Network Meeting: ICAN Impact Acceleration Network Meetings
When and Where: 11-1pm 10th May – Boardroom at Grand Parade (mezzanine level, lift access)
(Rescheduled now: 24th May 11am-1pm) 11-1pm 17th May – Sallis Benney Theatre Grand Parade (ground floor)
How: Please email Jess, j.s.moriarty@brighton.ac.uk or CentreforArtsandWellbeing@brighton.ac.uk
Our names are Lynn Weddle (Articulate) and Jess Moriarty (University of Brighton) and we are writing to invite you to attend a series of knowledge exchange meetings at the University of Brighton that seek to develop an international network of artists, researchers, professionals and experts working on topics linked to gender based violence and/or domestic abuse who will work together to develop a creative toolkit that people who have experienced gender based violence and/or domestic abuse can use with their children.
As part of these meetings, you will be invited to share your expertise, participate in trial creative tasks and discuss what would enhance the toolkit to ensure it is fit for purpose.
The meetings will take place on our Grand Parade campus City campus (brighton.ac.uk) on the following dates:
11-1pm 28th April – Sallis Benney Theatre Grand Parade (ground floor)
11-1pm 10th May – Boardroom at Grand Parade (mezzanine level, lift access)
(Rescheduled now: 24th May 11am-1pm) 11-1pm 17th May – Sallis Benney Theatre Grand Parade (ground floor)
Refreshments will be provided and there is the option to join us virtually.
We anticipate that these initial meetings will inform a future funding bid to the AHRC where we will apply for resources to support collaboration and trial the toolkit (and assess its potential implications for wellbeing) beyond this first stage. If you have any questions then please get in touch.
We really look forward to working with you,
Lynn and Jess
Event: REWILD: Festival of Storytelling and Community
When: 26th May from 9.30am
Where: Sallis Benny Theatre, Grand Parade
How: Please book your ticket here REWILD Festival at Sallis Benney Theatre event tickets from TicketSource
This one-day festival gathers together academics, students, writers, artists and practitioners committed to developing research led work on storytelling and community. We celebrate 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 connect, build and celebrate diverse communities?
You are all invited to come, sit by the fire and share stories to foster our own community of research-led practitioners at this 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
1:1 Mentorship Opportunity for Students: Organ Donation Graphic Design working with artist Sarah Akinterinwa
Open to all University of Brighton Students on any course.
Do share with any students who would be interested.
How: Donor Research Mentorship Opportunity (uob-donormentorship.carrd.co)
Are you interested in gaining practical experience of Graphic Art whilst working alongside a leading Illustrator? Sarah Akinterinwa is an author, illustrator and New Yorker Magazine cartoonist. She is also the creator and artist behind the Black-British cartoon Oyin and Kojo.
What will you learn through this opportunity?
Create a graphic comic that will be used by The Donor Research Team. The mentorship programme will guide you in the creation of a graphic-medicine comic that explores the barriers to conversations about blood and organ donation in ethnic communities.You’ll learn how to to use visual art to raise awareness about this important topic
This 1:1 mentorship opportunity is supported by the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.
Open to all students who have experience in creating graphic art and can demonstrate how this opportunity will relate to your course. Values that we are looking for in a successful student are: dedication, commitment, enthusiasm for graphic art and an eagerness to learn and benefit the public through your work!
Workshops: REPRESENTED is a new storytelling course for trans, non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming people living in East Sussex.
When: Mondays 29 May – 31 July 2023 (10 weeks) 6 – 8 pm
Where: The Ledward Centre
How: REPRESENTED: Storytelling Course (Brighton) – Creative Future
Over a series of ten, two-hour workshops, we’ll explore questions of creative expression and representation. In a supportive and nurturing environment, you’ll get the chance to tell your own story and express who you are on your own terms through creative writing, poetry and spoken word. Together we’ll explore how our identities can inform our creative expression.
The workshops will be free and fun, and open to all levels – no previous experience is needed, just a desire to explore your creative side.
Our vision is for the group to evolve into a peer support network that extends beyond the life of this pilot project. We have funding in place for the group to get together outside of the workshop setting to go to an event or take part in an activity together.
