#SEDdigest – Events and Opportunities Digest – Wednesday 31 May 2017

We’re back for another week of events and opportunities that have been shared with us.

Please do get in touch if you have any listings for our next edition.

Events

BOOK AHEAD

Annual Drama Lecture: Jenny Sealey | Wed 21 June | QMUL – Mile End

This lecture draws upon Jenny’s experience as artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company, her work internationally and on the Paralympic opening ceremony for London 2012, to explore issues of access, aesthetics and social justice in theatre and performance.

 

THIS WEEK

Peopling The Palace(s) | Wed 31 May – Sun 11 June | QMUL – Mile End

An incredible 2 weeks of events lined up, including film screenings, discussions, interventions and performances.

The eclectic programme will be showcasing work from a range of academics, live artists and recent Queen Mary graduates.

Highlights in the next week include:

See the programme

Jerry Brotton – Reformations 14: Shakespeare at Hay Festival | Thu 1 June | Hay on Wye

“The author of This Orient Isle asks how we understand Shakespeare in a global world when his language seems more remote than ever. Drawing on his recent involvement in international productions of Macbeth and Othello he explains how Shakespearean character and language is created through rehearsal and stage action. He concludes by arguing that schools should stop studying the plays as words on the page but instead rehearse and perform them however they can.”

 

For more SED events see our calendar here

Jobs & Paid Internships

No listings this week.

 

Opportunities & Volunteering

For current students:

QProjects Summer | Deadline midnight Thu 1 June

The QProjects Summer Programme is made up of 12 roles in charities which are exclusive to QMUL students. The roles cater to a range of different skills so we encourage applicants from all disciplines and years of study.

Calls for Papers

No listings this week.

To add a listing to next week’s digest please email us by Friday 2 June 2017 at 17:00.

We try and keep these listings as accurate as possible but errors can occur. Please check with the relevant party before going to an event or taking up an opportunity.

#SEDdigest – Events and Opportunities Digest – Wednesday 24 May 2017

We’re back for another week of events and opportunities that have been shared with us.

Please do get in touch if you have any listings for our next edition.

Events

SAVE THE DATE

Peopling The Palace (s) | Mon 29 May – Sun 11 June | QMUL – Mile End

An incredible 2 weeks of events lined up, including film screenings, discussions, interventions and performances. The eclectic programme will be showcasing work from a range of academics, live artists and recent Queen Mary graduates.

Download the programme

 

THIS WEEK

 

The Lisa Jardine Lecture: Professor Lyndal Roper | Wed 24 May | 18:00 | QMUL – Mile End, Skeel Lecture Theatre

Professor Lyndal Roper will present the annual lecture entitled: ‘Cleverness is the garment that suits women least – Luther and Women’.

 

 

The Marked – Homelessness, Health, and Theatre: Performance and Symposium | Thu 25 May | 16:00-20:00 | QMUL – Mile End

Theatre Témoin, QMUL, and Pathway would like to warmly invite artists, researchers, clients, experts by experience, healthcare professionals and support providers to join the conversation at an evening of performance discussion around homelessness, health, and theatre. The event will include talks by speakers from the arts, psychiatry, health, and homeless sectors; an hour-long performance of 5* sell-out production The Marked; a reception; and a post-show panel.

For more SED events see our calendar here

 

Jobs & Paid Internships

Open Day Ambassador | QMUL

QMUL are looking for responsible and enthusiastic students to support the QMUL open days on Friday June 23rd and Saturday June 24th.

– Be part of something

– Earn while you learn

– Meet new people

– Bring QMUL to life

– Strengthen your CV

To sign up, email i.m.mckenzie@qmul.ac.uk

 

Opportunities & Volunteering

For current students:

Opportunities at The Print

This week is the last week current students can apply to join The Print (QMSU media)’s 2017-18 editorial team. The Print has a wide variety of roles available from section editors to a marketing team.

Calls for Papers

No listings this week.

 

To add a listing to next week’s digest please email us by Friday 26 May 2017 at 17:00.

We try and keep these listings as accurate as possible but errors can occur. Please check with the relevant party before going to an event or taking up an opportunity.

