Still there are seeds to be gathered…

Still there are seeds to be gathered is a new programme of member-led activity. Following an open call to members to takeover EOP and use it to develop their own practice, research and networks in public, with others, we have selected nine proposals to take place over the coming months.

The chosen proposals reflect the range of positions, perspectives and practices within the EOP membership. We are delighted to share a programme that feels distinct and generative whilst showcasing our members and their interests. Over the coming months, the programme will move between one-off workshops, discussions, events and more all devised and delivered by EOP members.

PROGRAMME

AUGUST
The God Particle, a micro/flash fiction workshop, …kruse
Thursday 26 August, 1–2pm
A writing workshop exploring micro and flash fiction. We’ll create new worlds and imagine new futures using an Imagination Accelerator to give mass to our ideas. No previous writing experience is necessary.

SEPTEMBER
Nocturnal Bullet FLESHHHHHH, Sahjan Kooner
Wednesday 15 September, 7–8pm
£5 / Free to EOP
Together, we will be exploring the trajectory of a specific bullet through a broken down/beat up lecture-performance which will incorporate listening to writing, sonic experiences and video to conjure up a dreamlike space.

OCTOBER
In Walking Together We Make The Path, Mina Heydari-Waite
21 October, 12-1.30pm
28 October, 12-1.30pm
In Walking Together We Make The Path is a social dreaming inspired workshop. Social dreaming is a reflexive practice in which dreams and associated thoughts are shared in a way which brings forth possibilities for new perspectives and meanings about our wider social context. Our task will be to share dreams, and our associations to each other’s dreams, making links and connections where we can.

NOVEMBER
Catwalk Primer, Bruce Asbestos
Thursday 4 November, 6.30-8.39pm
£5 / Free to EOP
Can we make a catwalk in two hours? A making session conducted over Zoom, looking at how basic items and recycled materials can be magically and quickly transformed into transcendent performance costumes.

JANUARY
Queer Use Reading Group, Francis Whorrall Campbell
Thursday 13 Jan, 6.30-7.30pm
Thursday 27 Jan, 6.30-7.30pm
Reading and discussion around the conclusion of Sarah Ahmed’s 2019 book What’s the Use: On The Uses of Use. We will explore how institutions seek to use queer identity and queers as products within a diversity economy and together develop strategies against our use.

MARCH
Let’s talk about it!, Aidan Moesby
Friday 4 March, 1-2pm
Aidan Moesby and Tonic Arts Manager Susan Grant host a discussion about how to have difficult conversations, why not to avoid them and how to manage them. They will share some experiences and come up with some shared solutions.

Extraordinary Collaboration, Anna Frijstein
Thursday 10 March
A preformative discussion around collaborating with human and non-human entities.

JULY
Disco Islam: Commentary Performance, Bijan Moosavi
Friday 1 July, 7.30pm
In this Zoom performance done in the style of ‘YouTube Commentary’ videos, Bijan will be taking you behind the scenes of his dystopian ‘Disco Islam’; a sci-fi commercial film about an Iranian nightclub from the future which is built on the site of an environmental disaster and uses Silicon Valley technologies to disguise human rights issues in the Middle East.

STILL TO COME
Sound.Body.Space.Time, Hannah Wallis
A workshop that looks at the relationship between our bodies and how we navigate space. Considering how we might or might not feel able to hold agency in certain spaces when our bodies feel ‘othered’.