The Participation Research Group welcomed Professor Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway) and Professor Birgit Eriksson (Aarhus) to speak to the issues related to the Civic role of the Arts. Chaired by practice researcher, Leo Burtin, the event introduced two research projects to an audience of practitioners, policy-makers and scholars. Helen...
Una Chaudhuri Una Chaudhuri will present the work of “CLIMATE LENS,” a collective of theatre makers and educators who seek ways to expand the artistic conversation on climate. In particular, CLIMATE LENS strives to avoid approaching the climate primarily as a problem to be solved, using it instead as a...
Ilkley Clean River Campaign Last year, the Ilkley Clean River Group’s (ICRG) citizen-led campaign achieved a first for rivers in the UK – bathing water status for a stretch of the Wharfe, Yorkshire. As a key figure in the ICRG, Kathleen Roberts will share some of her experiences within this potentially transformative...
In recent years, research in various disciplines has demonstrated the importance of inclusive and transdisciplinary modes of water governance (if this is even the right word) for both human and non-human health and wellbeing. Bringing this about in real world contexts of inequalities and competing interests can, however, be...
In April 2021, Vania Belén Suárez and Amy Sharrocks met on a street corner in Leeds for a conversation about water as part of The Ballad of Crown Point Bridge. By the banks of the River Aire, at the very point that it connects with the Leeds & Liverpool Canal...
This GCRF project, part of Changing the Story, emerges from a partnership with Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, Bottomup NGO and researchers from the University of Leeds – Schools of PCI and Geography. We worked with 25 young people from the Cape Flats and nearby, this project considers how...
Kathy Hinde – Amber Abrams – Marieke Norton In recent years, a great deal of research across various disciplines has demonstrated the need to develop inclusive and transformative modes of water governance (if this is even the right word) that can make space for a multiplicity of water knowledges,...
Radical Performance Knowledges webinar series + Place and Performance Research Group present: Land Consciousness: What can England learn from Scotland about Taking Back Control? Alastair McIntosh In Scotland, three per cent of the land is now owned by some 500 community groups, and citizens have a responsible right to...
Kamilu Hassan Hamza Al Fitra Academy, Kano, Nigeria Respondent: Nicolas Salazar Sutil This event is sponsored by Sadler Seminar programme, Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds This event explores the spiritual and cultural world of the Maguzawa, or Hausa animists of Northern Nigeria. Kamilu Hassan Hamza...
Isabel Lima, community-based artist, Teesside Respondent: Lindsay Rodden (playwright and researcher, University of Leeds) Broken Chords Can Sing A Little is a series of community-based art projects that began in 2016, commissioned by the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Calling upon classical mythology, this body of work aims to...