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Dear Subscriber Welcome
Hello and welcome to our news update. We have a busy autumn ahead of us with projects taking place in Sheffield, Winchester and Huddersfield. Thanks to everyone who came and visited us in the permanent Encounters shop where we have been showing Sharrow/Venice/Sharrow. We are planning to work with different artists, organisations and individuals who are passionate about dialogue and participation to deliver a series of Invitations to Join in that will take place in the Encounters shop over the next year. Encounters, 16 Wostenholm Rd, Sheffield Invitations to Join in 1 : Encounter Abundance
Abundance is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit such as apples, pears, plums and more, collected from all corners of Sheffield. These will be offered in the Encounters shop FREE in exchange for your stories, ideas, your own fruit, or just your thanks! Take away your own beautiful bounty; Swap a favourite recipe for a new one; Offer a fair exchange for a jar of finest local jam or chutney; Swap Seeds; Make your mark on the new Sheffield Green Food Map; Find out about growing your own. Shop Open: 11th October - 15th November: Saturdays 11am – 4pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays 12noon - 6pm All welcome to join us for a crunching, munching OPENING CEREMONY at the shop at 2pm on Saturday 11th October. FREE HALF-TERM HARVEST ACTIVITIES for all ages The shop is open and free for all. www.growsheffield.com Encounters @ Cornershop 27 St Thomas Street Winchester
Encounters have been setting up shop at Cornershop, a new artpsace curated by Jane Watson and Sacha Lee in Winchester. The shop opened on 3rd October and is being transformed over time as visitors add to evolving interactive artworks that will map and reveal traces of everyday life. Daily questions, evolving collections of lost objects, playful interventions and performative engagements out of the shop, will all add to this process of forensic art that will be investigating and peeling back the layers of Winchester taking a snapshot in time. We are working with performing arts students from University of Winchester to deliver the project that will animate both the shop and town centre locations. Opening times: 11am - 5pm on 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th October 2008 www.cornershopwinchester.co.uk Batley Family Encounters Exhibition – Kirklees Media Centre, Huddersfield
If you didn’t get to see the Batley Family Encounters exhibition earlier in the year, you have another chance to go along and see it at The Media Centre in Huddersfield. The project involved Encounters working on the streets of Batley, collecting memories and stories about growing up, stories about family inheritance and family journeys. We were commissioned by Loca (www.loca.co.uk) on behalf of Batley Locality Children’s Centre to work in Batley and the project made links with hundreds of people in the area. The result was a beautiful co-authored book designed by Ded (www.dedass.com) and an exhibition of the collections. The Media Centre will be hosting the exhibition. Why not go along and share this unique snapshot of everyday life in Batley and add your own stories to this collection? The exhibition runs from 9 October – 13 November, 10am – 5pm Monday to Friday and is free for all. The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland St, Huddersfield, HD1 1RL The Batley Family Encounters book is on sale for £5.00 and includes a helpful ‘How we did it’ and ‘Now you can do it section’. If you would like to buy a copy of the book please email admin@encounters-arts.org.uk Read more about Batley Family Encounters What’s Your Wybourn Way?
Encounters have been working with residents and other partners on the Wybourn estate in Sheffield, to deliver a creative project that unearths and reveals personal legacies and histories of the area and involves people in mapping and sharing their everyday lives and experiences. The project also kick-starts a process of creative community involvement in the developments and improvements planned for the estate over the next ten years. During the summer, residents of all ages were invited to take Encounters artists on a 1:1 walk down memory lane pointing out personal landmarks around Wybourn. We walked with 43 residents ranging in ages from 8 – 76. We are now back in Wybourn to feedback these stories, maps and images to the wider community in a temporary installation/event that will see us moving into and transforming a house on the estate. A group of architecture students from the University of Sheffield Architecture department have joined the project team and will be delivering a series of interventions and creative consultation activities linked to planned improvements. The cross over between art and architecture practice will be explored in this collaboration between Encounters and the team of Architects. Artist Sorrel Muggridge has joined the Encounters team for the project. The project is commissioned by Parkway, Great Places Housing Group who are the new social landlord for Wybourn, Richmond Park and Park Hill in Sheffield (www.greatplaces.org.uk). Read more about What’s Your Wybourn Way? Other News
Co-founder of Encounters Trish O’Shea is taking a sabbatical from the day-to-day management and delivery of Encounters. She will stay in regular contact with the company throughout this time. Next Encounter?
We are interested in developing new ideas and collaborative projects with individual artists and organisations that are keen to research and explore creative ways to invite people of all ages and cultures to join in. Please contact Ruth Ben-Tovim directly if you would like to join the Sheffield base network that we are developing or if you’d like to discuss your ideas for a future collaboration on 07870 698333 or ruth@encounters-arts.org.uk |
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Encounters create participatory arts projects using disused spaces, street based interventions, installation, text performance and photography. They co – author artworks with people and places, mapping and collecting urban histories and evidence of everyday life. Encounters was founded in 2003 by Sheffield based artists Ruth Ben-Tovim and Trish O’Shea. |
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