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Courses for Dis-Course(s): Slow Reading Group
Nov
15
7:30 PM19:30

Courses for Dis-Course(s): Slow Reading Group

Join Jade and Roo’s Slow Reading Group where we read together, out loud and slowly, and discuss topics such as care, reciprocity, complaint, community, and culture. Our reading material will be taken from texts and books that inspired the making of Roo’s exhibition, Courses for Dis-Course(s), currently showing at Primary and previously presented at GLOAM.

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Nourishment: Digestion Session
Mar
15
6:00 PM18:00

Nourishment: Digestion Session

This event is a part of Primary’s Nourishment Programme which is based around the topics of food justice, nourishment, growing and sustainable food systems - with a focus on local food justice and growing networks in NG7. This evening will be a place to reflect, digest and plan together creating space for imagining and implementing. Catered by and hosted at Crocus café. Previous contributors and new are welcome to join in.

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Social Practice Social: Online meet up
Jun
6
6:00 PM18:00

Social Practice Social: Online meet up

Join us for an online meet up in June. This month we’ll be sharing plans and ideas for the ‘Social Art Summit’ taking place in Glasgow in November 2022. The Social Art Summit is a biannual gathering for artists from around the country to come together to share practice, showcase work and explore what it means to be making art through social engagement in this moment.

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Round Table: Meal and Conversation
May
28
12:00 PM12:00

Round Table: Meal and Conversation

Are you passionate about food justice, concerned about nourishing yourself and your community in challenging times, or do you have ideas about fairer food systems? Join us for a meal and conversation to share ideas and connect with others. During this informal event, we’ll share food prepared by local cooks and discuss some of the key themes from the Nourishment programme

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 Social Practice Surgery
Mar
2
6:30 PM18:30

Social Practice Surgery

Join us online for Social Practice Surgery - a series of continually developing, live(ly) conversations and resources facilitated by artists Dan Russell and Lady Kitt. The project sets out to support people who are experiencing challenging / complex circumstances, resulting from working in socially engaged ways.

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Whiteness and coloniality in art education: who am I to do this work?
Jun
1
6:00 PM18:00

Whiteness and coloniality in art education: who am I to do this work?

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers, activists, and others working with participation, collaboration, public space, or social change. For June’s session, art educator Jane Trowell shares some of her image-based research processes into Whiteness and coloniality in this field.

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Social Practice Social: 'Experiments with...'
May
11
6:00 PM18:00

Social Practice Social: 'Experiments with...'

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers and activists. This month, join regular SPS member Charlotte Tupper for a practical art-making experiment! Explore and discuss the role of the artist in participatory group sessions, through a series of practical activities.

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Social Practice Social: It hurts now and it will then
Mar
9
6:00 PM18:00

Social Practice Social: It hurts now and it will then

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers, and activists. In our session this month, we'll be joined by the vacuum cleaner (James Leadbitter), Dr Cecilia Wee, and Becky Sumerling. We’ll reflect on the past year, talk about collective grief, and ask what role art and artists could have in healing - and how we can ‘do the work'.

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