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SUMMARY:Future-Proofing Creative Skills for Responsible AI Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit – Analogue scans of Re-Assessing Normal\, workshop 3/3. Georgia Gardner funded by EFI. \n\n\n\nRegistrations will close on 9th March at 5pm. Secure your spot now! \n\n\n\nThis series of workshops is aimed at identifying and discussing the new and future-proof skills\, and related training opportunities\, needed by creatives in the current technological landscape.   \n\n\n\nWhat challenges are creatives facing in adopting AI tools? What skills will creatives need to thrive in an AI-integrated workplace? How can we prepare for and shape these futures? How might education and training programs evolve to support creative collaboration with AI?  \n\n\n\nThis interactive workshop series brings together creatives to collaboratively imagine the future of creative practices and address today’s most pressing skills and adaptation challenges.  \n\n\n\nAll the sessions in the workshop series will have a similar structure\, with each session being tailored to creatives at different stages of their careers:  \n\n\n\n\n26th March: Freelancers\n\n\n\n2nd April: Students and early career practitioners \n\n\n\n9th April: In-house professionals (including those working in creative agencies\, studios\, and teams)\n\n\n\n16th April: Creative managers and leaders\n\n\n\n\nThese workshops are part of the programme of activities of the project “CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”\, led by Dr. Caterina Moruzzi\, University of Edinburgh\, in collaboration with Adobe\, and aimed at promoting the responsible integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools in creative practices. The project is supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshops are conducted in collaboration with the Innovation Services team at Edinburgh Futures Institute and delivered as part of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2025 events programme. \n\n\n\nVisit the project website here. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\n\n\nPushpi Bagchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Pushpi Bagchi is a visual communication designer and researcher dedicated to leveraging design as a tool for social innovation. As Principal Designer in Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Innovation Services team\, she leads participatory design initiatives and futures-focused methodologies to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Her expertise spans visual communication\, participatory design\, and critical theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan is an artist and creative producer. As Engagement Producer for Edinburgh Futures Institute Innovations Services team she leads on the delivery of workshops\, events and bespoke projects to support stakeholders to find solutions to complex challenges through co-creation and collaboration. She is currently co-Vice President of Visual Arts Scotland programming and curating exhibitions\, residencies and events including at the Royal Scottish Academy\, and a co-producer for Architecture Fringe CIC delivering a biennial festival programme exploring architecture and design in our social\, political and cultural contexts. She has a Master of Fine Art and a BA(Hons) in Art\, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman specialises in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic and creative practices. Currently\, she is the Head of AI Research at Adobe\, where she leads a team of UX Researchers covering Generative AI for Creative Cloud. Laura received her PhD from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and has previously held research roles at Harvard\, Princeton\, and Intel. Laura has worked with arts institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries\, the Tate\, Studio Olafur Eliasson\, and Ars Electronica; her curatorial and research work has been covered by venues including the BBC\, Forbes\, Artnet\, New Scientist\, Newsweek\, and the Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaterina Moruzzi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Caterina Moruzzi is a Chancellor’s fellow in Design Informatics\, University of Edinburgh. Her research lies at the intersection between the philosophy of art\, human and artificial creativity\, and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. As a BRAID Research Fellow\, she leads a collaboration with Adobe to promote the responsible integration of AI tools into creative practices. Caterina is lead of the research cluster ‘Creativity\, AI\, and the Human’ at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future-proofing-creative-skills-for-responsible-ai-adoption-4/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Future-Proofing Creative Skills for Responsible AI Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit – Kinnari Saraiya\, Tarang (2025)\, Virtual World \n\n\n\nRegistrations will close on 9th March at 5pm. Secure your spot now! \n\n\n\nThis series of workshops is aimed at identifying and discussing the new and future-proof skills\, and related training opportunities\, needed by creatives in the current technological landscape.   \n\n\n\nWhat challenges are creatives facing in adopting AI tools? What skills will creatives need to thrive in an AI-integrated workplace? How can we prepare for and shape these futures? How might education and training programs evolve to support creative collaboration with AI?  \n\n\n\nThis interactive workshop series brings together creatives to collaboratively imagine the future of creative practices and address today’s most pressing skills and adaptation challenges.  \n\n\n\nAll the sessions in the workshop series will have a similar structure\, with each session being tailored to creatives at different stages of their careers:  \n\n\n\n\n26th March: Freelancers\n\n\n\n2nd April: Students and early career practitioners \n\n\n\n9th April: In-house professionals (including those working in creative agencies\, studios\, and teams)\n\n\n\n16th April: Creative managers and leaders\n\n\n\n\nThese workshops are part of the programme of activities of the project “CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”\, led by Dr. Caterina Moruzzi\, University of Edinburgh\, in collaboration with Adobe\, and aimed at promoting the responsible integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools in creative practices. The project is supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshops are conducted in collaboration with the Innovation Services team at Edinburgh Futures Institute and delivered as part of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2025 events programme. \n\n\n\nVisit the project website here. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\n\n\nPushpi Bagchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Pushpi Bagchi is a visual communication designer and researcher dedicated to leveraging design as a tool for social innovation. As Principal Designer in Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Innovation Services team\, she leads participatory design initiatives and futures-focused methodologies to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Her expertise spans visual communication\, participatory design\, and critical theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan is an artist and creative producer. As Engagement Producer for Edinburgh Futures Institute Innovations Services team she leads on the delivery of workshops\, events and bespoke projects to support stakeholders to find solutions to complex challenges through co-creation and collaboration. She is currently co-Vice President of Visual Arts Scotland programming and curating exhibitions\, residencies and events including at the Royal Scottish Academy\, and a co-producer for Architecture Fringe CIC delivering a biennial festival programme exploring architecture and design in our social\, political and cultural contexts. She has a Master of Fine Art and a BA(Hons) in Art\, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman specialises in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic and creative practices. Currently\, she is the Head of AI Research at Adobe\, where she leads a team of UX Researchers covering Generative AI for Creative Cloud. Laura received her PhD from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and has previously held research roles at Harvard\, Princeton\, and Intel. Laura has worked with arts institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries\, the Tate\, Studio Olafur Eliasson\, and Ars Electronica; her curatorial and research work has been covered by venues including the BBC\, Forbes\, Artnet\, New Scientist\, Newsweek\, and the Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaterina Moruzzi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Caterina Moruzzi is a Chancellor’s fellow in Design Informatics\, University of Edinburgh. Her research lies at the intersection between the philosophy of art\, human and artificial creativity\, and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. As a BRAID Research Fellow\, she leads a collaboration with Adobe to promote the responsible integration of AI tools into creative practices. Caterina is lead of the research cluster ‘Creativity\, AI\, and the Human’ at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future-proofing-creative-skills-for-responsible-ai-adoption-3/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Future-Proofing Creative Skills for Responsible AI Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit –  dmstfct\, Waluigi’s Purgatory (2024) \n\n\n\nRegistrations will close on 9th March at 5pm. Secure your spot now! \n\n\n\nThis series of workshops is aimed at identifying and discussing the new and future-proof skills\, and related training opportunities\, needed by creatives in the current technological landscape.   \n\n\n\nWhat challenges are creatives facing in adopting AI tools? What skills will creatives need to thrive in an AI-integrated workplace? How can we prepare for and shape these futures? How might education and training programs evolve to support creative collaboration with AI?  \n\n\n\nThis interactive workshop series brings together creatives to collaboratively imagine the future of creative practices and address today’s most pressing skills and adaptation challenges.  \n\n\n\nAll the sessions in the workshop series will have a similar structure\, with each session being tailored to creatives at different stages of their careers:  \n\n\n\n\n26th March: Freelancers\n\n\n\n2nd April: Students and early career practitioners \n\n\n\n9th April: In-house professionals (including those working in creative agencies\, studios\, and teams)\n\n\n\n16th April: Creative managers and leaders\n\n\n\n\nThese workshops are part of the programme of activities of the project “CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”\, led by Dr. Caterina Moruzzi\, University of Edinburgh\, in collaboration with Adobe\, and aimed at promoting the responsible integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools in creative practices. The project is supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshops are conducted in collaboration with the Innovation Services team at Edinburgh Futures Institute and delivered as part of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2025 events programme. \n\n\n\nVisit the project website here. