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There are still FREE spaces and TRAVEL BURSARIES available at this two day @CollSkills training event @StAntonysPriorys in Durham.
"Engaging with communities: Arts- and performance- based collaborative training"
May 2 - 3, 2013, St. Antony's Priory, Durham, UK
A two-day AHRC and CARD (Durham) funded workshop providing skills training to PGRs, ECRs and community members is taking place at St Antony’s Priory, Durham 2nd-3rd May 2013. This is a free workshop that aims to bring together community and university members interested in practicing arts- and performance- based techniques in community-engaged research. Eight mini-methods workshops will provide an opportunity to try out creative techniques in drama, art (drawing, cartoons, tactile materials), digital media and theatre from a range of faciliatators.
To see the full programme and to apply for travel bursaries, visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/engaging.communities
The programme will also include a Knowledge Café and Voices of Experience panel with Prof Maggie O'Neill, SASS, Durham, where community members, participants and academic researchers will share experiences of the challenges and opportunities of this form of collaboration.
Featuring workshops and masterclasses in association with:
- Jane Dudman and Ben Jones, Culture Lab, Newcastle University: ‘Participation, Digital Media and Performance’;
- Nathan Stephens Griffin, SASS, Durham: ‘Back to the drawing board: exploring the use of comics’;
- Gordon Poad, Cap-a-Pie Associates: Reminiscence Theatre;
- Dave Raynor: Performance-based workshop;
- Rachel Pain, Geography, Durham: ‘Using art with children to explore emotions: the messiness of participation’;
- Claire Ford: 'The Seaside: Cross Collaborative Art Form Exploration’;
- Mary Robson, CMH: 'Head, Heart, Hands'.
Workshop spaces at this FREE event are open to anyone interested in the arts and community research. Applications for bursaries will be assessed on the basis of relevance and need.
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In collaboration with:
Arts and Humanities Research Council;
Durham University and the Centre for Academic Researcher Development (CARD), Durham;
Newcastle University;
Sonic Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.
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