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Autograph's Rights and Arts Engagement takes place quarterly. To book tickets for the 15 Feb 2020 event, click here
Autograph's Rights in Focus Network explores how social justice agendas can inform the challenges, practice and discourse of arts engagement.
We meet quarterly to discuss the structural powers shaping the context in which arts engagement work is taking place, and consider how approaches based on the legal, civic, and human rights of participants can inform more ethically aware forms of participatory projects - and help initiate systemic change.
Please join us for an afternoon of talks, discussion, practice sharing and networking. Our guest speaker will be Jon Sleigh.
This event is aimed at arts professionals, socially engaged artists, curators, arts commissioners, facilitators creating workshops in arts and community spaces, artist educators, and those working in community settings - regardless of what stage in your career or practice you are at. You'll be encouraged to share learning, skills and resources from you own practice. We welcome newcomers to the Network.
How can the rights of participants be central to the design and delivery of arts engagement?
Why do we work with those most marginalised, excluded or discriminated against?
What ethical dilemmas and power dynamics of arts engagement emerge in these relationships?
Can this work advocate for systemic change at personal, community, organisational and societal levels?
• Rights, social justice and activism in arts engagement
• Institutional and social power structures, which create conditions of privilege and marginalisation
• Coalitions and partnerships as a force for social change
• Community campaigns achieving a scale of change in their work
• The politics of representation and engagement
11:30 – 11:45 Welcome and introductions
11:45 – 13:05 Guest Speaker Jon Sleigh
13:05 – 13:50 Lunch (included in ticket price)
13:50 – 4pm Practice sharing by two network speakers: Jenny Dunn and Saif Osmani. Followed by a group discussion and feedback
4 – 4:30pm Feedback and sharing of references and resources
4:30 – 5pm Drinks and networking
Jon Sleigh is a freelance arts educator and learning curator working across the UK on a diverse portfolio of national galleries and projects.
He was formerly Learning Officer for the Arts Council Collection based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and has a passion for working with diverse communities.
Recent exhibition programming work includes 'Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity', 'Women, Power and Protest' and 'Too Cute! Sweet is about to get Sinister' by Rachel Maclean. @jon_sleigh
Jenny Dunn works collaboratively with communities to explore and experiment with alternative realities where more democratic, ecological and creative ways of working can be practiced. Her research and collaboration with people and place is multi-disciplinary, using drawings, spatial interventions, co-design and co-making to test the boundaries of urban political ecologies and the commons. She uses dialogue and storytelling within projects to draw out narratives of the past,as well as possible futures in a world of ecological collapse.
She graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2010 with a BA(hons) in Interior Architecture and worked for 8 years in design and architecture before completing an MA in Art and Social Practice in 2018. Jenny is currently teaching and working on the project Phygital at The University of Nicosia in Cyprus, developing makerspaces with local communities and open source principles.
Saif Osmani has been visiting fellow at Loughborough University in London where he is engaging on creative projects with the new and existing communities on the former Olympics site.
He is a visual artist and spatial designer and will speak about recent projects concerning community rights for land, the challenges faced by migrant communities in the arts and how his practice has developed to become socially engaged.
Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Our building Rivington Place is an accessible space with a step-free entrance at street level, and a lift to all floors. Unisex, accessible toilets are located on all floors.
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We are happy to help. If you would like to discuss your visit, or have any questions, please contact us at info@autograph-abp.co.uk or 020 7749 9200
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Tickets to this event can only be booked from: this webpage, on Eventbrite, via the Eventbrite ticketing plugin on Autograph's Facebook event, by phoning Autograph at 020 7729 9200, or by emailing info@autograph-abp.co.uk. Tickets obtained unofficially or resold on Facebook and other social media may not be genuine.
This network event is organised by Autograph and Will Essilfie.
Banner image: Canva(s) project, 2016 - 2017. Page images, from top left: 1) 2019 Rights in Focus Conference at Autograph, London. 2-3) 2018 Rights in Focus Conference at Autograph, London. Photographs by Jalaikon. 4) Jon Sleigh 5) Saif Osmani 6) Rivington Place, home of Autograph. Photograph by Zoë Maxwell.
Autograph is a place to see things differently. Since 1988, we have championed photography that explores issues of race, identity, representation, human rights and social justice, sharing how photographs reflect lived experiences and shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
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