Street Training
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Street Training course Wednesdays, 6-8.30pm, 16th June to 10th September, 2010 Based at Spitalfields City Farm, Buxton Street, London, E1 5AR The Street Training sessions are alternate Wednesdays 16th,30th June, 14th,28th July, 11th,25th August and the 8th of September.
Street Training is the joyful shaping of public space, it is being aware of the effects our thoughts and behaviour have on our surroundings and making use of this knowledge. http://www.streettraining.org was developed by artist Lottie Child www.malinky.org in 2005 and now exists as a global network of people who go out to shape their urban environments through simple and spontaneous, playful, creative interactions.
The Course is a space and time to play, an exploration of modes of interaction and connection with self, others and the streets. It consists of12 sessions, with theory and practice on alternating weeks. It’s a context in which to nurture our creativity and connections with community and environment. It uses Street Training’s innovative form of participatory performance art where educational methodologies and performativity are applied as a form direct action. It is a tool for actively shaping ourselves and our society through playing with behaviour and the way we interact with ourselves, each other and the environment. The focus is on body, space, group work, opening and making connection and simply doing it ‘here and now’ with what we’ve got.
The course will result in performances for 7 performers and 7 audience members,
The performance will in turn create conditions for the ‘audience’ to nurture their creative, joyful interactions with the themselves, eachother and the environment while moving at a pace through the streets.
Street Training creates conditions for people to have agency in our streets through it's inverting of conventional educational heirarchies and it's appliaction of play and performativity to shape social norms. It borrows techniques from martial arts, permaculture, and the ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’. It discovers the city as relationships and boundaries – the ones we need and the ones we don’t need. It has been developed within the contexts of international contemporary art galleries, housing estates, informal education settings and has also been successfully applied as a training for town planners, architects and the police.
The course will be based at Spitalfield’s City Farm and in a two mile radius from there, this includes the City of London, Liverpool Street Station, Brick Lane, Bangla town and Spitalfield’s Market. The focus of our activities will be the effects our behaviours and thoughts have on the place, the people, the locality, ourselves and each other. On Wednesday evenings twice a month Spitalfields City Farm will be open for campfire conversations. Spitalfields City Farm is a radical urban green space, abundant with animals, vegetables and joy, which lies at the intersection of the Square Mile, the arts scene and Tower Hamlets - one of the most deprived boroughs in the UK. There is something about a city farm which raises particular questions at this crucial turning point in history - such as our connection with nature, each other, what community might mean, economies and the true meaning of sustainability. The Farm invites anyone to lead a talk or workshop which explores these important questions and/or this specific location.
It's is free but subject to a selection process pleasse send an email to lottie@malinky.org decribing why you would like to take part http://www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org/about-us/about-us.html
Priority will be given to those who live locally in East London and those with skills in dance, poetry, theatre, direct action, parkour, clowning, guerrilla gardening, improvisation, conflict resolution, playing games, doing nothing, permaculture, contact improvisation, percussion and making people laugh are especially welcome.
The theory part of the course will take the form of campfire conversatios on the topics of
Community building in the city
Play in the city
Animals in the city
Permaculture in the city
Art activism in the city
Rethinking value and economies in the city
Confirmed speakers Cedar Lewisohn – curator Tate Britain http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/cedar_lewisohn_on_street_art/4672 Briony Greenhill – founder of the blended lifestyle http://blendedlifestyle.blogspot.com/ Micronomics http://micronomics2010.citymined.org/
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