Saturday 6th August, 5.45-7.45pm
ON DIALOGUE
From conflict resolution, neighbourhood renewal, to brainstorming business; blue-chips, cheap-as-chips up-starts, NGO’s and curious conversationalists are hoping to improve communication - by chatting up Dialogue.
Mountains of Business and Self-Help manuals have been shifted on thinking together and talking it through. But we’ll return to the thoughts of an originator and innovator.
In this closed, introductory session we’ll convene with artist and experienced Bohmian Dialogian Hester Reeve to experience the late, radical physicist David Bohm’s premise of Dialogue. Attempt to suspend your beliefs and judgments to find a way to speak together and strive to process group thought.
This session is limited to the power of 40 people. First-come-first-serviced is the rule. Doors open at 12 on Saturday 6 August. Go straight to the Info Desk to reserve your place.
Sunday 7th August, 4–6pm
A PANEL DISCUSSION on CAN-DO: from DIY to SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Join our panel of creative thinkers, social innovators, future-shapers, dilettantes and their admirers to tattle-tale on how resistance and entrepreneurship might be getting it together.
Kate Bull is a co-founder of The Peoples Supermarket in Holborn, London. A community supermarket that highlights the possibilities of consumer power and challenges the status quo. This successful social enterprise is only 1 year old, but has gained recognition, locally and internationally. The subject of a Channel 4 series TPS has won prestigious retailing awards including; the Observer Ethical Award, The Cooperative Innovative Ethical award and the Smart Future Minds award. A retail expert, Kate is a Director of consultancy firm CTWB Ltd, working with established brands, new businesses and the Third sector.
David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across varied media. His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit.
Over the last ten years, his work has been extensively commissioned and exhibited in North America, Europe and the Far East, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm.
David is Professor of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and has been a consultant to strategic masterplans, cultural and public art policy for urban regeneration, healthcare and growth areas. He is currently developing new work for solo exhibitions at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art and John Hansard Gallery (2012), with the support of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for research.
He is a council member of AIR, an artists’ representative body with over 15,000 members.
Dr Lida Hujić is a strategist advising market leader brands. At the same time, she’s been at the epicentre of impactful DIY grassroots movements. Described by the Guardian as “really hip”, she was featured as a “trend-setter” in a number of publications and TV shows, including the prestigious style guide La Mode La Mode La Mode on Paris Première. Lida has a PhD in media and communications from Goldsmiths College for which she was awarded an MTV Music Video Award (1999) in ”Best Academic Achievement”, a specially created category. She is the author of The First to Know: How Hipsters and Mavericks Shape the Zeitgeist.
Lois Keidan is the co founder and Director of the Live Art Development Agency London. She is concerned with supporting the development of the conditions and contexts within which art, artists, audiences, writers, students and scholars can flourish. From 1992-1997 she was Director of Live Arts at the ICA, presenting a programme dedicated to supporting and representing new artists, ideas and practices from the UK and internationally. Previously she was responsible for national policy and provision for Performance Art and interdisciplinary practices at Arts Council of England. She contributes articles on Live Art to various magazines and publications. In 1999 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Dartington College of Arts and in 2009 a second by Queen Mary, University of London.
Amy Spencer is the author of DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture (2005, 2008) and The Crafter Culture Handbook (2007) and currently writing her first novel whilst completing her PhD at Goldmsmith’s Centre for Cultural Studies. Her research explores the nature of collaborative authorship in networked books. She also leads a literature development programme for art + power, an arts organisation that aims to promote social inclusion through participation in the arts.
Dan Thompson is an artist, photographer and writer and founder of The Empty Shops Network. It was founded to record projects in empty shops, to lobby for recognition for the sector, and encourage more work in empty shops. It’s done all of that, and Dan’s previously spoken about it at events organised by Central St Martins, AIR, Space Makers, The Young Foundation, E17 Art Trail and many other places and written about it for a-n Magazine, arts bulletin Mailout and regeneration journal New Start. He’s also written a workbook for the Development Trusts Association and a Toolkit
John Powles is no longer able to attend and sends his deep apologies.
This panel discussion will be seated and tabled by social enterprise and up-cyclers Out of the Dark
