Archives for posts with tag: Cornerhouse Manchester

Power & Performance

19/10/2011 //
0

Power & Performance

What is power? Who has it? Who wants it? How is power portrayed on the big screen and on the stage?

Our first Peripheral Vision course, called Power & Performance, focuses on creative writing with visits to cultural venues and group discussions in a cafe or bar.

The learners and WEA tutor decided collectively that they would like to visit Bury Met on 12 October for an evening of poetry, light and sound; the Cornerhouse for a screening of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia; and the Royal Exchange Theatre to see Good.

The group will discuss the notion of power before and after the performances and produce some creative writing linked to this theme. I’m hoping one or two of them will also make a short video to upload on the website.

The Will to Power

Power can corrupt, embolden or destroy an individual:

A psychological presupposition of Nietzsche’s is that humans are always attempting to inflict their wills upon others. Every action toward another individual stems from a deep-down desire to bring that person under one’s power in one way or another. Whether a person is giving gifts, claiming to be in love with someone, giving someone praise, or physically harming someone, the psychological motive is the same: to exert one’s will over others.

Travis J Denneson

Society and the Individual in Nietzsche’s The Will to Power

Tags , , , , ,
Categories News

Cornerhouse meet and mingle: thanks for coming

19/09/2011 //
0

HwaYoung from Mad Lab

Hwa Young (above) talks geek and bio

Isn’t it great when a bunch of interesting, creative people get together in one room?

Friday’s event at the Cornerhouse was such an occasion. Community partners, WEA staff and tutors, prospective learners, film makers and cultural partners all gathered in the Cornerhouse annexe to meet and mingle and learn more about Peripheral Vision.

Apart from a slight glitch with my beloved MacBook (well it is four and a half years old), which decided, on a whim, to go mute. “What?” I said, “What?” staring in disbelief at its white, shiny loveliness. “Today, of all days,” I scolded. Thank goodness Hwa Young had brought hers along and I’d had the foresight to pop my presentation on a memory stick. Crisis averted we got on with the presentations:

Thank you

Thank you to everyone named above, and to Jenny from MCC, Niall from City South, Amanda from the Booth Centre, Zoe from Manchester City Council, Harriet from Manchester Camerata and the film-makers Barney and Liz for attending.

Also thank you to my colleagues, Fiona, Mandy, Andy, Susan D, Susan A, Karen and Catherine for being there too. Finally, thanks go to Pat at the Cornerhouse for organising the room (which everyone loved) and the teas and coffees.

Looking back, from my perspective the morning was a success. However, I sort of wish I hadn’t mentioned the pickled gherkin and plum tomato nibbles, while telling an anecdote about a male life-model…

We send our best wishes to Connie from Manchester Art Gallery who had a cycling tumble and couldn’t attend. Get well soon Connie x

Tags , , , , , , , , ,
Categories News

Three heads are better than one

06/09/2011 //
0

RNCM

Ardwick

Well that was an interesting meeting: Nick, Gurdeep and I met at Manchester Camerata to discuss their recent foray into Ardwick, where they met Jenny Wong at Manchester Chinese Centre (MCC) and Alison Kershaw who works for Pool Arts and St Luke’s Art Project. WEA already works with MCC, and after listening to Nick and Gurdeep describe the inspirational creativity in evidence at Pool Arts and St Luke’s, I will definitely get in touch with Alison and invite her along to the Cornerhouse event. Apparently, they have a project called Creative Conversation, whereby people are recorded talking about all sorts of things, with the resulting audio clips being stored in The North West Sound Archive.

By the way, The National Archives is a fascinating site which could be used as a great teaching resource.

Courage, adversity and identity

We also discussed Peripheral Vision further with Gurdeep suggesting I contact the staff at the Museum of Science and Industry to see if their project MOSI Along would fit in with this project. Gurdeep would like the exhibits at PHM to be used as a resource to examine participants’ notions of courage, adversity and identity. Rousing stuff.

Nick then told us about his fabulous idea for a separate project, which shall remain under wraps until it is written up as a new bid.

What I enjoyed most about our get together today was the table tennis tournament of ideas pinging and ponging across the table. We could have chatted some more, but Bob came in to remind Nick that he had another meeting. So Gurdeep and I walked down the stairs to the RNCM café and had soup and a roll for £2. Bargain.

To Do:

Nick:

  • email me his costings for the musical workshops
  • email me Manchester Camerata info for my presentation, as he can’t attend (13/09/11)

Gurdeep:

  • send me and Nick the details of the wellbeing workshop & discussion kit  (no need as already had email, but can’t attend training as I’ll be on leave. Sent email to Fiona Parr asking if anyone can go in my place 07/09/11)
  • send me and Nick info about Memories, The Cheetham Hill project (16/09/11)
  • email me Alison’s contact details (07/09/11)

Me:

  • send Gurdeep the online questionnaire with the well-being addition (07/09/11)
  • invite Alison to the PV event on 16 Sept (07/09/11)
Tags , , , , , , , ,
Categories News

Peripheral Vision is now ‘out there’

01/09/2011 //
0

Jaume Plensa: Irma-Nuria, 2010 (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, August 2011)

Spread the Word!

Today, Peripheral Vision officially went live. I sent an email to everyone at WEA in the North West, with the project PDF attached and a link to this blog.

I also finalised the arrangements for the Peripheral Vision presentations which will bring together the four main partners: Cornerhouse, Whitworth Art Gallery, Mad Lab and People’s History Museum. This will take place on Friday 16 September from 10:00 – 12:00, in the Cornerhouse annexe (thank you Pat). WEA staff, tutors, some learners and volunteers and community partners will also be invited to make up the audience.

Aims for the meeting:

  • to tell people about the project and how they can get involved
  • to showcase the four main cultural partners so that they can extol the virtues of their respective venues
  • to sign up interested parties to the project
  • to enlist new potential bloggers
  • to mingle, mix and mooch
To Do:
  1. Design invitation for community partners/volunteers (01/09/11) and send out (06/09/11)
  2. Draw up list of invitees (05/09/11)
  3. Contact Pat re: refreshments and/or lunch (02/09/11 out of office reply) (Pat emailed – only Cornerhouse caterers can provide refreshments 07/09/11)
  4. Do my Power Point Presentation (13 & 15/09/11)
  5. Do agenda and timings (14/09/11)
  6. Write press release
  7. email NIACE with blog link (02/09/11)
  8. Tweet blog link (02/09/11)
Tags , , , , , ,
Categories News

Off to the Cornerhouse

24/08/2011 //
0

Cornerhouse Art & Film Venue

At last I got to meet Pat Raikes from the Cornerhouse. We have spoken a few times on the phone and emailed each other, but had never met until this morning. She and I had a great chat about the film and educational possibilities at the Cornerhouse. I will hold the end of project Film Festival in cinema 2, which seats up to 158 people, along with the book launch in the education suite. Originally, I was thinking of hiring Cinema 3 which seats 56 people, however this wouldn’t be big enough as most Peripheral Vision participants will want to invite friends and family along (I hope). I will have to host the Peripheral Vision film festival after the Spanish Viva film festival which finishes on 18 March, which is perfect timing. I’m so pleased that Pat and I will be working together on this project. She’s lovely to chat to and sends such nice emails, and she seems terribly organised too.

Lunch at Cornerhouse

Mr W popped into the Cornerhouse to meet me for lunch. I had the delicious Moroccan Bean & Preserved Lemon Tagine which looked much nicer before I started eating it:

Bean Cous Cous

Tags , , , , ,
Categories News
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 846 other followers