#SEDdigest – Events and Opportunities Digest – Wednesday 17 May 2017

We’re back with another instalment of our digest featuring the latest events and opportunities we’ve sourced that are coming up in the next week.

Please do get in touch if you have any listings for our next edition.

Events

THIS WEEK

MAY/HEM | Tue 16-Thu 18 May | Oxford House Bethnal Green and QMUL – Mile End

MAY/HEM Festival: a curation of installation and performance works by the Final Year BA Drama students as part of their performance dissertation module.
The festival will take place at Oxford House in Bethnal Green (Tuesday, Wednesday) and at Queen Mary (Thursday).

See the full schedule

RSVP on Facebook

 

Sexual Cultures Research Group present: Sara Ahmed | Wed 17 May | 18:00 | QMUL – Mile End, ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre

The Sexual Cultures Research Group is pleased to announce their third event, a public lecture by Sara Ahmed entitled ‘Queer Use’:

‘The lecture draws from my current research into “the uses of use.” In this lecture I reflect on the gap between the intended function of an object and how an object is used as a gap with a queer potential. I do not simply affirm that potential, but offer instead an account of how institutional and sexual cultures are built to enable some uses more than others. Small acts of use are the building block of habit: use can build walls as well as worlds. To bring out the queerness of use requires a world-dismantling effort; to queer use is to make usage into a crisis.’

Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar, and activist. She is the author of Living a Feminist Life, Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology.

 

English PGR Seminar Series: Nick Freeman | Thu 18 May 2017 | 17:15 | QMUL – Mile End, Lock Keeper’s Cottage

You are warmly invited to the final English Postgraduate Research Seminar of 2016/17 with Nick Freeman, of Loughborough University. He will present ‘‘A middle-class and mediocre book’: Posing, Parody and the Wilde Style, 1894-1904′.

 Nick Freeman is Reader in Late-Victorian Literature at Loughborough University. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the fin de siècle, and is the author of 1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain and a recent edition of Arthur Symons’ Spiritual Adventures.

 

The Lisa Jardine Lecture | Wed 24 May | 18:00 | QMUL – Mile End, Skeel Lecture Theatre

Lyndal Roper will present the annual lecture entitled: ‘Cleverness is the garment that suits women least – Luther and Women’.

For more SED events see our calendar here

 

Jobs & Paid Internships

Clearing Hotline Operator | QMUL | Deadline: Fri 16 June

The Admissions Office at QMUL is looking to recruit a team of telephone operators to work on its Clearing Hotline, which is usually in operation for about four – five days in August.

 

Opportunities & Volunteering

No listings this week.

 

Calls for Papers

No listings this week.

 

 

 

To add a listing to next week’s digest please email us by Friday 19 May 2017 at 17:00.

We try and keep these listings as accurate as possible but errors can occur. Please check with the relevant party before going to an event or taking up an opportunity.

Bernard Schwartz and Alice Oswald on Ted Hughes at London Review Bookshop 07.03.17

“I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
Something else is alive”

“The Thought-Fox” encapsulates Alice Oswald’s view that Ted Hughes did not perform the poem as he read, but that “the poem performed him.” Hughes, she thought, was being played by his own music.

This event, organised by Peter Howarth of the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University, London, was devised by Bernard Schwartz, director of the Poetry Center at 92Y in New York, which has been known for its recordings of poets for the past seventy years. Schwartz, a visiting fellow at Queen Mary, had wondered if it would work to have a live evening with a current poet listening and commenting on the recording of a past poet, and hence Alice Oswald was asked to speak about Hughes’ recordings from 1971 and 1986.

The first recording was from 1971 with Hughes introducing and reading “The Thought-Fox” as the first poem he felt was worth keeping. He tells us that he wrote it about two years after his infamous “departure from studies in academic English” when he dreamt that a “burnt fox” warned him that his studies were “killing us.” Two other foxes were also described – one from his childhood and another from a Swedish film. Oswald then talked about how she came to Hughes; as an undergraduate she felt she was, “narrow minded about poetry” but like Hughes she stopped her academic studies and looked for a looser style, but one which still meant that, “every brick” would count. Finding this in Hughes she called it his “compulsory inner music.” He was not a Nature poet in her opinion; rather, by fusing the different foxes, from one of which, who had human hands, the poet created a mythic fox, a metaphorical fox, Hughes was a “preternatural poet.”

