Type: Workshop
The workshop will explore our relationships to the natural world and the places that have shaped us.
Project Lead: Iona
Contact Email: iona_glen@hotmail.co.uk
Type: Workshop
Sarah is a bodyworker trained in holistic massage. Come visit the wellness team where you can bliss out while you get massaged by her..
Project Lead: Sarah Parkes
Contact Email: saeparkes@gmail.com
Type: Collaborative Project
For this project, we encourage people to attend all three workshops.
Part 1
In this workshop we will engage in group discussion and free writing exercises. Drawing inspiration from Jack Halberstams “The Queer Art of Failure”, we will explore our personal experiences of the success / failure dichotomy.
In what ways can embracing failure help free our creative expression? How could sharing our failures collectively help to build a more compassionate society? How do public performances of failure play a role of care in community? No previous writing skills necessary.
Part 2
In this workshop, we’ll come together to explore our voices in improvised group singing, using the some of the words generated in Part 1. Through guided vocal experimentation, we’ll hope to feel the synergy of collective voices. We’ll explore the resonance of the space by moving around, experiencing the physicality of moving through moments of harmony and dissonance with our fellow singers. The session will be recorded to produce a soundscape which will be explored in a movement workshop.
Part 3
In this workshop, we’ll use movement to respond to the electronic vocal soundscape created in Parts 1 and 2 of the project. We will devise a collective piece exploring the relationship between sound, language and the body. Guided free movement exercises, including contact improvisation will allow us to connect with our individual and collective physicalities. No prior movement experience is required.
Project Lead: Sarah Parkes
Contact Email: saeparkes@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
In this workshop, we’ll draw on the ideas of Meg-John Barker, a British writer, activist and psychologist. We’ll explore everyone’s ideas about consent - what it means, the situations we might need to think about it and how we can treat ourselves and others consensually. We’ll also think about the ways that European colonial societies are structured around power and domination rather than mutuality and consent. How do the non-consensual foundations of this wider culture shape our interactions with other people? We’ll think here about how intersections of power affect the risk that we’ll treat others or will be treated by them non-consensually. We’ll try out some exercises to help us navigate different social and sexual situations. As part of this, we’ll share experiences of communication that has worked well for us, as well as ways to tune into how yes, no and maybe feels in our bodies. We’ll conclude by thinking about how we can behave accountably in situations where we have treated another person non-consensually.
The workshop will not involve explicit discussion of sexual violence. It may involve physical touch where people feel comfortable to do so.
Project Lead: Sarah Parkes
Contact Email: saeparkes@gmail.com
Type: Collaborative Project
If you could send a message to the future, what would it be? In light of all our crises, what would a deliberate and performative method of communication with futures peoples look like?
You are invited to take part in a multi-discipline collaborative performance project to produce a time capsule for future generations. The time capsule will offer a variety of mediums and disciplines because we don't know what future peoples will be able to understand; analogue, digital or written text . Will language be the same? Can we use and document performance to convey our emotions and messages?
A possible beautiful mixture of written text, recorded sound, live music, multimedia & live performance, film, stone painting and more in a performance installation that serves as a metaphorical "burying" of the time capsule. Can the time capsule go beyond metaphor? Can we find a way to encapsulate this performance experience for it to travel through the ages?
Project Lead: Dani
Contact Email: dmosimann7@gmail.com
Type: Space
Jam Area connected to Recording Studio, DJ Studio
Project Lead: Mat Fink
Contact Email: myfink@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
Learn to DJ vinyl, beat matching, complete beginner to skilled DJs welcome
Project Lead: Mat Fink
Contact Email: myfink@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
An intro to looping & beat making using Ableton
Project Lead: Mat Fink
Contact Email: myfink@gmail.com
Type: Talk
Death through a mythopoetic lens
Project Lead: Jack Miguel
Contact Email: jakaboski@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
Creative writing workshop - the joy of writing
Project Lead: Jack Miguel
Contact Email: jakaboski@gmail.com
Type: Collaborative Project
A proposal to create a care and community space for Black and POC folx. Space to rest, breathe, nap, talk, listen, journal, eat, etc.
Project Lead: Lilli Wilkinson-Chambers
Contact Email: lilli_chambers@live.com
Type: Workshop
The workshop aims to make space for collective questioning, listening, whilst sharing realities and possibilities. The format of the workshop will be split into three sections. The first will involve a grounding exercise and then we’ll move into section two, tuning into what brings aliveness into our being - inspired by consciousness raising groups, Lilli will ask questions to the group and invite the group to answer in a way that feels comfortable to them. Part 3 will be an opportunity to build upon our foundation, accessing personal, relational and communal knowledge by creating questions collectively.
The purpose of this workshop is to re-orient our bodies towards relational knowledge learnt through lived experience, connection and swelling with pleasure. The work is informed by the work of Audre Lorde, Adrienne Maree Brown and other great black and brown people in Lilli's life. Throughout the workshop all invitations to speak are optional and participants have the freedom to do what they need and stretch or move about.
Project Lead: Lilli Wilkinson-Chambers
Contact Email: lilli_chambers@live.com
Type: Talk
I would be interested to screen some camp horror film such as Giallo and I could give an introduction to the genre.
