A event on Friday 26th May. The event starts at 17:00.
We've sold out! However you can join the waiting list by emailing: [email protected] and we'll be in touch if anyone cancels before the event.
Friday 26 May, 18:00 (doors open), 18:30 event begins - 20:15 close
Saturday 27 May, 12:00 (doors open), 12:30 lunch is served and discussions begin - 17:30 close
This ticket is for both days.
St Anne’s House, Brislington, BS4 4AB
Do you run workshops? Are you an avid workshop attendee? Ever wondered what makes this space productive or problematic? Now a staple of contemporary artistic practice, the workshop is used across cultural institutions as a key form of engagement. Why is it so popular, and is it really the best way to work through an idea, engage a group, or teach a particular skill?
Organised in collaboration with Bricks, this research event is a workshop on workshops, for people interested and invested in this form of gathering, learning and co-production. Our aim is to gather ideas, experiences, and questions through an introductory workshop and series of artist-led workshops with Harold Offeh, Rita Evans, Grace Gelder & Frances Bossom exploring movement, sound and archive. These are supported by group discussions and moments for individual reflection. Places for this event is pay-what-you-can, with refreshments and a light lunch on Saturday provided.
Friday night
Workshop Workshop: what do we want, what do we get?
18:30 – 20:15
Friday 26 May
Marianne Mulvey & Ben Cranfield
Workshops are everywhere: from corporate workplaces to university classrooms, community centres and cultural venues large and small, yet there is no cannon to draw on or depart from, unlike exhibition or theatre histories. Whether you’re a facilitator or attendee, we all want something from the workshop… but what do we get? In this first, introductory workshop, we consider these spaces of learning, co-production, organising and transformation from our own practices and desires. Participants gain an overview of the research project Working the Workshop, share experiences and formulate questions to take into their chosen artist-led workshop on Saturday.
Dr Marianne Mulvey is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, MA/MFA Curating at the University of the West of England with a special interest in performance, public programming and awkwardness.
Dr Ben Cranfield is Senior Tutor, MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art whose research considers the curatorial as a cultural phenomenon through which to rethink our relationship to the here and now.
Saturday day
12:30 – 17:30
Saturday 27 May
Special guests
Artist-led Workshops by special guests
You can choose one artist-led workshops to participate in:
- Grace Gelder & Frances Bossom, ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go Now’.
Reactivating documentation from Arnolfini’s educational archives, this workshop focuses on a series of photography workshops for women that took place in the 1990s.
Participants engage with this material in multisensory ways and have a chance to generate their own images, creating a new archive in response.
Grace Gelder is a photographer, arts educator and PhD candidate at Sheffield Hallam University whose work is inspired by human interactions, stories and performance and the space between photographer and photographed.
Frances Bossom is an artist, facilitator, educator, consultant and producer with extensive experience working on education programmes at Arnolfini, whose archive she is currently researching as a PhD Candidate at UWE.
- Harold Offeh, ‘Performing Memories and Histories’
Participants are invited to bring objects, images or sounds that reference a personal or wider cultural memory. We playfully explore these, and themes of memorialisation, remembrance and the politics of memory using gesture, movement, drawing and the voice.
Through conversation and exercises we explore embodying certain histories through performance, and participants may take away new approaches to historical materials, in particular performance as a research tool.
Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally.
- Rita Evans, ‘Porous Things’
This workshop introduces ways of using gesture, touch, and sound to interact with found objects brought in by the artist and participants. Beginning with guided listening activities, we experiment with the concept of 'wayfaring' to explore the space, ideas and feelings generated by our interactions with these objects, and then each other.
The workshop offers opportunities for personal and collaborative work and culminates in different scores created and responded to by the group.
Rita Evans is an artist based in London. In her work, space is a stage for which she develops objects made of ceramics, textiles, water, wood and metal that move at the intersection of sculpture, display and instrument.
A vegan meal will be provided on the Saturday at midday, and refreshments will be available throughout the event, with a pay bar on open on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon.
This event is free to attend (donations are appreciated), tickets are going quickly, so please book a ticket beforehand!
Hosted at:
St Anne’s House, St Anne’s Rd, Brislington, BS4 4AB
The venue has free parking, bike racks, and is accessible via Voi and public transport (36 bus)
The venue has accessible parking, toilets, and entrance.
