Event Programme 2016
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Utopia and Connected Communities: a one-day conference
The British Library Conference Centre
As we reach the end of the 500th anniversary year of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia, we want to reflect on the relation between utopia and community as articulated, explored and problematised across the various utopian or...
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Yorktopia
Venue: Hiscox, St Anthony’s Hall and the Black Swan, Hungate
The My Future York research project are working in collaboration with visual arts and music students from York St John University and Vespertine – a contemporary arts project – to ask the question: Will the future be more like the past...
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‘The Reasons’ in the Bevills Leam Catchment: Tradition and Innovation in Communities to Imagine Resilient Futures
Harvest Festival, Cathedral Square, Peterborough PE1 1XH
The traditional form of ‘La Rasgioni’ (The Reasons) will be re-imagined and framed as interactive performative event to allow the community to expose and address the conflicting perspectives, interests and priorities around drought and...
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Futures that didn’t happen: York’s Inner Ring Road
Meet outside York Explore Libraries and Archives – walking tour followed by discussion
Join our My Future York research team to explore the plans – developed in the 1960s and 1970s – for York’s Inner Ring Road.
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Caledonia Dreaming
Victoria Hall, Cromarty and Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, Edinburgh
Displays of materials generated, from which co-producers select and prioritise which threads and extracts, from fiction, deep mapping materials and photovoice materials, and the Caledonia Dreaming exhibition, performance and Parliamentary...
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Mobile Utopias 1851-2051 Reflections
Imagination Lab, LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW
This event is a reflection workshop on the Mobile Utopias 1851-2051 project. In the lead-up, the research team will analyse and produce an online exhibition of the posted mobility utopia object stories against the backdrop of the series of...
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The Utopia Séance Performance
Main Auditorium, New Vic Theatre New Vic Theatre, Etruria Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This event will take place at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme on July 29th, 2016 in the Main Auditorium and will be the culmination of work which is taking place in the North Staffordshire coalfield area during February to June...
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Fermenting Utopias
Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol
‘Fermenting Utopias’ will explore how our future food habits could be transformed by building on the knowledge, passions and creativity of communities that are excluded from the mainstream.
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Tea for Talk
Tobacco Factory Theatre, Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1TF
Our event is based on research that has been conducted over the last year by community researchers in Bristol and Merthyr Tydfil and focuses on imagining a better future for older people.
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