Project Lead: Helena Aleksandrova
Contact Email: alexandrovayelena@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
The workshop’s aim is to deconstruct the visual language of 'viral videos' - the recent phenomena of popular visual culture that is a huge filler of the Internet space. In the workshop, together with participants, we will analyze the narratives, the montage and the staged aspect of it. In the workshop participants will be given the opportunity to shoot their own videos and play around with the concepts that we discuss in the first part of the workshop. The max. capacity is 10 people. Bring your mobile phone with a working camera.
Project Lead: Helena Aleksandrova
Contact Email: alexandrovayelena@gmail.com
Type: Collaborative Project
Project Lead: Lisa Kirchner
Contact Email: limariekirchner@gmail.com
Type: Space
In a space I will be sculpting myself from clay. A blindfolded self portrait using only touch to create a figure of myself. This will be a comment on how we perceive ourselves and how our perceptions are shaped by our senses. It will be a drop in space where people can come and watch me work
Project Lead: Josh Fein-Brown
Contact Email: joshfeinbrown@gmail.com
Type: Talk
For my talk/discussion, I will be talking about pain and the neuroscience of perception. We will discuss how we all see the world through our imaginations and how this affects our experiences of reality.
Project Lead: Josh Fein-Brown
Contact Email: joshfeinbrown@gmail.com
Type: Space
M.S.E. (Multi-Sensory Environment) - exploring the healing benefits of immersive multi-sensory room installations, which are frequently used in therapeutic treatment for patients with conditions ranging from autism to dementia. The room installations provide soothing but stimulating environments to help relax the body and mind and provide a safe space for learning and development.
Project Lead: Rachel mccollum
Contact Email: rachelmccollum.b@gmail.com
Type: Collaborative Project
My vision it is to make the power of initiative visible, to connect projects with each other and to bring their own visions and topics into a community that is open for new contributors and all the wonderful ideas that want to go out into the world. For this I would like to collectively design a gathering space that is deeply connected to the natural surroundings and where participants share their ideas: With connection to natural surroundings i mean: a special setting to have a magical view on the summer- sunrise or sunset, if possible. A place, where one can interact with little features like grass, rocks, flowers that do not seem of much interest at the first sight; a space that creates a certrain (positive) feeling and one does not directly know where this comes from; a space that appeals to all senses. There should be the possibility of creating a certain intimacy between those who come together in this place
Among others, it should include:
Seating options for around 20-50 people
Bonfire/"Fire barrel"
Art Installations by those who feel inspired to contribute
Project Lead: Angi
Contact Email: angischug@gmx.net
Type: Talk
Get S**T Done. A workshop that explores how to get your ideas of your head, onto paper and into reality and execution. Artists are great minds with wonderful ideas and I will give a workshop on how you can help manifest your creative realities into action.
Project Lead: Lauren Pringle
Contact Email: contactlaurenpringle@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
Our Body Moves is a dance workshop that allows you to find your inner body. This is a free movement space for all bodies and no dance experience is required. We will explore every BODIES alter-ego looking at performance techniques and methods along with free-form movement and an urban choreographic element. Come and move your body in all it's weird ways. Our Body Moves is an empowerment workshop that aims to rattle your senses and leave you feeling physically in-tuned.
Come play Get out of your mind and in your bod bod!
*BANGING TUNES INCLUDED*
Project Lead: Lauren Pringle
Contact Email: contactlaurenpringle@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
I will talk you through a facial massage routine that you can practice on yourself or a friend while also discussing different acupuncture points on the face and some of their uses. Good for helping to clear congested face, sinuses and headaches.
Acupuncture and Tui Na (Chinese Massage)
Project Lead: eddie hecht
Contact Email: eddiehecht@yahoo.co.uk
Type: Collaborative Project
The Palace Press is the hight of front line journalism uncovering the scoop of whats really going on. So what if the facts are loose if it makes a good story.
Discuss the highs, lows, rumours and nonsense of Palace 2020 and together generate some hard hitting headlines. We shall then make posters which we put up around the site spreading our real/fake news and propaganda.
Project Lead: eddie hecht
Contact Email: eddiehecht@yahoo.co.uk
Type: Workshop
Get the Palace Postal Service kick started by coming together to make and decorate post cards. I encourage everyone attending to also write some postcards to friends or soon to be friends at the Palace - and some one else from the group will deliver it for you. After this there will be a postal station set up where people can continue to write and send post cards during the week.
Project Lead: eddie hecht
Contact Email: eddiehecht@yahoo.co.uk
Type: Space
Upcycled, Collaborative - Interactive Installation for Herself to surrender, share & create.
Project Lead: May Baker-Föhring
Contact Email: maybakerf@gmail.com
Type: Talk
Project Lead: May Baker-Föhring
Contact Email: maybakerf@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
Project Lead: May Baker-Föhring
Contact Email: maybakerf@gmail.com
Type: Collaborative Project
Project Lead: Jonas Johansson
Contact Email: jns.johansson@gmail.com
Type: Workshop
Project Lead: Jonas Johansson
Contact Email: jns.johansson@gmail.com