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\n\n\nPushpi Bagchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Pushpi Bagchi is a visual communication designer and researcher dedicated to leveraging design as a tool for social innovation. As Principal Designer in Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Innovation Services team\, she leads participatory design initiatives and futures-focused methodologies to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Her expertise spans visual communication\, participatory design\, and critical theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan is an artist and creative producer. As Engagement Producer for Edinburgh Futures Institute Innovations Services team she leads on the delivery of workshops\, events and bespoke projects to support stakeholders to find solutions to complex challenges through co-creation and collaboration. She is currently co-Vice President of Visual Arts Scotland programming and curating exhibitions\, residencies and events including at the Royal Scottish Academy\, and a co-producer for Architecture Fringe CIC delivering a biennial festival programme exploring architecture and design in our social\, political and cultural contexts. She has a Master of Fine Art and a BA(Hons) in Art\, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman specialises in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic and creative practices. Currently\, she is the Head of AI Research at Adobe\, where she leads a team of UX Researchers covering Generative AI for Creative Cloud. Laura received her PhD from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and has previously held research roles at Harvard\, Princeton\, and Intel. Laura has worked with arts institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries\, the Tate\, Studio Olafur Eliasson\, and Ars Electronica; her curatorial and research work has been covered by venues including the BBC\, Forbes\, Artnet\, New Scientist\, Newsweek\, and the Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaterina Moruzzi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Caterina Moruzzi is a Chancellor’s fellow in Design Informatics\, University of Edinburgh. Her research lies at the intersection between the philosophy of art\, human and artificial creativity\, and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. As a BRAID Research Fellow\, she leads a collaboration with Adobe to promote the responsible integration of AI tools into creative practices. Caterina is lead of the research cluster ‘Creativity\, AI\, and the Human’ at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future-proofing-creative-skills-for-responsible-ai-adoption-2/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Future-Proofing Creative Skills for Responsible AI Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit – “Jessica” by David Oxley \n\n\n\nRegistrations will close on 9th March at 5pm. Secure your spot now! \n\n\n\nThis series of workshops is aimed at identifying and discussing the new and future-proof skills\, and related training opportunities\, needed by creatives in the current technological landscape.   \n\n\n\nWhat challenges are creatives facing in adopting AI tools? What skills will creatives need to thrive in an AI-integrated workplace? How can we prepare for and shape these futures? How might education and training programs evolve to support creative collaboration with AI?  \n\n\n\nThis interactive workshop series brings together creatives to collaboratively imagine the future of creative practices and address today’s most pressing skills and adaptation challenges.  \n\n\n\nAll the sessions in the workshop series will have a similar structure\, with each session being tailored to creatives at different stages of their careers:  \n\n\n\n\n26th March: Freelancers\n\n\n\n2nd April: Students and early career practitioners \n\n\n\n9th April: In-house professionals (including those working in creative agencies\, studios\, and teams)\n\n\n\n16th April: Creative managers and leaders\n\n\n\n\nThese workshops are part of the programme of activities of the project “CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”\, led by Dr. Caterina Moruzzi\, University of Edinburgh\, in collaboration with Adobe\, and aimed at promoting the responsible integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools in creative practices. The project is supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshops are conducted in collaboration with the Innovation Services team at Edinburgh Futures Institute and delivered as part of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2025 events programme. \n\n\n\nVisit the project website here. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\n\n\nPushpi Bagchi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Pushpi Bagchi is a visual communication designer and researcher dedicated to leveraging design as a tool for social innovation. As Principal Designer in Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Innovation Services team\, she leads participatory design initiatives and futures-focused methodologies to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Her expertise spans visual communication\, participatory design\, and critical theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKam Chan is an artist and creative producer. As Engagement Producer for Edinburgh Futures Institute Innovations Services team she leads on the delivery of workshops\, events and bespoke projects to support stakeholders to find solutions to complex challenges through co-creation and collaboration. She is currently co-Vice President of Visual Arts Scotland programming and curating exhibitions\, residencies and events including at the Royal Scottish Academy\, and a co-producer for Architecture Fringe CIC delivering a biennial festival programme exploring architecture and design in our social\, political and cultural contexts. She has a Master of Fine Art and a BA(Hons) in Art\, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Herman specialises in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic and creative practices. Currently\, she is the Head of AI Research at Adobe\, where she leads a team of UX Researchers covering