CURRENT PROJECTS
New Projects 2010/2011
We are at an exciting stage of growth and development with an expanded core creative team. Encounters envisions a bold future: to be part of, and enable, a transition towards a more sustainable cultural story. Our focus for 2010/2011 is to deliver projects and interventions in local, national and international contexts that work with people to unearth their own imaginative and instinctive power to re-look at how they see the world and their place within it.
Our current projects and those in development focus on increasing our sense of interdependence and finding creative ways to explore and tell new stories for our time.
We are looking for partners, organisations and individuals to collaborate on developing, manifesting and hosting these new projects. So, if you’re interested please get in touch with the person named after the project description.
A Little Patch of Ground
Earthling
Combatants for Peace
The Encounters Lab
Look Again: Wandsworth Art Festival
Walking/Falling/Getting up again
A Little Patch of Ground
An Encounters participatory process and performance available to communities and venues around the UK
Following the success of this intergenerational performance and growing project we are looking to bring this process to other cities and are looking for city-wide arts or community organisations to host A Little Patch of Ground in summer 2010. Diverse residents would be drawn from across a city or area to take part in the project and after its opening in the city centre the performance would tour back to the neighbourhoods and parts of the city residents live. This event would also include a day of interactive workshops, interventions, films and conversations. The project supports people to discover new ways of seeing and being for themselves.
Devised by:
Ruth Ben-Tovim and environmental artist Anne-Marie Culhane
Contact:
Ruth Ben-Tovim: ruth@encounters-arts.org.uk or 07870 698333
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Earthling
A national project in development inviting funding, participants, collaborators and host venues around UK.
Co-created by:
Ruth Ben-Tovim, Anne-Marie Culhane, Lucy Neal & Ruth Nutter.
Presented by Encounters
Earthling is a creative project designed for people from all walks of life to express and listen to what it’s like to live now, at this time of ecological crisis. The idea is to create an artwork that offers a collective picture of how we feel about living now, how we see our roles and what keeps us going.
The starting point is to gather views, motivations and feelings from people who engage others, through their work or the way they live, with climate change. We are talking to artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, activists, politicians, ecologists and community members to unearth insights into some of the people who are inspiring and enabling others to live within the earth’s natural limits. These reflections will shape a multi-media artwork which audiences experience as a sensory journey through the landscape of a collective imagination.
Audiences are invited to witness and contribute to this evolving picture of being human now: a potent container of personal feelings and possibilities at a time of cultural transition. The artwork will be engaged through its diverse siting at conferences, art centres, high street disused shops and community centres.
Contact:
Ruth Nutter: ruthN@encounters-art.org.uk or 07951 578208
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Combatants for Peace
An international creative conflict resolution residency. Hosted by Encounters
Encounters are working with Combatants For Peace (Palestinian and Israeli ex-combatants working across the green line) to set up a programme of creative workshops, presentations and events in the UK in autumn 2010 focusing on non-violent means of conflict resolution. Palestinians, Israelis and a group of UK based residents from diverse backgrounds would take part in this process exploring new ways of seeing and new stories to live by in the most challenging of situations.
The aim in this context is to raise the awareness of the important work that CFP do in Israel and the occupied territories and to explore universal issues related to conflict resolution and in turn issues of basic human rights. www.combatantsforpeace.org
Led by Ben Yeger
Contact Ben Yeger: ben@encounters-arts.org.uk or 07977 449901
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The Encounters Lab
An ongoing lab to evolve and join up existing practice and establish new practice at the intersections of art, ecology, placemaking, sustainability innovation, environmental education, conflict resolution and experiential learning. A space for the creative and professional development of the Encounters team in collaboration with others.
If you use experiential approaches to exploring these themes it would be good to hear from you.
Contact:
Teo Greenstreet: teo@encounters-arts.org.uk or 07939 083954
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Look Again: Wandsworth Art Festival May 2010
A commission by Home Live Art delivered by the Encounters core team
We are excited to be working for the first time with
Home Live Art creating participatory interventions on Putney Wharf on the theme of ‘Look Again’ as part of the Wandsworth Art Festival one day Shimmy event in May.
Contact:
Ruth Ben-Tovim: ruth@encounters-arts.org.uk or 07870 698333
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Walking/Falling/Getting up again
A participatory process and professional/community performance available to communities and venues around the UK. Presented by Encounters
Walking/Falling/Getting up again is a new multi-media performance project that will explore how we raise our boys into men, how we are all impacted by this narrative, what happens if we continue to falter on this front and how this relates to the global crisis of disconnection we are all facing. It treads a delicate line through the contemporary male psyche in this searching examination of the impact of men and fatherhood on our communities and the planet at large.
The performance will combine compelling case studies and intellectual theory, with real-life accounts from men and their families. As well as working with 6 professional actors the process will incorporate an intensive community involvement process generating a wide variety of voices, images, narratives, questions and potential ways forward on this universal topic. The research and development for this project was funded by the Arts Council England, Yorkshire.
Led by Ben Yeger (Encounters).
Conceived and developed by Fatherspeak
Contact Ben Yeger: ben@encounters-arts.org.uk or 07977 449901
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