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Evening talk: What can a circular practice look like?
What can a circular practice look like?
with Katie Bliss & Rachael Jones
In this session for The Convivial, Katie and Rachael ask, ‘what can a circular practice look like?’, and how can a circular practice – or following cyclical rhythms of being in the world – be integrated into linear time, if at all? Tracing their own backgrounds and experiences across art and ecology, they invite others to reflect on these ideas through sensory activities, diagramming and discussion…
Monthly Community Qigong
On the last Friday of every month, join facilitator Kasia Murfet for an hour-long morning Qigong class to wake up your body, mind and spirit.
Sliding scale from £1-15 per class.
Workshop: Storying from the Imaginal
Storying from the Imaginal
Have you ever read a great novel and felt that it was alive? Have you ever wanted to write a story or book that was alive in just that way?
In this generative and exploratory workshop for fiction writers and aspiring fiction writers, writer, fiction editor, and book coach Eleanor Robins will present a fresh-but-ancient approach to the fiction writing process…
Evening talk: Movements of solidarity
Movements of Solidarity: Embodied practices for change
with Ruth Pethybridge
What moves can you make towards the world you want to build?
What does solidarity really feel like in the body?
How can we move from 'I' to 'We' as we face the polycrises of the 21st century?
Through this session at The Convivial, Ruth will share her research on dance as a form of protest and gently invite you to participate in movement scores inside and out that reflect on the theme of solidarity and support change from within our own bodies…
Evening talk: Looking at rituals for endings
Our contemporary society operates on a myth of growth, ascension and immortality — all ways of thinking which inspire distraction, future focus, scarcity. But can tapping into the inevitability of endings help us to live with more presence, more cyclicality, and more abundance?
In this generative and reflective talk for The Convivial, musician, writer, story gatherer and funeral celebrant Alex Dunkley will explore the nature of endings and the rituals we use to support and process these. She will look at how we can begin to use our community better, to support us into holding space for death and begin to bring the care back into our own hands. She will also explore the ways in which funerals can be an opportunity to bring together all our imagination, storytelling and creativity…
Workshop: World building with sound
Music is a social art. It provides a language for imagining together. How can the principles of sound guide us through co-creation? What can music teach us about living ‘in harmony’ with each other? About building our world together?
This August, join musician and performer Ella Paul for a weekend-long intensive exploration of world building with sound in the Penryn woods. Building on Ella's deep study of folk and songwriting, as well as her long experience of performance and collaboration, this short course will explore techniques for conveying narrative using music, sound, singing and lyricism…
Love and Transformation - Stories from beyond
Love and Transformation: Stories from beyond...
An evening feast of Siberian folktales and myths exploring what happens when love (and not mere desire) calls from outside the village. Leaving behind everything we are familiar with in order to heed the whispers of the gods will always turn us inside out, upside down and back to front. Only one thing is certain: along the way, we will be changed.
This summer in the The Convivial living room, join storytellers Isa Schöier and Will Wilson on a mythological journey exploring when love draws us out of our homes and into other worlds…
Monthly Community Qigong
On the last Friday of every month, join facilitator Kasia Murfet for an hour-long morning Qigong class to wake up your body, mind and spirit.
Sliding scale from £1-15 per class.
Evening talk: Conviviality and ecology
Conviviality and ecology: the hospitable poetics of oikos
What does it mean to live generously and with hospitality at the heart of everything? To be convivial with the world around us?
In this hopeful talk for The Convivial, host Sophie Craven will build on Ivan Illich’s notion of ‘tools for conviviality’ by exploring the hospitality, abundance and generosity of human and other-than-human souls. She will play with and intermingle the words and worlds of conviviality and ecology to explore what it means to live generously with the world…
Evening talk: Queering remembrance
Queering remembrance: Art, performance and the memorialisation of queer history
In this first session of The Convivial’s summer series, queer artist & performer Leo Oliver Kirk discusses the importance of ‘queering’ as a concept; what it means to integrate queer theory into everyday life, and the influence this has on our practices. With specific reference to the AIDS crisis and the art activism surrounding it, Leo questions the cyclical nature of our histories, and the unique ways through which art can memorialise and remember.