Barbarians At The Gates Of Rome

dis/ordered

On the 23rd as well as 27th September 2017 every bit purpose of enquiry exit from Manchester School of Art, I gave a performative presentation of novel operate written for The Big Anxiety Festival at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. I called the operate dis/ordered as well as it was an hour-long exploration of experiences inwards my ain life seen against a backdrop of what I depict every bit the reductivism of all our mental deviation into bang-up pathological as well as market-based models. Because of the sensitive nature of or as well as hence of the cloth I shared, I asked that it wasn’t filmed or webcast, but rather endure seen every bit 2 distinct performances of a novel trunk of work. It happened live, and that was it.

Since the operate was shown, I’ve been asked if I’ll perform it inwards total again, as well as I estimate the response would endure - it depends on the context. What I take away maintain done however, is brand a 12 infinitesimal online taster of the work, which whilst alluding to or as well as hence of the to a greater extent than sensitive material, doesn’t become into whatever detail, but provides a flavor of the work. So whilst it may look to saltation from theme to theme, it’s precisely the skeleton without all the flesh, the blood as well as the passion. Please experience gratis to brand it deport upon with me close this work.

Parramatta Girls 

Up until the early on 1980s, ‘children at risk’ were held at Parramatta Girls Home inwards Sydney as well as subjected to unwarranted penalization as well as abuse, every bit has emerged inwards the electrical flow Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. You tin sack read close the extraordinary collaborative operate that utilised the world’s highest resolution 3D immersive surround as well as was key to The Big Anxiety Festival. Here is a brusk as well as powerful cinema of a onetime Parramatta Girl, Jenny McNally which tells us much close the ability of the arts as well as of telling storey to brand feel of as well as address, trauma. 

Harmonic Oscillator & Critical Care

For those of yous interested inwards coming along to the number at HOME on 23rd January, (described on terminal week's blog) where Vic McEwan as well as I volition percentage our operate on The Harmonic Oscillator as well as launch of the majority Critical Care, registration details are past times clicking on the ikon below.

...an exciting novel conference on arts, wellness as well as recovery!

Making, Materials as well as Recovery: Perspectives "from the inside"

Research close Art as well as Health straddles many fields as well as topics. However, related literature presents 2 issues: an over-attention to evaluation, which is argueably detrimental to artistic enquiry inwards arts as well as health; as well as a lack of first-hand experiential perspectives on sickness as well as recovery. 

The panel explores recovery every bit a procedure of (mutual) learning, where fine art making as well as recovery interpret into novel forms of do as well as knowledge. Having worked on wellbeing do as well as theory, nosotros at in i trial wishing to get together personal experiences of fine art as well as recovery to query the importance of an "insider's" perspective. 

We are interested in: the nature of the cognition as well as do generated past times an experience of sickness as well as recovery; the purpose making/art play inwards novel forms of cognition as well as practice. How such cognition changes the nature of academic knowledge? How it shifts our invention of knowing, teaching, as well as research? Can experiences of sickness, recovery as well as fine art endure considered enquiry methodologies inwards their ain right? Can such experiences endure incorporated into our do every bit academics? What value tin sack they take away maintain for our institutions?

We invite presentations including, but non limited to the following:

art as well as recovery every bit knowledge-generating processes 

uses of dissimilar fine art forms inwards recovery - what is the purpose of materials? 

usefulness of anthropological concepts inwards this field

new modes of analysing as well as communicating fine art as well as recovery from inside, including but non limited to writing

institutional responses to sickness

recovery as well as social jurist within the academy

asset-based approaches to sickness

To submit a newspaper click HERE.

New £4.5 1000000 funding programme to back upwards local social action 

A novel funding programme supporting communities to take away maintain activity on issues which affair locally has been launched past times the Big Lottery Fund as well as Department for Digital, Culture, Media as well as Sport (DCMS). The Placed Based Social Action programme volition back upwards established partnerships to set social activity at the ticker of plans to brand a positive deviation inwards their local area. The £4.5 1000000 of National Lottery as well as authorities funding aims to increase the capacity of communities, civil social club organisations, populace sector bodies as well as businesses to operate together to address priorities which affair to people locally.

