We are organising our next co-mentoring session at Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire. We are going there to participate in Harvest Festival organised by Grizedale Arts and chat!
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Great project at Iniva – Social Archive One. Have a look at the selection of the video works. Films interviewing those who live and work in Shoreditch and capturing their impressions of economy in the area.
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The Small Change Forum: ingenious people make better places
One day conference hosted by Multistory and the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University
Friday 7 October 2011
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Creative cultural action, including participatory arts, as the catalyst for community development is the theme of this one day conference. To these ends it will explore how small, practical and mostly low budget creative interventions, if carefully targeted, can act as catalysts for big and long lasting change designed to improve people’s environments and opportunities. This simple but powerful ideal demands significant changes to the way we think, do and organise in order to sustain, which will be explored as both theory and practice at the conference.
The conference will be organised into keynote presentations, thematic presentations, afternoon break out discussion sessions, and final plenary discussions. Thematic presentations (case studies, papers and reflective pieces) will be organised into the followingSmall Change themes: doing, thinking and sustaining. These will be presented by practitioners from non governmental organisations (NGOs), creative arts and academic sectors.
Keynote presentations will be made by development practitioner, Nabeel Hamdi, and community arts consultant, François Matarasso. Thematic sessions will include presentations from Scott Burnham (independent consultant), Penny Evans (Knowle West Media Centre), Barbara Wood (Schumacher Foundation), Jamie Young (RSA), Julia Slay (New Economics Foundation), Mukul Dhawan (AzkoNobel: Let’s Colour Project), and Danielle Smith (NGO, Sandblast).
This event will launch The Small Change Forum, designed to promote small change learning and practice through its documentation and analysis of case files. Each event, as part of this initiative, will disseminate new ideas, tools, methods, practical wisdoms, principles in order to inform teaching and practice, and to create a policy environment conducive to change.
Registration and Costs
The conference fee is £30 / £20 concession. Registration forms are attached to this email. Alternatively please go to:
http://www.multistory.org.uk/projects/small-change/events/
For further information please contact Jeni Burnell, Forum Chair, at:[email protected]
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Anthony Schrag at Standpoint Futures Residency Programme!
Focusing on the physical sensations of the body rather than intellect / ideas, Anthony Schrag’s practice occupies an area of artistic practice that integrates performance, participatory events and socially engaged activity.
For his public presentation, Schrag presents the culmination of a project developed specifically for Standpoint and the surrounding area. The work explores the assumptions within social engagement agendas and public arts policy that advocate a utopian ideal where ‘everyone gets along’, and recognises the iimpossibility of this. Schrag proposes that we embrace conflicts and divisions as a natural and positive part of culture and offers instead the potential for a ‘good tension’ wherein alternative views and life experiences can thrive side by side.
Thursday 28 July 2011 12-8pm
Artist’s talk and drinks at 6.30pm
Friday 29 July 2011 12-6pm
More info: http://standpointfutures.tumblr.com/
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This fall, Creative Time will present Living as Form, an unprecedented, international exhibition exploring over twenty years of socially engaged cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. “Increasingly, we find socially engaged projects that exceed traditional categories of art by utilizing sociality, pedagogy, community outreach, architecture, publishing, and numerous other methodologies to engage the peculiar spectacle-driven thing we know as civic life. Living as Form is an attempt to take the temperature at this particular historic moment to encourage profound forms of social-based action that can alter the course of history,” states Nato Thompson who conceived of the exhibition with the advice and assistance of twenty-five curatorial advisors, including Caron Atlas, Negar Azimi, Ron Bechet, Claire Bishop, Brett Bloom, Rashida Bumbray, Carolina Caycedo, Ana Paula Cohen, Common Room, Teddy Cruz, Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, Hou Hanru, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Sina Najafi, Marion von Osten, Ted Purves, Raqs Media Collective, Gregory Sholette, Superflex, Christine Tohme, and Sue Bell Yank. Living as Form will document over 100 artists’ projects in a large-scale survey show at the historic Essex Street Market building, commission nine new projects, and provide an online database of nearly 400 projects addressing this complex field of cultural production. Living as Form will be open September 24-October 16, from 12-8 PM Thursday-Sunday.
For more info visit: http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/
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