Workshop: Arts Facilitation for Researchers

The workshop brings together academics and Leeds-based artists who use arts-centred techniques to encourage members of the community to talk as freely as possible about their experiences.

We will enjoy the chance to hear from and discuss with specialists from the worlds of theatre production, fine art, and visual anthropology to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of their arts-facilitation methods and to consider how communities, community-arts groups and academics can best work together to discuss, represent and engage with experience.

• Matthew Bellwood is a writer and storyteller with a wealth of experience of site-specific performance that engages communities as co-authors and creators of high-quality work
• Cath Brooke is a print maker and project manager at Skippko, a Leeds-based art-organisation which works with communities of people with shared experiences
• Vanja Čelebičić is a visual anthropologist with experience of peer research and working with young people in post-conflict societies to tell stories.
• Arthur Stafford is director of Skippko with a wealth of experience in community arts including in Leeds and Lincoln

This workshop is jointly-organised by the Women, Gender and Sexuality, and Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums research groups in the School of History, and the Centre for the History of Ibero-America in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies.

How to attend

Please email Peter Anderson if you would like to attend to help us to manage numbers.

Image credit

Graphic Facilitation workshop at KM Singapore 2012. Nancy White, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr.