Title: Recording a podcast about love with Keighley and Craven People First
Date: 23rd October
Location: Craven, Yorkshire
Academic lead: Lucy Series
Blurb: Love matters to all of us, but it is curiously invisible in policies supporting disabled adults to live their lives. In this workshop we focus on the many different ways that love shows up in our lives, its importance and different meanings. Keighley and Craven People First will create a podcast about love.
Title: The Odd Factory
Date: 4th November, 5.30 – 7.30pm
Location: PGR Hub, University of Bristol
Academic lead: Paris Selinas
Blurb: An interactive activity and workshop where participants will be part of the “Odd Factory”, a series of little tasks and experiences aiming to challenge the invisible work taking place in organizations, and therefore tackle inequalities, classism, and other forms of discrimination at workplaces and beyond.
The Odd Factory is a workshop and experience where attendants suspend their prescribed roles at work for a bit, assuming peculiar identities, and swapping roles with their peers. They then become users and planners of the Odd Factory, an imaginary factory in a state of transition. Through role play, storytelling, and material engagements, this workshop offers a somatic and collaborative approach to thinking about organizational futures by centering the experiences of those less heard.
The workshop is organized by members of the Work Futures Community, a collective of people working in cleaning, the library, and estates at the University of Bristol put together by Dr. Paris Selinas.
Title: Imagining citizenship education at post-16
Date: Wednesday 6th November, 12 – 4pm
Location: Sparks, Central Bristol
Academic lead: Pen Williams
Blurb: Following a get-to-know-you session over light refreshments, this workshop will facilitate post-16 students from across Bristol in working together to discuss and imagine what they would like to see from their citizenship education. The discussions will be documented by live illustration for the students to take back to their schools and share with the Senior Leadership Team.
Title: What futures for community technology? A hopeful exploration – POSTPONED
Date: Wednesday 6th November 6pm – 8.30pm
Location: Knowle West Media Centre
Academic lead: Centre for Socio-digital futures
Blurb: How can our communities take control of the technology that has become central to so many aspects of our lives? And, if we do, what are we going to do with it? In this Thinking Futures Event, we take inspiration from diverse community technology practices and speculative fiction to explore these questions through a participatory workshop. We’ll engage with the hope and aspirations of community technology practitioners, explore futures in the making, and imagine!
Title: Imagining the future of rest
Date: Thursday 7th November, 1 – 4pm
Location: St Werburghs Community Centre
Academic lead: Giovanni Biglino (Department of Imagination)
Blurb: This practical workshop will use gentle creative activity and reflection to explore and play with our understanding and experience of rest and its relationship to imagination. Creative practitioners will lead participants in accessible and gentle creative work to support reflection on the idea of a Dreamspace and how we might find it in our work. Open to all with no experience required to take part.
Title: Crime Day: Exploring Root Causes and Solutions to Organised Crime
Date: Friday 8th November, 10:00am – 2:30pm
Location: University of Bristol, School of Education, 35 Berkeley Sq, BS8 1JA
Academic lead: Raphael Lefevre
Blurb: To explore root causes and solutions to organised crime ahead of the International Day for the Prevention of Organised Crime, the University of Bristol brings together a best-selling author and globally celebrated public intellectual, an award-winning anti-crime civil society activist in Bristol and the Lebanese artist behind Al-Jazeera’s new true crime show.
This event is led by the Peace Conflict and Violence research group at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), in collaboration with the Global Insecurities Centre and The Bristol Cable.