Hello,

The Birth Rites Collection Summer School 2024 is now open for bookings.

Birth Rites is a collection of contemporary art on childbirth - the first of its kind in the world. Our annual Birth Rites Collection Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. Four intensive days will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice and the artworks. The course is led by artist & BRC Curator Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan. 

This year’s Summer School explores themes such as: 
• Collaborating and making work with family members.
• Staging, restaging and performative practice on themes of gender, birth, reproduction, and familial networks.
• How the collection informs and unpacks different perspectives in midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to improve practice and policy.
• The Collection’s impact on feminist art practices and the rehabilitation of visual discourses of birth into art history.
• Censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law.

Midwives, academics, curators, artists, medics, health professionals, art historians, policy advisors and the general public interested in childbirth through the lens of art, are all welcome. As a participant, you will enter the course with your own skill set and finish, with a bespoke multi-media pack of visual, textual, auditory, photographic, filmic and performative material, to be used thereafter in your own future work.

The Birth Rites Collection Summer School attracts artists, curators, filmmakers and thought-leaders as annual guest speakers. 2024 speakers will include: Helen Knowles, Dr. Leni Dothan, Barbara Rosenthal, Puck Verkade, Ana Casas Broda, Sarah Maple, Dyana Gravina and Dr. Hannah Ballou.

The Summer School will run from Monday 1 July to Thursday 4 July at the University of Kent, Canterbury Campus. Fees start from £400 for the week, in-person. This year we are also offering a reduced rate for online only access to a series of live and recorded lectures.

Find out more and book your place: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school


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