This collaborative creative workshop, led by artist Rachel Pimm, is a continuation of the BCN’s Multispecies Placemaking programme strand, and aims to create an embodied space for reflection on environmental conditions and the climate crisis through words and senses.
How can our observations and senses guide us towards connecting with the environment around us, and with each other? How might we allow ourselves to feel what it is to be bodies situated in a changing, cultivated landscape? Through reading selected texts, sharing our own individual knowledge, and a series of listening and writing exercises in response to our environment, we’ll explore how inhabiting a more embodied, collective space might help us to develop a common literacy and language to communicate with and pay attention to green spaces.
We’ll meet at the Pavilion at Dartmouth Park to read through and discuss some texts together and share some refreshments. After this, we’ll venture out into the park for a wander, some environmental listening exercises and creative writing activities.
Since this workshop will take place partly outdoors, please wear comfortable, warm clothes (we suggest layers) and comfortable shoes.
Access
The venue has a ramp and a disabled toilet, and there is BSL interpretation and a creche available if needed. If you require any of these, please let us know by getting in touch so we can arrange these for you. You can call or email Jess on [email protected], or 07922 571832. The park has concrete paths, and the route we will take will be wheelchair accessible.
Allergies
We will be sharing food and drinks as part of the first half of the workshops; please let us know by contacting Jess if you have any allergies or dietary requirements.
About Rachel
Rachel Pimm works with words, objects and photography to research material stories with a focus on the animal, vegetable and mineral as they transform. Recent UK based work, most of which is collaborative, has been in programmes including Artangel, Focal Point, The Serpentine Galleries, and Whitechapel Gallery. Residencies include Loughborough University Chemical Engineering, Gurdon Institute of Genetics at Cambridge University, Rabbit Island, Michigan, USA, and as Whitechapel Gallery Writer in Residence 2019-20. They are Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Art and have a forthcoming exhibition with Arts Catalyst in Sheffield.
About BCN
Multistory’s Blast Creative Network offers artists in Sandwell and the Black Country a free, rolling programme of talks, workshops, reading groups, discussions and social events, and is a space for mutual support, learning and knowledge sharing.