Who?
These workshops are only open to people (18+) who identify as trans, non-binary, intersex or gender non-conforming and who live in East Sussex.
We have 15 spaces available and booking is essential.
Free
Event Private viewing: featuring Uncharted Togetherness (Co-creative Group from Gemma Cook’s PHD work) 
When: 6th to the 14th of May 2023
This year’s exhibition lasts from the 6th to the 14th of May 2023. With a private viewing on the evening of the 6th of May, to which you are invited! Come and enjoy the beautiful artwork, a drink and have a chat with the exhibitors. This Year’s featured artists include: Aimee Harman Ant Fox Hannah Thompson Ilona Drew Jess Eyles Michael Bishop Michael S. Harris Nick Murray Sam Childstar Shannon Cassidy Tina Davies Unchartered Togetherness
PGR/ ECR Workshop: How to get published: writing, pitching and revising journal articles
When: Friday, May 19th, 1-2.30pm
Where: Grand Parade building, M2
All are welcome to this PGR/ECR-focused workshop on publishing in peer-reviewed journals in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Hosted by the Centre for Design History and Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), the workshop will be led by two of our University of Brighton Global Fellows, Professors Rebecca M. Brown and Samuel A. Chambers from Johns Hopkins University. Professors Brown and Chambers will draw on their experiences as editors of major journals in their fields, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. This workshop will support you to refine your approach to writing as well as managing the practical process of publishing your work in peer-reviewed publications.
Research Networking and Collaborations Sessions: Get involved! 20minute: bite size lunch and learn series, online
How: Sign up here for the links to attend
Please note this is only open to University of Brighton PGRs.
At this incredibly busy time the wonderful Art and Humanities Research Council Funded Impact Accelerator team here at UoB have organised a series of super practical 20 minute online bite size lunch and learn sessions about Networking and building collaborations that could make a huge difference to how you go about Research and Knowledge Exchange.
17 May 13:00-13:20 – Networks in Brighton: how do they work and who is in charge?
24 May 13:00-13:20 – How to be useful: an academic’s role in business/community/network conversations
7 June 13:00-13:20 – Making your pitch: how to answer the worst question of all time (‘so what do you do…?’)
14 June 13:00-13:20 – Maximising opportunity: preparation, reading the room, following-up
Report: Mental Health and wellbeing 2022 – Mental health and wellbeing in Brighton & Hove JSNA report and summary
Mental health and wellbeing in Brighton & Hove JSNA report and summary (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
Event: Womxn Talking 12 different stories about love, death, sex & relationships.
https://www.brightonfringe.org/events/womxn-talking/
Workshop: What are the wellbeing benefits of ‘body mapping’ using immersive technology (Virtual Reality)? Open invitation to workshops in May and June 2023
How: Eventbrite link.
Workshop 2: 1st June 2023, 10am-4pm in room M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
‘Body mapping’ is an arts and health research method designed to help people communicate embodied experiences of pain and emotion, using drawing. Brighton based organisation Hatsumi (hatsumi.co.uk) have partnered with artist group Monobanda to develop Soulpaint, a virtual reality adaptation of body mapping that enables people to virtually paint and annotate on a 3d body. The aim of this is to help people express the richness of the embodied human experience.
Hatsumi is now interested in further developing its network of academics, artists and activists from across a range of subjects and contexts and has been awarded funding from the University’s Centre for Arts and Wellbeing (CAW) to run two exploratory workshops. These will looks at ways to create a network of connected researchers and practitioners who may wish to apply bodymapping across their practice.
All welcome! Please feel free to book on just one, or both, of these workshops via this Eventbrite link.
Developed in collaboration with the Drawing, Health and Wellbeing strand in the CAW, this pair of workshops will explore:
Workshop 2: 1st June 2023, 10am-4pm in room M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
- Connect with a wider network of researchers, artists and practitioners interested in immersive technology and bodymapping
- Explore transdisciplinary collaborations and future research opportunities that can lead to real-world impact
- Support knowledge exchange between existing stakeholders and new researchers joining the community
- Explore what a community of practice could look like
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