Saturday 5th November, 10am – 5pm
Venue: Sheffield Institute of Arts, The Old Post Office Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, S1 2JH
£6/£3 (free for SHU students), Booking: https://www.artpossibilityaction.eventbrite.com
Part of the 2016 Festival of Debate http://www.festivalofdebate.com
Art Possibility Action is a one-day workshop bringing together artists, activists, campaigners, community organisers, students and academics to look at how art can help bring other worlds into being. It is aimed at those who want to change the world with their art, and those who want to find out how art can help them change the world. It features four speakers: the artist Nina Edge, a key figure in the campaign to save the Welsh Streets in Liverpool from demolition; Mel Evans, writer of Artwash and member of Liberate Tate; Kerry Morrison, environmental artist and founding director of Pendle-based arts organisation In-Situ; and James Marriott, founder of art/activism/research organisation Platform. The event will be facilitated by Rhiannon Westphal from training collective Seeds for Change and is being designed to maximise participation.
Participants will be able to learn how Nina Edge used art strategies and tools to help prevent the demolition of hundreds of homes in the Welsh Streets in Liverpool; how Platform highlighted the use of arts and culture to provide social capital for oil companies; how Liberate Tate shifted public opinion against BP’s sponsorship of the Tate; and how In-Situ breathed life into a derelict mill in Pendle.
Art Possibility Action aims to bring people together and help them find kindred spirits and potential collaborators; to suggest creative tools for community organisers and campaigners; to look at the differences between making political art and making art politically, and between being an art activist and an activist artist; to look at what artists and art strategies can offer to campaigns; to find out how we can work together to create beautiful inspiring visions of the future; to think about art in the service of life.
Art Possibility Action is part of Second Degree Potentias, which included the exhibition Start Where You Are at Bloc Projects in early September. The project is supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts.
More info: https://seconddegreepotentias.wordpress.com/art-possibility-action/
Facebook event: Art Possibility Action
Part of the 2016 Festival of Debate http://www.festivalofdebate.com/
Project website: https://seconddegreepotentias.wordpress.com/
For more information, please contact Jane Lawson at jane@janelawson.co.uk, 07969 174 557.