“Pibroch” came next, Oswald placing it in a Beckettian world, where there were stones and wind and “A tree [that] struggles to make leaves” reminding us of Waiting for Godot. Redeeming us from this nihilism, Hughes’ “upbeat sound”, the colours of red and black and the “nobility of humans” speak of “the gift of life.” We then heard “Littleblood”, one of the Crow poems, given to Crow by an eskimo. Hughes seems to have brought together disturbing images, but finishes with hope, so after, “Sucking death’s mouldy tits”, comes, “Sit on my finger, sing in my ear, O littleblood.” It felt strange therefore that Oswald did not read at all; it would have been uplifting to hear the voice of the dead, speaking in the living. Hughes’ legacy to us is surely, not only what we have from the past, but what it stirs within us for our lives and literature now and in the future.

“How Water Began to Play” followed where water is mineral, a universal element and not a geographical feature. In a fascinating break from Hughes, there came a reading from the actress Irene Worth, who Schwartz told us appealed to Hughes not to read her any more Crow poems as she found them terrifying. Worth played Phèdre speaking to Theseus in a 1999 recording made in memory of Hughes. Other testimonies followed, first from Peter Brook who said that Hughes had the “ability to reach the active language” and then Derek Walcott who remembered that he had been in Lorca’s house when he had heard that Hughes had died.

Finally we reached the 1986 recording of “October Salmon”. Hughes had explained that when his father was dying, he stayed with him and they would walk in and around the village. The customary walk revealed the fish and through this introduction, the poem becomes yet more powerful in its observation of the great laid low; of the closeness of death, even at birth. One cannot but remember, as you listen, Hughes’ own life, the “Aurora Borealis/Of his April power” comes finally back to his October death and that “epic poise.”


Di Beddow is speaking at the Huddersfield University Ted Hughes Network Symposium in June; she is presenting on the Cambridge of Ted Hughes. Anyone interested in either the Ted Hughes Network, or joining the Ted Hughes Society should contact these links:

https://www.hud.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/tedhughes

thetedhughessociety.org

People’s Palace Update: Opportunities and Events in 2017

Rosie Hunter from People’s Palace Project has been in touch with some key projects from People’s Palace Projects an independent arts charity based at Queen Mary University of London

 

Upcoming events in London and Brazil

 

Xingu Artistic Exchange: 10th-24th May 2017

including two seminars in Rio:

  1. 22nd May, Federal University of Rio – Jerry Brotton and Mércio Pereira Gomes – Anthropology and the History of Discovery
  2. 23rd May, Museum of Tomorrow – Indigenous Utopias

Paul Heritage and Jerry Brotton are bringing together an exciting artistic research collaboration between one of the world’s leading companies in digital mediation, artistic preservation and conservation and the Indigenous Kuikuro Association of the Upper Xingu.  Adam Lowe (Factum Arte http://www.factum-arte.com/ind/142/Factum-Arte-Projects ) and a team of specialist artists and technicians will travel with Jerry and Paul to the remote region of Brazil’s Upper Xingu Indigenous Reserve, where PPP’s Associate Artist and internationally-established filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro is based in a small village, 15 hours’ travel from the nearest town.  The team will travel by air, road and river to reach the Ipatse village and will be carrying scanners, sound recording equipment and a drone as well as sensible shoes, insect repellent and substantial paperwork!

In 2015, Takumã undertook a residency in London with PPP that resulted in a short film about London from the perspective of an indigenous visitor http://www.peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk/en/projects/london-as-a-village/.  Now this new collaboration will explore ideas of Utopia and the ways in which we make our worlds, and how new technologies can be exploited in the preservation and passing on of material and immaterial culture.  The project is funded by AHRC under the Newton Fund as part of “Social Change through Creativity”’s follow-on extension for further impact.

