Live Art Bookshop: Change the World! Book Launch

Would you like to start changing the world from your living room? What if your neighbourhood made its own money? What would happen if all animals, including humans, had equal rights in the park next door? Have you considered that you are flying through space right now?

In her new book Change the World!: A Research Book for Children & Adults (Thick Press), Sibylle Peters invites readers to reimagine the world – and act on it. Based on 20 years of Live Art based research and guided by children’s wishes and concerns, this book of at-home experiments shows how to change reality through play.

This is an interactive book launch and both adults and children are invited. The event will start and end with a children’s disco and include readings and invitations to play with the materials in the book to begin changing the world together.

Copies of the book are available to buy and Sibylle is happy to sign them.

The event is intended for all ages, with an emphasis on children 5+. All children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Sibylle Peters is a director, performance artist and researcher from Hamburg. She focuses on the art of assembly, pleasure activism, intergenerational research, interspecies life art, improbability drives and feminist seafaring. Sibylle is the artistic director of the Hamburg-based Theatre of Research – FUNDUS THEATER | Forschungstheater, dedicated to creating social experiments with audiences of all ages. Sibylle has collaborated with LADA for PLAYING UP: A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults (2016) Kaputt: The Academy of Destruction (2017) and Animals of Manchester (2019). As a resident at LADA she wrote two Study Room Guides: Live Art and Kids and Performing Research.

Access Information

Event information The event will last around 70 minutes. Sibylle will read from the book for about 25 minutes in total. In between the space will be free for dancing, playing and talking. This is a mix and mingle event, various seating options will be available including fold out chairs, office chairs, a sofa and a bench. All are welcome to join in a relaxed space and are free to come and go as they please. The lighting will be fixed with no sudden changes and microphone amplification will be used. There are disposable masks and hand sanitiser available.

LADA spaceThe building is wheelchair accessible by lift and provides a wheelchair accessible ground-floor bathroom. All bathrooms are gender inclusive. There is no isolated quiet space inside, but there is a small quiet outdoor area. Some of the art on display in the space includes naked bodies. You can find more information and see photos of the space here. Should you have any particular access requirements, please email willy@thisisliveart.co.uk and we will be happy to offer further support.

Content notesSome of the art on display in the space includes naked bodies. Please email willy@thisisliveart.co.uk if you would like more information on what to expect.

Image credit Margaux Weiss