Out this afternoon on https://miaaw.net the ninth episode of ‘Ways of Listening’!

Socially engaged artist and PhD researcher Alex Parry explores workshop practices in depth. Alex’s bio describes her long-term interest in ‘how things form communities’. She has a history of working in public spaces, creating events and objects that encourage collective experiences.

In a conversation with Hannah Kemp-Welch Alex describes her overlapping interests in collective organising with artistic practices, and how this led to a formative project, intervening in the structure of the seminar to disrupt the usual power dynamics. Alex questions - how do we respond to non-participation? Could there be richness in refusal?

Together with Hannah, Alex discusses the tensions between the requirement or desire to plan a workshop, and creating space to really listen and respond to the room.

This is the kind of listening that weekends are for…

#culturaldemocracy, #workshoppractice, #collectiveorganising, #powerdynamics, #refusal #miaaw

On https://miaaw.net today (and for the next week) sound artist and composer Simon James reflects on his recent project with young people in Whitehawk, initiated as part of the Class Divide campaign – fighting against the educational attainment gap in East Brighton.

Sounds recorded during workshops, both on the Whitehawk housing estate and on an adjacent archaeological site, formed part of the exhibition Neolithic Cannibals: Deep Listening to the Unheard. Neolithic Cannibals recreated the Neolithic Camp – a place of communion, celebration, and ritual – as a compassionate listening space inviting audiences to discover Whitehawk’s richness, joy, playfulness, and hope, empowering local voices through rarely explored sonic expressions.

Simon discusses the process of the project with Hannah Kemp-Welch, and describes how listening played a central part throughout it. That's because it forms part of the Ways of Listening series 

#CulturalDemocracy #soundart #classdivide #Brighton #miaaw

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Sylvan Baker has worked across applied theatre, socially engaged arts and education for the past 30 years, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
In this weekend’s episode of Ways Of Listening he examines listening within applied theatre practices.
Sylvan Baker talks with Hannah Kemp-Welch and describes a process of using ‘headphone verbatim’ to share testimonies with care-experienced young people, and shows how playback and performance change the resonance of the spoken word.
This could be your Sunday morning podcast listening experience!
#podcast #miaaw #theatre #HeadphoneVerbatim

Here comes the news about this week's episode of our continuing Miaaw podcast. (Miaaw, by the way, stands for Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse, just in case you had wondered...) The episode goes online at 12:12 UTC today.

In Episode 39 of the Culture of Possibility strand (which comes out on the third Friday of every month), Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about the difficult conditions community-based artists and groups must work under as austerity measures, encroaching authoritarianism, and challenging world problems increase.

They talk about artists’ strengths in building community for such times, and the importance of uncertainty in nurturing a culture of possibility. They encourage listeners to approach the future from the perspective of readiness: what will be needed to face challenges and opportunities, and how can you develop it?

This month we would love everyone listening to offer their own perspectives and ideas by writing a response to Arlene and François in the form of an email to an address found at the Miaaw website. Every response we receive will feature in a future discussion.

And of course, if we ever find ourselves running Marvel Comics in 1965, we will add that everyone who sends an email will receive a special Miaaw No-Prize!

You can find the Miaaw website at https://miaaw.net where you can also find an archive of all the podcasts since 2018, with each podcast featuring a variety of related links and notes not available elsewhere.

#podcast #miaaw #austerity #creativity #communityart

This Friday on https://miaaw.net in the 2nd #Miaaw@ICAF special Ed Carroll & Vita Gelūnienė discuss The Cabbage Field, a community opera from Shančiai in Kaunas in Lithuania.

#CulturalDemocracy #festival #opera #self-funded