The aim of the project

The aim is to build transformative dialogues through digital technologies that enable the Kuikuro people to create 3D maps of their territories and cultures that explore new ways for indigenous peoples to bring the evolving experiences of first millennial ways of life to contemporary debates about Brazilian economic and social development in the third millennium. Lowe will advise representatives of the Xingu peoples on how digital technologies may be used to maximize potential future commercial initiatives without putting their culture at risk.

 

With 1 Voice First Anniversary Event, 5th May 2017

With One Voice

The With One Voice/Uma Só Voz choirs in Rio that PPP set up last year working with Streetwise Opera (and with the support of Gulbenkian Foundation, British Council Brazil and Macquarie Group Foundation) as part of the With One Voice Brazil project will be celebrating their 1st anniversary on 5th May.

Rather excitingly the celebration will take the form of a concert they will give at the iconic Theatro Municipal, the first time in history that homeless people will have been given a platform in this important building. As you can imagine, the choir members are over the moon.

And that’s not all – at the event, Rio City Council Department of Social Development will be publicly pledging their support for the choirs practically and logistically and will also pledge that arts and creativity are important in the support of homeless people.

It is highly significant to have a City Council attaching this kind of value for arts/creativity as part of homelessness support – we’re seeing it emerge in Manchester and elsewhere, and it’s one of With One Voice’s goals to encourage this kind of integrated approach to arts and homelessness support at a local government level.

9th May-9th June: “Designing Respect” exhibition @LSE

Opening: 9th May 7pm, LSE Atrium Gallery, Old Building

http://theatrum-mundi.org/activities/designing-politics-exhibition/

 

PPP worked with Theatrum Mundi to facilitate the project’s 3rd annual competition, in Rio de Janeiro.  The 3rd image in their Gallery is of the Rio project, at the Museum of Tomorrow.

 

2.       Reports on recent events

Scene Change exhibition 26th-28th April, Brazilian Embassy in London, Cockspur Street

Photos here:

Opera inspiring young minds at the Embassy of Brazil in London

This exhibition provided a flavour of some of the world’s favourite operas – Madame Butterfly, La Traviata and Lo Schiavo – through the artistic output of students involved in the cultural exchange programme ‘Scene Change’, run by the British Council and People’s Palace Projects in association with Creative and Cultural Skills.

As part of the project, students from technical colleges in the UK and Brazil embarked on a three year imaginative journey into film-making, costume-design, set-design and marketing, inspired by these three famous operas and have produced a rich collection of work, now on display at the Embassy of Brazil in London, celebrating a successful end of the project.

The exhibition, supported by the British Council and People’s Palace Projects is designed and mounted by a group of Brazilian and British students, supervised by internationally acclaimed designer and art director Gringo Cardia and photographer Ellie Kurttz. Special thanks to Miriã, Valdemar and Ismael, students at Spectaculu – Escola Fábrica de Espetáculos for coming all the way from Rio to help us mount the work, as well as to the Embassy of Brazil in London for hosting the exhibition.

 

Innovation and Co-creation: London – Sao Paulo Conference, 3rd May 2017

3rd May, all day event, Biblioteca Parque Villa Lobos, Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil

a collaboration between Creativeworks London, Escola Politécnica-USP and People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London – QMUL).

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (QMUL)

Innovation and Co-creation: London – Sao Paulo Conference

Creativeworks London São Paulo is a collaboration between Creativeworks London, Escola Politécnica-USP and People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London – QMUL). Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (QMUL)

The aim of this pilot project has been to examine the ecosystem of creative and cultural hubs in São Paulo; and foster collaborations between university researchers and creative and cultural small businesses, organisations, collectives and charities. We wanted to create outcomes of significant value to the innovation ecosystem in Sao Paulo.

 

3.       Project news

QMUL AfroReggae Santander bursaries 2017

 

We will be holding the selection interviews this week for the 2017 QMUL Santander AfroReggae trip bursaries, 6 lucky recipients (QMUL students) will go to Rio de Janeiro to spend a week with AfroReggae in July 2017.

Santander/Afroreggae Grant: Applications now closed!

