in partnership with The B-Bar
Aidan Moesby
Emotional Weather
Ages 16+
Sometimes it can help us to think about things when we can think about them in terms of something else - In this case talking about emotions in terms of the weather. What is the weather like where you are. Your personal weather.
Are you under a cloud, or is it blue skies, no clouds and all is good?
Would you be able to draw your current weather?
What if we could gain an understanding of our emotions by thinking of past and future weather patterns? What would they look like as weather drawings. Could this help the 'well' you look after the 'unwell' you?
Join artist Aidan Moesby in this gently led workshop which looks at connectedness and wellbeing through the lens of weather.
Who is this workshop suitable for?
Ideal for anyone who wants to express their feelings and emotions through art. You don't need to be able to 'draw' for this workshop it's more about the ideas and conversation. About being together in a safe space for all. All materials will be provided.
Covid 19 Safety
We have a number of measures in place to ensure your comfort and safety. Enhanced hygiene procedures are in place. Hand sanitising stations are positioned throughout the public spaces for audience members to use and we ask that you do so frequently.
We continue to ask all audience members to wear face masks from as soon as they arrive at the theatre and throughout their visit (including while watching the performance), unless exempt.
All Barbican Theatre team members will be wearing face masks (unless exempt) and will be regularly lateral flow tested. This includes the team front of house and back stage.
We continue to monitor the latest guidance from the UK Government and the team here will continue to wear face coverings in all areas of the theatre.
We continue to monitor the latest guidance from the UK Government.
Please do not attend if you are displaying any Covid-19 symptoms or are currently required to isolate within latest government guidelines.
If you have any questions about your tickets, refunds or exchanges due to covid-related issues please email our Audience Experience Manager, Robyn, at info@barbicantheatre.co.uk We do not have cloakroom facilities so please minimise the items you bring to the theatre.
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About Aidan Moesby
Aidan Moesby is an artist, curator and writer who explores civic and personal wellbeing through a body of work that is at once playful, intimate, questioning and deeply human. His practice is a socially engaged one, rooted in research and response – in conversation of many kinds. He works extensively within arts and health and has a particular interest in the spaces where art, technology and wellbeing intersect. Aidan regularly curates and participates in events and discussions which centre these ideas.
Underpinning his work investigating the dual crises of Climate Change and Mental Health is an exploration into the relationships between the outer ‘physical weather’ we experience, and our ‘internal psycho-emotional weather’. Aidan’s creations are equally likely to be found beyond formal arts institutions as within them and his practice includes both Disability Arts and mainstream representation as artist and curator.
A resident at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol he increasingly makes large scale, tourable works. This includes Sagacity: The Periodic Table of Emotions, an interactive digital installation and Between Stillness and Storm, an off-grid weather responsive installation which premiered at Bluedot Festival in 2017.
His latest work, I was Naked, Smelling of Rain is a performative lecture exploring absence, presence, loneliness and dis/ connectedness through the lens of weather, climate change and wellbeing.
He has worked, exhibited and curated nationally and internationally working with partners such as Dundee Contemporary Arts, Newcastle University, NSUN, WIP:Stockholm, The Tetley, DASH, New Media Scotland, ANAT (AUS), Watershed, Pikene på Broen (NO), Jadraas Art(SE:SU) Arc Stockton and The Sick of the Fringe.
For more information on Aidan and his current portfolio please visit aidanmoesby.co.uk
