ONLINE EVENT

RIGHTS AND ARTS ENGAGEMENT
DURING CORONAVIRUS

SAT 20 JUNE 2020 11:30AM- 4:30PM (BST)

£5 SUGGESTED DONATION

About the Event

Autograph's Rights in Focus Network explores how social justice agendas can inform the challenges, practice and discourse of arts engagement.

Join us for an afternoon of online talks, discussion, practice sharing and networking. We will be using a range of simple digital tools to enable participation and to create more dynamic ways of engaging digitally.

The event will provide an opportunity to connect and share with one another, to reflect on the idea of participation under lockdown, and consider the meaning and uses of artistic practices during a global pandemic. Our guest speaker will be Tim Corrigan, artist and Creative Director of Project Artworks.

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 encourage to share learning, skills and resources from your own practice. We welcome newcomers to the Network.

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About the Network

The Rights in Focus Network meets quarterly to discuss the structural powers shaping the context in which arts engagement work is taking place, and to 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.

The following questions are central to these conversations:

• 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? 

event programme

11:30 – 11:45 Welcome and introductions

11:45 – 13:00 Tim Corrigan (Artist and Creative Director, Project Artworks)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break and networking

14:00 – 14:40 
A group discussion around participation and artistic practices during Coronavirus

14:40 – 15:00 Break

15:00 – 16:00 Practice sharing by Network member Bella Okuya. Followed by group discussion and feedback

16:00 – 16:30 Feedback and sharing of references and resources

If you would be interested in presenting your work and speaking at a future Network event please contact Livvy Murdoch: livvy@autograph-abp.co.uk

GUEST SPEAKER Tim Corrigan

Tim Corrigan is an artist filmmaker and Creative Director at Project Art Works.

He has extensive experience of working with adults and children who have complex support needs through a wide range of creative projects.

He specialises in collaborating with individuals who present behaviour described as challenging and those at most risk of isolation and exclusion.

NETWORK SPEAKER BELLA Okuya

Bella Okuya is a social documentary photographer and participatory photography facilitator. Most of her practice explores the fluid meaning and experience of community within urban cultures, both as artist and as facilitator.

She is founder of documentary photography collective Red, Rolled and Seen, which runs community documentary projects with underrepresented community groups in the London Borough of Southwark.




WILL ESSILFIE

Will Essilfie is an educator, project manager and researcher with a focus on social justice education through the arts.

He has worked in various sectors including the arts, teacher training, and global social justice education.

How to join this event

This event will take place online only, and everyone is welcome.

Tickets are a suggested donation of £5, with a free option for those on a low income. We have a limited number of places for this event, so please book with a commitment to attending. Autograph is a registered charity, all donations support our arts and learning programmes.

Here's how to join us:

1) Book a ticket on this webpage, on Eventbrite, or the Facebook event.

2) Ahead of the event we'll send you an email confirmation with a link to a Zoom video meeting which you will be able to join from 11.15am (BST) on the day of the event.

For those who have not used Zoom before, we will be sending further information about the platform as part of a welcome email for the event.

If you have any questions, please get in touch. You can email Livvy Murdoch at livvy@autograph-abp.co.uk

acknowledgements

This network event is organised by Autograph and Will Essilfie.

EVENT SUPPORTED BY

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
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Banner image: Film still of Sharif Persaud and Tim Corrigan, courtesy Project Artworks. 1) Tim Corrigan. 2) Bella Okuya. 3) Will Essilfie.