Join us for a day of presentations, performances, workshops and music, which will explore and celebrate the contributions that arts and humanities research can make to our places and communities. Taking place in locations across Preston City Centre, such as Avenham Park, the historic Covered Markets and The Birley Artist Studios, the event will provide an opportunity to share methods and experiences and to see how our research has shaped Preston's public realm.

Creativity, Communities and Culture has been organised by the Creative Practice Research Academy in partnership with the School of Arts & Media and the Arts & Humanities Research Academy.

For more information, please contact Elaine Speight: espeight@uclan.ac.uk

Programme

The New Continental, Preston

9.30: registration

10.00: Introduction and welcome by Prof. Peter Lloyd, Dean of the School of Arts & Media, UCLan

10.15: Rewriting the Landscape: Artistic Approaches with Children, Young People and Marginalised Groups by Prof. Candice Satchwell (Professor of Literacies and Education)

10.40: Teaching language learning rhythm by music to older English learners of Italian by Laura Zambianchi (PhD Student)

11.05: Housing solitary bees by Nicholas Rhodes (Printmaking Technician and Lecturer in Illustration)

11.30: Break

11.50: Machaut must go on: using network analysis to explore scholarship on medieval music and literature by Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel (Lecturer in Digital Humanities)

12.15: Thinking through things: sharing stories of mothers and motherhood told through everyday objects and belongings by Dr Carole Hunt and Marie-Clare Balaam (Senior Lecturer in MA Surface Pattern & Textiles/Critical Studies in Fashion and Textiles, and Research Associate, Research in Childbirth & Health (ReaCH unit))

Avenham Park

12.45: Dada Dinnertime at the Tabula Rasa performance by Artist A & Artist B (Dr Heather Ross and Dr Jackie Haynes) and picnic lunch

Preston City Centre

13.45: Interactive sessions (each attendee can take part in two. Please see details below)

The Birley Artist Studios

15:45: Refreshments

15:55: Talk about The Birley Art Studios by Director, Florian Houlker

16:05: Open discussion/ Closing remarks

The Orchard, Preston Market

16:30: Drinks and conversation. Music from 17.00 by Worldwise Samba Drummers.

18.00: End

Interactive sessions (select 2)

1. Place Based Collaborative Design - Preston Bespoke Market Stalls by Prof. Charles Quick (Professor of Public Art Practice)

We will be using the bespoke stalls in Preston's Covered Markets to discuss collaborative functional design for a particular place and how artists and designers can work with architects and communities. There will be a hands-on opportunity to test the design by setting up your own market pitch using the stalls in Preston Market.

2. The C.A.R.E. Audit by Shonagh Short (Artist and PhD Student)

Join socially engaged artist Shonagh Short for a creative exploration of care in the city centre environment. Sensible shoes advised, safety goggles provided.

3. Moving With... by Lucy Nicholson (Senior Lecturer in Dance)

This session with be putting into the practice the embodied work of Moving With… a short film made in partnership with Jonny Randall, to capture a moment in time between mother and son and their local landscape. A celebration of simple things: being together, moving together, listening, and watching all we have on our doorstep. It documents dance artist Lucy Nicholson and her son, Benji’s, regular dance walks in their local village of Staveley, Cumbria. The workshop will introduce you to basic movement analysis skills that will help us notice and embody our local environment. The session will include the screening of Moving With, followed by a practical response to Preston’s architecture, culminating in collection of our embodied findings.

4. Carried by Krissi Musiol (Senior Lecturer in Theatre & Performance)

Take part in a site-specific audio walk, made by Krissi Musiol for Preston's Market Square.

The artwork invites participants to listen to a narration, whilst carrying a watermelon, representing the size of a 40-week foetus and to remember being carried or to experience the notion of carrying someone. Carried is a celebration of motherhood, which makes motherhood visible and maternal experiences heard.

Image: Picnic at Lougrigg Tarn (2022), by Artist A & Artist B, photo by Time Blackwell

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Interactive sessions (select 2)

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