Join us for a workshop exploring digital collaboration in the cultural learning landscape.

For our second digital practice session, we will be joined by Varjack-Lowry, who will share their practice and invite participants to consider how we can create digital learning spaces that are conducive to creativity, learning and collaboration. This workshop will explore shifting and adapting collaborative and social practice in the wake of social distancing, and amid the sector’s return to blended online and in-person learning work. The workshop will help participants consider how to make the most of digital interfaces while also developing practical ways to imbue digital ‘spaces’ with creativity, fun and shared values.

Varjack-Lowry have adapted their collaborative practice in the wake of COVID-19 and have successfully combined different methodologies to engage with participants, organisations and each other from afar. This workshop will offer ideas, activities and tools to develop participants’ own creative practice to enable them to collaborate effectively, remotely.

Varjack-Lowry is a collaboration between artists Paula Varjack and Chuck Blue Lowry that aims to develop a distinctive visual, theatrical and participatory practice; merging skills derived from careers in filmmaking, theatre-making and participation. Varjack works in video, performance, theatre, spoken word and participation, and Lowry is an artist and filmmaker specialising in art as social practice, particularly intergenerational creativity

Attendee requirements

Please note that this will be an on-camera, participatory event where each attendee’s input will be valued and respected. We kindly request that you come with your cameras on, and your mute buttons off! We look forward to seeing you there!

Reset Culture Sector

In Autumn 2020, A New Direction launched Reset – our programme of support in response to the pandemic, aimed at fostering resilience and adaptation within the sector as we work together through the impacts of COVID-19.

Our Reset events provide those working in cultural learning teams with an opportunity to reflect on their practice and have conversations with others across the field. The events take a cross-arts approach, connecting people working in all areas of cultural learning.

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