Performance and Wellbeing Symposium
When | November 2020
Where | Online
What | This one-day interdisciplinary symposium gathers together academics, students, writers, artists and practitioners and anyone who is committed to developing imaginative, creative, researched responses to the core themes.
Call for papers, workshops, discussion groups and on-line performances. The symposium has an emphasis on innovative, out-of-the-ordinary ways of presenting artistic methods / practice / research / case studies of teaching on relevant themes/issues / engaging with communities outside of HE – that might contribute to the discussion around narrating and co-constructing work relating to themes of performance and wellbeing.
Themes the symposium will address but is not limited to include:
- Teaching, practice and research that connect with notions of performance and wellbeing
- Community projects and work that are committed to diverse and inclusive practice
- Critical and creative thinking about how performance practices can impact on well-being (this might speak directly to the pandemic and how work on performance can respond to/capture/support experiences with Covid-19)
- Performing maternity – research and practice that challenges dominant narratives around motherhood
The 500 word abstract needs to include your name, affiliation, the title of your presentation, an outline of your contribution and any technical issues you envisage. There will be a post conference publication with the book series Performance and Communities for Intellect Books.
Please send your abstract to CentreforArtsandWellbeing@brighton.ac.uk by the 1st August 2020.
