BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2544@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170824T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170824T210000 DTSTAMP:20170808T190005Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/metal-liverpool-garden-resistanc e/ SUMMARY:Metal at Edge Hill Station: Metal Liverpool: The Garden of Resistan ce DESCRIPTION:The Garden of Resistance\n\nOPENING: 24/08/17 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM | FREE\n\nThe Garden of Resistance\, The New Matrix and the Time to Co me!\nThursday 24 August\n\nA day long communal immersion in Edge Hil l Station Garden\n\nThe day will involve: workshops\, live performances\ , presentations\, poetry readings\, talks\, food and fire.\n\nThe event is FREE and open to all\n\nDay workshops from 12 - 4pm\nEvening event from 6-9pm\n\nA detailed schedule of events will be printed and available at the event\n\nThe Garden of Resistance\, The New Matrix and th e Time to Come! event is a part of Sabina Sallis’ work and researc h undertaken during Connect/Exchange residency\, hosted by Metal. Her re search and actions at Metal are focused around generating a factual/fictio nal scenario about a covert eco-poetic society and their infecting and inf iltrating poetic actions. The scenario entangles factual and fictional asp ects about poetic activities that are subtly spreading and infecting the p olitical and social system to transform it towards a sustainable future.\n \nThe event is cooperatively curated and activated to celebrate the ga rden\, the deeper values and dimensions of our life and formation of tempo rary communities. This inviting gathering is a diverse collection of multi ple experiences\, tactics of resistance and examples of ‘the constituent power of lived imagination that are transforming the world around’.\n\n Appreciating and respecting diverse perspectives\, collaborations\, variou s forms of activism\, micro-political applications and shared dream for be tter future\, the event\, without hierarchy\, weaves affinities and new st rategies giving a glimpse of a time to come and future world!\n\nGabriella Warren-Smith and Lily Mellor will be exploring the evolution of dia logue in the digital age and its potential for meaningful existence within the site specify and community in the garden.\n\nDevon Forester Jones ( She/Her) and Olive Sanderson (She/Her\, They/Them) will be exploring l ife editing as a process of cooperation and meetings of meshwork of life w ith art and art with life.  For their appearance at Metal\, Drip Ton es will be conducting a meditative performance that invites participants to listen on a deeper level to the sounds that envelope Edge Hill Garden and the train station.\n\nPauline Sallis will read some of John Clare` s wonderful poetry showing his love for the beauty of the natural world. G eorge Monbiot rightly calls John Clare 1793 – 1864 “the poet of the en vironmental crisis”\, a poet for today.\n\nJoanna Straczowski will g ive performative talk about aesthetics\, anarchy and philosophy in everyda y experiences.\n\nStephanie Pitchers will present a poem about life and the garden and how her garden makes her dreams come true.\n\nCombining the latest findings in neuroscience\, ancient wisdom and insights about finan cial system\, Joanne Theaker\, will talk about emotional wealth and psyc hology of money.\n\nSabina Sallis will present a performative talk wit h video. Sabina will share her experience of being an artist in residence at the Metal and working in Liverpool\, at Edge Hill Garden and other wond erful places.\n\nTracey Dunn will talk about activism and permaculture.\ n\nDay workshops with Sabina Sallis\nSabina invites everyone for an imag inative immersion in Edge Hill Station garden. Drawing from Sabina’s exp erience as an artist in residence at Metal and sourcing from root methodol ogies of her recent training as Earth Forum Responsible Participant (Socia l Sculpture Research Unit\, Oxford) Sabina will offer ‘imaginative space ’ -drawing and gilding workshop and drawn sachets/seed bomb making.\nFam ilies welcome!\n\nParticipants bios:\n\nDevon Forrester-Jones is a Liver pool-based artist working with words\, improvisation and performance to tr y and figure out how people really understand each other when their main m eans of communication is language.\n\nDrip Tones are an experimental pro ject working in sound and performance. Investigating the daily grind of or dinary mundane existence\, they plunder the world that each of us inhabit – morning alarms\, bored commutes\, the repetitive tasks of menial labou r – searching for insights within often ignored everyday experiences.\n\ nGabriella Warren-Smith is a Liverpool based artist and curator\, who pr imarily works in the medium of pencil and pen. Her drawings seek to challe nge the perception of drawing and to encourage new ways of exploring its p otential as a medium.\n\nJoanna Straczowski is an aesthetic philosophe r interested in anarchistic ideas. She is currently finishing her PhD rese arching Aestheticizing of Politics. She is a passionate fan of David Lynch blogging about everyday surreal experiences.\n\nJoanne Theaker: ‘I work ed as a teacher\, economic reformist\, national charity leader and IT cons ultant in London for the Bank of new York and Lloyd’s reinsurance market . I went on to launch social enterprises delivering social and environment al change. I draw on rich diversity of experience in economics\, entrepren eurship\, education\, psychology\, gender studies and spirituality. I am a professional member of The Human Givens Institute\, a member of the Gende r identity Research and Education Society and Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts’.\n\nLily Mellor is an artist\, curator and producer\, current ly living and working in Hull. Her practice often uses performance\, sculp ture and installation to explore anthropological ideas: In particular\, sh e critiques and highlights etiquettes\, power balances\, instruction and p roof. Lily holds a Masters of Fine Art and currently works as Assistant Pr oducer on this year’s Turner Prize\, as part of Hull City of Culture. Sh e is also co-director of Surtsey Projects.\n\nOlive Sanderson:’ With in my artistic practice\, inseparable from my life\, I am bringing into qu estion social norms (the way we do things) and folkways (why we do things) by altering my daily life. Using my own routines as a medium I present po ssible change to normality. Creating new rules for my life and asking ques tions about the ego\, the self and identity’.\n\nPauline Sallis: Poetr y has always been important to Pauline. She agrees with William Blake th at poetry liberates the imagination and frees “the mind-forged manacles ” of repression and restriction. Let`s all live poetically!\n\nStephanie Pitchers after running away from conventional work to play games all da y at university\, Stephanie found herself married with two children and a keen interest in politics. Stephanie dreams of a career that is either eas y or enjoyable and a future that is kinder and fairer for everyone.\n\nSab ina Sallis has a multifaceted approach to arts provision- as a researc hing\, collaborating and exhibiting artist and as a curator and facilitato r. Sabina lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne.\n\nTracey Dunn:’ I g rew food as a child as half our garden was producing apples\, gooseberries \, rhubarb\, tomatoes\, potatoes\, carrots\, onions and more for our own p ersonal use. I learnt to cook very young as I received a cookbook from my parents aged 5. The first thing I made was scrambled eggs… strange as I don’t much like eggs anymore! I do extreme recycling as far as picking u p broken things in the streets to take home to fix then taking to charity shops. I try not to buy much new\, most of my clothes are passed down to m e by family members. I try and live outside mainstream society as much as possible as it’s very stressful though I try and spread the word about c reating a better world as much as possible. I do social media for a local alternative magazine so I get the chance to express myself as much as I wa nt.’\nConnect/Exchange is a nationwide programme of Exchange/Research/ Networking residencies for UK-based artists with a screen-based practice. Led by Northern Film &\; Media in collaboration with Chapter(Card iff)\, Metal (Liverpool)\, BALTIC (Gateshead)\, The NewBridge Projec t (Newcastle) and Stills (Edinburgh)\, the scheme enables artists to u ndertake initial research and development of a new work or project. Connec t/Exchange is supported by Arts Council England\, Creative Scotland and Ar ts Council of Wales. 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