Call for Papers – REWILD: Festival of Storytelling and Community
Programme
When | 26th May 2023
Where | Sallis Benny
What | This one-day festival gathers together academics, students, writers, artists and practitioners committed to developing research led work on storytelling and community. We particularly welcome critical and creative work exploring imaginative, creative and ethical narratives that respond to and meet global challenges of diversity, wellbeing, climate and sustainability.
How can storytelling can connect, build and celebrate diverse communities? We will build/imagine a campfire at the Sallis Benny theatre (on our Grand Parade campus) and invite people to come, sit and share stories to foster our own community of research-led practitioners at this day and night event. The day will culminate in a live performance of the acclaimed social play ‘Can’t Pay’ by Nobel prize winner Italian playwright Dario Fo and a post-show workshop/discussion of how performance can inform and enliven our transdisciplinary research.
We welcome critical and creative work that speaks to our key themes. These might include but are not restricted to one or a combination of the below:
o Sustainable research-led writing, making and storytelling practice
o Rewilding academia (including Decol, Diversity and Inclusive Practice; walking as research, arts and ecology and rewiliding creative practices)
o Storytelling (image, text, performance, making) as an agent for change (including but not only societal change, wellbeing, environment, diversity)
o Drawing as inquiring into, visualising and narrating our relationship to the environment
o Everyday creativity and wellbeing
o Material meaning making and mediating between and through creativity and ecology via artefacts
o PG work
o Research-led teaching
You will each have 20 minutes with which to share your work. This might take the form of a traditional presentation, but we also encourage work that offers creative alternatives to the conventional conference format. There is outside space available for some talks/events.
Please submit a 300 word abstract (or use the equivalent in images, video, audio etc.) to CentreforArtsandWellbeing@brighton.ac.uk outlining your contribution and how you will you use your 20 minutes. The deadline is 5pm on 4th April 2023.
We anticipate a post-conference publication for Intellect Books with a mix of creative and critical work and all contributors will be invited to join a network exploring walking as a research method and potential funding bid to the AHRC.
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