Dreaming the Black Country: A Psychogeographical Writing Workshop
21st July
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
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How does a certain place make us feel? How can we explore it in a different way than we normally would?
Psychogeography is a growing practice that since the 1950s has sought to reimagine the city, and to playfully explore it in alternative ways. One of the traditional techniques employed by psychogeography – dérive – or drift – is […]
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Seeing in Isolation: audio description in photography and art.
8th July
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
A link will be sent out to attendees.
Audio Description – a way that people who can’t see are offered a description of the visual elements they are missing. But who determines what is important to be described and what is not? Is this once-removed viewing experience, that is controlled by someone else, a satisfactory one? Mandy Redvers-Rowe Using Seeing in Isolation as a springboard for […]
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In Conversation with International Blind and Visually Impaired Photographers
30th June
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Do you need to have sight to take photographs? This question will be explored at this event that brings together blind and visually impaired international photographers: Bruce Hall, Karren Visser, Mickel Smithen, Pete Eckert and Sonia Soberats to present their work and be in conversation with curator Douglas McCulloh of exhibition ‘Sight Unseen: International Photography […]
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