Word. If you are interested in submitting a sound piece or video work for the online version we would prefer audio work in mp3 or ogg format, and video work as a Quicktime mp4/mov file or ogg.
The deadline for our Summer issue is the 24th of June 2012.
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”, “twas rad so it was” and also “strangely erotic”.