Rights in Focus
A 2-day exchange exploring the politics of engagement
18th & 19th April 2018 AUTOGRAPH ABP
Day 1
POWERAND
CHANGE
The focus of the day is to explore ‘power and change’ related to structural issues such as governmental, legal, institutional/organizational, social and sector wide power structures.
Don Flynn (Ex-Director) Migrants Rights Network
Dr Gavin Grindon University of Essex
Matt & Jess Turtle Museum of Homelessness
Teresa Cisneros Producer
Jade French Curator & Researcher
Tony Cealy Drama & Theatre Practitioner
Sylvan Baker Applied Arts Practioner & Director
Peter Noorlander Bertha Foundation
Sparkle Marple Bertha Foundation
Andrea Messmer Bertha Foundation
Speakers:
Framing Rights TALK
Don Flynn
Art & Social Change TALK
Dr Gavin Grindon
Sharing Food Mazi Mas
Instituting Change PANEL
Teresa Cisneros, Jade French, Matt & Jess Turtle
Power, Oppression, Change WORKSHOP
Tony Cealy
Staging Human Rights TALK
Sylvan Baker
The Role of Advocacy in Initiating Change TALK
Bertha Foundation
Day 2
REPRESENTATION
AND
ENGAGEMENT
The focus of this day is on how and why relationships with participants are conducted and how this is modelled through the prism of ‘rights’.
Dr Omar Khan Runnymede Trust
Kate Adams Project Art Works
Tim Corrigan Project Art Works
Arteh Odjidja Photographer
Speakers:
Tom Green Counterpoints Arts
Ingrid Guyon Photographer / Photosynthesis
Rachel Anderson Idlewomen
Framing Marginalisation and its Conditions
Dr Omar Khan
TALK
The Politics of Engagement TALK & SCREENNING
Kate Adams
Sharing Food Mazi Mas
Agency, Capacity Building & Self-Representation
Arteh Odjidja & Tom Green
TALK
Ethics and Consent
Tim Corrigan
WORKSHOP
Collaboration, Context and Communities
Rachel Anderson
TALK
Participatory Photography
Ingrid Guyon
WORKSHOP
Event curated by Autograph ABP Lucy Keany Public Programme Manager (Events & Projects)
Ali Eisa Public Programme Manager (Education)
With thanks to:
Alison Lam
Jenny Drum
Wendy Charlton
Angela Rossi
Jazmine Flynn
Riz Ahmed
Alberto Duman (Lecturer)
Lorraine Leeson (Course Leader)
Chloe Osborne
Will Essilie
Photographs courtesy Jalaikon 2018
Drawing courtesy Miriam Ivanoff 2018
Art & Social Practice MA, Middlesex University London