Encounters Lab

Encounters Lab

Meeting the messy moments and fertile edges of engaged socio-ecological practice.

Come and explore your creative practice with others practitioners: get gritty, follow your curiosity, hone ideas...
We are interested in 'those moments': where the deepest dreaming meets the profoundly ordinary, where conflict glimmers with potential for insight, where something faint is noticed and deserves some good attention. All this towards radical (deeply rooted) culture change towards a more sustainable world. This is a space to go a little deeper, progress a little further in our practice. Please join us.
What work are you making right now that you want to experiment with? What are the sticky questions you want to share with others: about your own work, the world or the nature of change?

The Encounters Artists Lab series is being offered as a practical, safe creative space to explore work that often goes straight to participants / audience. It’s a chance to experiment, meet other practitioners, and share the edgier or delicate aspects of our creative practice.
Ideas half formed, or that need a safe airing... New forms of work that you can't quite grasp yet but want to share... Activities just about ready to go public... Experiences that went 'Didnt quite work out how you'd planned them' and are worth the time to refine with helpful friends...

Sessions will weave the practical building of work alongside experimental emergent time.

Details
Please RSVP to info@encounters-arts.org.uk
Or feel free to contact us with questions: Toni on 07980 575 525 tonispencer77@hotmail.com or Ruth on 07870 698 333 ruth@encounters-arts.org.uk

When: 10am – 5pm

Location: Studio 20, Dartington Space, Dartington Hall, Totnes,
Devon TQ9 6EN http://www.dartington.org/visit/directions-and-maps
Accomodation: If you are not local, let us know in advance and we’ll try to arrange somewhere to stay

What to bring: Clothing for indoor and outdoor activities; food to share for lunch.
Cost: from 50p to £500, pay what you can!

Who we are: the lab will be held by Ruth Ben-Tovim and Toni Spencer.
Ruth is the founder of Encounters, who offer imaginative spaces and processes for people to explore their relationship with themselves, each other, where they live and the wider natural world. Encounters specialise in designing and delivering participatory arts projects and interventions that inspire creativity, dialogue and exchange between people of all ages and cultures.
Toni is an Associate of Encounters and works as a facilitator, educator, forager and artist. She works with process (personal + collective), food (wild, tame, feral + neglected) and landscape. All this serves to explore how we might meet the world more fully, in order to live within the world more sustainably. She is a freelance practitioner with Schumacher College, Embercombe and others.

For more information visit http://www.encounters-arts.org.uk/