in partnership with The B-Bar
Panel Discussion with Q&A
Spaces To Speak
Ages 12+
A Conversation & Q&A
You're invited to Barbican Theatre Plymouth for a conversation and Q&A with the curators and creatives from the Spaces to Speak project. Please join south west creatives of colour, curators Lorna Rose and Ella S. Mills, and artist Lauren Craig from the associated commission 'On the Tip of My Tongue'. People are invited to come together to discuss creativity and Black and Brown joy.
Spaces to Speak began life as an R&D project funded by Plymouth Cultural Investment Fund in October 2020. The project was borne out of a desire to initiate a different kind of dialogue within Plymouth’s creative sector.
The aim was to counter the usual responsive, thematic projects that arts institutions can generate in response to racism, which are invariably shortsighted and short lived. This project took a slow listening approach, offering Black and Brown creatives a space to speak. The approach was rooted in conversation and listening, with openness and care.
On The Tip Of My Tongue
On the Tip of My Tongue’ is artist Lauren Craig’s response to five interviews between Lorna Rose and creatives of colour in Plymouth, as part of the Spaces to Speak project.
Craig has created five ‘listening journeys’ across Plymouth, that Craig describes as ‘audio collages’. Audiences can engage in these free listening journeys by following the GPS routes on their smartphones, specifically mapped for this project. The listening journeys are a way for the creatives’ voices to be heard within central Plymouth, reflecting the energy of their practices and the plurality of their experiences.
Also coming to Plymouth that week....
The On The Tip Of My Tongue project launches on Thursday 27th October 2022 with the release of five Listening Journeys which will be available in Plymouth City Centre from October 27th 2022 – February 2023
For more information on these walks please visit
Pay What You Decide!
This is a Pay What You Decide event which means you choose what the event is worth to you! You can decide what you would like to pay now by adding a ticket with a value to your cart, or you can pay after you attended at Barbican Theatre (cash or card).
Looking around at other events going on in the city, we estimate that 1 place at a similar event would cost £12
There is no ‘right’ answer, we are not attempting to lead you to a specific figure. You can pay this suggested amount, less than this or more than this. You can even pay £0 for your place.
If you have any specific access requirements (for example wheelchair access) please leave details in the comment box when placing your order or email our team at info@barbicantheatre.co.uk and they will arrange this for you.
Attendee guidance / trigger warnings / safe space
Age Guidance: suitable for ages 12+
Emotional / trigger warnings: This event is likely to involve discussions around racism. We ask you to be respectful and thoughtful in this space.
Health warnings: none expected
Barbican Theatre is a safe space - safe to be who you are, regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender, identity, or sexual orientation.
About Lauren Craig & Talking On Corners
Lauren Craig
Lauren Craig is a London-based cultural futurist. Her expansive practice as an artist, curator, full-spectrum doula and celebrant is untethered, sprawling and liberatory. Carefully marrying concept with materiality, she slowly moves between performance, installation, experimental art writing, exhibition-making, moving image, research and photography.
Her auto-ethnographic-therapeutic works are meditations on celebration, commemoration and tribute. Through archival research and reactivation, she centres on lived experience while challenging and reframing past and present dominant narratives. Craig offers her creativity as a call to action to create ethical, cultural memory and collective intelligence. Her work is an invitation to convene and proposition our futurity.
Craig has recently worked as part of the Rita Keegan Archive Project team, producing the exhibition ‘Rita Keegan: Somewhere Between There and Here’, at South London Gallery,
and publication, ‘Mirror Reflecting Darkly’. Craig has been working on an independent project, Rendering Experience, focused on the practice of Maud Sulter and the publication ‘Passion: Blackwomen’s
Talking On Corners
Talking On Corners is a DIY, experimental visual art curating and producing practice underpinned by critical thinking and research. They work with visual artists and organisations commissioning artists, and hosting exhibitions, residencies, talks, study days, writing, as well as offering research, grant writing and consulting services. They are committed to positive experiences and long term institutional change. talking on corners is funded on a project by project basis.
Tickets
Pay What You Decide!
This is a Pay What You Decide event which means you choose what the show is worth to you! You can decide what you would like to pay now by adding a ticket with a value to your cart, or you can pay after you have seen the show at Barbican Theatre (cash or card).
Looking around at other events going on in the city, we estimate that 1 place at a similar workshop plus the show ticket would cost £34.
There is no ‘right’ answer, we are not attempting to lead you to a specific figure. You can pay this suggested amount, less than this or more than this. You can even pay £0 for your place.
Your workshop place includes a ticket to watch Divya's To Varnam... With Love (value £14)
Venue Info
Barbican Theatre
Castle Street
The Barbican
Plymouth
PL1 2NJ
Situated behind the Mayflower Visitor Centre just off the main Barbican road (opposite the 'Prawn' and Mayflower Steps.
info@barbicantheatre.co.uk
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