 

The Verbatim Formula

Maggie Inchley has just had confirmation of a research funding award from AHRC to support 3 years of work on the project.  (total fEC: £249,993)

The upcoming July residency “No Dream Is Too Big” (1-3 July at QMUL) in collaboration with QMUL Widening Participation will support a group of around 8 young people aged 14-18 and with experience of social care to explore drama and life at University.  Social workers or young people who would like details of the opportunity should contact renata.peppl@peoplespalace.org.uk (applications close 20th May).

About the project

The Verbatim Formula is an applied performance research project which is currently working with looked after children and young people. It records the words of participants and shares them through performance. The process is being developed by Dr Sylvan Baker, Dr Maggie Inchley and Dr Sadhvi Dar at Queen Mary University of London’s Drama Department and produced by People’s Palace Projects, in partnership with the Greater London Authority Peer Outreach Team.

We believe that there is a strong case for using applied practice not only in supporting looked after young people in articulating their experiences and in shaping a sense of their own identities, but in order to open meaningful dialogue and listening with adults responsible for their care.

The ultimate aims of the project are:

  • To create spaces where adults working at all levels in the UK social care system engage with children, listen to children’s voices and talk to children about their concerns.
  • Looked after children have happier lives, with better educational and social outcomes.
  • To develop an understanding of the potential of verbatim practice as a research, evaluation and dissemination tool in a children’s social care context.
  • To develop a performative inquiry practice that takes aesthetics as seriously as it does rigour.

Relative Values

Paul Heritage has been successful in a grant application to the AHRC’s Cultural Value Follow-On highlight for a project called “Relative Values” which will work with Battersea Arts Centre, Contact Theatre (Manchester), 2 Brazilian cultural NGOs specialising in socially-engaged arts work, and a Brazilian Economics research centre to produce a toolkit for cultural organisations to map the value they generate in their local communities.  The award is worth a total of £96,729 (fEC).

#SEDweekly – Events and Opportunities Digest – Wednesday 3 May 2017

After a month’s break we’re back with the latest events and opportunities we’ve sourced that are coming up in the next week.

Please do get in touch if you have any listings for our next edition.

Events

THIS WEEK

Quorum Drama Seminar Series: David Getsy | Wed 3 May | 18:00 in Lock-keeper’s Cottage | QMUL Mile End

This is the final event in David Getsy’s series of lectures as Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Department of Drama at QM. The title of the session is ‘Rubbish and Dreams: Stephen Varble, Anti-Commercialism, and Genderqueer Performance on the Streets of 1970s New York’.

RSVP on Facebook

 

QMCRLE Seminar in Religion and Literature: Mark Knight (Lancaster)  | Wed 10 May | 17:15 | ArtsTwo 2.17

George Eliot and the Key to Evangelical Mythologies

Evangelicalism is widely acknowledged to have played a major role in the socio-political life of Victorian Britain but little has been written about the influence of this pan-denominational religious movement on nineteenth-century literary culture. My talk will explore the methodological questions that face those of us who want to examine the influence of evangelicalism on the Victorian novel. For the limited number of scholars who have worked in this area, the starting point has often been George Eliot. But while characters such as Mr Bulstrode and Dinah Morris offer plenty of material and moments of insight, they lead, I argue, to a methodological dead end rather an interpretative key.

Place: ArtsTwo room 2.17
Time: Wednesday 10 May, 5.15pm

For more SED events see our calendar here

 

Jobs & Paid Internships

Programme Manager | Poet in the City | Deadline: Thu 18 May

Poet in the City is looking for a talented Programme Manager to deliver its programme of events, commissions and participation work, through curation, project management and marketing.

 

 

Opportunities & Volunteering

No listings this week.

 

Calls for Papers

A History of Hoxton Hall hosted by Hoxton Hall in association with Raphael Samuel History Centre and Centre for Life History and Life Writing, University of Sussex | Deadline: Thu 25 May

Download the CfP

 

‘Out of place: Vagrancy and Settlement’ Sat 16 Sept hosted at School of Advanced Study, University of London | Deadline: Fri 30 June

Download the CfP

 

To add a listing to next week’s digest please email us by Friday 5 May 2017 at 17:00.

We try and keep these listings as accurate as possible but errors can occur. Please check with the relevant party before going to an event or taking up an opportunity.