Shakespeare North: Heart of Glass: With For About: When words fail

This year, With For About: When words fail explores how we can come together when words are not enough.

As different crises impact our lives, the ways we communicate have become increasingly challenging. For this year’s gathering we aim to find new ways of relating and reimagining the world through:

• Alternative communication methods with and beyond verbal English
• Expression, constructive argument and holding space for difference
• ‘How to be together’ and ‘how to be’ in the future

We invite artists, practitioners and arts, community and youth workers who value empathy, listening, and expression. The event will feature workshops, discussions and performances led by practitioners of socially engaged arts, youth work, feminist organizing, and climate justice including Susanne Bosch, Taey Iohe, Sophie Mak-Schram and Dannielle Mc Kenna.

With For About: When words fail is concerned with themes including: collaboration, communication, language, silence, rupture, crisis, heartbreak, radical friendship, safe space, solidarity.

We will be offering a tiered ticketing system, along with concessions and bursaries. You can book a ticket following this link today. If you are applying for a bursary, please follow the instructions below. Further details, including guest announcements and reading lists along with access information and how we’ll capture the event for those unable to attend will be available very soon.

Bursaries
Before purchasing a ticket, please read the following instructions on applying for a bursary.

We are offering a limited number of bursaries for artists, freelancers, independent producers, community practitioners and curators to support attendance of With For About: When words fail. Bursaries may be used to cover the cost of a ticket and contribute towards the cost of travel, accommodation, subsistence, childcare and/or access costs.

All artists, freelancers, independent producers and curators are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Those wishing to apply for a bursary to support their attendance should send the following information by email to learning@heartofglass.org.uk no later than 5pm on Monday 9th September 2024:

• Amount applied for in £
• Brief explanation (250 words max) of how the bursary will support your attendance
• Breakdown of cost

In the meantime, please explore some of the free resources created as part of With For About: Care and the Commons and subscribe to our mailing list for other news about Heart of Glass projects.

About With For About
With For About is an annual gathering we’ve been experimenting with since our inception. Through this model, we aim to create a space to discuss and reflect on the fierce and urgent questions facing collaborative and social art today, and more broadly reflect on the role of art and artists in civil society.

With For About is not a Heart of Glass showcase, but a moment of public critical reflection for colleagues, comrades and communities of interest. Different from a traditional conference, it invites speakers, practitioners and attendees to provoke and reflect critically with us. We call this process ‘researching in public’.