Category Centre Events
‘Exploring water through film’ workshop Organised by Lilith Archive & Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics Part of the Brighton Fringe Workshop date: 21 May 2022 16:00 – 18:00 Event location: ONCA Barge, Brighton Marina, The Waterfront, BN2… Continue Reading →
Image credit: Vesislava Zheleva ‘Spaces of Criticality: Writing about Creative Practice’ With Lizzie Lloyd 10am-12.30pm, Thursday 31st March 2022, FREE Venue: Onca Barge at Brighton Marina, UK ‘Spaces of Criticality: Writing about Creative Practice’ is a workshop exploring approaches to writing about research… Continue Reading →
Join SECP online and help us to celebrate the publication of Valeria Vegh Weis’s recent book. Register to attend: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-spatial-environmental-and-cultural-politics/book-launch-criminalization-of-activism-historical-present-and-future-perspectives/2022-02-23/13:00/t-xpjemj 13.00-14.00 (BST) Wednesday 23 February 2022 (Zoom) PRESENTERS: Valeria Vegh Weis, Wayne Morison, Matt Clement, Roxana Cavalcanti. Genocidal activism and… Continue Reading →
The Despite Extractivism Exhibition and Events Series continues with an onlince webinar with exhibition contributors and the communities they work with Community Thursday 3 February 12-1.30pm (UK) online webinar Communities of place are often at the centre of stories about… Continue Reading →
Embodied, sensory or emotional experiences can evoke (new) sensibilities to extractive realities at a personal level. In this webinar we will explore how particular kinds of creative practises and strategies not only portray such experiences but also motivate embodied persistence… Continue Reading →
It’s our pleasure to invite you to our online exhibition and event series exploring the ways in which care, creativity and community persist, exist and resist despite – or because – of extractivism. The Despite Extractivism online exhibition assembles expressions… Continue Reading →
Artist Arabel Lebrusan started her Research Fellowship at the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton in summer 2021, with the aim of exploring notions of extractivism, ecofeminism and ecological grief, through her artistic practice. She… Continue Reading →
2pm-4pm Wednesday 8 December 2021 Online via MS Teams Please email CentreSECP@brighton.ac.uk for the joining link SECP are hosting an informal workshop intended as a space to reflect on COP26. We will loosely structure the session around a number of themes… Continue Reading →
We are pleased to be able to share with you the recording of our recent event, “Debates about the Rhodes statue at Oriel College, University of Oxford: historical evidence, commission report, and the College’s response,” with speakers Zeinab Badawi and… Continue Reading →
CentreSECP are excited to announce two incredible speakers, Zeinab Badawi and William Beinart, will be joining us to discuss the debates about the Rhodes statue at Oriel College, University of Oxford that were brought to wide public attention through the… Continue Reading →
In 2020, the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics was delighted to host renowned intersectional climate justice activist and creative, Suzanne Dhaliwal, as a Visiting Fellow to the Centre. Suzanne is Co-Founder and Director of UK Tar Sands Network… Continue Reading →
The Atom: A Love Affair Debates around climate change, environmental justice, sustainability and the type of energy we use and produce continue to be at the forefront of our societies. We have come to appreciate the importance of our relationship… Continue Reading →
grounded is a season of online screenings that brings films together under the framework of Screendance, a term that signals an affinity between choreographic and cinematic approaches to art practice, an attraction between dance and film that is as old as cinema… Continue Reading →
Thursday 9 July, 3-5pm BST In this interactive online session, Suzanne Dhaliwal will share an overview of her practice and research as a climate justice organiser and producer, as part of her Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for Spatial, Environmental… Continue Reading →
24 June 2020 12:00 – 13:30 – BST free online event Photo credit: Coal mine in East Kalimantan, from Henri Ismail overlaid with protest graffiti in Western France, from Elona Hoover. Creative practices are central to activism on the front lines… Continue Reading →
Following the success of the exhibition “Extracting Us. Looking Differently: Feminism, Politics and Coal Extraction” at ONCA gallery in Brighton in July 2019, the curatorial team launched a call to create a further collective exhibition as part of the biennal… Continue Reading →
Travis Alabanza is a writer, theatre maker and performer who for the last four years has been creating performance, writing to archive the existence and experiences of gender non conforming people of colour. Their work has been is several… Continue Reading →
SET Seminar Series Thursday 6 February 2020 “Residents’ Committees as Regulatory Intermediaries: From Compliance to Participation in Shanghai’s Recycling Regulations Abstract:This paper explores the role of Shanghai’s residents’ committees (RCs) in the city’s new recycling regulations, operating at the street… Continue Reading →
SECP Knowledge Exchange Event: Sounds to Keep Piloting sound activities for community engagement & research Thursday 26th March 2020, 9.30-11.30am ONLINE EVENT The Sounds to Keep project delivered soundwalks and a sound foraging workshop to engage local residents in… Continue Reading →
