Share (in)expertise and experience.
Town Square Chats give space to dance artists, art workers and SDS staff to get stuck into the details of how to continue making and moving. Sessions happen every other month and focus on topics specific to artistic practice, with space to share skills, strategies and reflections.
To align with Pride we are hosting a Queer takeover of Town Square: Chats in July. Please note this is a space specifically for LGBTQIA+ dance artists, movers & practitioners.
The theme for this chat is: Map, Archive, Desire, and will be co-facilitated by artists Loren & Courtney, who will invite us to explore the questions below:
-How do we understand or define desire in relation to practice?
-What do desire paths help us understand about practice in relation to time and productivity?
-How do we invite ourselves to be with, notice, experience, be in immanence in our practices?
-How do we stay with the questions and invite more in?
About Loren
Loren is an artist and researcher based in South East London. Their practice moves between words, material, movement and conversation. This work is sometimes performing, sometimes education, sometimes access support and sometimes local organising.
As a researcher Loren is interested in archives or the archiving of queer and disabled people’s stories, experiences, practices… asking how do we write our own histories, remember each other, and leave traces?
Loren is currently at the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University) researching representations of queer and disabled artists in dance archives and is a commissioned artist for METAL creating and work alongside an artist’s congress as part of In Other Words. Their research for this has strayed from remembering toward grief, nature, time and Cairn building.
Follow them @lorenmck_
About Courtney (a.k.a Pollychronic)
Courtney is a Black Country-born documentary filmmaker, researcher, and DJ based in South East London working across arts, music and entertainment. Their work engages with storytelling, safeguarding histories and bringing people together to dance. Currently a part-time Visual Anthropology Student at Goldsmiths (solidarity with striking workers), Courtney is researching public art, mapping and strategies for community resistance.
As a DJ their Pollychronic sets are full of eclectic music and UK/global sounds moving through bass, breaks, footwork, garage, techno, guided by rhythm, energy and low-end pressure. Newer on the scene they have already played for AAJA Radio, Mode London, Tate Corner Bar, Venue MOT, Avalon Café, Peckham Levels and host a weekly show on Wired Gold Radio. This Summer as part The Music is Black Festival curated by Yazmin Lacey and Tyson, Pollychronic will be celebrating the music and voices of Black Women and non-binary people who drive music and culture.
Follow them @ratney.mxf
Courtney and Loren
How we collaborate is still forming and generally spills out of conversation and time spent together on the dance floor. We assist each other as researchers and creatives in a precarious arts scene always learning from the each other. Together we bounce between film, writing, photography and investigate approaches to documentation and storytelling.
Who is this Town Square: Chat for?
This Chat welcomes and centres all LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences. We also welcome those with intersectional and emerging queer life experiences which may situate them against normative expectations (whether this is through racialisation, disability, class and more). This is a Trans+ inclusive space, we ask that you don’t assume anyone’s gender identity or sexuality.
If you are a straight ally, we ask that you don’t take up space here. There are other Town Square activities, space hire and the opportunity to hang out at SDS – please see our website for more!
Please reach us by emailing contact@siobhandavies.com if you are unsure if this space is for you.
This event will take place in our Parlour space and will include up to 20 participants. There is tea and coffee available by donation + free biscuits. You are welcome to join even if you can't stay for the full time.
Cancellations
We want this space to be available to those who are going to use it. If you have booked a place but can no longer make it, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make your space available to others. Repeatedly booking and not attending, without letting us know, may result in a warning and then a temporary ban.
Tell us what you think
If you have any thoughts on this offer or your experience following a session, we’d love to hear your feedback. Please get in touch.
Frais de réservation : 2,9% par réservation
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Siobhan Davies Studios
St. George's Road
London
SE1 6ER
Siobhan Davies Studios is mostly accessible to wheelchair users, with lifts to all floors. Our main door is power assisted. There are two accessible parking spaces available on site which can be booked in advance.
Please note that our disabled toilets may not be suitable for all users (the toilets in our disabled toilets are 42cm high) and our changing facilities and showers are not fully accessible. Our closest publicly available and fully accessible changing facility is at The Castle Centre, a leisure centre 0.3 miles away from the studios. You can find full details of their features here.
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