Phase i of the programme is opened upwards to expressions of involvement until 28 Nov 2017. During the kickoff phase, successful partnerships volition take away maintain i twelvemonth to operate with a back upwards contractor to blueprint their local activity plan. In wintertime 2018, these partnerships volition endure eligible for a funding laurels of upwards to £240,000 to set these plans into action. Partnerships that desire to prepare as well as expand their project design for a farther 3 years volition endure eligible for a farther funding laurels of upwards to £255,000 inwards early on 2021. Read to a greater extent than HERE. 

European Youth Foundation: Grants for International Youth Activities 

European Youth Foundation (EYF) is offering grants of upwards to €50,000 to back upwards the operate of international non-governmental youth organisations (NGOs) based inwards the fifty signatory countries to the European Cultural Convention (47 fellow member states of Council of Europe summation Kazakhstan, Holy See as well as Belarus). Strategic priorities for the programme are decided biannually as well as for 2018 - 2019 these are:

  Access to rights

  Youth participation as well as youth work

  Inclusive as well as peaceful societies.

Grants tin sack comprehend an international one-off activity or an annual operate plan. Eligible organisations tin sack apply for a grant of €25,000 per twelvemonth for upwards to 2 years’ work. Where a grant is awarded for 2018, the same amount volition endure awarded inwards regulation for 2019, based on the validation past times the EYF of an interim study later i year. NGOs wishing to apply for a grant must kickoff endure registered online. The deadline is 1st Apr 2018. Read to a greater extent than HERE. 

Funding for projects that back upwards women & girls inwards disadvantaged areas 

Rosa, a charitable fund gear upwards to back upwards initiatives that produce goodness women as well as girls inwards the U.K. has awarded grants totalling £766,580 to 55 projects across the U.K. through the minute circular of the Woman to Woman fund. This fund, supported past times the so-called 'Tampon Tax', volition back upwards groups that operate with women as well as girls from disadvantaged communities or inwards disadvantaged areas. Grants include:

£6,000 to Dynamic Support Manchester for a serial of workshops to back upwards refugee as well as asylum-seeking mothers

£6,802 to back upwards the Dundee Women's Festival's 2018 event

£19,477 to BelEve U.K. to back upwards a programme of workshops as well as mentoring for teenage girls.

The side past times side circular of Woman to Woman funding volition opened upwards for applications inwards the New Year's Day as well as those interested should sign upwards for tidings at: www.rosauk.org. Read to a greater extent than HERE. 



Tech for Good Funding Programme 

Comic Relief has teamed upwards with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to deliver the 2018 Tech for Good funding programme. The programme recognises the importance of digital technology scientific discipline as well as its potential to address or as well as hence of our biggest social challenges as well as the 2018 funding programme volition aim to assistance 12 not-for-profit organisations to prepare their digital products or services. Successful organisations volition have funding of £15,000 - £47,000 for nine months with access to dedicated technical expertise as well as an intensive back upwards programme betwixt July 2018 as well as March 2019. This volition include a residential campsite at the start to connect the funded projects with leading tech for goodness experts, as well as ongoing mentoring as well as study dorsum days. H5N1 populace ‘wrap-up' number at the terminate of the funding volition allow the projects to present what they take away maintain created with the grant as well as support.

The application procedure volition opened upwards on the 13th Nov as well as the closing engagement for applications volition endure the 20th Dec 2018. Read to a greater extent than HERE.



Granada Foundation -
North West of England

Organisations (preferably with charitable status) based inwards the north-west of England are invited to approach the Granada Foundation with imaginative proposals for projects that volition encourage as well as promote the study, do as well as appreciation of scientific discipline as well as the arts. The Foundation aims to brand the part a richer as well as to a greater extent than attractive house inwards which to alive as well as work. Currently, applications from projects that volition engage as well as inspire people of all ages to take away maintain an involvement inwards scientific discipline are peculiarly welcome. Preference is given to novel projects; festivals as well as other annual events are supported but at that topographic point is no guarantee of twelvemonth on twelvemonth support. The Advisory Council of the Foundation meets to consider applications 3 times a twelvemonth with the side past times side coming together scheduled for Feb 2018. Read to a greater extent than HERE.  

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