A workshop for anyone interested in facilitating safe spaces for open discussion.
MONDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
11.30am – 3pm
10.00 - 11.30am the museum is open to visit the exhibition
Lunch and crèche provided.
Booking essential
Please contact carrie.canham@ceredigion.gov.uk to reserve your place, inform us of any specific dietary requirements or book crèche places.
This is an opportunity for up to 30 people to engage in the themes that arise from the exhibition “For the Curious and Interested”; where objects from the British Museum were co-curated with a group of global majority creatives called Voices from the Edge.
CREATING SPACE
Together we will build a compassionate space for listening, inquiry, being creative, expressive and playful, with a mixture of small group work and whole group conversations.
INTENTION
Themes from this exhibition such as colonisation, imperialism, racism can close us down into a protective, defensive state or open us up into emotional overload – both reactions are uncomfortable. This will be an experiential day where we will be gently supported to explore your themes and see what conversations arise.
THE DAY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO:
- Experience and be part of creating a ‘culture of care’
- Learn about how to connect with ourselves and each other
- Find confidence in how to explore difficult territory together
These conversations and interactive activities will be facilitated with:
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Ayisha Lanerolle is a practical philosopher working within the arts. She set up The Conversation Agency to focus on creating conversations that build connections and community; the roots of her practice lie in extending hospitality and curiosity to ideas. Ayisha hosts conversations - in galleries, museums, around the dinner table, at events and anywhere that re-thinking, re-imagining and storytelling can take place. Ayisha combines her philosophical background with participatory, collaborative and democratic processes that welcome our differences. Ayisha has held residencies with Turner Contemporary Margate, Turner Prize 2019, and Mansions of the Future, Lincoln. During the pandemic Ayisha worked with cultural institutions to reflect on how their collections connect us to issues of decolonisation and social justice. This work has led Ayisha to seek ways of bringing the body back into the conversation including into conversation with the landscape. Currently Ayisha is working with Aberystwyth Arts Centre on their engagement strategy as part of the emerging plan for a National Contemporary Gallery of Wales and is exploring the relationship between storytelling and narrative on a year-long programme Building Our Narrative Power with Public Interest Research centre. Ayisha’s published work includes a multi-authored book chapter on collaboration and cocreation in galleries Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums (Villeneuve and Rowson Love 2017), and a piece on making conversation as a contributor to the Arts Admin blog, Make Space.
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Rose Thorn has worked in many roles as a community artist, project coordinator and performer within health, education and voluntary settings; she is passionate about the therapeutic uses of the arts with people who often feel disempowered. She is a Playback Theatre performer and trainer, which honours community stories by instantly ‘playing-back’ what the audience shares. She is interested in how racialised trauma effects the body, breath and mind. She teaches local yoga classes and facilitates well-being retreats. |
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Abid Hussein is an emerging artist, based in Wales. “I perceive my art practise as a living and breathing organism which is guiding me in return of nourishment and protection. It lingers ‘outside’ or ‘in-between’ the established boundaries of Sculpture, Performance, Installation and other disciplines.” |