Generative AI for Creative Cloud. Laura received her PhD from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and has previously held research roles at Harvard\, Princeton\, and Intel. Laura has worked with arts institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries\, the Tate\, Studio Olafur Eliasson\, and Ars Electronica; her curatorial and research work has been covered by venues including the BBC\, Forbes\, Artnet\, New Scientist\, Newsweek\, and the Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaterina Moruzzi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Caterina Moruzzi is a Chancellor’s fellow in Design Informatics\, University of Edinburgh. Her research lies at the intersection between the philosophy of art\, human and artificial creativity\, and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. As a BRAID Research Fellow\, she leads a collaboration with Adobe to promote the responsible integration of AI tools into creative practices. Caterina is lead of the research cluster ‘Creativity\, AI\, and the Human’ at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future-proofing-creative-skills-for-responsible-ai-adoption-1/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Making Waves: Spring 2025,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. \n\n\n\nThe term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. \n\n\n\nThe word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόποσ (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’.[i] \n\n\n\nFollowing on from a 1.5 day Utopia Lab design session in which Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will have shared their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table\, visitors to this exhibition will be invited to explore the responses that Utopia Lab participants have created in the form of chair designs and models that offer comfort and community to people of all descriptions and abilities. Guests will be invited to consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit. We will also consider what utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. This is a drop in event\, please feel free to come when suits and to stay as long as you wish. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nUtopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University staff and students\, and non-University practitioners. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/utopia-lab-2023/ \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a Research Fellow for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh with a background in anthropology and gender studies. Their woodworking practice started as a hobby in 2018\, and has since developed into an artistic and curational practice which frequently merges into the ethnographic and social research contexts in which they work. This has recently seen Jimmy work with colleagues from the EFI and local community to make the ‘Spirit Case’ sculpture which lives on the third floor of Edinburgh Futures Institute\, collaborate with the Ripple Project in NE Edinburgh on a community-led arts/research project\, and collaborate artistically with colleagues from Edinburgh\, Newcastle and Kings College London on the AHRC ‘Fail again\, fail better’ project\, which explores utopia and failure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is currently halfway through her doctoral project\, which uses a blended scholarly and practice-based approach to consider the representation of breast cancer surgery in art and curation. Currently she is co-curating the Empowered Journeys project with people who have had breast cancer surgery to produce artworks and pieces of text based on their lived experience. These artworks will go into an exhibition that will consider representation and investigate how curation and creativity can challenge the narratives that society projects onto post-surgery bodies. Previously she undertook a Masters by Research in Collections and Curating Practices\, in which she co-curated the Art in Mind exhibition\, an exploration of art and mindfulness\, and completed her dissertation on the rarely-acknowledged collaborative processes of queer surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Utopia Lab Team\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams is the Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She manages a portfolio of creative projects that connect the work of the Institute to communities within the University of Edinburgh and beyond its walls. Utopia Lab\, for instance\, is a project in which people from many different places gather to dream futures that inspire our experience of the present and allow us to see the world in new ways that enable change. \n\n\n\nJennifer is a poet and librettist and her background is in writing\, art\, collaboration\, creative learning and project management. Williams is particularly interested in expanding dialogues across languages\, perspectives and cultures and in poetry\, cross-form work\, music\, visual art\, dance\, opera and theatre. She is concerned with the body\, and how slowing down can help busy people to experience their connection to themselves\, one another and the world more fully. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA degree from Wellesley College in English Literature with a Studio Art minor\, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Recent posts have included Projects & Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Academic Development\, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Officer at the Traverse Theatre. \n\n\n\nSee Jennifer’s website for more information about her own creative explorations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatjaz Vidmar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Matjaz Vidmar is one of the first utopians\, joining the pilot project in 2019. He is excited about philosophical\, processual and political implications of utopian thinking\, but actually enjoys the off-grid\, poetry-infused meditative vibe of our labs the most. Matjaz is also an academic in Engineering Management\, where he is researching innovation processes\, R&D (eco)systems and futures strategies and design\, especially within the space industry\, artificial intelligence and data-driven economy. He leads interdisciplinary projects spanning arts\, science and civil society\, he is involved in several start-up companies; and he delivers an extensive public engagement programme. More at www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-seats-at-the-table-exhibition/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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SUMMARY:Entangled Performing with Karen Christopher
