Katharine Vega
The Eyes of the Night

*FOR KIDS ONLY (age 8 to 12)

both days 10am to 1pm

On Monday August 21 a solar eclipse occurs over North America. For one untimely moment, the moon appears in the day and shows us how the lighting system of the earth actually works. As the curved outline of the moon creeps across the sun, earth-dwellers are given a cosmic perspective of their situation on a globe, circled by the moon, orbiting a star. Many cultures have interpreted these eclipse events throughout history as significant and it was a photograph of an eclipse in the last century that proved Einstein's prediction that light bends around the Sun from his general theory of relativity. Moments of anomaly, the unexpected, order going topsy turvy: these are vital moments to learn deeply about how things really are.

Let’s see with fresh eyes, extend our antennae, and view this eclipse as a portal to new understandings.

In this workshop we'll explore fresh perspectives by turning how we see upside down and inside out. Using performance, storytelling, impro games and devising with a multitude of props, prisms and lights we'll explore myths of the moon and eclipse. We’ll look at vision as a creative and biological process: the way in which the brain creates images from showers of impulses on the optic nerve, optical illusions, dreams, and how we see with senses other than our eyes.

To end the workshop small groups will devise a performance using light, prisms and props to tell their own stories of the dance of darkness and light, heaven and earth.

chroma.space (http://chroma.space/projects/thumbnail-conjunction.html)

chroma.space been creating new rituals for the eclipsing moments since 2015. With virtual reality experiments on the beach in 2015 and audio rituals in September 2016. Playful events that work with holding relationship with the natural cycles that contain us.

LOST SENSES is curated by Linda Rocco and Supported using public funding by The National Lottely through Arts Council England.