Dear Critters,
Would any of you who are in LA for the AAG Annual Meeting be interested taking part in an informal, creative workshop looking at the cultural geographies of carnivals and processions?
I am giving a paper at the AAG session Contest/ed Scenes and Spaces: Exposing Cultural Infrastructures, and I thought an extra, creative get-together during the week might be a fun and sociable sideshow.
I am also looking for LA-based colleagues who might be interested in helping me to get the workshop organised, finding a venue, possibly contributing something themselves, looking to bring artists and geographers together.
I have a small budget from my university to help get things rolling. Let me know if you are interested. Details below:
Performing The Streets:
1. Short illustrated lectures (I’ll do one - other ideas welcome!).
2. Participatory craft session – making colourful things for an informal street procession.
3. The Parade – a short, noisy walk at dusk with our beautiful, hand-made objects, bells, whistles and voices.
4. Food and friendship.
Organiser: Jon Croose. PhD Student: The Practices of Carnival: Communities, Culture and Place. University of Exeter, UK: MA in Cultural Performance (Bristol University) with Welfare State International and Baz Kershaw: Creative practice-as-research, ecologies of place-specific performances, participatory community arts practice. Freelance community artist, musician, festivalist, street performer, writer, and stage manager (Glastonbury Festival.)
Current Research: Ethnographic participatory fieldwork (2012) alongside vernacular town carnivals in the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and professional, artist-led processions as part of the Battle for the Winds opening ceremony for the Olympic sailing events at Weymouth.
Discourses: Pageants and Carnival /Performance Studies and Cultural Geography: (see: Jackson, 1988; Ryan 1999; Woods, 1999; Whelan, 2005; Winchester, 2003; Harvey DC et al, 2007.) Alternative and ‘contested’ creativities: (see Edensor et al, 2010; Landry and Bianchini, 1995; Landry, 2000; Florida, 2002.)
Please contact me if you are interested in collaborating on this project:
Jon Croose
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