Wet / Land / Dwellers - Screening and Performance

As part of WET / LAND / DWELLERS artist duo, a place of their own (Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy) invite you to delve into the voices and sounds of wetlands during a multi-sensory evening. Featuring live performance from sound artist Gary Stewart, film screenings, and a conversation with the artists at Foodhall.

WET / LAND / DWELLERS asks - How do communities of humans and non-humans live with and inhabit wetlands? What is the environmental, cultural and social significance of wetlands in the face of the current ecological crisis?

Historically, wetlands have been contentious ecological sites whose gradual disappearance and destruction is inextricably linked to neoliberal economies as well as neo-colonial extractive horizons. These are complex assemblages of environments and atmospheres, and simultaneously sites of diversity of species, stories and imaginaries.

This special event is taking place to mark the publication of a new zine, Willow, about WET / LAND / DWELLERS. Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy will be sharing findings from their field work in Woodhouse Washlands, Beighton Valley and Shire Brook Valley, and the stories of the valley’s caretakers and guardians they have been in dialogue with.

Each ticket holder will be given a copy of the new zine, Willow, designed and printed by Sheffield artist Ross Bennet.

Tickets are free but please reserve a place to help us manage capacity. If you book a ticket and can no longer make it, ask for a refund so your place can be reallocated. Thank you.

Schedule:

5 – 5.15: Arrival and greetings

5.15 - 5.45pm: Live sound performance by Gary Stewart, with a screening of Myths for an Imaginary Wetland by artists a place of their own.

6 – 6.30pm: Screenings of: INVASION by the Unist’ot’en Camp and Our Land is Talking by West Australian Indigenous artist Rod Garlett

6.30 – 7pm: Discussion with the artists

This event is aimed at adults but parents / carers are welcome to bring young people 12+.

ACCESS: The event takes place at Foodhall which has level access and a disabled toilet. Foodhall is not a heated venue, and part of this event, in order to manage covid risk, will take place in the courtyard of Foodhall - so please wrap up warmly. The lighting for this event will be low level and constant.

Please email us if you have any further access requests, and we'll do our best to accommodate. E: admin@artscatalyst.org

Content Warning - for the film 'Invasion' - structural racism, state violence.

EXTRAS: Hot and cold drinks can be purchased from Foodhall's bar. Food however, will not be available.

We are taking extra precautions to manage the risk of COVID-19.

We ask everyone attending this event to wear a mask indoors unless exempt and to take a Lateral Flow Test on the day of the event. You can order these tests here. We are limiting capacity to enable social distancing and hand sanitiser is provided.

Please note: If you have any symptoms of COVID-19 such as sore throat, continuous headache, dry cough, runny nose, loss of taste of smell, or high temperature, or have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, please do not attend. We want to keep everyone as safe as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

If you develop symptoms of COVID19 after the event please email us at admin@artscatalyst.org and mark it 'URGENT' . This way we will be able to contact all who attended the event.

WET / LAND / DWELLERS is collaboration with Sheffield-based artists Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy (a place of their own) & art organisation Arts Catalyst as part of the Emergent Ecologies programme.

For further information about the programme for this event visit Arts Catalyst's website.