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Dear Subscriber Welcome
Hello and welcome to our news update where you can find out about our current projects. We would also like to invite you to see some of our work yourself - there is the Invitations to Join In programme that will be culminating in June in the Encounters Shop in Sheffield and a city wide performance project in Liverpool, A Little Patch of Ground, that will be premiered at the Bluecoat in July as part of Four Corners 2009, If you can’t get to see the work you can keep in touch with A Little Patch of Ground by reading our blog on WordPress or join the Four Corners 2009 Facebook group. Invitations to Join In: Culmination Events
Tuesday 2 June, 7.30 – 9.30 pm – Ta(l)king Place on dis/used and temporary spaces Photographs, film, objects, and collections from Abundance, One Word, Love Shop and Swap Shop, the Four Invitations projects that have taken place in the Encounters Shop over the last year will be brought together for one last week in the shop. If you’ve taken part in some of these activities or not yet been able to join in, now is your chance to see what the programme has been about and join in for one last time (click here to open the flyer). We're also publishing a free booklet about Invitations to Join In that will be available during the week. Invitations to Join In has been a programme of participatory projects delivered collaboratively by Encounters and a group of local artists, architects and residents interested in participation and dialogue. Ta(l)king Place has been a series of open monthly sessions running alongside the Invitations programme that has invited discussion and dialogue on contemporary social, artistic and urban issues that focus on participation, action, dialogue and joining in. At the end of the Invitations to Join In programme this Encounters shop will be closing. Encounters will still be continuing with projects as before and you can read more about these below. And who knows, another Encounters shop may open near you in the future! A Little Patch of Ground
Performance dates: For the third year running Encounters are working in Liverpool as part of Four Corners, the legacy programme from Liverpool’s year as Capital of Culture. A Little Patch of Ground is a performance and growing project that brings together a new intergenerational group of residents from across the four corners of the city. Samples of soil, plant life and edible produce as well as samples of personal stories, images, ideas, and experiences will be cross fertilised during the project that runs from May- July, key growing months in the natural calendar. This unique performance event will be premiered at the Bluecoat
and will serve up and share in full bloom the new varieties and combinations that emerge from the interaction between this unique gathering of people, where they live and the wider natural world around them. You can also visit the Encounters blog to keep up-to-date with A Little Patch of Ground and how the project is growing. Four Corners at the Bluecoat 2009
Wednesday 22nd – Wednesday 29th July 2009 Ruth Ben-Tovim, Creative Director of Encounters, has been asked to be this year's Four Corners Artistic Director. As a city-wide regeneration programme, Four Corners brings together residents, cultural organisations and neighbourhood services to ask the question ‘what makes a neighbourhood’. Each year five arts organisations (Everyman & Playhouse, Arts in Regeneration, Encounters, Bluecoat and ICDC)
deliver the four corners programme in different areas of the city and this year they will each produce high quality participatory arts projects with the theme of the environment. Rules and Stuff: Creative Partnerships
Rules and Stuff, our Creative Partnerships project in Hunters Bar school in Sheffield, is now at an exciting stage. Artist/Architects from Sheffield NOW are delivering the project with Encounters and they are working with pupils to look at how we use and shape our spaces and how the physical environment influences and effects learning. |
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Encounters
specialise in designing and delivering tailor made participatory arts projects that evolve organically from the homes and streets where people live. We co author evolving artworks with people of all ages and cultures, mapping and collecting urban histories and other evidence of everyday life.
Encounters
create a sense of place, a snapshot in time which is then retold to a wider community through, exhibitions, public art, performance, publications and uniquely tailor made events.
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