DESCRIPTION:Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker and teacher\, interested in artistic negotiation in the making process and finding non-traditional structures for working and composing material for live performance. \n\n\n\nThrough a series of assignments or tasks\, workshop participants will be invited to explore and create in a space where creativity\, activity and invention are themselves imagined as productive states. Group collaboration strategies will be employed to inspire individual breakthroughs. Performance is a mode of thought. Each time we make a live performance work we go through a learning process. \n\n\n\nNo prior performance experience is required\, and a mix of abilities and interests is welcome. Curiosity around ideas of creativity and how to work with others is desired. \n\n\n\nThe 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be performed by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in falling\, flowing\, following on Thursday November 7 at 6pm. Attendance at both times is required – We would ask that you arrive at EFI at 3.30pm on Thursday November 7\, in advance of the 6pm event start time. Karen’s new ensemble project will also be presented at the event alongside the work of the Waterways Collective\, Hannah Lavery (Edinburgh Makar) and Rhubaba Choir. \n\n\n\nBiography\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Christopher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Christopher is a collaborative performance maker\, performer and teacher. Her company\, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects\, is devoted to collaborative processes\, listening for the unnoticed\, the almost invisible\, and the very quiet\, paying attention as an act of social cooperation. Recent works engage with interconnectivity: the entanglement between people and of people with their environments\, other living beings\, and the vibrant matter with which we interact. She was a member of Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years until they disbanded in 2009. Karen is based in Faversham\, Kent. http://www.karenchristopher.co.uk/
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/entangled-performing-with-karen-christopher/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Entangled Singing with Rhubaba Choir
DESCRIPTION:The Rhubaba Choir provides the opportunity for individuals to sing together in a welcoming\, eclectic group and share singing experiences. We welcome anyone who wants to lend their voice\, regardless of prior musical experience. We learn mostly by ear\, rather than from sheet music. \n\n\n\nThe Choir have been working with artist and writer Marie Hamrock and vocal facilitator Noah Tomson to sing the life cycle of a scottish salmon\, drawing on material from Marie’s writing as well as folk songs\, sea shanties\, and underwater recordings of salmon themselves. This workshop expands the fishy\, watery chorus to look more closely at some of that material and to explore the journey of the salmon physically and vocally. No singing or movement experience is necessary. \n\n\n\nPlease wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle. There will be a break in the workshop where a hot drink and some snacks will be provided. The workshop\, and the Choir as a whole\, are shaped around the abilities and capabilities of participants. If you have any questions or access requirements please send us a message at rhubabachoir@gmail.com.  \n\n\n\nThe 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be collectively sung by the workshop participants\, joining the Rhubaba Choir members\, at the event Entanglements: Studies in flowing\, following\, falling on Thursday November 7 at 6pm. We would ask that you arrive at the Futures Institute at 4.15pm on Thursday November 7\, in advance of the 6pm event start time. This will give everyone time to be introduced to the event space\, the plans for the event and your participation in it.  \n\n\n\nThe event comprises six presenting groups\, each arriving at a different time for their introduction to the space. Once your slot is completed\, there will be a break before the event starts.  \n\n\n\nBiography\n\n\n\n\n\nRhubaba Choir\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Choir was founded in 2013 by committee members of Rhubaba\, an Edinburgh artist-run organisation. It acts as a commissioning platform for new works\, intended to provide invited artists\, musicians and writers with the resource of collective voices as a material. Rhubaba invites artists to make works for and with the voices of the choir\, whether through traditional means or by using the voice in other\, more experimental ways. In its lifetime\, the Rhubaba Choir has sung in many places\, including underpasses\, on canal boats\, up Calton Hill\, and worked with many artists including Shona Macnaughton\, Sion Parkinson\, Kathryn Elkin\, Hannan Jones\, Serena Korda and Tessa Lynch.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/entangled-singing-with-rhubaba-choir/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Workshop
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