June 21st 2019
Pure Enchantment
‘Pure Enchantment’
A one day symposium for community art activists
June 21st 2019
10am – 4pm
Attenborough Centre, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton BN1 9RA
A day of talks, discussions and practical sessions to mark Same Sky’s 30th anniversary and look at the wider impact this work has on the individual and society.
Contributors include:
Michael Judge, director of education for NIE currently focussing on young people as co-creators
Daniel Bernstein, executive director of Emergency Exit Arts
Lucy Bear, LPK Learning CIC, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to family and community learning
John Varah, Same Sky
Tom Andrews.
Pippa Smith, original joint-director of Same Sky now children’s events producer for Brighton Festival. Bettina Linstrum, Arts Agenda
Alastair Hill, Director of Public Health at Brighton and Hove City Council whose annual report in 2018 The Art of Good Health puts the case for community wide participation in all forms of creativity.
Workshops and case studies will include collecting stories whilst making, basic and not so basic lighting for processions, establishing a ritual, musical accompaniment, one-to-one solutions and wheelbarrow kiln culture.
£10 includes refreshments
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Same Sky is the creator of two of Brighton’s major events: The Children’s Parade and Burning the Clocks, invented rituals that have become firmly embedded local traditions.
Through their vast body of work across the South East of England they have spread creativity and joy; influencing the development of the individual child through workshops in schools, and shaping communities through public events like fire festivals and lantern parades. As art education in schools decreases and digital playgrounds dominate, this work becomes more and more important, as our future requires creativity and resourcefulness, our communities’ coherence and new meaningful rituals.