Any questions about the event please contact: [email protected]
Any questions about the venue’s accessibility and if you have any requirements please contact: [email protected]
This event is in partnership with UWE Bristol and Bricks.
bricksbristol.org/2023/04/working-the-workshop
Entry requirements:
Friday 26 May, 18:00 (doors open), 18:30 event begins - 20:15 close
Saturday 27 May, 12:00 (doors open), 12:30 lunch is served and discussions begin - 17:30 close
This ticket is for both days.
St Anne’s House, Brislington, BS4 4AB
Do you run workshops? Are you an avid workshop attendee? Ever wondered what makes this space productive or problematic? Now a staple of contemporary artistic practice, the workshop is used across cultural institutions as a key form of engagement. Why is it so popular, and is it really the best way to work through an idea, engage a group, or teach a particular skill?
Organised in collaboration with Bricks, this research event is a workshop on workshops, for people interested and invested in this form of gathering, learning and co-production. Our aim is to gather ideas, experiences, and questions through an introductory workshop and series of artist-led workshops with Harold Offeh, Rita Evans, Grace Gelder & Frances Bossom exploring movement, sound and archive. These are supported by group discussions and moments for individual reflection. Places for this event is pay-what-you-can, with refreshments and a light lunch on Saturday provided.
Friday night
Workshop Workshop: what do we want, what do we get?
18:30 – 20:15
Friday 26 May
Marianne Mulvey & Ben Cranfield
Workshops are everywhere: from corporate workplaces to university classrooms, community centres and cultural venues large and small, yet there is no cannon to draw on or depart from, unlike exhibition or theatre histories. Whether you’re a facilitator or attendee, we all want something from the workshop… but what do we get? In this first, introductory workshop, we consider these spaces of learning, co-production, organising and transformation from our own practices and desires. Participants gain an overview of the research project Working the Workshop, share experiences and formulate questions to take into their chosen artist-led workshop on Saturday.
Dr Marianne Mulvey is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, MA/MFA Curating at the University of the West of England with a special interest in performance, public programming and awkwardness.
Dr Ben Cranfield is Senior Tutor, MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art whose research considers the curatorial as a cultural phenomenon through which to rethink our relationship to the here and now.
Saturday day
12:30 – 17:30
Saturday 27 May
Special guests
Artist-led Workshops by special guests
You can choose one artist-led workshops to participate in:
- Grace Gelder & Frances Bossom, ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go Now’.
Reactivating documentation from Arnolfini’s educational archives, this workshop focuses on a series of photography workshops for women that took place in the 1990s.
Participants engage with this material in multisensory ways and have a chance to generate their own images, creating a new archive in response.
Grace Gelder is a photographer, arts educator and PhD candidate at Sheffield Hallam University whose work is inspired by human interactions, stories and performance and the space between photographer and photographed.
Frances Bossom is an artist, facilitator, educator, consultant and producer with extensive experience working on education programmes at Arnolfini, whose archive she is currently researching as a PhD Candidate at UWE.
- Harold Offeh, ‘Performing Memories and Histories’
Participants are invited to bring objects, images or sounds that reference a personal or wider cultural memory. We playfully explore these, and themes of memorialisation, remembrance and the politics of memory using gesture, movement, drawing and the voice.
Through conversation and exercises we explore embodying certain histories through performance, and participants may take away new approaches to historical materials, in particular performance as a research tool.
Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally.
- Rita Evans, ‘Porous Things’
This workshop introduces ways of using gesture, touch, and sound to interact with found objects brought in by the artist and participants. Beginning with guided listening activities, we experiment with the concept of 'wayfaring' to explore the space, ideas and feelings generated by our interactions with these objects, and then each other.
The workshop offers opportunities for personal and collaborative work and culminates in different scores created and responded to by the group.
Rita Evans is an artist based in London. In her work, space is a stage for which she develops objects made of ceramics, textiles, water, wood and metal that move at the intersection of sculpture, display and instrument.
A vegan meal will be provided on the Saturday at midday, and refreshments will be available throughout the event, with a pay bar on open on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon.
This event is free to attend (donations are appreciated), tickets are going quickly, so please book a ticket beforehand!
Hosted at:
St Anne’s House, St Anne’s Rd, Brislington, BS4 4AB
The venue has free parking, bike racks, and is accessible via Voi and public transport (36 bus)
The venue has accessible parking, toilets, and entrance.
Any questions about the event please contact: [email protected]
Any questions about the venue’s accessibility and if you have any requirements please contact: [email protected]
This event is in partnership with UWE Bristol and Bricks.
bricksbristol.org/2023/04/working-the-workshop
Entry requirements:
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